No time

Is that true?

Or is it you?

We let things get on top of us then we have to run.

A favourite is to wait until the last minute then run like crazy.

Is this you?

If so then time to change.

Needless drama is really debilitating over time.

Cut it out.

Organise your life so that you can walk through it.

Without stress and panic.

Life is so much nicer without endless, needless rushing.

Shopping

Every year new cars, motorbikes and suvs

Every season new fashions.

Constant new gadgets and toys.

Always something else never enough

It becomes addictive.

Lift your eyes away from things and notice nature.

You do not need to buy anything in order to enjoy our world.

Enjoy natural things.

Way to go

All the days of the rest of my life.

How many?

Who knows?

Who cares?

Did you ever care?

Question?

What are you doing with all these days you have been given?

Anything new or just letting the time fly by?

It would be a shame to come to your old age having left so many things undone, unexplored.

Just accepting whatever 'they' throw at you day in day out.

Never mind you can always come round and live this life again.

That’s what happens if you make no effort to grow your consciousness.

To achieve what you came here to do.

Yes, you had a reason to come here.

Take some time to think about this.

Way to go.

Repeat that day

So many feel that day after day its the same old grind.

For many this is true.

Why?

Because they are not conscious of the subtle changes every day.

Locked in thoughts of self.

They do not see the subtle changes.

Nature is subtle too, seldom does she make huge changes they are usually incremental.

Become more aware of how each day is different for you too.

It's those little things that make each day worth experiencing.

Life is about those little things.

Make your day different.

Be more conscious of everything in your day.

Powerlessness

Many feel that they have no power

And if they believe that then guess what?

They are powerless.

Does not have to be that way.

Nor is it true.

We all have the power to influence those around us.

Whatever we do.

All the time.

Be an example to those around you in whatever you do.

There is nothing more powerful than example.

Become powerful in your powerlessness.

Women's choice

Are drawn to pretty.

Not only pretty but soft

And colourful.

Cute even and maybe cuddly.

Any wonder they are not so interested in crude and violent things?

Crude and violent is that naturally feminine?

Or is this a male induced thing?

A money earning thing?

Why are so many women playing this game?

Women do your own thing.

Leave men to do theirs.

Maybe one day men will also grow beyond crude and violent things.

Fear in thoughts

Invariably our fear is pushed along, exacerbated by attaching to a thought.

We let our thoughts have power by allowing them to frighten us.

Then we act on that thought and create more fear, more stress.

And so a little thought turns into a mega problem.

It can literally ruin our lives.

Look at this in a different way take the thought as a warning, a signal that something is wrong with your understanding of reality.

Challenge and check every thought that gets a grip on you.

Check that your view of reality is true, objective.

Do not let your thoughts ruin your life.

Become the master of your self.

Master your thoughts if you will.

Could have done better

Watching people perform competitively one sees the differences.

Most have similar technical and physical abilities.

However one succeeds the other does not.

Often this is because of the differences in psychology.

In our day to day world we observe that he/she could have done better.

Just did not manage to hold it together.

They wanted to suceed but did not have that little something.

Did not dig in.

Is that it?

Or is it that they lost focus?

Part of them went walk-about.

Pay attention because so many outcomes are determined by little differences.

This psychological edge or state is important.

How is your psychological state under pressure?

Learn how to hold it together under pressure.

We all meet pressure in our lives.

Make "could have done better"............... "is doing better"!

Sincere

Is a word that we would like to believe of our friends.

Then something goes wrong and many betray us or let us down.

Why do they do this?

Could it be that the signs were always there but you did not want to see them?

Could it be that you wanted them to be this or that and never paid attention enough to see that they were not as you projected?

As usual the fault lies in us.

Do not look at them in anger or frustration they are what they are not as you projected.

The work to be done is to seek reality and not your wishes.

Try to learn about your friends.

Find out why you failed to see what they truly are.

Do not get caught over and over.

Learn to see what is.

Live in reality

Connected

Are you connected?

To what you might ask.

To things around you.

To life.

To your environment.

Or are you unconscious, oblivious and just passing through in a haze?

Sometimes this is the best way to be, it can protect us.

At other times though it can lead us into dangerous waters

So make it your business to be conscious.

Consciousness is the game, it leads to understanding and growth.

Stay connected.

Mmmmm - 37

The true attitude

The Past!

What is it?

Nothing.

Gone!

Dismiss it.

You are the past of yourself.

Therefore it concerns you not as such.

It only concerns you as you now are.

In you, as you now exist, lies all the past.

So follow the Hindu maxim: "Regret nothing; never be sorry; and cut all doubts with the sword of spiritual knowledge."

Regret is productive only of error.

I care not what I was, or what anyone was.

I only look for what I am each moment.

For as each moment is and at once is not, it must follow that if we think of the past we forget the present, and while we forget, the moments fly by us, making more past.

Then regret nothing, not even the greatest follies of your life, for they are gone, and you are to work in the present which is both past and future at once.

So then, with that absolute knowledge that all your limitations are due to Karma, past or in this life, and with a firm reliance ever now upon Karma as the only judge, who will be good or bad as you make it yourself, you can stand anything that may happen and feel serene despite the occasional despondencies which all feel, but which the light of Truth always dispels.

--W.Q.J.

Faster and faster

Nothing lasts forever as the cliche goes.

In fact time is still accelerating for most of us.

There is no yesterday.

It gets harder and harder to remember yesterday.

Just the day we are in and even this is going faster.

Change is around us, pulling at us.

What to do?

Experience this moment now, that's all we have.

Let this present moment in time be pleasant.

Do not fight it, this is futile.

Accept the new reality.

Oscillating patterns

Many of us have them.

An oscillating pattern is where one smokes, quits and then starts smoking again.

Same for dieting or drinking or whatever your vice of choice.

No way to break an oscillating pattern by using force.

Only way is by accepting a higher hierarchy

Meaning?

Decide that having good health for the rest of your life is more important than smoking.

With this approach you have a chance because you are not giving up smoking you are choosing good health, a higher hierarchy if you will.

The key is the higher hierarchy.

For sure you also have to have will power.

Try it.

Whats well?

Humans adjust to physical disabilities.

Trouble is after a while they forget what normal healthy feels like.

They live in a state of continual compensation.

In fact so many humans have got used to their disabilities that they do not know what healthy is any longer.

Do you know what normal healthy is?

How do you find out?

Start by looking where you compensate.

Where you favour one limb over the other.

How you avoid certain actions.

Why you no longer do certain things that you used to do.

Why you say no to certain activities.

How you are too busy doing other things.

If you are honest then you will be able to take action to correct these disabilities.

Caution this only works if you are prepared to work hard.

If you are not prepared to work then be honest with yourself.

Do not pretend.

Accept consciously that you do not want to be normal healthy again.

In fact were you ever?

Do you want to find out what can be?

As usual your call.

Crawling

Do you?

Do you have any self-respect?

Having direction, wanting to grow fine.

But crawling?

Not just low and demeaning.

Puts you in a poor position.

Because everyone sees, even when you try to hide it.

Use the same energy that you use to flatter and cajole to grow.

Step back and look at what you are doing.

Is it really worth selling your soul?

No one likes watching people crawling.

Reality and you

Many, maybe most people are not in reality.

Why?

Often because they started telling themselves stories about themselves at an early age.

Stories that feel more comfortable than reality.

Stories that shield them from things they do not like.

Stories that deny perceived threats.

Many prefer to stay in these stories.

Comes a time though.

When nature says enough!

Nature will not be denied.

So examine your stories.

How many do you have?

Are they really helpful?

Might not seem like it but living in reality is easier over the span of a lifetime.

Try to live in reality.

Sick

Do you crawl away?

Do you rush to the nearest hospital?

Go to the doctor?

Become a pain to all around you?

Maybe some or all of the above?

Next time try using the misery to learn more about yourself.

It is little considered that being sick offers us an unusual state in which to learn about ourselves.

What do we mean?

For one being ill usually means that we are left alone.

We have time to think, to experience ourselves in a different way.

It is a time when we are more open to our spiritual side.

A time to explore ourselves.

Could there be a reason why you have this illness?

If so what is it?

What can you learn from this?

F°°° off

Most of us swear sometimes.

Makes us feel good.

Relieves tension.

However it also creates a tension between us and whoever we are swearing at.

A tension that remains unless one of us unilaterally asks forgiveness.

Asks forgiveness from the heart, from the universe.

This resolves the tension, turns the energy back into a positive charge.

This positive charge then comes back to those involved.

Might not seem important to you until you try adding up all the unresolved tensions in your life.

From as far back as you can remember that is.

This is a cumulative effect we are talking about.

An effect on your total life.

Now you might begin to see how much of your life energy you are giving away.

It is often as much as 50 to 60 percent of a humans energy.

Not just from swearing but from all the negative thoughts and actions in our lives.

Yes really, so think about how much of your energy is seeping away.

Lost to you.

Wasted in some long forgotten violence.

Start bringing yours back today.

Car crash!

Ever been in one?

Thing about crashes is how they change your life in a split second.

One second everything is under control.

One second later bang everything has changed.

It does not matter what you say or do it's happened.

It's your new reality.

If you are in shock then this needs handling.

If you are injured then this needs handling.

If things are damaged then these will need fixing.

Whole life changed.

And above all is how you handle everything.

One thing for is for sure a car crash takes us into another world.

One where all security and safety has gone.

Suddenly we are on the other side.

In the accident.

In a totally new reality

Cars

Our very own private little world.

Where we can imagine what we like.

Insulated from everything outside.

While we sit on the inside.

Is your car filled with noise?

With smoke?

What is your car to you?

Is it really just a seat?

A seat to find privacy perhaps?

To think those thoughts that cannot be done outside in the bustle of life?

Change your experience of cars

Use your time in cars.

We spend a lot of time in cars.

Observe yourself in cars

What is a car to you?

A thought time or time out from thought?

Sunlight

Is important for all of us.

To be conscious of it that is.

To spend whatever time we can out in the natural light.

Our systems function better for a top up of natural sunlight.

Natural sunlight is something we all take for granted when its there.

Something we can really miss when the low clouds and rain come rolling in.

It is central to our experience and like so many other things we only really notice when it is not there.

Appreciate our amazing sun.

Mean

Are you mean?

Mean as in being tight with money mean.

No one admits to being mean.

Have you ever met a human who says "yes I am mean"?

However we all know mean people.

Funny no one admits to being mean yet we all know mean people!

So be it.

For the record though let's be clear mean people pay.

Nature is not fooled by mean people.

Nature will test and trouble mean people in many different ways.

So if you are mean then be warned.

Oh yes and you can forget about vertical or spiritual growth.

There is no way that this is compatible with meanness.

Think twice if you are mean.

Twitchy again

Something about life at the moment.

So many friends are stressed.

Many preoccupied

Many going away.

So many having problems.

Live your own life.

Feel good about who you are.

Focus on your own life don't be dependent on others.

Could also be that life is tough for everyone at the moment.

Do not feel responsible for others.

Focus on being the best you can be every day.

With whatever comes your way.

Build a love of life in yourself.

Do not rely on others.

Be comfortable in and of yourself.

Strength

What is this to you?

To many it is physical.

To others it is stamina.

To others courage.

Can we all agree that we know what it is?

No?

How can this be that one of the simpler words carries so many different ideas for us all?

Maybe it is time to define it clearly for ourselves.

Why?

Because if we have strength and also believe ourselves to be strong then we are better placed to face life and the trials it brings us.

So define strength for yourself.

Try looking at it as something admirable.

Something to work towards.

Strength can be many things

In fact true strength comes from confidence, serenity, centering and allowing it to arise from within.

It comes from within us.

Look within.

Self-indulgence

Is giving oneself free licence to seek the satisfaction of all one's desires.

Whether one realises it or not this is the path that most people follow.

However there is no one in the universe whose desires are always fulfilled.

In whose life everything that is wished for happens and nothing that is not wished for does not happen.

People who follow this path invariably suffer when they fail to achieve their desires.

That is they experience disappointment and dissatisfaction.

But here's the kicker they suffer equally when they get what they want.

Because they worry that the desired object will vanish and that the moment of satisfaction will be temporary, as in fact it must be.

In chasing and getting their desires they must always be unhappy because nothing lasts.

Without becoming conscious of this they are just going from one high and low to another................. without end.

Our point?

A life spent doing this is in many respects a life wasted.

Invisible

Do you know how to be invisible?

It is a good thing to learn.

Removing your energy from a place or situation

This can take you out of it.

Never realised this?

Then try it, let your focus drift off whatever you are part of.

Take your eyes and attention away.

Let your mind blank.

Soften your muscles, relax them.

Experience peace and quiet in yourself.

Soon you are no longer part of whatever and it is no longer a part of you.

Takes practice, try it

Generous

Are you generous?

Do you give the best piece to the others?

Do you spontaneously offer help?

Do you give to anyone or anything?

Why we ask is so that you can be clear.

If you are generous then you can grow vertically or spiritually.

If you are not then be clear you cannot.

Generosity of heart is how humanity evolves.

It's the evolution of consciousness.

We grow by learning to help others and by putting them before ourselves.

Practice generosity, make it an integral part of yourself your life.

Touching

Images can be so touching.

Often they convey the thought 'glad it's not me'.

Let that thought linger a while.

Appreciate what you have.

Be happy for a life that is free of horror.

Free of enforced change.

Just the miracle of being free.

Lucky you.

Do you realise and appreciate this?.

Business

For all of us there are basically three types.

Your business.

My business.

Nature's business.

If you stay in "my business" life is fine.

Stray into "your business" and life is not so fine.

Try to move into nature's and life is definitely not going to be easy.

What are we talking about?

Simple if something is not your responsibility then leave it alone.

Yes really keep out unless you are asked for your help.

Do not interfere.

"Your business" is simply that so leave alone it's not yours.

Nature's business is clear it is not for us, again stay out.

Really it's simple, but oh so many of us interfere where we have no reason to go.
Stay in "my business" leave "your business" alone.

Be clear about this and life becomes simple.

Mine, yours and natures - simple.