Ultimately, there is no such thing as a problem. The mind generates the appearance of problems to maintain a sense of self. Practically speaking, a problem is a painful situation. The only way out of a painful situation is to take appropriate action. This does not require value judgment and stress. Conscious action dissolves judgment and relieves stress.
–James Wood Stelzenmuller, The Path of Awakening 2007, p.88
Month: February 2011
More straight talk from Vernon Howard
“Everything works to your advantage as you do what must be done. You may not see this at first, in fact, you may feel that you are losing instead of gaining. __This loss is your gain.__ See this! Your present life goes the way it does because you have certain ideas about it. Well, honestly, what kind of life is it? If the life is wrong, the ideas in back of it are also wrong, so they must go. It is the loss of the harmful familiar that you feel. Don’t love the familiar just because it seems comfortable. Love whatever is beyond the familiar, which is true love.”
–Vernon Howard, Esoteric Mind Power, p. 153
Thy will be done
All is well-
all is righteous-
and marvelously beautiful and lovable as IT IS.
Why ask that it may be different?
Why even pray that ‘Thy Will be done’ –
The Will is ever being done in the divine Swa-lila.
Rejoice in gratitude –
and endure patiently what you cannot enjoy.
Svaha 