...A Fragment of Life's Heart...

So after lots of reflection and awareness and suffering and relief I realized that I was killing myself with certain concepts and beliefs.   Hence the acronym DEAD. D: demands E: expectations A: assumptions D: desires (the ones that create attachment) All these things equate to a total lack of freedom inside and outside of me.   When we can love in it’s truest sense (aka without attachment), then we become FREE.   And oh how I want to be free.   As I reflect back on 2010, I see an amazing pattern of DEAD behavior which has created great suffering but great learning for me and for that I am grateful and feel it was all worth it.   When I take the personal ME and MINE out of it, I see and experience the big picture. How it’s all a big school and the same curriculum but we all have different ways of learning.   So can I learn to let you learn how you need to learn while respecting my ways?   Trusting that in the end we’ll arrive at the same destinati...

A client made a wise statement today about helping to the point of annoyance and helping others in order to feel good about oneself.  It hit me between the eyes and in the chest.  The double-edged sword of helping simply for the joy of it and as a way to show love/affection OR helping as a way to feel useful, a part of, or worthy.  Subtle differences and most actions we take are probably never clearly one or the other but some combination of the two, otherwise we'd be Enlightened Beings with no attachment either way.  But alas, human it is, human I am, even though my Soul tries to remind me I'm more than that by putting people in my life who give me a good dose of humble pie or sweet awareness. Let go of that fear of being forgotten or dismissed. What would it be like to let her miss you, let them "forget" you, even for a day?  Think of the joy that comes when you REMEMBER a loved one. Don't deprive others or yourself of that joy... just for today.  Rem...