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Dear Friends: To face the truth is to reach peace …
For decades, I have re-centered in love to reach peace. Most of the time, this looks like raising both of my arms, the way I naturally do standing at the edge of the ocean, and taking in a deep breath, until I feel the oneness. Other times, it looks like lying on my bed repeating my “daily perspective” until I feel it enough to live it. Either method works. But only when I do it.
And I don’t do it well until I’m ready to let go of my ego–pride, anger, indignation, self-righteousness. I can’t really reach peace without doing what I know to do. I have to reconcile my words, my attitude, and my behavior with the truth. I have to be willing to SEE the truth, and align with the truth.
Often, we want to be at peace, but we don’t want to do what we can, what we must, to reach peace. I can only feel oneness with the force for good, if I’m willing to set aside my defensive emotions. Love is unthreatened, undaunted … and at peace. Love embodies the whole truth, without holding on to the ego’s defensive lies, justification, excuses, and blame.
We can only be at peace when we’re willing to let go of our ego and face the truth.… More
Excuses 101: There is no good excuse
Because of the economic crisis, excuses are probably more assumed than they’ve ever been in your lifetime. That is, unless you survived the stock market crash of 1929; in which case, your age is another convenient excuse.
You can hide behind too old, too young, not enough money or no time, but there is no good excuse.
If there is something you want to do that you are not doing, all of your excuses come down to fear. And if Franklin D. Roosevelt were alive, he’d remind you that, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” He delivered those famous words during his inaugural address in the height of the Depression.
Roosevelt’s gift is to strip us of our excuses regardless of the situation, so that we might face our ultimate fear … and realize that we have nothing to be afraid of.
People didn’t jump off buildings because their estates were devalued; they jumped because they felt like they were devalued.
I recently saw a billboard in NYC that read, “Recession 101: Self-worth beats net-worth.”
Want to know how you’re doing on self-worth? With “1” indicating that you strongly disagree and “5” indicating that you strongly agree, what number (1-5) best describes your position on Roosevelt’s statement, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”?… More
Want a winning relationship?
When we stop trying to be right, we can join forces and bring out the best in each other.… More
This one thing covers everything …
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If we avoid getting defensive when things don’t go “our” way, we see a “better” way!
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