Showing posts with label unconditional love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unconditional love. Show all posts
Mind Attacks — Dont Give Up!
8. You pride yourself on being a freethinker and yet all the while wholly clueless that you've been a captive to overthinking about one or both wrong sides of all any of us has ever had and it is called this present NOW. Question? Don't get all introspective but calmly consider with the pride pocketed this question: If right NOW isn't good enough, when will anything or anyone ever be? HINT: How you do anything is how you do everything. If you're labelling me, judging the word choice, already scheming a sarcastic reaction, taking umbrage with my tone or intensity and worse than those, what my motivation or good old hidden agenda is in sharing this, I know only one thing about you with certainty. It has nothing to do with me. You react, judge, label, become prickly, feel insulted, look to be offended, are fault-finding, censorious, paranoid and have justifying your judgementalism down to a feckless art. It isn't who you are, it's a mind pattern or just very bad ideas. Good news. Avoid the binary and dualistic mind-trapping pride that feeds off of: "I'm right, you're wrong." Remember this acronym: ASM which translates: Always Something More. We do NOT know it all.
Ceasing the FRET
STOP WORRYING NOW WATCH HERE!
I've heard said that the majority of our fears are irrational to the extent we haul them around even when and particularly when no danger is present. And might the answer be discovered in the last word of the above sentence? Present. The word demands our attention but we too often go with the painfully predictable or the many familiar falsehoods.
You know you can't change the past but you can ruin the present by trying to. God gives a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball for forecasting our futures. Both extremes are banal, nothing but tommyrot! Also, both conditions are gravely dangerous to twaddle with. With one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, we straddle the present in an almost concussed dividing of our minds.
George MacDonald penned the following and it makes profoundly good and common sense:
“The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for the morrow, or for a day in the next thousand years—in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Those claims only of the morrow which have to be prepared today are of the duty of today: the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next is nowhere till God has made it.”
Excerpt From: C. S. Lewis. “George MacDonald.”
Read that again for there are excellent reasons for redundancy. The mind is less apt to wander when in the present. It's practically impossible to panic while living in the present -- right NOW!
Do dogs worry? Not that I can see. They aren't aware of yesterday's squabble at the dog park or concerned the same cranky canine might show up tomorrow. They're quite content with now.
Could it be that worry is nothing more than a bad habit? Jesus seemed to think so. "How will worrying add a single hour to your life span?" It won't and He knows we know it. What do we get from worrying? Some puerile and pitiful feeling of having some control? Common sense shouts 'Yes' but we are determined to lug and tote yesteryear's regrets and tomorrow if not 10 years from NOW along as a soldier bears the weight of his Rucksack!
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
Remember, there's often a very good reason for redundancy.
On Being: Krista Tippett w/ Richard Rohr (Father Hunger & Deep Time)
Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and eternal thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls "father hunger"; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning.
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On Being takes up the big questions of meaning with scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you'll love to meet. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — updated every Thursday. Hosted by Krista Tippett. Discover more at onbeing.org. On Being Studios is the producer of On Being, Becoming Wise, Creating Our Own Lives, and more to come.
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Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and eternal thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls “father hunger”; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning. Non-dual thinking isn’t reactionary nor does it seek to immediately shoot to ALL or NOTHING or Either Or - “I’m Right, You’re Wrong.” A ’Third Eye’ Perspective. At this time in history, the contemporary choice offered most Americans is between unstable correctness (liberals) and stable illusion (conservatives)! What a choice! There’s no real transformation in either case. There are commonly two kinds of human beings: there are people who want certitude and there are people who want understanding; and these two cannot understand one another. Really. Those who demand certitude out of life will insist on it even if it doesn’t fit the facts. Logic has nothing to do with it. Truth has nothing to do with it. “Don’t bother me with the truth—I’ve already come to my conclusion!” If you need certitude, you will come to your conclusion. You will surround yourself with your conclusion. Travel away from the hustle and bustle. Enter into the countryside on a starlit night. Listen to how quiet and still it is and while embracing the eternality of this Now, soak in this solitude allowing nothing, save The Unconditionally Loving Creator Him and Herself, to interrupt the silence.
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On Being takes up the big questions of meaning with scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you'll love to meet. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — updated every Thursday. Hosted by Krista Tippett. Discover more at onbeing.org. On Being Studios is the producer of On Being, Becoming Wise, Creating Our Own Lives, and more to come. Jesus did not come to found a separate or new religion as much as he came to present a universal message of vulnerability and unity that is necessary for all religions, the human soul, and the earth’s survival. By very definition, vulnerability and unity do not compete or dominate. The Cosmic Christ is no threat to anything but separateness, illusion, and the imperial ego. In that sense, Jesus, the Christ, is the ultimate threat, but first of all to Christians themselves.
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