Life is Motion....change....

Life is motion. Life is either moving up, down, sideways or somewhere. But Life is never stagnant. I could say when I decided to move up, but that is not how I see what happened to me. Its like, when life decided to move me up, I came to the realization that life is a journey, an adventure which we don’t have a map of, to see where we are going. This not seeing or being in control of life’s journey (map)was what i found stressful about life and living.I there say, also for most people. We want to think we are in control and that we have life figured out……but soon you will learn as I learned that you don’t live life, but that life lives you. Is that too hard to understand?

PEACE......2011

With New Year’s, I dwell on the subject of Peace. Not my own inner peace but for global peace. I wish everyone I know Peace. But can I wish myself or anyone peace? Is it possible to desire peace, create peace, make peace or talk Peace? What is Peace? This is not supposed to be a treatise on peace. No matter what you define peace to be, you will soon arrive at an understanding that peace is a feeling state. It’s like Being. You can’t have it, you can’t hold it, you can’t make it nor can you talk it. However, you can talk about it! Notice…”about’! This is so, for all feeling states.
Coming back to peace….. We can only BE Peace!!!! We are all already Peace. We only have to recognize this feeling state within us. And it can only happen, one person at a time….

"To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." :- Anthony de Mello

This new year…2011, I send you lots of light and love as you discover who you truly are….. You are peace…

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Happy new you?

With the Holiday season and New Year, friends, family and associates wish you all the good they wish for themselves to you. It is a time of goodwill and cheer. One gets blessings or wishes of greater abundance, long life, good health and harmony or peace. The season is also a time of greater Resolution and will power to change ourselves and lives to something “better”, a new, improved, edition of us.

That is a good thing…. But it never worked for me. I could not even survive one week of the New Year, before I fell into my old patterns. I did not even try to go at it a second time. I simply gave up. Rather I have come to accept that life itself is Change. I have learned, like a surfer of the waves that life becomes worth living, when I don’t make judgments of it. It does not matter if life is up or down. What matters is surfing or living it. Life like the wave will surely have its ups and down. Life for me has become about acquiring the necessary skills to surf life’s
ups and downs and the exhilaration that comes from surfing (living). This New Year, be kind to yourself, try not to change anything, just live…..

"This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words that lie beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed."...Anthony de Mello

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!