By: Pamela Leavey On: March 5, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Trust has been a theme that has been recurring in my life in recent weeks and bringing up issues of faith or I should say more aptly put, loss of faith.
The faith I question isn’t in myself, or my very complex and diverse understandings of the spiritual realm, so much as it in people and the lesson in don Miguel Ruiz‘s The Four Agreements
to ”be impeccable with your word.”
When people in your life are not “impeccable” with their word and you take them at face value, because you trust, you get hurt. There’s no way around that.
Times heals all wounds… but, trust when shaken or shattered no longer becomes a gift given freely, it must then be earned.
When you are impeccable with your word, you run less risk of breaking the trust of others… It boils down to, being capable of walking your talk.
(Photo: Salt Pan Sunset at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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By: Pamela Leavey On: February 5, 2012 at 7:36 am
I was first introduced to the teaching of J. Krishnamurti while studying A Course In Miracles, with Tara Singh while living in Los Angeles. Since then I have found great comfort and wisdom from the teaching of J. Krishnamurti…
The center of suffering
When you see a most lovely thing, a beautiful mountain, a beautiful sunset, a ravishing smile, a ravishing face, that fact stuns you, and you are silent; hasn’t it ever happened to you? Then you hug the world in your arms. But that is something from outside which comes to your mind, but I am talking of the mind which is not stunned but which wants to look, to observe. Now, can you observe without all this upsurging of conditioning? To a person in sorrow, I explain in words; sorrow is inevitable, sorrow is the result of fulfillment. When all explanations have completely stopped, then only can you look -which means you are not looking from the center. When you look from a center, your faculties of observation are limited. If I hold to a post and want to be there, there is a strain, there is pain. When I look from the center into suffering, there is suffering. It is the incapacity to observe that creates pain. I cannot observe if I think, function, see from a center- as when I say, ‘I must have no pain, I must find out why I suffer, I must escape.’ When I observe from a center, whether the center is a conclusion, an idea, hope, despair, or anything else, that observation is very restricted, very narrow, very small, and that engenders sorrow. ~~ J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
Let go of the suffering, I believe Krishnamurti is saying here. Release it. Sorrow is inevitable, we all go through it. We can’t get past it if we hold it at our center. It’s a hard lesson, but in time we must release the sorrow and suffering and move through it.
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By: Pamela Leavey On: June 6, 2011 at 7:56 am
J. Krishnamurti…
In the modern world where there are so many problems, one is apt to lose great feeling. I mean by that word feeling, not sentiment, not emotionalism, not mere excitement, but that quality of perception, the quality of hearing, listening, the quality of feeling -a bird singing on a tree, the movement of a leaf in the sun. To feel things greatly, deeply, penetratingly, is very difficult for most of us because we have so many problems. Whatever we seem to touch turns into a problem. And, apparently, there is no end to man’s problems, and he seems utterly incapable of resolving them because the more the problems exist, the less the feelings become.
I mean by “feeling” the appreciation of the curve of a branch, the squalor, the dirt on the road, to be sensitive to the sorrow of another, to be in a state of ecstasy when we see a sunset. These are not sentiments, these are not mere emotions. Emotion and sentiment or sentimentality turn to cruelty, they can be used by society; and when there is sentiment, sensation, then one becomes a slave to society. But one must have great feelings. The feeling for beauty, the feeling for a word, the silence between two words, and the hearing of a sound clearly;all that generates feeling. And one must have strong feelings, because it is only the feelings that make the mind highly sensitive. ~ The Book of Life
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By: Pamela Leavey On: November 1, 2010 at 11:11 pm
The sunsets on the Merrimack River at Point Shore in Amesbury are always lovely… I caught this sunset about 2 weeks ago, the river looked like it was on fire:
Continue reading “Point Shore Sunset” »
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By: Pamela Leavey On: March 29, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Yesterday, as the sun was setting here in Eastport, I took a walk up High Street towards the beach. The sky was simply spectacular:
I’m always struck by the majestic beauty here. It feeds the soul: Continue reading “Eastport Sunset” »
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