Awakening, Part II
Ok, around the time I had my Awakening, I also made sure I wrote down things that were going through my mind. It is finally time to put these words (wisdom? Ha!) down for the record. Some of them were extracted from books I have read, other are all my own. I present them here together, untouched by 4 months of reality.
- Who were you? Will you go back to that place you thought was safe and secure, or will you move on in this new ether? It is a choice.
- Emotions cannot be sequestered. If you stop showing or feeling one emotion, the rest of the emotions stop working.
- Emotions is why we live, without them, you are not alive.
- The mind, once awakened cannot become dark. –Thomas Paine
- Life is too short. Use it.
- Today is your last.
- Show others how to handle emotion. Show others how to live.
- Every emotion needs to be accessed. Good, bad, indifferent. Take it. Wait. Digest.
- Enjoy the moment. It’s the only one you have at that time.
- Every time you say you are not deserving, you shut off an emotion. All other emotions will begin to disappear. You will lose whatever you THINK happiness is.
- Look at those people who are alive. Sheep are no good for positive emotion.
- Every negative feeling must be dealt with. Confront it, change the circumstances, let it go. If you do not do one of these things, you will repress it and it will destroy you. It will gain power to hurt more.
- Healing requires action.
- When you do not seek or need external approval, you are most powerful.
- Learn WHAT, not who draws power from you.
- Positive energy works more effectively than negative energy.
- Talking does not heal, taking action does.
- The more we try to control, the less we really do. Change is inevitable. It was not what we choose that matters; our power to influence, an outcome lies in our reasons for making a certain choice.
- Our wounds do not hurt the person who hurt us, they only hurt us. Let it heal, move on.
- The stronger your spirit becomes, the less authority linear time can exercise in our lives.
- Make no judgments; Have no expectations; give up the need to know why things happen as they do; Trust that unscheduled events of our lives are a form of spiritual direction; Have the courage to make choices we need to, accept what we cannot change and have the wisdom to know the difference.
- Detachment does not mean ceasing to care, it means stilling ones fear-driven choices. One who has attained an inner posture of detachment has a sense of self so complete that external influences have no authority within your consciousness. Such clarity of mind and self is the essence of wisdom.
- Real sharpness comes without effort. Sharpness is a state of mind.
- The things we touch have no permanence, there is nothing in this world we can hold on to. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
- Some lessons cannot be taught, they must be lived to be understood.
- Interpret all situations and relationships as having symbolic importance; Even if you cannot immediately understand what it is.
- Work towards releasing any thoughts that promote self-pity or anger, or that blame another person for anything that has happened to you.
- Practice detachment, make decisions based upon the wisest assessment you can in the immediate moment, rather than working to create a specific outcome.
- Learn to recognize when you are being influenced by a fear pattern. Immediately detach from that fear by observing its influence on your mind and emotions, then make choices that weaken the influence of those fears.
- Visualize success as an energy source, rather than a physical one.
- Act on your inner guidance and give up the need for proof that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.
- Keep all your attention in the present moment, refrain from living in the past or worrying about the future. Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.