AOM Meditations: 010719

Avenue of Chestnut Trees by Alfred Sisley 

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“I am grateful for all that this year has given me, 

including the lessons it has given to my soul. 

This year 

I will be kinder and more compassionate 

to myself and to all beings. 

I will stop being so hard on me.

I will laugh more. 

I will unplug more. 

I will shift into my heart more.

I will make the time 

to connect to the Divine and feed my spirit. 

I will let go of the small stuff. 

I will surround myself 

with uplifting people and activities. 

This is my truth and so it is. 

Amen.” 

~Eileen Anglin

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If you've selected a challenge - a goal

That you would like to accomplish this year

DO NOT SPEAK IT

DO NOT TELL IT

I'm not sure why

But I have found that to do so

Zaps the energy from getting it done

Just hold it secret in your heart

And Quietly Become the Better You

~AOM

AOM Meditations: 030618

by Alfred Sisley

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"It is not the events of today that happened to you that matter (such as that you lost something or something went wrong or someone forgot you or spoke to you harshly, etc.), but how you reacted to it all--that is, what states of yourself you were in--for it is here that your real life lies and if our inner states were right, nothing in the nature of external states could overcome us.  Try therefore to distinguish, as an exercise in living more consciously, between inner states and outer events, and try to meet any outer event, after noticing its nature, with the right inner attitude--that is, with the right state.  And if you cannot, think afterward about it--first try to define the nature of the event and notice if this kind of event often comes to you and try to see it more clearly in terms such as "This is called being late" or "This is called losing things" or "This is called receiving bad news" or "This is called unpleasant surprises" or "This is called being ill."  Begin in this very simple way and you will soon see how different personal events, and so how in this respect one's outer life, are changing all the time, and what you could not do at one moment, you can at another."

~Maurice Nicoll

AOM Meditations: 071717

Church at Noisy Le Roi in Autumn by Alfred Sisley

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“All religions are equally false and equally true, depending on how you use them. You can use them in the service of the ego, or you can use them in the service of the Truth. If you believe only your religion is the Truth, you are using it in the service of the ego. Used in such a way, religion becomes ideology and creates an illusory sense of superiority as well as division and conflict between people. In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form.”

~Eckhart Tolle

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"What we observe is not nature, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." The way we see the world shapes our narrative describing it. Even through the objective lens of science, it is still the human view of the world. If science is the best way we have to avoid being fooled by our perceptions, it still reflects those perceptions. The human touch is in everything we create, science included.

~Werner Karl Heisenberg

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