Food For Thought

By: Pamela Leavey On: August 31, 2011 at 1:32 pm

“In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.” ~~ The Dalai Lama

Food For Thought: Going Beyond Words

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 2, 2011 at 7:48 am

J. Krishnamurti…

To understand each other, I think it is necessary that we should not be caught in words; because, a word like God, for example, may have a particular meaning for you, while for me it may represent a totally different formulation, or no formulation at all. So it is almost impossible to communicate with each other unless both of us have the intention of understanding and going beyond mere words. The word freedom generally implies being free from something, does it not? It ordinarily means being free from greed, from envy, from nationalism, from anger, from this or that. Whereas, freedom may have quite another meaning, which is a sense of being free; and I think it is very important to understand this meaning. After all, the mind is made up of words, amongst other things. Now, can the mind be free of the word envy? Experiment with this and you will see that words like God, truth, hate, envy, have a profound effect on the mind. And can the mind be both neurologically and psychologically free of these words? If it is not free of them, it is incapable of facing the fact of envy. When the mind can look directly at the fact which it calls ‘envy,’ then the fact itself acts much more swiftly than the mind’s endeavor to do something about the fact. As long as the mind is thinking of getting rid of envy through the ideal of non-envy, and so on, it is distracted, it is not facing the fact; and the very word envy is a distraction from the fact. The process of recognition is through the word; and the moment I recognize the feeling through the word, I give continuity to that feeling. ~~ The Book of Life

Let The Flow Of My Life Direct Me

By: Pamela Leavey On: February 14, 2010 at 12:11 pm

“I seek not to direct the flow of my life, but to let the flow of my life direct me. I recognize that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, doing exactly what I am supposed to do. What I can change however, is how I react, when I am placed in a situation that may not be pleasant or comfortable. In that circumstance, I can reach into my center, and draw my energy level up, where it and I can act from the highest good – love. The key is to remember to act consciously from love, not to react from fear or anger.” — Pamela J. Leavey

The Flow Of My Life

By: Pamela Leavey On: May 19, 2009 at 9:44 am

“I seek not to direct the flow of my life, but to let the flow of my life direct me. I recognize that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, doing exactly what I am supposed to do. What I can change however, is how I react, when I am placed in a situation that may not be pleasant or comfortable. In that circumstance, I can reach into my center, and draw my energy level up, where it and I can act from the highest good – love. The key is to remember to act consciously from love, not to react from fear or anger.” – Pamela J. Leavey