Inspired Practices

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The Phase of Greed

The dissatisfaction of greed, its emptiness, its' widespread disillusion, shows that it is a phase.

What truly lasts is satisfaction, fulness, and meaning.

Every time we engage in satisfying activities, and create fulfillment and meaning, we are actively defeating greed.

It will run on in its hugely destructive phase until the only resource which we have left will be kindness.

And that will be enough.

Despite all the fear, those who practice kindness will build and rebuild.

We will share, we will support one another, just the way the activists are.

Whatever resources are left, we will see expand through unselfishness and generosity.

Wherever we are, there is always a solution.

The solution takes place as we stretch out for it.

Right now, we have all agreed on one currency, and one currency only, the currency of money.

But as the greed has nothing more to consume, and no one will pass any more laws to allow it to consume any more, because nothing is left, a new currency will be found.

People with skills will be valued.

People’s shared labor will be valued.

Being in the calm presence of wisdom will be valued.

People will find that they care take care of each other’s children, that they can cultivate community gardens, that they can care for elders, that they can share the transportation that is available, that they can help repair houses and simple machines, that they can have swaps, that they can once again relate to each other.

Greed is at first, a very exciting phase, until it becomes destructive and then it destroys itself.

Start building up your skills so you can share your wisdom.

The time is coming sooner and sooner.

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Perfect Understanding

Spices

The taste of spices fills so much space when eating wonderfully prepared food.

I do not need to eat a lot of food, looking for satisfaction, when the spices provide so much interest.

In my life, I am rarely, if ever, bored.

In my teaching career, I was constantly developing new ways of conveying information.

These resulted in fun, dynamic teaching materials, which gave my students unlimited possibilities.

Now, I continue to develop new ideas and learn new skills to convey them.

They are the spice of my life.

Combined with interesting books, projects and conversations, my life is very satisfying.

The media noise and its emptiness of ever more destructive politics and consumerism have no place in my life.

I am an engaged citizen, in fact, more engaged than when I was keeping a house, raising many children and working demanding steady jobs.

I remind myself of the value of reflection to create an atmosphere of peace, and I take the time to do it.

The demands of a constant learning curve challenge me.

The opportunity for this kind of life exists wherever a person is, although I have found my own outward response in the beautiful surroundings I now live in.

What spices and enlivens my life is the gift of meaningful existence.

There is a purpose to expanding my skills and engaging with the community in new ways.

I give and receive help in a healthy and uplifting exchange.

My life takes on a beautiful balance, with the spice of variety and the comfort of community.

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The Purpose of Noise

Thank you for the noise.

Thank you for the distraction.

Thank you for the wake-up call.

Even though it feels overwhelmingly despairing, hang on to your moments of calm and light.

They are your reassurance that something besides the noise exists.

I am learning to partake of less food, and only of a very high organic quality, thus feeling the calm my body deserves for maximum comfort and naturalness.

The parallel is that I am taking in less media noise, and now, only for the purpose of finding what calm and guidance I need to listen for specifically.

That way I am receiving consciousness of a very high quality, and feeling the calm my mind deserves for maximum assurance and productivity.

I am training myself to live in a very different space and a very different world from the one produced by all the noise.

I can go there any time I remind myself not to get distracted.

My discomfort is a powerful reminder.

Go within.

Seek peace and comfort form Infinite Resources.

Contribute good in the midst of all the confusion and distraction.

It is my gift and my right.

The peace and calm and light are always there no matter what the dimensions of disturbance.

I know how precious we all are, and that we are loved, cherished and adored, and that we are never left without our most natural and accessible resources.

(Go within, and you will feel it, too.)

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Outside Expectations

Right here, right now, you are meeting some kind of expectations.

Some of them may be yours, but a lot of them are not.

All the factors which have gone into how you were raised, your gender, the culture around you and many more, are contributing to what is expected of you.

However, the most important part of that is what you expect and accept about yourself.

As your life takes its shape, it may appear to be going along all right.

Or it may appear to have too many obstacles to survive.

At some point, whether it is good or bad, you may be prompted to think about your life in a different way.

You may wonder how you got to this point.

You may decide it is not fair.

You may decide, even if it is good, you would like it to be more generous.

There are many directions your thought about your life may take.

The important thing is that you are now thinking about your life.

As you consider it, you may begin to seek out some ways in which you could change it.

This is when you could move from outside expectations to the ones coming from within you.

Think about your life.

Ponder it.

And then, go within, and find out what you are really here for.

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Monday, May 1, 2017

Specific Formulas

As I progress in the direction of my dreams, I have to find specific solutions to the problems and puzzles along the way.

There is always a law or principle to be applied, whether it is engineering, creative inspiration, or marketing.

Even emotional investments and barriers can be broken through with persistent, applied work.

Hidden “drivers” from the past can be exposed and dissolved or redirected to produce energy instead of drag.

Confusion and misconception can be separated out and clarified even in the most entangled situations.

The desired goal is a directive for solutions.

The importance and preciousness of the goal is what will lead to solutions in every step.

Love yourself; love your goal. You will break through the obstacles.

You will grow in ways you never dreamed of.

You will become part of the uplifting force in the world.

Ignorance, believe it or not, does have its limitations.

The love of truth is the most expanding power in the Universe.

The specific formulas for expansion have always been unselfishness and generosity.

This is the formula by which we can include everyone in the upliftment which we experience by solving our own puzzles and finding our way to our dreams.

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Thoughts and Feelings

We are composed of our thoughts and our feelings.

These create our world.

We can originate thoughts, but mostly we respond and react to them.

Reacting creates a haphazard existence.

When we go within and listen so quietly, so peacefully, we create a different kind of existence for ourselves, because we are listening to original thoughts which come only to us.

They are free of the noise of the world around us.

They come from an inner kingdom, a confident, secure Source.

That is how we can really live, untouched and unharmed by our outer perceptions.

This is a really important thing to learn and to practice.

Otherwise, we are simply carried away and become part of the statistics in polls of popularity and influence.

What is it within?

What do we have?

What is really unique about us?

What is it we have to say, given only to us from our Infinite Source?