Comments on: Peaceful Thoughts http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/ Insights into living a spiritual life Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-554 Miruh Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:57:09 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-554 Hello Simon, Thanks for returning. It is phenomenal that through the blogosphere we can feel energy. It transcends all time and space. It feels wonderful to give and we always receive in return, the magic of love. One wonders why there is anything but love in the world! The bears are still sleeping, I think! Do have a wonderful weekend too! Hello Simon,

Thanks for returning. It is phenomenal that through the blogosphere we can feel energy. It transcends all time and space.

It feels wonderful to give and we always receive in return, the magic of love. One wonders why there is anything but love in the world!

The bears are still sleeping, I think!

Do have a wonderful weekend too!

]]> By: Simon http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Simon Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:31:11 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-552 Hi Miruh - Thanks for mentioning the warm glow! I often get a similar experience when I come here and also some of the other blogs I visit - especially a warmth around my heart chakra. It's wonderful - like getting healing! It's nice to know I'm giving a bit of it back... I hope you're having a great weekend! Watch out for those bears... Hi Miruh – Thanks for mentioning the warm glow! I often get a similar experience when I come here and also some of the other blogs I visit – especially a warmth around my heart chakra. It’s wonderful – like getting healing! It’s nice to know I’m giving a bit of it back…
I hope you’re having a great weekend! Watch out for those bears…

]]> By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-504 Miruh Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:50:06 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-504 Hello Liara, Aah, The Play of Consciousness! If we can but see the play for what it is, we will appreciate ourselves, each other and this journey for the adventure ride that it is. Thanks for joining in again with your beautiful insights! Soft peace to you my friend! Hello Liara,

Aah, The Play of Consciousness! If we can but see the play for what it is, we will appreciate ourselves, each other and this journey for the adventure ride that it is.

Thanks for joining in again with your beautiful insights!

Soft peace to you my friend!

]]> By: Liara Covert http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-501 Liara Covert Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:16:44 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-501 Miruh, with patience and deliberate intention, every human being progresses along paths to deeper emotional and soul-level awareness. As Simon pointd out, not every human being "is there yet." However, this reality is not as unfortunate as he believes. Without ignorance, there is no reason for evolution toward new levels of awareness and new ways of seeing. The physical world would be less exciting if humans were all consciously aware of everything simultaneously. If you believe you exist to progressively gain deeper insight into fragments of your perception on physical existence, then knowing everything consciously would render physical existence less meaningful and even pointless. Miruh, with patience and deliberate intention, every human being progresses along paths to deeper emotional and soul-level awareness. As Simon pointd out, not every human being “is there yet.” However, this reality is not as unfortunate as he believes. Without ignorance, there is no reason for evolution toward new levels of awareness and new ways of seeing. The physical world would be less exciting if humans were all consciously aware of everything simultaneously. If you believe you exist to progressively gain deeper insight into fragments of your perception on physical existence, then knowing everything consciously would render physical existence less meaningful and even pointless.

]]> By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Miruh Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:08:33 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-499 Hello Liara. You so rightly suggest that we have to feel everything and learn from it. The ability to do so without getting enmeshed in the contents takes awareness and detachment. With compassion and vigilance we are able to enjoy the beauty of this journey. Much love and deep peace to you! Hello Liara.

You so rightly suggest that we have to feel everything and learn from it. The ability to do so without getting enmeshed in the contents takes awareness and detachment. With compassion and vigilance we are able to enjoy the beauty of this journey.

Much love and deep peace to you!

]]> By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Miruh Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:52:13 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-498 Hello Pamir, Happy to see you here, joining in on this interesting conversation! It is great to have the input of all of you who are taking this vow and shedding light on what it means. This is exactly what I was hoping to see. There seems to be an agreement that it is an intention that is reinforced by awareness and self- forgiveness. My overactive imagination pictured yogis with impaled tongues, standing on one leg for several years. LOL. Just kidding! I will be over to read your Peace Manifesto. Thanks for participating! May you bask in the light of the Self with deep stillness! Hello Pamir,

Happy to see you here, joining in on this interesting conversation!

It is great to have the input of all of you who are taking this vow and shedding light on what it means. This is exactly what I was hoping to see. There seems to be an agreement that it is an intention that is reinforced by awareness and self- forgiveness.

My overactive imagination pictured yogis with impaled tongues, standing on one leg for several years. LOL. Just kidding!

I will be over to read your Peace Manifesto. Thanks for participating!

May you bask in the light of the Self with deep stillness!

]]> By: Liara Covert http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Liara Covert Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:29:32 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-497 People will discuss what they do not fear and remain quiet through periods of discomfort. Negative energy prompts some people to express harsh words. Valuable lessons of courage evolve in silence. Fears only impede you so long as you refuse to transcend it. The way to truly live is to permit yourself to feel everything and learn from it. This does not require you to react outwardly or vent as you move to inner peace. You come to recognize valuable lessons to be learned through observation. Hatred is not meant to teach hatred but to reinforce the power of love, compassion, empathy and acceptance. People will discuss what they do not fear and remain quiet through periods of discomfort. Negative energy prompts some people to express harsh words. Valuable lessons of courage evolve in silence. Fears only impede you so long as you refuse to transcend it. The way to truly live is to permit yourself to feel everything and learn from it. This does not require you to react outwardly or vent as you move to inner peace. You come to recognize valuable lessons to be learned through observation. Hatred is not meant to teach hatred but to reinforce the power of love, compassion, empathy and acceptance.

]]> By: Pamir | Reiki Help Blog http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Pamir | Reiki Help Blog Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:19:14 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-496 I'm in agreement with Mark. Taking the vow isn't about perfection, but about aspiration. Intention is also built-in. Would it be better not to take it? Personally I'd taken this vow many moons ago & have again since. This isn't a cut & dry, simple issue. The pitfalls you point out Miruh are real. I feel it's a commitment you keep kneading with awareness, and start with clear awareness first. It's best not to approach it as a fad, as you say. Insight meditation & the middle way are certainly like a gentle breeze, amongst the many types of practice available to us. These are kind & gentle to us, cultivate that spaciousness & can be present in one's experience as a safety valve. Thoughts are karmic. We're having thoughts we've had for many incarnations. In addition to everyday enlightenment, which keeps us sane, there are practices that can let the pre-thought state emerge. I feel it serves us best to practice both. And here's another perspective: <a href="http://cli.gs/4bVTz0" rel="nofollow">Manifesto of Peace: A prose poem</a> I’m in agreement with Mark. Taking the vow isn’t about perfection, but about aspiration. Intention is also built-in. Would it be better not to take it?

Personally I’d taken this vow many moons ago & have again since. This isn’t a cut & dry, simple issue. The pitfalls you point out Miruh are real. I feel it’s a commitment you keep kneading with awareness, and start with clear awareness first. It’s best not to approach it as a fad, as you say.

Insight meditation & the middle way are certainly like a gentle breeze, amongst the many types of practice available to us. These are kind & gentle to us, cultivate that spaciousness & can be present in one’s experience as a safety valve.

Thoughts are karmic. We’re having thoughts we’ve had for many incarnations. In addition to everyday enlightenment, which keeps us sane, there are practices that can let the pre-thought state emerge.

I feel it serves us best to practice both. And here’s another perspective:

Manifesto of Peace: A prose poem

]]> By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Miruh Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:42:17 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-495 Hello Simon, I always feel a warm glow when you visit here. That must be the aura you carry! Thanks for stopping by. Well my friend, this is an issue that we all have, and I have learned that the word, "struggle" is the red flag. The teachers who teach this middle path talk about letting-go, allowing and making space for what is. I have found too that it does work. That when it is okay that things are wild and woolly there is a lightheartedness, sometimes I have to look for it, but it is there, beside or behind the dark clouds. It is easier to be doing than being for us, but all things do shift if we just let them be. The awareness is the ticket. I agree, "perhaps most of us could commit to it at some level..." My intention for doing this post was to point out the power of INTENTION for peace as a balanced alternative to a solemn vow. There is no doubt that we all want to find peace in ourselves and in the world and as you said, most of us are not enlightened yet, so we need to be gentle with ourselves and work at the level that we are comfortable with. Thank you for participating so wonderfully! May soft peace and warm love follow you my friend! Hello Simon,

I always feel a warm glow when you visit here. That must be the aura you carry!
Thanks for stopping by.

Well my friend, this is an issue that we all have, and I have learned that the word, “struggle” is the red flag. The teachers who teach this middle path talk about letting-go, allowing and making space for what is. I have found too that it does work. That when it is okay that things are wild and woolly there is a lightheartedness, sometimes I have to look for it, but it is there, beside or behind the dark clouds. It is easier to be doing than being for us, but all things do shift if we just let them be. The awareness is the ticket.

I agree, “perhaps most of us could commit to it at some level…” My intention for doing this post was to point out the power of INTENTION for peace as a balanced alternative to a solemn vow.

There is no doubt that we all want to find peace in ourselves and in the world and as you said, most of us are not enlightened yet, so we need to be gentle with ourselves and work at the level that we are comfortable with.

Thank you for participating so wonderfully!

May soft peace and warm love follow you my friend!

]]> By: Miruh http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/peaceful-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Miruh Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:24:15 +0000 http://spiritualhealingjourney.com/?p=1465#comment-494 Hello Grace, A warm welcome to you and thanks for joining in on this hot topic. Haha! I like this comparison of difficult thoughts to a bird nesting in your hair. Very appropriate analogy. I am so glad that you and Mark are expanding on what taking the vow means. I looked on Mr Chopra's websit to see if he explains it, but I couldn't find anything. I like what you said, "in the very loosest of terms.." because some people may take this in the most literal sense, as an oath, a solemn promise as some people who are extremist can do. You differenciate the thoughts that we dwell on and the ones that just pop in and out. I suppose taking this vow is a good practice in letting go and if one has trouble letting go, the vow is an incentive. This is hands on learning. I appreciate your input. May you find peace and have no birds landing on your head. :D Hello Grace,

A warm welcome to you and thanks for joining in on this hot topic.

Haha! I like this comparison of difficult thoughts to a bird nesting in your hair. Very appropriate analogy.

I am so glad that you and Mark are expanding on what taking the vow means. I looked on Mr Chopra’s websit to see if he explains it, but I couldn’t find anything. I like what you said, “in the very loosest of terms..” because some people may take this in the most literal sense, as an oath, a solemn promise as some people who are extremist can do.

You differenciate the thoughts that we dwell on and the ones that just pop in and out. I suppose taking this vow is a good practice in letting go and if one has trouble letting go, the vow is an incentive. This is hands on learning.

I appreciate your input.

May you find peace and have no birds landing on your head. :D

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