| Monarch butterfly cococon (yes, it looks like a jade jewel with sparkles!) |
If you’ve read my blog before, thanks for checking back – it’s been a long time! If you’re new, welcome! I hope you’re inspired or that this sparks some thoughts that help add even just a little ease to this journey of life.
Having made the decision to resurrect this blog, I decided to go back and read previous blog posts to remind myself of what I wrote in the past. I found myself appreciating the wisdom I’ve gained over the years and grateful for the teachers who have helped me to learn those valuable lessons so that I could pass them on to others. Of course it is a continuing journey, and the more we learn, the more there is to discover!
When we are able to step back and notice the patterns and cycles of our lives, one of the things that becomes most apparent is that humans change through cycles of expansion and contraction (or what I like to call cocooning). After many years of cocooning, I feel as if I’m finally expanding again. And it feels good.
After reading over the entries in this blog, I shifted to read my old WordPress blog. I realized I’ve been writing since September of 2008! And some pretty decent reflections if I may say so myself. The thing is that I’ve actually been scared of people reading what I wrote. So energetically, even though I was putting it out there, I was still doubting and hesitant about how it would be received. – still holding back. And apparently the time for
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| Cocoon just before the butterfly emerges. |
holding back is over.
So instead of writing something new this time, I want to share some of my favorite posts. I’d love to hear comments and feedback, complements or constructive (!) criticism. Ultimately my hope is that the stuff I write will help the readers to be more compassionate toward themselves as humans. In the end I think we’re all trying to live the best lives we can. And sometimes it sure ain’t easy!
So, here are my favorites from my old blog 2008-2010. Next time I’ll post the favorites from this current blog.
Peace Begins with Me. If we want peace in the world, ultimately it means each human has to become more peaceful (since “the world” is made up of humans, right?) So what if we each committed to being just a little more peaceful? What kind of a change would that make??
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| Freshly emerged Monarch butterfly (in my kitchen!) |
What’s Your Net Effect? is about being conscious of how our internal state is as much a part of the effect we have on the world as our outer actions: “I have begun to wonder, if we do all the work we can toward making the world a better place, but do it from a place of anger, judgment and self-righteousness, what kind of change are we really affecting? Do we in effect cancel out any good we’ve done? Do we end up with a net effect of zero?”
More Peaceful or Less Stressed? You Choose: “…when we say “I want to be less stressed” we actually focus on the stress and indeed perpetuate the notion of our stressfulness. On the contrary when we say “I want to be more peaceful” the mind hears “peaceful” and there is a subtle quieting that takes place within the body without any additional effort.”
Giving Up the Quest: Lessons In Being Present talks about realizing that this spiritual journey can become warped into a kind of consumerism – a wanting to be something other than who we are. Sometimes the best thing is to realize that we’re really ok as we are.
Enjoy! And let me know what you think….