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Twenty years ago, I fell apart. Everything in my world was at odds with everything else and my mind just broke. There was all the usual hoopla - emergency psychiatric evaluations, medication, therapy - you name it, we did it, but my spirit had simply shattered. I began to visit a non-denominational church and eventually atttended a class there based on the books called, "A Course in Miracles." This course says, in part, "Teach only love, for that is what you are." How simple and, yet, how difficult we make it. I quote from renowned author, Gerald Jampolsky, "To love, we have to recognize what is the same about us and all living things ... Are we acting with love, with peace, with happiness ... for if we are, whatever we do will be right."
When we attack another's feelings, this is NOT acting with love. When we launch a verbal assault at someone simply for behaving differently than we do, this is NOT acting with peace. When we criticize another for grieving in a way we deem incorrect or excessive when WE have not experienced their pain, can this bring us happiness?
I implore everyone to stop and think before letting your anger or pain cause you to lash out at another. We are all here in search of love, of comfort, of understanding. If you don't agree with someone's feelings or beliefs and you are incapable of keeping it to yourself, perhaps you need to evaluate your anger and its source before making hateful remarks to someone who is already in enough pain.
When we attack another's feelings, this is NOT acting with love. When we launch a verbal assault at someone simply for behaving differently than we do, this is NOT acting with peace. When we criticize another for grieving in a way we deem incorrect or excessive when WE have not experienced their pain, can this bring us happiness?
I implore everyone to stop and think before letting your anger or pain cause you to lash out at another. We are all here in search of love, of comfort, of understanding. If you don't agree with someone's feelings or beliefs and you are incapable of keeping it to yourself, perhaps you need to evaluate your anger and its source before making hateful remarks to someone who is already in enough pain.
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A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...
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Today is my 25th birthday, to my somewhat lack of surprise I can see already no one really seems to care. I've always been the kinda person to make sure that everyone I Care about feels appreciated and knew somebody had their back. I can count 4 times this year when I Went out of my way to make sure a "friend" felt good on their birthday, especially if they got left hanging. Its early in the...
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The Miracle Of The Breath- Andy Caponigro
This is a wonderful book about finding the breath that brings forth balance- and in that balance-there is a sense of calm in everything. This book also covers avenues of mastering fear, healing illness, and experiencing the Divine. The centerpoint of the breath where the stillness is that is often so difficult to find with the situations that come our way - and we, too bring toward ourselves. I have recommended this book as often times in grieving, we do lose that "breath". Whether it is grief of a loved one moving forward(physically dying), a divorce, a loss of job, orconfrontations with others. The list of reasons to grieve seems to go down a twisting turning road...long often times in some lives. And yet, in those times of grief ... there are a strings of strength that eventually abound...a knowledge...a most beautiful sharing of compassionate hearts to assist and lend a heart to others through the experiences.
I leave this comment with the following quote:
"Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware." (Martin Ruber)
would be my suggestion.
perhaps a local bookstore may be able to order it for you.
The book came my way as a gift.
Thank you for asking.