acceptance

A Little Lost

August 17, 2011

Do you ever feel lost?  I do.  Before we moved to Atlanta, I came to the city to look for a house.  On one of those trips, my GPS stopped working and I got lost.  I wasn’t the least bit concerned because I knew two things:  1.  If I would take the time to pull [...]

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A Distinction Between Pain and Suffering

August 11, 2011

Pain and suffering. We have all experienced them.  Many make no distinction between the two­–to have pain is to suffer.  I do make a distinction between pain and suffering, though it took decades for me to find that distinction. This is how I see it:  Pain is pure and simple.  It burns clear and hot.  [...]

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To the Greatest Extent Possible

July 20, 2011

“It is as though fear has caused something to be lifted out of the riverbed of limitless possibilities to a fallow stretch of shore where nothing happens.  For it is not inertia alone that causes the unspeakably monotonous and unrenewed human condition to repeat itself again and again.  It is the aversion to anything new, [...]

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Consent to Life

July 19, 2011

  “You must not be frighten, dear Mr. Kappus, when a sadness arises within you of such magnitude as you have never experienced, or when a restlessness overshadows all you do, like light and the shadow of clouds gliding over your hand.  You must believe that something is happening to you, that life has not [...]

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Simply Love One Another

July 8, 2011

As you may know, I am reading Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Pathways to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass.  I intended to share with you some reflections on their words today, but another’s words have taken hold of me and touched my more deeply. I am visiting [...]

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All Else is Madness

July 1, 2011

“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a [...]

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What is My Purpose?

June 21, 2011

Ram Dass, in his book Paths to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita, pushes me beyond my comfort zone.  He is hitting a little too close to home. He advises me to listen for my Dharma, and then do it wholeheartedly without attachment.  Dharma is simply one’s calling, duty, purpose, or “passion”. What is my purpose? [...]

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Precious Moments

April 14, 2011

I’m visiting Daddy for a couple of days.  Last night, I cooked dinner for us and called Daddy to the table when it was ready.  As he walked in, he said, “Carla, I feel good when you’re here.”  My heart expanded!  I was deeply touched.  What a gift those words are to me.  Words I [...]

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Courage to Face What Is

April 6, 2011

It’s an interesting thing—Acceptance.  How I resist it.  How I contract.  How easily I can turn a blind eye. I think of Japan.  I read that they have raised their radiation safe limit in their fish.  I also read that the US Environmental Protection Agency intends to raise limits for radiation exposure, and that Canada [...]

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Irritation Creates Opportunity

January 11, 2011

Irritation opens up the possibility for empowerment and acceptance–if we allow it.  By sitting with the irritation and dropping the story line attached to it, new possibilities become available. I had purchased a meditation audio that I tried out the other morning.  It contains the beautiful sounds of ocean and whale song.  However, at various [...]

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