Understanding the Laws of Karma was a revelation to me. I'd spent most of my life in pain and most of my relationships were a walking disaster. They would start off ok, but then it was usualy all downhill from there. Then I recognised the ripple effect operating in my life and realised it was me, I'm doing this to me. I'm getting back what I put out. Through meditation and awareness I learned to be very careful about my thoughts and attitudes towards others.
Now I make sure I don't absorb others pain. I accept them, but I don't consume their negative energy. I don't take it personally when someone criticises me or attacks me verbally. Intellectually I know their attack on me is really an attack on themselves, it's difficult at times, but I'm getting there.
Now I know what is a secret to many people, my inner and outer destiny is always in my own hands.
"I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.
I call animals “guardians of Being,” especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it’s through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we’ve come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking. The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven’t lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we’re both in no-thought. There’s a deep connection.
The consciousness of the animal also begins to change when it interacts with a human who’s gone beyond thinking. It’s not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals. The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness."
Legend has it that Leprechauns spend all their time busily making shoes, and store away all their coins in a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
But actually the story was one ingenious Irishman's idea to get annoying American tourists to charge off into the distance.
"What is popularly called falling in love is just such a transient psychosis....hence the phrases "love is blind" or "folie a deux."
"Romantic love, by which we mean that elan, that heightened ardor, that intense yearning for that Beloved, that frantic grappling, that profound sorrow when the Beloved is lost, that anxious uncertainty about the fixity of the Other-all this and more is both the greatest source of energy and the chief narcotic of our time. Given the erosion of the tribal myths which once helped connect our ancestors to the gods, to nature, to the tribe and to themselves, romantic love may prove to be the primary region of existential hunger in our century. One may even suggest that romantic love has replaced institutional religion as the greatest power and influences in our lives.
As no popular culture has built itself upon the idea of romance more than twentieth century America has, so none has founded itself on more shifting ground. A necessary corollary, then, it is that no culture has more set itself up for disappointment than the one which seeks its affirmation in projection, illusion and delusion."
I was very much right footed until a serious knee injury at the age of fifteen forced me to use my left foot. I found that when my right knee recovered I was able to use both feet equally well and have been able to ever since.
It used to be common practice to try and 'cure and correct' left handers. When my Mother (who was left handed) went to school she was punished for writing with her left hand and forced into using her right hand. Needless to say she returned to using her left hand upon leaving school, especially when she was giving me a good slap for misbehaving!!!
It would seem that left handed people have quicker reactions as there is a disproportionate number of left handed goalkeepers in the football league...and always has been.
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RE: Karma
Understanding the Laws of Karma was a revelation to me. I'd spent most of my life in pain and most of my relationships were a walking disaster. They would start off ok, but then it was usualy all downhill from there.Then I recognised the ripple effect operating in my life and realised it was me, I'm doing this to me. I'm getting back what I put out.
Through meditation and awareness I learned to be very careful about my thoughts and attitudes towards others.
Now I make sure I don't absorb others pain. I accept them, but I don't consume their negative energy. I don't take it personally when someone criticises me or attacks me verbally. Intellectually I know their attack on me is really an attack on themselves, it's difficult at times, but I'm getting there.
Now I know what is a secret to many people, my inner and outer destiny is always in my own hands.