Someone sent in a Michael Douglas line from a movie:
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“If you don’t have the guts to love someone with all you’ve got, you don’t have the guts to live.”
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I liked it and responded that it also works reversed:
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If you don’t have the guts to LIVE, you don’t have the guts to love someone with all you’ve got.
Self-improvement
generally focuses on manipulation of your personality.
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However, personality is superficial.
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True self-improvement
frees something deeper,
a central source of harmony that emanates,
transforming your personality,
your body,
and your soul.
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It is the natural process of
harmonizing with your true nature.
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To be ignorant is to ignore.
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To identify with any one reality and ignore the rest is to be ignorant.
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The structure of existence resembles the Two-Boxes-or-Three Diagram. Viewed one way, you see one reality, three boxes stacked in a corner. Viewed another way, it is two boxes stacked in a corrugated corner. The Quantum Mechanical structure of existence is like this diagram, but far more complex. It holds within it an infinite number of realities all based upon the one megastructure. Such realities, viewed together, create paradox. They all exist simultaneously, in contradiction to one another.
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To be ignorant is to ignore all realities other than the one or few with which you are identified.
I remember watching a Buddhist practitioner being interviewed on television. She insisted that she had no fear of death. “I am ready to die right now, no problem,” she claimed.
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It struck me as a very sad state of affairs. It seemed to me she had contorted the teachings of Buddhism. As an overlay, she convinced herself that being spiritual meant having no fear of death.
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I only hope that if the moment ever really came, fear of death would inspire her to swerve her car or dodge a bullet. That is only natural.
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Isn’t it incredible that overlays can become so consuming as to override even the most fundamental natural instincts?
“Basic Respect” is the cardinal rule of relationship.
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Every relationship involves
a unique form of respect for:
your spouse,
parents,
strangers,
children.
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Where there is respect, relationships flourish.
The evolution of human endeavor is similar to the assembly of a 1000-piece puzzle.
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At first, clusters of pieces assemble independently. Each cluster represents a field of study, like psychology or physics. As the puzzle comes together, some of the clusters will get turned upside down. Others that we thought belonged in the upper right hand corner will be moved to the lower left. No field will be left unchanged.
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It is only when those clusters finally come together that the big picture is seen. Every field viewed in the context of the greater whole will be transformed. The whole, the big picture, is the domain of true spirituality.
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Humanity is at a threshold—all of the pieces are about to come together.
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One of the most common errors of counselors is that they talk when they should listen.
I am often asked about forgiveness. How can we bring it about? If we are to forgive or to be forgiven, this question remains. Yet in either case, the answer is the same. You need to find the strength within yourself. There’s a delicate balance here. You need to have self-honesty regarding what you’re feeling… not to suppress it, yet not to lose yourself to it. Suppressing or denying your hurt feelings reduces forgiveness to little more than an overlay. However, losing yourself to those feelings makes forgiveness impossible. If you were hurt, you need to find it within yourself to let it pass… let it heal. By balancing inner feelings with inner strength, you attain understanding, which is the gateway to true forgiveness.
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If you hurt another and long for their forgiveness, it also starts with holding the sadness in your heart with strength and dignity. If you do that, it invites the others involved to also move forward to forgiveness. There may be some snide remarks or even outright verbal assaults before they come to that place. You may hear of their criticism or negativity through the grapevine. You may be directly criticized, challenged and hurt again. Your stance is best always held with inner strength. That strength brings understanding. It offers a willingness to give things time to settle. If you bring forward the requisite strength to hold a healthy understanding in your heart, in time, it will be felt by those around you. You may desire an immediate resolution and verbal acknowledgement of your offering. However, the strength required more often must be held in your heart over time. Slowly, the others will feel it and it will assist them in coming back into balance and peace.
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You are tremendously sensitive and vulnerable. This is what it means to be human. Some hide it, or try to. Others do not. But know without question that the sensitivity is universal. It may at times feel like a flaw. It is not. It comes along with the love that dwells within us all. Hold it gently, while finding the strength within to hold it with dignified understanding and honor. This is the gateway to forgiving others, as well as the healing balm often needed to receive loving forgiveness from others.
The internet has become such a vast source of a great plethora of knowledge. There are so many approaches to everything and those approaches are right at our fingertips on the World Wide Web. This knowledge will facilitate the evolution of humanity.
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If we go deeply enough into anything, we find the unified field because it underlies everything. As knowledge becomes more available, we are going to go deeper. We will reflect and find deeper and deeper levels of truth within our own Selves.
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The internet is a catalyst for opening up awareness. Use it wisely.
Through the years I have noticed that many like to believe they have had past lives of great accomplishment, courage, and valor.
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Yet, oftentimes, those same people have a very different set of values as they pertain to this life, where they aspire to comfort, ease, and status quo with avoidance of challenges.
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What do you want of this life? Time is moving by.
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