Going Through Change?

August 30th, 2010

“Who are you? said the caterpillar… “I hardly know, Sir, just at present,” Alice replied rather shyly, “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.”  -Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, (page 7 in Transitions).

“It takes a long time to be really married. One marries many times at many levels within a marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.”  -Ruby Dee, In Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, (page 55 in Transitions).

“People change and forget to tell each other.” -Lillian Hellman, Toys in the Attic, (page 55 in Transitions).

“Whoever in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a (person’s) life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”  -Wolfgang Von Goethe, (page 77 in Transitions).

“He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.”  -Horace, Epistles (page 157 in Transitions).

“Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol 5  (page 177 in Transitions).

The above quotes are found in Transitions, Making Sense Of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges. This is a very helpful and must read book if you are going through any transitions or changes in life.  The book covers transitions, endings, going through the neutral zone, and new beginnings.

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Use The Power Of Your Own Inner Mind To Solve Problems

August 21st, 2010

“For the nature of the superconscious is to be solution-oriented. To tune in to that aspect of your nature which, ultimatley, can truly command your destiny – don’t dwell on the problems you face. Don’t, on the other hand, ignore your problems. But exert your will in the full expectation that a solution to every problem can be found.”

“You’ll  be amazed, if you follow this practice, how quickly the right answers come to you. You won’t behold the fences around you any longer. They’ll simply cease to exist for you. You’ll see beyond them, to the broad meadows and high mountains of expanded awareness, and expanded power.”

“At all times be solution-oriented!”

J. Donald Walters, Money Magnetism, How To Attract What You Need When You Need It, page 118 & 119.

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To Know Yourself

August 13th, 2010

“He who would know the world

seek first

within his being’s depth;

He who would truly

know himself

develop interest in the world.”

Rudolf Steiner

How to Know Higher Worlds

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Design Your Life

August 7th, 2010

“You can now begin to contemplate how you can deliberately will creative construction; you can do it by consciously formulating, thinking, and willing, a state of happiness, aliveness, fulfillment, truth, love, growth, both in general and in particular detail. The climate of this may first seem strange and unfamiliar. You need to acclimatize yourself to it. Picture yourself in such states and call upon the universal power within to fortify your conscious mind with the necessary creative energy. The will to happiness must be so strong  that the causes for unhappiness must be seen and eliminated, and this, too, must truly be wanted. Then the creative power will grow; the divine self will inspire you and show the way. You will learn to recognize it and receive it in your conscious brain.”

Eva Pierrakos, The Pathwork Of Self-Transformation, page 222.

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Acceptance Improves Your Life

August 5th, 2010

“But you can significantly reduce the amount of negative judging that you do, and this is a kind of forgiveness that will help to improve the quality of your life dramatically. The first thing to remember about judgments is that they do not alter anything or anyone in the universe. Just because you dislike someone or react negatively toward some behavior does not change the person or the behavior you are judging. I remind you again to keep in mind that when you judge another, you do not define that person, you define yourself. Your judgments only say something about you. They describe your likes and dislikes. They do not define the person being judged. That person is being defined by his or her own thoughts and actions. Once you recognize this, you begin replacing your inclination to judge with acceptance, and this is forgiveness in action.”

“When you accept others, you no longer experience the hurt that goes with judging them. When someone acts in a way you find disagreeable, understand that your hurt, anger, fear, or any strong emotion is how you have chosen to process that person’s behavior. If you are unable or unwilling to notice that emotion and subsequently let go of it, then it is your self that is in need of the attention. That person’s behavior has collided with something unfinished or unacknowledged in your life. Distress at the person’s behavior is your way of avoiding something inside of you. A fine distincion, perhaps, but a very significant one.”

Wayne W. Dyer, You’ll See It When You Believe It, page 276.

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Thoughts and Forgiveness

August 3rd, 2010

“The belief that other should not have treated us the way that they did is, of course, the ultimate absurdity. The universe is always working just the way it is suppose to, and so is everything in it, even the things that we have judged to be wrong, improper, cruel, and painful for us and others. Our desire to improve those things is also a part of the perfect universe. How can others not have treated us the way they did? Instead of being angry at the way we were treated, regardless of how horrible we have assessed it to be, we need to learn to view that treatment from another perspective. They did what they knew how to do, given the conditions in their lives. The rest of that stuff that we carry around with us is ours. We own it all. If it is hatred and judgment, then that is what we have elected to carry around with us and that is what we will have to give away to others.”

“You have literally given control of your life to those whom you have judged to have wronged you. Learning to forgive involves learning to correct the misconceptions that you have created with your own thoughts.”

Wayne W. Dyer, You’ll See It When You Believe It, Page 259.

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Accepting Others

July 23rd, 2010

“To have inner peace as our single goal we need to correct the erroneous belief that justified anger or grievances bring us peace. Anger and attack simply do not bring peace of mind.”  page 102

“Today, allow yourself to have the single goal of inner peace by putting all your attention on the following thoughts: Today I will view without judgment everything that occurs. All events provide me with another opportunity to experience Love in the place of fear.”  page 102

“Evaluating and being evaluated by others, a habit from the past, results at worst in fear and at best in conditional love. To experience unconditional Love, we must get rid of the evaluator, we need to hear our strong inner voice saying to ourselves and others, ‘I totally Love and accept you as you are.’”  page 98

Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., Love Is Letting Go Of Fear.

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Going Home

July 12th, 2010

“…To do this requires one to have a radical trust in God at work in his life or her life. As we embrace this trust, we find that the very force that shook our world and caused it to collapse around us – the force that we first resisted, then gradually accepted, and now align with – was the force that brought us home to our true Self. We are reminded of the man who said, “I prayed to God when the foundations of my life were being shaken…only to find that it was God that was shaking them!”

“So we begin to trust the ’shakings,’ and we no longer resist the force the crumbles the structure of our life. What we once called a tragedy, we now see as an opportunity for greater freedom, wisdom, and power – not to be feared, but actually welcomed.”

Robert Brumet, Finding Yourself in Transition, Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening, page 150.

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Going Through a Crises or Ending?

July 11th, 2010

“Crises precede transformation. Before every quantum change, ‘problems’ emerge – limits to growth, stagnation, unmanageable complexity, impending catastrophes, disintegration. From the perspective of the present, the crises look like mistakes, deadly errors in the system. But from the perspective after the quantum transformation, these problems are seen to be ‘evolutionary drivers,’ vital stimulants which trigger astounding design innovations.” Barbara Max Hubbard, The Evolutionary Journey, page 27

“Each crises can be  a turning point that leads to the death of an old way of being and to the birth of a new life. Indeed, evolution proceeds through a process of deaths and rebirths, of endings and new beginnings. Out of fear and ignorance, we often resist our endings, our deaths. Our human conditioning may lead us to believe that “all is lost forever.” Yet wisdom and faith allow us to see beyond the appearance of tragedy, to the new life beyond. We then begin to see each ending, each death, not as a tragedy, but as a prelude to transformation.” page 135

“The key element in dealing effectively with crises is that of a mindful awareness: a willingness to consciously experience our discomfort without denial or distraction. Awareness is essential for transformation.” page 134

“A question we often hear is, “What is the divine plan for my life?” The answer can rarely be stated in words, but it can be found by simply looking at what is in front of us. Step by step, day by day, the plan unfolds before our very eyes. The path we must take is the path we are on.” page 138

The above quotes are from Robert Brumet’s, Finding Yourself in Transition, Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening.

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Improve Your Self-Worth

July 9th, 2010

“Because everything you see or notice about yourself and your situation is viewed through the lens of self-worth, your seeing is incomplete.” page 105

“Misperception occurs when seeing is believing, which is what we call judgment, or when believing is seeing, which is what we call blind faith. All human perception is incomplete and is therefore misperception at the moment we say, “This is it!” page 106

“Quantum physicists assert that at any given moment, infinite possibilities are present. Some go as far as to say that there are infinite universes coexisting. The moment you act as if something is so, the universe of infinite possibilities collapses into one inevitable happenstance. When you look at something and say, “This is what it is,” you are pouring your creative energy (attention and awareness) into that specific perception. The moment your awareness locks on to one possibility, all other universes collapse. While in any given situation there may be many possibilities, innumerable paths, the instant you decree “This is it!” all others vanish. This is why it is so important not to give your power to your perceptions, as if they accurately describe what is going on. When you realize your perception is incomplete and mediated by your need to feel safe and okay, you will pause before drawing concrete conclusions.”  page 107

“What inner quality or resource are you missing? As you look inside yourself, you will see that you are missing a clear connection to your own sense of worth. If you felt whole and confident, you could see that the judgment is about what the other person needs or that it is about what the relationship needs or that it is about what you said or did which created some tension.” page 112

“Shifting your attention from the feeling of defensiveness to the question “What am I making this mean?” allows you to reframe the experience as an opportunity to discover what’s missing in the relationship. In Principle, no one is against you; therefore, what you are making this experience mean is the true enemy.” page 112

Read more about the Truth Principles in, The I of the Storm, Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace by Gary Simmons.

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