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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Monday, June 26, 2006

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Can you see in me the perfection, as I am. Naught with past experience or personality. See me ... in this very moment. Can we create the intention, in one-ness, that we are in the great possibility of love, nurturing, compassion, union. Let's reach to each other on a different level, with a higher state of energy. Let's see each other as perfect as we are.

I realize that the wisdom I have gained has not been of my own, but a collective gift from the one-ness that we all are. Through graciousness I allow it to flow through me. Here I Am. Existing in the 'real world' without intellectualizing everything that I come upon. Seeing the perfection and the beauty of what comes upon me.

Healing happens in Love.

Let us move in a higher rhythm of love. Why do we allow our minds to be wrapped up and around anger, blame, dismissiveness and evasiveness. Believing that there is something 'wrong' with our external reality. Failing to see that there's another level of perfect reality abiding that serves a higher purpose, we lower our frequency to equal what we hold aversion to, manifesting more of that energy around us.

Let us heal in Love.

posted by I Am This at 9:48 AM

Comments on "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

 

Blogger CE said ... (2:19 PM) : 

This is not very easy to do. We are always making judgements. To say one is perfect is to make a judgement about oneself of others. And we know that nobody is perfect. If I maybe bold to state an opinion, I think the only perfect things in the universe are matter and energy. Matter doesn't seem to make any judgements, and energy cannot be created or destroyed.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (8:56 PM) : 

It all comes down to what we see through our looking glass. What you see is shaped by your experiences and what I see is shaped by mine. You say nothing is perfect, and I say all is perfect. Perfect and imperfect, right and wrong, good and bad. It's all a matter of perception. The beauty is to see no fault in either or.

This is the structure of thought. To compare, to analyse. In thought, opposites exist. It is just the nature of the mind.

When you transcend thought, in meditation, you begin to experience everything as it is.

Buddhism talks of finding the middle way. Niether on the left nor on the right, but somewhere inbetween. Herein peace and joy can be found.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Imemine :-)

 

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