AOM Meditations: 091918

painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz

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“Once you understand that you are the thinker of your own thoughts, and that your mind doesn't produce ‘reality’, it produces ‘thoughts’, you won’t be as affected by what you think. You’ll see your thinking as something that you are doing – an ability you have that brings your experience of life – rather than as the source of reality. Do you remember the old saying ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me’? Thoughts could be substituted for words. Your thoughts can’t hurt or depress you once you understand that they are just thoughts. When you start to view your own thinking in this more impersonal way (in other words, looking at your thinking instead of being caught in it), you will find yourself becoming free of depression. Your thinking goes on and on, and it will continue to do so for as long as you live. But when you step back from your thinking and simply observe that you are doing it, your mind becomes free, and you open the door to experience.” 

~Richard Carlson

AOM Meditations: 072518

 Amazing painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz

Thanks to a Friend for sending us this beautiful art

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"Miracle"

by Above and Beyond

Writer(s): Jonathan Grant, Anthony Mcguinness, Justine Suissa, Paavo Siljamaeki 

"Don’t they know that there’s something going on?

What they’re harming with their indecision

But who will be left standing when I’m gone?

There’ll be nothing left but a vision

It’s too easy to turn a blind eye to the light

It’s too easy to bow your head and pray

But there are some times

When you should try to find your voice

This is one voice that you must find today

Are you hoping for a miracle

As the ice caps melt away?

No use hoping for a miracle

There’s a price we’ll have to pay

Don't they know that there's

Something they can do?

To be sure of tomorrow's tomorrow

And too late is too late for me and you

No more time left for you to borrow

And it’s too easy to turn a blind eye to the light

It’s too easy to bow your head and pray

But there are some times

When you should try to find your voice

And this is one voice that you must find today

Are you hoping for a miracle

As the ice caps melt away?

No use hoping for a miracle

There’s a price we’ll have to pay

Are you hoping for a miracle?

Am I still within your plans?

No use hoping for a miracle

I Am Balanced in Your Hands."

AOM Meditations: 072318

This amazing painting is by Dennis Wojtkiewicz

Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art

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"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

~John Lennon

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