How sad that so much sadness is self inflicted. Life presents us with enough challenges. Let’s be compassionate towards ourselves.
How a No Body becomes a Some Body
The world you see is a function of the way you look at reality. The first man and woman were in the Garden of Eden because they were able to see the All and therefore felt at one with reality – God. But when they ate from the forbidden Tree …
Unconditional Love
We can’t expect others to give us unconditional love if we’re not willing to give it to ourselves.
MASTERING MARVEL
Can you look at the world without expectations, without the demand that it fit into your familiar ideas and definitions? Can you just see it as it is?
THANK GOD FOR ATHEISM
From time to time my wife and I sit with the kids and take a look at their latest drawings. Generally the pictures are pretty consistent—Daddy has the orange curly hair, the flowers are bigger than the people, and the shining sun has a big happy grin. But one day my five-year-old daughter Ne’ema brought us a drawing that in addition to the usual stuff featured a bizarre purple-green figure floating in the sky.
GOT FULFILLMENT?
In my seminars I often ask people to write their definitions of God. Typical answers are intellectual, philosophical, and abstract. Then I ask the participants to write a letter to God, starting with “Dear God, I always wanted to ask you…” I request that they write with their non-dominant hand to simulate the experience of writing as a child, because the object of the exercise is to get at the earliest point in their lives, when they acquired their image of God.
Labor of Love
Loving relationships work when you work on loving relationships. It’s a labor of love.