Being and Solitude

“All of humanity’s problems stem from a man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”.

Blaise Pascal

Don't Worry, Everything is Out of Control | Stoic Antidotes to Worry

No worries are in any way helpful. Focus exclusively on what you DO have control over, the stoics say again and again! Vigilant, mindful presence, taking good care, is the best answer and antidote to compulsive habitual worries. Having done what i could to give my full attention and respond accordingly i am less inclined to dwell on it mentally and surrender control of the outcome to God/Universe and faith therein.

J.D. Zenie

Listening to Source, Transcending Content

The answer I was looking for in response to the endlessly overwhelming amount of content coming from outer sources. One must return to the body and authentic self, not looking outside oneself all the time for answers to life’s many challenges. The limited capacity and time for taking everything in from the outside is pointing right back to your inner source of love and light, and to taking practical action (a daily practice). To thine own Self be true. Sage like wisdom shared here by the author, so much more than mere content!

JDZ

Relax and Release

Learning to let go of outside conditions and needing nothing outside of us because nothing of unhappiness is stored inside. We let go of our inner resistance to allow each challenging moment of life to purify us of all that we normally avoid and don’t want to experience. Life challenges us to be free of our stored traumas and continue questioning why we think anything outside of ourselves is needed to heal, fulfill or satisfy us. If I don’t need/want to take anything from anyone then I am free and willing to give totally of my self, every moment. 

Singer expresses well that the goal of this lifetime is to “leave with less than we came here with”; the opposite philosophy of “he who dies with the most toys wins”.

JDZ

Reduce your Desire(s), Open your Heart and Free your Soul

On the deadliest of the seven deadly sins, the mother of them all, and blind ignorance at the root of all irrational fears and needless hostilities. Greed is definitely NOT good.

JDZ

Thinking is about Past and Future, Reality is Now

A memory is a remembrance right now of something that happened in a previous now. The power to be and do fully always is found only in the present, where LIFE IS.

JDZ

“Nothing ever happened in the past, it happened in the Now.. Nothing will ever happen in the future? It will happen in the Now.”

 Eckhart Tolle

Seek not Happiness but Liberation from Ignorance, Fear and Sorrow (…and the painful addiction to pleasures, in pursuit of a false happiness)

You seek after only what you appear to lack, and as with the search for misplaced objects goes, the harder you look for it the more certain that it remains lost. Giving up the search, suddenly it reappears in that instant of letting go. To persistently keep looking for happiness is to keep insisting that it’s not here now. The very nature of joy is a contented state of inner fullness, lacking nothing, never seeking happiness in the externals themselves, and conversely empty of all unhappiness inherent in unfulfilled desire(s). 

In Peaceful Surrender..

JDZ