Angry thoughts

It is essential to separate your true self from that which is offended and angry.

To remember that this is neither an obstacle nor a casual misfortune which is thrust upon you, but is one of the problems of your life.

Above all to realize that if you feel animosity towards anyone, or anyone feels animosity towards you, that you alone are to blame.

And as soon as you recognize your fault, you become calm.

WQJ

Out of 100

Of the people you knew in school how many do you know today?

Amazing how fast the number shrinks.

Our lives take us apart into different worlds.

Marriage and relationships take us further.

Keep one or two relationships if you can.

Why?

Because people who knew us way back when know how we were before adopted our adult disguises.

Before we became what we are today.

Sometimes we need to touch base with those who knew us before.

Make the effort to stay in touch with one or two.

Long-term memory

He never forgets.

One day you will pay.

Poor man.

Imagine using your memory for storing every hurt, every pain, every imagined wrong.

Yes many do and be warned this use of memory does not make for friendships or harmony.

In this behaviour everything must be measured and examined for danger.

Every nuance analysed, noted, stored.

No time for relationships, too busy judging.

Let them be.

Find relationships where continual analysis and judgement is not the criteria.

Leave them with their long-term memories.

Life is too short.

Feelings

Feelings are not words.

Funny then that we describe feelings with words.

But my words and yours have different flavours.

My experience of feelings is also different.

What to do?

Learn to be honest and accurate with your self when experiencing your feelings.

Learn to be accurate when talking about these with others.

Understand that openess is not a weakness, on the contrary very often it requires courage.

Be clear, concise and accurate.

How else can I know what you are feeling?

Why have children?

For many reasons we all know and maybe some we don't.

We have children to teach us things.

Compromise

Patience

Sacrifice.

New ways of understanding

New ways of looking at things

To make us laugh

Make us cry.

Maybe more than these our children chose us as parents.

Yes in a real sense they choose us.

How?

Before manifesting in any given life we have a unique energy profile, which is what draws us to those parents who can give us the start we need in that life.

Note not necessarily the start we might want or choose.

Rather the start we need in this life to learn the lessons we came here to learn.

So remember our children choose us as parents.

Mouth

Yes the mouth, just notice how it expresses your feelings.

If you instruct your mouth to smile then notice how your mood lightens.

Do not take your mouth for granted.


Exercise it for more than eating, talking,singing and so on.

Smile.

Why?

Because if you do not then over time your mouth tightens, and voila you have a mean mouth.

No one wants a mean mouth.

Be nice to your mouth.

Mmmmm - 28

'If we have to believe in a divine principle at all, it must be in one which is as absolute harmony, logic, and justice, as it is absolute love, wisdom, and impartiality.

A God who would create every soul for the space of one brief span of life, regardless of the fact whether it has to animate the body of a wealthy, happy man, or that of a poor suffering wretch, hapless from birth to death though he has done nothing to deserve his cruel fate -- would be rather a senseless fiend than a God.' (Key 111)

Tribalism

Yes it is alive and well, stoked and stirred by the media and politicians.

On our evolutionary path tribalism has been useful

Now it is getting in our way.

Time to go beyond.

Time to see that we have more in common than we do in differences.

This of course does not mean that you have to drop your football team, family, nike trainers or religion.

Just see what they are in reality.

What are they?

Devices of division that's all.

Go beyond tribalism.

Smooth as silk

We all have this liking for smoothness one way or another.

In taste

Texture

Touch

Smell even.

Question are you smooth?

Not too smooth.

Smooth in movement?

Smooth of speech?

Smooth of thought?

Slow down ten precent and you will become smoother.

That's slow down your actions.

Your speed of speech.

Even your thought process just slow it down a bit.

Try it.

Moment of madness

Zinedine Zidane had his on Sunday evening in a rather public way.

Most of us have moments of madness.

Where do they come from?

From our other side in simple words.

Our entities.

To avoid these becoming more frequent.

Control is one way.

However as we saw with Zidane this is no guarantee that it will not happen.

Only real way is to get the demons out

This is only possible by getting your fears out.

Yes this is where they come from.

So start getting rid of yours.

Be open to learning.

We are here to grow.