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September 10, 2013
I will be honest with myself and others. For when I deceive others, I am deceiving myself. I will be true to myself and others. For when I am true to myself, I am true to others. I will strive to be the gentle voice of truth and reason in all circumstances. – Pamela J. Leavey
December 18, 2012
Some days are easier to be in the moment than others. When we find ourselves losing our grip on inner peace because of circumstances around us, we need to step back and focus on our own feelings and find that inner peace in our core. Today, I re-mind myself that nothing outside of me, can shake my inner peace. ~ Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: Great Blue Heron at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
December 14, 2012
Everyday is a lesson in practicing acceptance of things and people we can not change. We can change ourselves, we can work to change our circumstances but we can not change other people. In practicing accpetance we open up the door to understanding, love and compassion for all those around us. ~ Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: Great Blue Heron ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
June 1, 2011
More today from J. Krishnamurti… The Burden of the Unconscious
Inwardly, unconsciously, there is the tremendous weight of the past pushing you in a certain direction.
Now, how is one to wipe all that away? How is the unconscious to be cleansed immediately of the past? The analysts think that the unconscious can be partially or even completely cleansed through analysis, through investigation, exploration, confession, the interpretation of dreams, and so on; so that at least you become a ‘normal’ human being, able to adjust yourself to the present environment. But in analysis there is always the analyzer and the analyzed, an observer who is interpreting the thing observed, which is a duality, a source of conflict.
So I see that mere analysis of the unconscious will not lead anywhere. It may help me to be a little less neurotic, a little kinder to my wife, to my neighbor, or some superficial thing like that; but that is not what we are talking about. I see that the analytical process which involves time, interpretation, the movement of thought as the observer analyzing the thing observed cannot free the unconscious; therefore I reject the analytical process completely. The moment I perceive the fact that analysis cannot under any circumstances clear away the burden of the unconscious, I am out of analysis. I no longer analyze. So what has taken place? Because there is no longer an analyzer separated from the thing that he analyzes, he is that thing. He is not an entity apart from it. Then one finds that the unconscious is of very little importance. ~~ The Book of Life
March 24, 2011
“I will be honest with myself and others. For when I deceive others, I am deceiving myself. I will be true to myself and others. For when I am true to myself, I am true to others. I will strive to be the gentle voice of truth and reason in all circumstances.” ~~ Pamela J. Leavey
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