Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself.
- Insights must be translated into action if they are to remedy our previous misperceptions, and the decisions which grew out of these, if they are to transform the quality and direction of life itself.
“In my contingency and imperfectness, I need you, For your caring, I love you, for your holiness, I worship you, My Lord and My God.”
- Discover that the closeness which I crave, though not humanly present, is divinely right here all the time. My aloneness may be what I need to become dependent and open toward God directly.
Something in us – our energy, life-source, or positive will to live – is strengthened by silence, just as our physical bodies are strengthened by sleep.
- It is not just the absence of sounds but the presence of a positive, complete world in itself – a world in which it is permissible, even desirable, to see ourselves, accept ourselves, as we really are.
A discipline must meet six requirements if it is to help people grow:
- It should be non-competitive and be done, for the most part, alone.
- It should be a practice which is not dependent on others for execution.
- It should be easy to do, should not require much mental effort.
- It should be a practice which is done regularly, about one hour per day.
- It should be something that the doer believes will improve his or her mental/physical state. One must see their own improvements, without needing an “expert” or guru to tell them he or her is getting better.
- It should be something which can be done without inordinate self-criticism or comparison to someone else’s progress.
Those who are “positively addicted” to their disciplines develop:
- Subjective feeling of inner confidence, self trust, outward serenity, calm or grace.
- Creative thinking aptitudes
- The ability to resolve inner conflicts and/or expanded ability to spot new or varied options in problem solving
- A firm sense of self, including the willingness to speak up and take action on behalf of what they sense was right and true for them.
- An increased ability to cope with pressure, manage stress and deal with ambiguity and change.
Re-source: Regenerate
reformed or reborn, especially in a spiritual or moral sense
The interpersonal and transpersonal worlds of the completed, or actualized, individual are fully assimilated and integrated.
- As such the person moves spontaneously from within to without – in response to his or her own inner Bieng’s prompting, values and aspirations.
- In their moment-to-moment living, the person moves in wonderment or awe, with their consciousness saturated with richness, a surplus, and super ordinate awareness.
By turning off the ordinary flow of thoughts, which reinforces one’s habitual way of looking at the world, one’s world begins to change.
- By turning off our ordinary thought patterns, we enter into a new world of reality.
- To do this systematically, take up a position that will enable you to sit still. Close your eyes…Then slow down the normal flow of thoughts by thinking just one thought.
- Choose a sacred word of one or two syllables that you feel comfortable with.
As an actualizing person attains wholeness, as he or she establishes a steady, constant bond with their inner self, and establishes emotion security. “Let be”. “God’s will be done.”
- This is not so much a futile helplessness of outer conditions as it is a faithful knowing that things will work out, will resolve, and that non-resistance is the key to solving all things, for such non-resistance, and faithful acceptance is an active choice born of love.
What we seek, seeks us. The goal of our life – whatever we want to call it – is within us, always present as the very life-source in us.
- All we need to do is recognize, perhaps at first through faith, that inside is a profound, mysterious power which pervades our existence, and which can heal, guide and inspire us.
The design or redesign or our way of life is a secondary act – and that is why there are as many ways to design life as there are people. The primary activity is to understand what is for us most authentic, most real.
- If, on the other hand, we try to adjust ourselves too closely, mechanistically, to that which some expert, guru or trend tells us is right and good or even required, we exchange a fuller experience of life for something less that we are worthy of.
Anyone willing to undertake the regenerative work of getting in touch with our self can experience social and self-transcendence.
- And these values absolutely are the natural wellsprings out of which all clarifying thinking, motives and acting come.
- For these are the values that put us in touch with ourselves as we truly are, instead of as we may sometimes feel: limited, dark, ever-empty, superior or helpless.
The inner journey, whatever its costs and whatever it may take, is necessary for anybody who wishes to embody in thought, word and action all that we truly love.
- In this way, we come to know and to be our ideally balanced, most wholesome and generous self: our highest Self
craving and resource from “Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics” by Marsha Sinetar
