Proximity, Repetition, And Quality Time: Standing Still

It helps to be a go-getter, and not only will that spirit help you get further toward your goal, but it will engage and motivate others to help you. All sorts of thoughts may come up in your mind. But as you open each gift, you receive them with equal acceptance and you calmly say to the person who gave it to you, Thank you, I accept. It is a journey to the source, and the source is all that you need to experience because it is not only your source, it is the source of the stars and the moon and the sun. It is my understanding that this has been done out of fear. Becoming a Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor is another. Being together in person is best, but when that's not possible—such as when people live in different communities, for example—it's still possible to maintain close ties through frequent video calls, emails, and texts. Think of the old country doctor versus today's general practitioner, who is forced to gaze into her laptop more than into the eyes of her patients. People come to me and they say, We are in love. Maybe you will need to have a fight, or maybe you will have to run away and take flight. A point comes when you cannot control it anymore. When there is no conclusion your eyes are clear. I have known many mahatmas in India, respected by the masses like anything. It belongs to me. And particularly in the West, the depression is going to be very deep. Review what you have drawn and interpret any symbols or images that are unclear. It hurts me emotionally and spiritually, and it endangers me physically. You rejected truth; in that rejection you became a prisoner. The heart cannot be rational, reasonable. You are only a witness and nothing else. Again, notice the environment around you. With your question clearly in mind, go up to the door and knock three times. Likewise, you need to be fully convinced that you will get what you want and will find the method to do so, and then you will! The following exercise is designed to help you develop this feeling of conviction.Becoming ConvincedGet relaxed and close your eyes. Life is not logical, nature is not logical. A new journey has started in your life, you are moving into a new kind of being—because immediately, the moment you accept the pain with no rejection anywhere, its energy and its quality change. Don't hate death. I bet you know someone who always seems like a bundle of joy and energy. Maybe you had a feeling about what someone was really like. Once it happened that a Chinese emperor went to see a great Zen master. You can burn them, bury them, throw them in the river, or bomb them. You are carrying two bodies instead of one, and there will always remain a gap between the two. In your childhood the parents go on telling you to do this and don't do that. I will be more ready to hear about and act on new things. Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher. In the past there have been two types of spiritual approaches: meditation oriented and prayer oriented. So if he thinks about himself in terms of the surface he will think he is a very hard man, a warrior type, a very calculative man. And if tears are repressed, at the same time whatever they were going to express, the deep sadness or the great joy, is also repressed. Buddha never told a joke, Krishna never told a joke. But that anger is beautiful—it is out of love! The energy is hot, and you will not feel hurt by the person's anger. But in the beginning these hand positions will help you get in the appropriate mind-set to be receptive. And the man said, Your Honor, this man, with his fingers, brought five cows into my field, and said to me, 'Now what do you want to do?' Then we started beating each other; there was no cow, there was no farm. Don't be in a hurry. Perhaps look around your office or house and jot down the objects you see. However you want to do it, see these fears disappearing. Through the body grows the soul, through sex grows transcendence. Acceptance has to be unconditional, for no reason at all, without any motivation. Once you accept it, then trembling is a dance. If you have a certain idea of how you should be, then you cannot accept the experiential truths of your being. That is the offering, the only offering; you cannot offer flowers from trees, you can offer only your flowering. It is good that that man had to go; otherwise you would have been sitting here the whole day. And love is that relaxation. What else can it be? This happens particularly when you encounter difficulties and challenges in life. You can imagine the energy of the earth as more solid and grounding, the energy of the air as more light and expansive, and your own energy as a mingling of the two. This change amongst many people will bring a new society, a new kind of human being in the world. People may try to prevent you, because nobody knows what kinds of things come to your mind. The following techniques will give you the insight into how you primarily perceive and receive information.Try this exercise to learn how you receive information. Keep reinforcing your self-confidence and assure yourself that you can do it. And they will never ask anybody what the meaning is either, because that will make them appear ignorant. Many of us grew up in homes raised by parent-figures who did not fully understand how to use or maintain their own boundaries, making them unable to model appropriate limits for us. In many ways, combating loneliness starts with your own feelings about yourself. The things that have been giving you misery, sadness, worries, wounds, and you don't want to do anymore—somehow mechanically you go on doing these things again and again as if you are helpless. When you arrive, step into a situation where you felt especially active and full of energy. The body must also devote excessive energy to suppressing the inner chaos of trauma, or the activated fight-or-flight response, which further pushes us into a state of dysregulation. You are using mental imagery to convince yourself that you are experiencing what you want in the here and now, and your feelings and actions respond to complement and reinforce that mental image. And instead of visiting local shops, restaurants, and banks, we now order online, have our goods and food delivered, and swap digital currency. For instance, maybe the sponge could be placed around the middle of a bottle to create a floating bottle so people could take their drinks into the pool without the risk of losing them. It can take the form of cyclical thoughts, such as I can just do this later or I don't need to do this at all, or physical symptoms, such as agitation, anxiety, or simply not feeling like yourself. This is your subconscious communicating to you that it is uncomfortable with the new territory of these proposed changes. So watch; let it move. He had been watching for thirty days, trying to determine which language the man spoke with more ease, with more spontaneity, with more joy. If you are not hurting anybody there is nothing wrong in it. And this is so simple for a man of consciousness to do. Again notice the feelings, images, and thoughts associated with the wrong answer. You have been in the situation before, but now you are acting in this new way. But rather than accepting the challenge, rather than understanding fear, you start rejecting it. But to be vulnerable is to take risks to reach for what we want in life. Some people make a regular practice of writing down their ideas and experiences daily. While it is activated, anything that doesn't confirm your suspicions (a friendly face) will be ignored by your neuroception in favor of things that do (the stray laugh you felt was directed at you). If the feeling is not there, the thought will not come. But in the meantime you have been tense your whole life, tension has become your discipline—and at the end of life, when you have all the money you ever wanted, you cannot relax. People have been taught to make love without moving the body; to make love as if the whole body is immobile and love is only a local affair. Say to yourself, I am in this present moment. Your mind may respond with a steady stream of mental resistance because it's being jolted out of its conditioning and it's being watched. When he feels like eating, he eats; when he does not feel like eating, he does not eat. Reason has given beautiful machines but it has destroyed the beautiful humanity. You have not just to repeat, parrot-like, all the great values that make human beings the highest expression of consciousness on this planet. What will really satisfy me? There should not be any tension in it. This time just watch as if it does not belong to you, as if it is somebody else's anger. For the visualization to be most effective make the image and experience as vivid and intense as possible so that it feels very real. But both are against nature and both are against the inner science of transformation. More like a silence than like sound. You have everything, but the appetite has disappeared, the hunger and the hope that was driving your struggle all along. Every child is born feeling the whole universe, not knowing his separation from it. Let it become more intense and help it. But the reality is that we get sicker and sicker. There is only the feeling itself. This is going to be dangerous because the most talented people are no longer enthusiastic about life. And if I insist: Really, are you in love? But in the beginning even this is going to be an effort. And then, watching jealousy is a miracle.