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>>>I don't know if my heart is big enough to hold it all...the 'positive' and 'negative'...the 'perpetrators' and victims'...the 'accepted' and 'rejected'...the 'light' and the 'shadow'. How does one embrace all of it...say YES to it all...give thanks for it all? And yet I must do this.
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we are not god... yet we are conditioned to play god... which is an impossible task...
the more we play god the more things go astray... and unless we become able to let go and let god we will always be in torment... because it is all so overwhelming...

peace is attained to the extent that one can learn to 'trust'... to... 'let go and let god'... peace is to be found in the silence of the mind... a definition of 'serenity' is one that able to keep their composure in the midst of the storms raging about them... another slogan that comes to mind is that we cannot change the wind... but we can adjust our sails...

perhaps you may want to focus on the 'serenity prayer'... and meditate... focus on what it is trying to say to you...



The Serenity Prayer
Path

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

In loving memory of
Fr Bertram Griffin -- 1932-2000
Requiescat in Pace

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6

just in case you are curious... i copied this from...


http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html


"it truly is a wonderful day in the neighborhood"...
lol...
;-)

We had a wonderful sermon on this subject Sunday

This from the "feel good" of all religions (or practices) SOM
there seems to be another conciousness developing that life will not always feel good
but only because we don't want to let go

Transformation may actually have some pretty upsetting aspects if we are continually
hedging our bets and dragging the old stuff through the portal of the transformation.

And being very clever and not wanting to totally trust to the Universe, I may lat go of some stuff only to hedge my bets by holding on to my current comfort zone In other words I am willing to let go but I'd like to keep my apartment my boyfriend and the cat- OK Soul?

this is typical me because I am frightened for my vunerability.

My strength is in the acceptance of the uncomfortablness of my vunerability

Yea yet another nutty dichotomy, you say?

Yes!

But this is the mystery of Me

Yes, I have heard that the heart is that big... that it does have that very capability, to absorb all the troubles and the negatives there are in world... all the bad... and also enough compassion to help heal it back again...

There is a meditation i have heard about. It is called the heart meditation... I have tried it myself. It goes like this:

One has to start with taking baby steps... to start with oneself... to start by using your imagination... and then after some time it becomes a real happening. The Imagination will help in the beginning to get the process moving within you. And then, soon after, the reality of what the heart is capable of doing will be actually felt and it will become a very real phenomenon.

Sitting in your room... start with your breath. With the in-breath, imagine breathing in all the worries and troubles, the pains and tensions that you are experiencing in your body, imagine that all these anxieties are picked up by the incoming breath... riding on the inhalation of the breath and carried to the heart. Imagine that they are being taken in and absorbed by the heart.
No need to force it, but allow the breathing to be natural... and simply with the imagination, see how the troubles disappear into the vastness of your heart.

Then, with the out-breath feel the warmth, the peace, the soothing calmness and the immense love moving from the heart through the rest of your body... imagine the body glowing with this warmth and peace.

With the inbreath, all the worries and troubles and the tensions coming into the heart... and with breathing out... all the love... joy and peace moving from the heart and traveling from there to the rest of your body... filling it up with warmth, peace and lovingness. Feel your body to relax more and more deeply.

After weeks of allowing this time for yourself... to refresh your body and mind, it will become easier for you to feel it... and have its affects penetrate deeper within you. And after some time, then a miracle is possible... that others will also begin feel it, too. Without really understanding it, others will also feel relaxed, and peaceful when they are near you... Their worries and tensions will also be leaving them. And they will feel the love that will be flowing out of your heart ... they will also feel the love that is filling the space that is around you. At first, they will not know that it is coming from you. And there is no need to say it to them either... Just keep this to yourself... it can be just your secret... without ever speaking about it.

Later, when one becomes adept at doing this for oneself...soon it is felt by the others around you... the worries, the troubles... the fears and anxieties of the world can be absorbed by your heart. This is the power that can be realized by each of us... the immense power and capacity that the heart has to absorb and to share. It has the capacity to absorb all the negatives that are seen in the world... and the tremendous power to bring peace love and joy back into this world again.

But start with yourself... this is the key... to begin with yourself and then see that the world will begin to change within and then outside of you. The second part of it will happen on its own accord. Just start with yourself. It can be the beginning of a wonderful journey. The best thing anyone can to do for themselves or for world around them...

Try it and see.

Life is but a dream…
Or… so it would seem…
Or… is it just a game
and nothing stays the same…
so... is we is… or is we aint…???
are we held in lifes’ restraint…???

is there really an inner me…???
what must I do to be set free…???
must I suffer this world of woe…???
or... learn the way of letting go…!!!

no matter where we go... there we are...
and our misery does not get us far...
lifes' misery seems to hold us bound...
and in the end... 6 feet underground...

live each moment while you can...
do not dispair... nor be so bland...
a troubled mind... does no one good...
it's a wonderful day in our neighborhood...
lol...
;-)