07/28/2009
Places and Places
Attention is as much a place in one's mind as one's location is a place in one's world. One must therefore remember to accept not only where one is in the world but also where one is in one's mind. Accept where your attention is as long as it is there where it is, as you should accept where your location is as long as you are there.
If your senses are focussed on sensations you experience as negative, learn to love them, and so too if your mind is focussed on emotions you experience as negative, accept them as well.
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06/12/2009
Influences
Whatever happens to you, it will have a positive as well as a negative influence. By being aware of its positive influence, one can make it stronger by thus opening oneself to it; by being aware of its negative influence, one may avoid it by closing oneself to it. It is important to be aware of both, but remain detached, remain objective.
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05/30/2009
A Play Unto One's Own
Wonder and ask yourself with an open curiosity what will happen the next instant, both without you as within you in feelings, thoughts or actions, and experience the answer as it comes. Control it all the while, but only when you find yourself feeling or thinking that it is needed. In this way, observing yourself in every way as though you were someone else, you will become more aware.
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