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Love, your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these – Mark 12:31
I was in a group meeting some time last year when I found myself being completely triggered by what some one was saying. Immediately my ego flared up into judgment mode about this particular individual in the group. I was labeling them as insecure, having an agenda etc. Just to quote mildly. My mind rose with my own self defense mechanisms of intellectualizing – justifying my feelings.
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Breathe this in….”we are here for the evolution of our soul”…
One day I was sitting in my favorite neighborhood park taking in all the beauty around me and offering my appreciation for this moment of bliss when suddenly I heard a man’s voice loudly saying, come over here and let me listen to you. I opened my eyes to see what was happening – one homeless man greeting another.
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To everything there is season & a time for every purpose under the sun; a time to plant and a time to reap. Ecclesiastes 3:1
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How deep is your desire to evolve? Is you intention to evolve more important to you than anything else in the world? The Universe is always speaking to us…we must simply slow down and listen. There is a song that I love very much from Rickie Byars Beckwith, a stanza from it says “I am ready to listen now, I’ve heard your voice before, your way has been calling me. Now I’m willing to be so much more.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway
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“Find the place where your greatest love meets the world’s greatest need. Ask yourself – what is it that you love? and are you certain it will serve other people?” – Tom Sawyer – Advice to his daughter, Diane.
In this weeks’ meditation we spoke about LOVE. The power word that so many of us interpret in many different ways. In 1 Peter 1:22 we read “having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”
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There once was a Rabbi who was asked by his students, “Teacher, how should one determine the hour when night ends and day begins?”
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This week we had the opportunity during meditation to look at our agreement with mediocrity. We defined this as the status quo or better yet the “good enough” state of being. Is is possible to suggest that good is the enemy of great?
Is it possible to ponder that perhaps the reason we don’t have great schools is because we have good schools? Or the reason we don’t have great government is because we have good government ?
“To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing- straighten yourself.” This was the thought we used to start out the noonday meditation this week, just a little thought provoking statement that will hopefully get us all to turn within. It was the Buddhist that quoted – the mind composed of ignorance or wrong view suffers from spiritual disease, it sees falsely. Seeing falsely causes it to think falsely, speak falsely and act falsely. To me this solidify that we must first straighten out our minds.
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