REFLECTION– 3 58–Today’s world of human experience is increasingly moulded by feelings of insecurity, entrapment conflict, and fear. We feel trapped in situations and circumstances: family obligations, economic constraints, weather, traffic, bureaucratic red tape and so forth. We fight interminable battles with people, creatures, invasive species, weeds, belief systems, expectations and fears. In the name…
Category: life reflections
Inspirational stories with a lesson: “A room full of mirrors”
“A room full of mirrors” Once upon a time, there was a big mansion. In the mansion there were many rooms, but there was one particular room which usually kept closed most of the time, since it was only used for big parties or celebrations. This room was full of mirrors. The lady of the…
Easy and difficult…(from an older post)
Easy is to criticize others, difficult is to improve ourselves.
“The Purpose of the Journey” – by Joseph Campbell
The Purpose of the Journey The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion. The separateness apparent in the world is secondary. Beyond that world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all. Joseph Campbell from The…
From Daily Word: “Life” (“Vida”)
Life I cherish the gift of life. I create my life with my outlook, my choices, my thoughts, beliefs, and actions. I have the power to be grateful, even while experiencing disappointment. I can be loving, even in the face of anger. What I choose to energize will determine the tone of each day….
POEMS: “Falling apart”
FALLING APART Even when ‘my life’ falls apart who you truly are can never fall apart. Even when relationship breaks up who you truly are never breaks up with relationship. Even when the end seems certain who you truly are remains eternally open. And even when the body ceases who you truly are never…
POEMS: “Let Go and LIVE” by Mystic Meandering
Let Go and LIVE Let go. Let it all go: Hopes for the future. Regret for the past. Expectations for the present. LIVE… Embraced in the space of Divine Emptiness, resting at the still-point… with no conceptual framework for your life. No scaffolding of thought or plan to hold “you” together… Dissolve in the…
POEMS: “A Christmas Poem” (friendship) by Helen Steiner Rice
So never think my Christmas cards are just a mere routine of names upon a Christmas list, forgotten in between,
POEMS FROM USA: “A dream within a dream” by Edgar Allan Poe
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
About feminine beauty…by Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a woman is in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
INSPIRATIONAL STORIES: “New eyes”…
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man: “Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”
INSPIRATIONAL SHORT STORIES: “Passing through”
The tourist was surprised to see that the rabbi lived in a simple, book-lined room, in which the only pieces of furniture were a table and a bench.
