Chubmeister 5000
- Active nonviolence calls us:
- To learn to recognize and respect “the sacred” in every person, including in ourselves, and in every piece of Creation....
- To accept oneself deeply, “who I am” with all my gifts and richness, with all my limitations, errors, failings and weaknesses, and to realize that I am accepted by God....
- To recognize that what I rese
from Being Peace, Making Peace: Weekly Summary
Healing and Optimal grip
- Knowing I should be held not as meteors are discovered:
long after their time, funneled by obsolescence
but fondled as ribbons in the sky do each other:
stretching a graze to an entanglement, whatever which way the wind blows.from Sasha Fierce asks ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’ - Lunch Ticket
- The parable of the second arrow is a well-known Buddhist story about dealing with suffering more skilfully. It is said the Buddha once asked a student,
‘If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful? If the person is struck by a second arrow, is it even more painful?’
He then went on to explain,
‘In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. Ho... See morefrom The second arrow - Mindfulness Meditation
- Non-violence is the greatest and the most active force in the world.... One person who can express Ahimsa in life exercises a force superior to all the forces of brutality.
—Mohandas Gandhi, Harijan , March 14, 1936from Transformative Nonviolence
- We do not attain anything by our own holiness but by ten thousand surrenders to mercy. A lifetime of received forgiveness allows us to become mercy. Mercy becomes our energy, our meaning. Perhaps we are finally enlightened and free when we can both receive mercy and give it away—without payment or punishment.
from Receiving God’s Mercy by Richard Rohr
Healing and
- I was influenced by this community, online and offline, to:
- Treat my health issues as problems that could be solved;
- Think of exercise as a holistic/spiritual goal and not merely a sterile medical bromide prescribed to fend off the grave;
- Put in effort to share my thoughts and make them more digestible;
- Detach myself from ego and the need to be right;
- C
from Why Vibecamp?
- The path of non-dualism, risk-taking, playful, irresponsibly adventurous and counter-cultural, is obviously at odds with our societal needs for a continuing work ethic and a life lived as independently of State support as possible. No room for non-dual mystics in a highly-pressured society where people, clergy included, are subjected to regular ass... See more
from The mystical Jesus and non-dualism — Unadulterated Love by Colin Coward
- When we make a pact with ourselves to show up for reality just as it is, reality rewards us by revealing its hidden holiness, its ordinary wonder, its fruitful shadows and radiant wounds. Not always, not everywhere, but more and more often and in the places we least expect.… This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be presen... See more
from Orienting Toward the Sacred by Mirabai Starr
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Often attributed to Steven Covey or Viktor E. Franklfrom Space between stimulus and response