Monthly Archives: December 2016

IDENTIFY YOUR PREFERENCE

 

 

This we would say to everyone: identify your preference.  This will save you time, or, which is the same thing, eliminate the need for time. Identify your preference.

If it is money, choose money.

 

What do you really want?

 

 

If it is safety, choose safety.

If it is peace, choose peace.

if it is love, choose love.

 

 

Whatever your choice is, identify it.  Bring it out into the open. By all means, make it conscious. Especially to you.  Do not be manipulated by unconscious fears.  Do not be a goldfish in a bowl, swimming up to the surface blindly in search of whatever food is thrown there.

 

 

Be a fully fledged creator. Make your choices conscious. There is very great freedom in that.

 

Above all, let my choices be conscious to me, and clear to all.

 

choose 4Do not try any sleight-of-hand.  You only end by hiding your choices from yourself, when you hide them from others. There is really only one entity, and that is you, and you are creating the experiences you appear to be having. Whether you delegate an experience out to another, and observe it, or whether you take it on yourself, it is all the same: what you appear to be experiencing, you are creating.

 

Do not hide your choices from yourself

Do not hide your choices from yourself

 

May you consciously create your experiences. Do not be limited unto smallness, and always struggling against lack, decay, or discouragement. Why allow yourself to be motivated by hidden fears and you know not what?  Why give all your power away to fears? Just as easily as turning your physical body to face west, not east, so easily could you choose a new direction.

 

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I choose a new direction now

 

Today I commit all my being to turning and facing a new direction.  In this new direction I know that I am choosing all my experience, receiving constantly what I ask for.  In that knowledge let me consciously align myself with all that is good, empowering, profoundly freeing and endlessly loving.

 

If there be any virtue, if there be any praise

think on these things

Phillippians 4:8

 

Again, let me be the servant of Love.  Let each cell of mine be restored and replaced by light.

 

 

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I can’t be involved in any more drama; it exists only in my attention. Let me stop favoring it.  Drama is the ego’s toy.  Ego and Drama, I remove my attention from you.  You become dead forms to me, at first barely remembered, so altered are you, and at last gone forever.

 

Choose honesty

 

If you could only recognize the crushing burden that comes with lack of honesty, you would resolve now to forever be open, honest and transparent.

 

Identify your preference

 

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TEACHING WITHOUT WORDS

 

 

 

You must learn to teach without words.

 

 

To put any idea into words necessarily limits it.  It restricts the idea to one aspect of itself.  People mistake the part that they have a name for, for the whole that they do not.  They think that what they perceive, is all there is to be perceived. They mistake the part for the whole.

 

elephant skin close up

 

Words don’t work.  As a means of communication, they are very fallible. You say one thing; they hear another. People will see in any situation what they have already decided.

That person is just plain lazy. He’s always been that way.

I always get nervous on tests. My mother was exactly the same.

Her problem is, she doesn’t know how to say what she wants.

And on and on. There is no language you can use that will cut through their fears and judgments.  They themselves will have to ask for that to happen.

 

 

A dynamic, abstract image in lime green and purple against a black background. It conveys energy.

 

 

When you assert something in conversation, you also set up a resistance against it.  That is just the nature of your reality, what can be apprehended by the five physical senses. Action creates reaction. The more difficult an idea is for people to accept, the more it will draw their ire in defensiveness and ridicule.  At the very least, it provokes conversation, and, as we know, talking is not doing.

  


Let your message be carried in silence and deed 

 

 

A white arum lily reaching to the glorious sun from a field of lush green leaves

 

What would that look like?

 

 

This would mean a total absence on your part of unsolicited advice, friendly reminders, or any other way you have of getting involved in their business without their asking.  If you already do a fair bit of this kind of talking, this will render you a lot more silent.

 

Photograph of a face, below the eyes, with index finger to her lips: shhhh

 

Then let me be rendered a lot more silent.  Let me lose the power of telling any other being what I think they should be doing.

Extend this a little further.  If you would not tell them what to do in any way, you must also stop commenting on what they do.  Because this is just a veiled form of telling them what to do.  Any form of conversation where you discuss, weigh in on, detail your reactions to, or judge the behavior of others, is just a form of trying to use word to control them.  And you would forgo that now.  If this will make you a bit more silent, embrace that silence.

 

But what if I want to help them? How can I do that?

 

Enlist your trillions of cells

Enlist your trillions of cells

That must be in deed, which means your example.  Whatever you would have them come to, be that thing.  Enlist all the aid of your trillions of cells, to become that thing now, on a cellular level, on a thought level.  If you want them to value love more than money, be that.  If you want them to be honest with themselves, become that with relation to your Self.

Let me be radically honest with my Self, and dismiss all artifacts, games and finagling of my small self.

 

The sage can act without effort

and teach without words

 

example

Lao Tzu

The Tao Te Ching