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Postby winston » Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:49 pm

See the wider issues

I think we must see this very clearly right at the beginning—that if one would solve the everyday problems of existence, whatever they may be, one must first see the wider issues and then come to the detail.

After all, the great painter, the great poet is one who sees the whole—who sees all the heavens, the blue skies, the radiant sunset, the tree, the fleeting bird—all at one glance; with one sweep he sees the whole thing. With the artist, the poet, there is an immediate, a direct communion with this whole marvellous world of beauty. Then he begins to paint, to write, to sculpt; he works it out in detail.

If you and I could do the same, then we should be able to approach our problems—however contradictory, however conflicting, however disturbing—much more liberally, more wisely, with greater depth and colour, feeling. This is not mere romantic verbalization but actually it is so, and that is what I would like to talk about now and every time we get together.

We must capture the whole and not be carried away by the detail, however pressing, immediate, anxious it may be. I think that is where the revolution begins.

The Collected Works vol XI, p 62

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:48 am

When you intend to harm another, the evil recoils on you.

The grief which you suffer is only an echo of the grief you inflict in another's heart. So when you have injured another, pray for pardon. Repent and resolve never to do it again.

Through genuine prayer, mountains of evil can be pulverized and destroyed. From now on, decide that your words shall be soft and sweet, your acts beneficial to others and your thoughts always about how to serve others who are weaker and less prosperous.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 12, 1976.

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:48 am

Are we wasting our lives?

Are we wasting our lives? By that word “wasting” we mean dissipating our energy in various ways, dissipating it in specialized professions.

Are we wasting our whole existence, our life? If you are rich, you may say, “Yes, I have accumulated a lot of money, it has been a great pleasure.” Or if you have a certain talent, that talent is a danger to a religious life. Talent is a gift, a faculty, an aptitude in a particular direction, which is specialization. Specialization is a fragmentary process.

So you must ask yourself whether you are wasting your life. You may be rich, you may have all kinds of faculties, you may be a specialist, a great scientist or a businessman, but at the end of your life has all that been a waste? All the travail, all the sorrow, all the tremendous anxiety, insecurity, the foolish illusions that man has collected, all his gods, all his saints and so on—have all that been a waste?

You may have power, position, but at the end of it—what? Please, this is a serious question that you must ask yourself. Another cannot answer this question for you.

That Benediction is Where You Are, pp 63-64

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:21 pm

When you reach for the thought that feels better, the Universe is now responding differently to you because of that effort. And so, the things that follow you get better and better, too.

So it gets easier to reach for the thought that feels better, because you are on ever-increasing, improving platforms that feel better.

--- Abraham

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby millionairemind » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:12 pm

The Fence
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There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."

As William Arthur Ward once said, "'It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:25 am

All Good Choices

There are no wrong or bad choices. Whichever choice you make in any given moment, the Universe works with it to give you the best possible outcome.

Every choice you make and every turn you take opens up a myriad of possibilities that support you. You must know that the Universe is always supporting you no matter what you do. It is always opening doors for you no matter which direction you turn.

It may not open the doors that you think you want, but it will always open the doors that contribute to your highest and greatest good; it will always open the doors that lead to your joy, fulfillment and happiness, which is what you really want.

There is no need to torment yourself over which choice is the better or best choice. Every choice is backed by the Universe, you just have to back it up yourself by trusting that you can make no wrong turn.

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:55 am

The purpose of human existence

Questioner: What is the ultimate reason or purpose of human existence?
Krishnamurti: Do you know any purposes? The way we live has no meaning and no purpose. We can invent a purpose, the purpose of perfection, enlightenment, reaching the highest form of sensitivity; we can invent endless theories. And we are caught in those theories, making them our problems.

Our daily life has no meaning, no purpose, except to make a bit of money and lead an idiotic kind of life. One can observe all this, not in theory but actually in oneself; the endless battle in oneself, seeking a purpose, seeking enlightenment, going all over the world—specially to India or to Japan—to learn a technique of meditation.

You can invent a thousand purposes but you need not go anywhere, not to the Himalayas, to a monastery, or to any ashram—which is another form of concentration camp—because everything is in you.

The highest, the immeasurable, is in you, if you know how to look. Do not assume it is there; that is one of the stupid tricks we play upon ourselves: that we are God, that we are the ‘perfect’ and all the rest of that childish stuff.

Yet through the illusion, through ‘what is’, through the measurable, you find something that is immeasurable; but you must begin with yourself, where you can discover for yourself how to look.

Beyond Violence, pp 106-107

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby winston » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:44 pm

You cannot notice what-is and complain about it, and be a vibrational match to the solution.

When you were living the problem, you were asking for the solution, and Source said yes immediately. So, there's never a reason for you to be wallowing around in a problem for more than about a second?

You can get so good at this that before you're even aware that the problem has gotten started, you've already got the solution under way.

--- Abraham

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby millionairemind » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:33 pm

"When we choose not to focus on what's missing from our lives
but are grateful for the abundance that's present...
we experience heaven on earth."

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Re: Life (Jun09 - Dec09)

Postby kennynah » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:21 pm

"When we choose not to focus on what's missing from our lives
but are grateful for the abundance that's present...
we experience heaven on earth."


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