Al
I have been chewing on a thought for some time now, and it is:
You cannot choose the family you are born into, but you can choose the family that you create.
The DNA connecting you is not enough to heal an unhealthy and broken relationship. The only responsibility that you have to any individual with whom you have a relationship, is to ensure you do what is needed to take care of you, thus keeping not only the relationship, but you healthy as well. They have this responsibility as well. Nothing more. Nothing less. Read more…
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Reminding myself of my change is a daily thing. It is not as easy to keep the affected change – especially positive – without practice moment by moment. The same challenges that you had before the change are still there. Having accountability, whether it is a coach or a friend that you talk to multiple times during the week is helpful. Most importantly, being totally honest with yourself and whomever you have decided to be accountable to will be the most valuable thing you can to do. Read more…
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2.
If something is beautiful, something else must be ugly.
Near - Far (courtesy of Ben Joossen via stock.xchng)
If something is good, something else must be bad.
You can’t have something without nothing.
If no task is difficult, then no task is easy.
Things are up high because other things are down low.
You know when you’re listening to music because you
don’t hear noise.
And something else came first, so this must be next.
The Masters get the job done without moving a muscle
and signify without saying a word.
When things around them fall apart, they stay cool.
They don’t own much, but they use whatever’s at hand.
They do the work without expecting any favors.
When the job is finished, they move on to the next job.
That’s why their work is so damn good.1
Everything is relative. I am of the opinion that cabbage is very good to eat, yet I don’t care for brussel sprouts. Others are of the opinion of the opposite. There is music out there that grates my eardrums like fingernails raking a chalkboard. But again, that same style or genre of music is loved by others. But everything is balanced and complete. Thus, as Sanderson Beck translates passage 2 of Part 1 of the Tao Te Ching 2, “the wise manage affairs without interfering and teach beyond the words.” Ron Hogan says that “masters get the job done without moving a muscle and signifying 3 with out saying a word.” I take both to mean that a person of wisdom does not need to get wrapped up in the details to come to a knowledge of, and live, the truth and it is not necessary for me to need to point out/preach rights or wrongs. Nor do I need to show anyone the “error of their ways.” All that is needed is to just rest in the truth.
Knowing, and living, this truth- the Universe will take care of me – lets me be free of worrying, and the need to know, whether or not anyone else knows that I am right or wise. The truth gives all that I need and I don’t have to desire more than I need. By knowing and living in the truth I am free from falling into petty arguments, the negative traps of others, or anything that would serve to keep me from being free.
“Everything is everything because It’s all good; It is what It is!” – Al Flemming
Try it…you’ll see!
Al
1. http://www.terebess.hu/english/tao/ron.html#Kap02
2. http://www.terebess.hu/english/tao/beck.html#Kap02
3. signifying – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signifying
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I have been silent.
I have been contemplating.
Life. Goals. Love.
I am content in not knowing, now.
I am good with being; doing what is now.
I am not privy to the knowing of the Universal Creator.
I will just be. Read more…
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