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Topic: Reflections on effort!!!!
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Solane Star Knowflake Posts: 5140 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2005
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posted January 13, 2008 01:16 PM
Reflections on effort The anxious student asked the Zen master how long to enlightenment. The Zen Master answered a long time, at least 10 years. The student said, "Well I will work twice as hard." The Zen master said, "Then it will take 20 years." "No!" said the committed student, "I will work three times as hard." "Well then," said the Zen master, "it will take 30 years." Do you need to work at being spiritual? No. You already are spiritual. Do you need to work at being human? No. That’s just who you are. The spiritual path doesn’t require us to get anything. It’s a process of opening to new dimensions of who we already are. It’s a process of awakening to our own truth. It’s a process of allowing ourselves to be authentic. "It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being." -- Meister Eckhart "People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally." -- Stephen Levine
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NosiS Moderator Posts: 591 From: ) Registered: Apr 2004
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posted January 13, 2008 02:48 PM
This morning, as I awoke, an angel gave me this message:"The secrets of Life have been given in the gift. Go receive." IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross Knowflake Posts: 6239 From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA Registered: Aug 2004
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posted January 13, 2008 05:02 PM
Thank you. IP: Logged |
Solane Star Knowflake Posts: 5140 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 02, 2008 03:18 PM
Thank-You TWO, guys!!!!IP: Logged |
dafremen Knowflake Posts: 1503 From: Registered: Nov 2002
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posted February 02, 2008 04:19 PM
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dafremen Knowflake Posts: 1503 From: Registered: Nov 2002
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posted February 07, 2008 02:58 PM
Most days..it take an incredible amount of effort to put forth any effort at all. I'm reminded of the symbols for Mars and Venus. Those things that drive us internally..the external influences to which we are drawn..Reflect on these archetypes to find the center from which my inner drives originate. IP: Logged |