by Michael Mamas | Friday, September 3, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality
Love is a feeling, not a rulebook.
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‘Conditional love’ is often thought of as terms you must live by in order to be loved by another. However, we often impose terms upon our own feelings toward someone: “If I love them, then it should look this and that particular way.”
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There is no parameter by which we can judge our love for another.
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Love lies deeper than superficial regulations. It is an abstraction. It has no edge.
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Love reaches out beyond the furthest limits of the universe – beyond space and time- to a place where rules and terms cease to exist.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, September 2, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality
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.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality
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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read more in Look Deeper, Live Better
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality
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.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, August 30, 2010 | Spirituality
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?
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