Missing you every second

Where the form once was
the formless can shine through
that's the grace that is hinding behind death

Self improvement

Flying between two worlds

You are reponsible fo your own life

Love people enough to tell them the truth

And 

Respect them enough to know that they can handle it

 

be positive

There is a lot of negativity in the world. Some of it is
important and worth considering, but most of it is not.

As much as you can, focus your attention on life's positive,
empowering and inspiring aspects. Don't completely ignore
the negative factors, but don't allow them to dominate your
awareness either.

Remind yourself to seek out and spend time in situations and
endeavors where your efforts can bring positive value. Avoid
wasting time fighting bitter fights that don't really matter
anyway.

It can be easy to get distracted by the clashing noise of
negativity. Usually, though, you have a better option.

When you have a choice, choose to put yourself in situations
where you can move life forward. Be where you can be
inspired, encouraged, enthusiastic and effective.

Live your moments in positive places, with positive people,
doing things that make a positive difference. Your life is
unique and precious, so choose as often as you can to live
it in those positive places.

Beautiful hope

You must advance day by day in the joy of a beautiful hope of this new world... Don't waste time contemplating the world of darkness, but keep you attention turned toward the Light, toward Love.

Life is full of insecurities and of fear, but we can choose to focus on the positive

To give ourselves the benefit of the doubt that everything is going to be fine and that God is in charge

Then again we shouldn't be naive and unprepared to face the obstacles that we might face

Finding balance is delicate but i truly believe in cherishing the good and the positive in strength

And its ok to make mistakes, we are only human…

Hurry to gain the forgiveness of your Lord

And to be rewarded with Paradise,

Which is as wide as the heavens and earth together.

It is prepared for those God-fearing people

Who spend charitably

Whether they are prosperous or not,

Who control their anger,

And who pardon others

-God loves those who do good.

When such God-fearing people do a bad deed

Or are wronged themselves,

Remember God and ask forgiveness,

For none can forgive sins except God.

Such God-fearing people do not also persist in doing

What they know is wrong.

Their reward is forgiveness from their Lord

And Gardens from which rivers flow,

Where they will live forever.

And this is the best reward

For those who strive to do good.

3:130-136

Perseverance

O all you who believe!

Overcome calamities by practicing perseveranceand by performing regular prayers,for God is with all those who persevere.

2:153

Some people are mean to me :(

Why are people mean? Here's the short answer: They're hurt. Here's the long answer: They're really hurt. At some point, somebody—their parents, their lovers, Lady Luck—did them dirty. They were crushed. And they're still afraid the pain will never stop, or that it will happen again.

The fact is that we've all been hurt, and we're all wounded, but not all of us are mean. Why not? Because some people realize that their history of suffering can be turned into something uplifting and strengthening rather than a victim's whine, depending on how they "deal with" it.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves or others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better....now do we ?

Live while you are alive …

This poem is on the final page of Martha Beck’s Steering by Starlight book. 

Live while you are alive …

Learn to be what you are in the seed of your spirit

Learn to free yourself from all things that have molded you

And which limit your secret and undiscovered road …

Never forget that love

Requires that you be

The greatest person you are capable of being,

Self-generating and strong and gentle -

Your own hero and star …

Be grateful for life as you live it,

And may a wonderful light

Always guide you along the unfolding road.

Dear self

How to Break Through Old Limitations Insight from Martha

Sometimes we are faced with difficult situation that we (deep down) do not beleive should disrupt our peace or inner happiness. Unfortunately being emotional beings, all the rational thinking we put into it would not help....We feel inner chaos is so strong that we just cannot see the clear picture.

I beleive in times like those we should let things settle before we do anything else....

Lately i have been reading a lot of Martha Beck, she is a great life coach and her insights have been so helpful in giving me tools to cope with daily life and problems , she says that sometimes it really is us and our thinking that limit our growing and reaching this inner peace. I guess she might be right and that it is a combination of our deep beleifs combined with the examples we have been through and since we cannot unlearn stuff we just have to try (to consciously) choose to learn a better perspective....

Anyhow enjoy Martha's insight....i surely did

As many of you know, my system of coaching consists of several conceptual "tools" that can quickly cut through the chatter of people's socialization and connect them with their essential self.   Recently, I have modified one of the tools, turning it from a paring knife into a sort of Swiss Army affair with additional flanges. Because this exercise has helped me get through the month, I want to share it with you.

Right now, in your imagination, call up a persistent problem that you have been unable to solve for yourself. Maybe you never get the rewards you feel you deserve, or you can't get rid of the clutter in your home, or your health just keeps failing you. Maybe you can't stop kidnapping zoo animals and hiding them in your bathtub. Whatever this problem is, the persistency with which it occurs and your inability to make it go away show that it is hiding in a mental blind spot. You are the common factor in all these situations, and the likelihood that they are happening to you by sheer random bad luck is vanishingly small. I know you don't know what you are doing to cause this problem, but I'm willing to piss you off by saying that you are doing something.

(By the way, we were all educated in a system where the "right" and "wrong" answers were determined by the system's definitions. In that sort of environment, you can argue your way from a C- to a B+ by making excuses, pointing out how much stress you are under, or showing the teacher where the test was wrong. Don't even try that here. If your life isn't working, you can be sure that there is a cause and effect reality at play. For example, if you tried a thousand times to make fire by bashing two rocks together, it would not be your teacher's judgment that would show you failure. You could not argue the rocks into creating fire for you or into feeling sorry for all the stress they are putting upon you. Your life gives you solid, empirical evidence that what you are doing does not work.)

Now comes the tricky part: Holding your problem in your mind, relax all your muscles and breathe deeply and without effort. Instead of thinking about your problem, feel the energy of the problematic situation as a sensation that affects your entire body. You may notice strong emotions arising without quite knowing what they mean. Just keep breathing, and if you are tempted to become analytical, repeat in your mind words like "let go," "relax," and "be still." Keep feeling. Somewhere in this welter of emotion, you will connect with a sensation of yearning. Oddly, you may not feel this as your own yearning; rather, it is the problematic situation itself that is yearning to change. Where you may think you want a certain person to love you, truly and romantically, the situation may be yearning for you to stand up for yourself. Where you may believe it is up to you to organize those papers in your office, the situation may be begging you to bring in another person whose filing skills are better than yours. Where you may think you should take charge of your teenagers, the situation may be yearning for you to relax and laugh with your children, to accept them without reservation and to trust them to keep themselves safe.

It may take five or six minutes before you get even a flicker of this sensation. We are so used to working these problems in our minds that letting go to see what wants to happen can at first be a baffling experience. Let the emotional power of your wish for a better life motivate you to persist in this exercise until you can feel what your life is begging for.

You will then be faced with some interesting choices, because the situation will not be yearning for what you already know how to do. It may not even ask you to do something that you think is logical or "right." Feel free to go back to your old methods of dealing with this issue. The next time it kicks you in your teeth--and it will--this exercise will be waiting for you to reorient your approach. When you take the leap of faith to do what your wilder instincts recommend, you will break through old limitations and find that the problems evaporate.