Guest guest Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Dear Stacee ~ this is wonder(ful) and indredible. What insightful questions. I found myself experiencing the truth of these questions turned into statements. For example: " Your contribution to the world and the fulfillment of your own happiness is not dependent on discovering a better method...reading the right book..., but upon really seeing and deeply appreciating yourself and the world as they are right now. " This is so powerful, and each question (or statement, if you turn them into such) goes more deeply into knowing that who we are right now is exactly right. It is hard to believe because it is so easy to find my many faults, but I am challenging myself to believe them. Ho ~ Linda P.S. I have read Oriah Mountain Dreamer's words before, and they are always profound and compassionate. Stacee wrote: What if your contribution to the world and the fulfillment of your own happiness is not dependent on discovering a better method of prayer of teaching meditation, not dependent on reading the right book or attending the right seminar, but upon really seeing and deeply appreciating yourself and the world as they are right now? How would this affect your search for spiritual development? What if there is no need to change, no need to try to transform yourself into someone who is more compassionate, more present, more loving or wise? How would this effect all the places in your life where you are endlessly trying to be better? What is the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature---gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately in the present? How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning? What if who you essentially are right now is all that you are ever going to be? How would this effect how you feel about your future? What if the essence of who you are and always have been is enough? How would this change how you see and feel about your past? What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I am? How would this change what you think you have to learn? What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold? How would this shape the choices you make about how to spend today? What is you knew that the impulse to move in a way that creates beauty in the world would arise from deep within and guide you every time you simply pay attention and wait? How would this shape your stillness, your movement, your willingness to follow this impulse, to just let go and dance? ~~~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer **************Popular laptop deals plus free shipping! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221917659x1201411421/aol?redir=http:%2\ F%2Faltfarm.media plex.com%2Fad%2Fck%2F12309%2D81939%2D1629%2D2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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