Wednesday, January 23, 2013

AOM Meditations: 012313



I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.

~Jean Houston

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Every man has in himself a continent 
of undiscovered character. 
Happy is he 
who acts the Columbus 
to his own soul. 

~Sir J. Stephen

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Life is often messy, uncertain, and unpredictable.  Sometimes it's a string of troubles that seem to never end.  That's normal.  Ups and downs are normal.  Being ill on occasion is normal.  Feeling peaceful and happy are normal.  Occasional low-energy days are normal.  According to Chinese medicine, it is accepted as natural that we fluctuate from being in balance to being out of balance.  Peace of mind comes from not attaching a great deal of significance to either state.  We simply note our moods and physical states and gently move toward balance as best we can, accepting it all as part of the flow of life.

~Charlotte Davis Kasl

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