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the inner journey.

  
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Barked: Mon Oct 11, '10 1:07am PST 
Know yourself

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

-- Abraham H. Maslow

STOP AND PAY ATTENTION!
Set an intention to be more aware.
Become a watcher, of yourself and what’s around you.
Develop the witness, the part of you that can step back from life and impartially observe how you react and think and feel.
We learn so much about who we are!
"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment."

-- Tao Te Ching

"The true profession of man is to find his way to himself."

-- Hermann Hesse
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Barked: Tue Oct 12, '10 1:26am PST 
Journey home

"Everything seeks its source."

-- a universal principle

Our spiritual journey unfolds through 2 stages.

1. THE PATH OF PERSONALITY - We arise from the one source of all, to be born as individuals in a world of form.
In this physical world, we experience separation and limitation. This is a time of immersion in a world of effects, form, ego, distortion, illusion and pain.

2. THE PATH OF SOUL - When we have experienced enough pain, we find our way back home to our spiritual source.
We let go of the illusion of separation to embrace unity and wholeness.
We work with cause instead of effects.
Paradoxically, it's only with a strong and healthy personality that we become capable of expressing soul.

WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR PATH? Are you struggling to do more and have more?
Are you aware of your soul challenging you to open to the bigger picture of life?
"Two people have been living in you all your life.
One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide."

-- Sogyal Rinpoche
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Barked: Thu Oct 14, '10 1:01am PST 
Balance material and spiritual

"What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning?
Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?"

-- Jacob Needleman

Our personality has a need for security.
As a human in a material world, we need money to survive.
If we don’t have enough for basics, our lives cannot function.
At the same time, with too much emphasis on the material, we lose the spiritual awareness that brings meaning and fulfillment.
The key lies in the balance.
What draws most of your attention, time and energy: spiritual growth or money? Reflect on (or better yet, journal on) the balance or lack of balance of these two in your life.
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential."

-- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
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Barked: Fri Oct 15, '10 6:47am PST 
Love your shadows

"There is that part of ourselves that feels ugly, deformed, unacceptable.
That part, above all, we must learn to cherish, embrace, and call by name."

-- Macrina Wiederkehr

Each of us has characteristics we define as ‘good’ and those we define as ‘bad.’
The parts of ourselves that we continually reject want to be acknowledged and loved.
Until we honour these aspects, they will continue to assert themselves.
They will do whatever they can to get our attention.
What aspects of yourself do you reject?
Take a few moments to open to the parts of yourself that you do not love.
See each one honestly for what it is.
Explore the wounds and the motives that gave rise to its condition.
Love a wounded part of yourself and it will heal.
"...self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter

"The first step toward change is acceptance.
Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.
That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow."

-- Will Garcia
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Barked: Fri Oct 15, '10 6:49am PST 
Take a break!

"A good rest is half the work."

-- Yugoslav Proverb

Strong work ethic?
You can still justify taking a break.
In fact, we NEED to take breaks -- regularly and frequently.
Why?
WE WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY WHEN WE DON'T WORK SO MUCH.
Rest periods and vacations break our work routines.
They help SHIFT OUR THINKING from its habitual, stuck patterns.
They create the SPACE FOR ENERGY AND CREATIVITY to flow.
They give us TIME FOR REFLECTION, so we can step back and look at what's happening in our lives with greater detachment.
We become more sensitive and aware.And finally, we are stronger when we BALANCE DOING with BEING.
All work and no play throws our life out of balance and endangers our health. Our bodies and minds need sufficient rest for recuperation.
This is critically important with the level of stress in our lives these days.
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

-- Sidney J. Harris

"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.
My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."

-- Ernest Hemingway
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Barked: Sun Oct 17, '10 1:36am PST 
Seek insights

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

-- Aristotle

INSIGHTS happen only when we shift to a higher, more inclusive perspective.
As we grow in wisdom and experience, we become less attached to the form of reality and more aware of its spiritual side - its qualities, values and meaning.
As we get to know ourselves as souls, we begin to let go of the self-consciousness of the ego.
This allows us to more effectively include others and work with the whole picture.
When there is more in sight, we get more insights.
Try becoming aware of those times when you focus on differences.
At those times, STOP and PAY ATTENTION and IDENTIFY SIMILARITIES INSTEAD.
See how all parts fit into a bigger picture.
Expand your perspectives.
Find common causes, motives and needs.
Go to another level of thinking and problem solving.
Be open to using more imagination and creativity.
Shift your thinking from "either/or" to "both/and" and be prepared for more insights.
"Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself."

-- Andrew Schneider

"We are not what we know.
We are what we are willing to learn."

-- Council on Ideas
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Barked: Mon Oct 18, '10 8:01am PST 
Love yourself

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

-- Sydney J. Harris

"We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse.
Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.
Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are."

-- Don Miguel Ruiz

"There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart."

-- Elizabeth J. Canham

"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."

-- John Steinbeck
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Barked: Tue Oct 19, '10 1:20am PST 
Don't avoid the void

"When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start."

-- Dan Millman

To change, we must go through a transition zone.
It's not easy being in transition.
Thoughts, beliefs and habits are all in flux.
It can create a sense of groundlessness, of being in a void that can be quite uncomfortable.
When we’re in the void, our first impulse will be to revert to old habits because they feel comfortable.
Our goal is to hang in there until the change is complete.
Knowing that TRANSITIONS ARE PART OF THE CHANGE PROCESS helps us muster the courage to put up with the discomfort, the uneasiness, the void.
Change requires a letting go of what we’ve always known and done to allow in something new.
We need to trust ourselves and higher forces to unfold a new reality for us.
"Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage.
Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation.
I have never found an exception."

-- Dan Millman
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