Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Fall Into Happiness


"When all of your attention is not on your story, you recover the presence you had when you were born, and you are just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. 

You are just like you, that force of Life." 

~don Miguel Ruiz~

Om Purnamadah Purnamidam

"purna: complete, whole, entire, full, finished, accomplished

The outer world is complete.

The inner world is complete.

From this wholeness comes wholeness.

When a complete entity is taken away from a complete entity,

Only completeness remains."


"Practice awareness that everything in the universe is interconnected. Continue to affirm that there is no separation between you and the infinite – the force of Life that creates everything in existence. 

You may think you are separate from this force, but it’s not the truth; it’s an illusion." 

~don Miguel Ruiz~

Neural Pathways - Grooves in my Brain
Created from overthinking
Overthinking
OVERTHINKING

The science says that when you think 
the same thought
over and over
you create a groove in your own mind,
a rut. a chasm. a crevasse.

When you try to stop thinking that thought
the groove remains and you fall in.

You, I, We
must constantly pull ourselves out of that groove
out of that rut.

By thinking different thoughts 
By stopping mid-thought
By repeating new words and affirmations until,

The old groove begins to fade, fill-in, 
heal.

And the new groove - the happy groove
gets deeper
and deeper.

And we begin to fall into happiness.

Do not despair, but it cannot be fixed overnight.
How many days, months, years, lifetimes

Have you thought the thought that you want to change?

Give it time. Be patient. Never give up.
Fall into Happiness.

Friday, May 05, 2023

Creating Space


"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." 
~Wallace Stegner~