Here's a path to Peace: Eliminate "should" from your thoughts and speaking today!
When you "should" yourself, others, the world, you operate inside a context of entitlement - entitled to things being a certain way, your way (imagine that)! From this place it is impossible to appreciate how you are already blessed. Focus instead on what you are grateful for right now, for air to breathe, for your ability to love, for the Peace that already exists.
Said another way: Always wear your dancing shoes! Then dance with abandon to the music that is being played. Hey, hey, hey! That's what I say! Yip, yip! Boogie on!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Wild flowers for Peace!
My neighbors planted a hill surrounding their property with native wild flowers. Now the rest of the neighbors and visitors have the great gift of turning a corner to be surprised and breathless at the sight of a hill vibrating with color: poppies, larkspur, lupine, tidy tips, brodiaea, clarkia and purple owls clover! Creating, nurturing and sharing beauty, inviting gratitude: That's Peace.
Don't leave your room without being grateful today. If you can't find anything to be deeply grateful for, be grateful for wild flowers!
Don't leave your room without being grateful today. If you can't find anything to be deeply grateful for, be grateful for wild flowers!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
A Powerful Commitment to Peace
Feeling at Peace or inspired by Peace is an amazing and deeply satisfying experience. And for us humans these feelings are TRANSITORY! They go away. Sometimes very quickly.
So, what might be more powerful and sustainable?
Commitment!
When I am committed to Peace, when I declare my commitment to it each day, each moment, I am likely to move in Peace toward Peace, even when I am uninspired or challenged. I do it anyway, whether I feel like it in the moment or not.
Pssssst! You can substitute love, kindness, generosity, mindfulness, spirit and many other qualities of Essence for Peace in my assertion above AND IT STILL WORKS. Huzzah, Ta Da, and Woo Ha!
So, what might be more powerful and sustainable?
Commitment!
When I am committed to Peace, when I declare my commitment to it each day, each moment, I am likely to move in Peace toward Peace, even when I am uninspired or challenged. I do it anyway, whether I feel like it in the moment or not.
Pssssst! You can substitute love, kindness, generosity, mindfulness, spirit and many other qualities of Essence for Peace in my assertion above AND IT STILL WORKS. Huzzah, Ta Da, and Woo Ha!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Completely at Peace
Are you burdened by guilt or thoughts of work or relationships that seem unfinished?
You aren't neurotic, abnormal or ready for the looney bin! You are merely incomplete!
I heartily recommend the practice of getting complete as a path to Peace. Being complete means that everything that needs to, has been said, accepted, acknowledged, let go of or forgiven.
Here's a way to do it. Make a list of everything that seems incomplete for you. Then look to see what you need to say or do to be complete. Take one item at a time and say, do, accept, acknowledge, let go of or forgive. The key is that you are willing to be complete.
Voila! Peace!
You aren't neurotic, abnormal or ready for the looney bin! You are merely incomplete!
I heartily recommend the practice of getting complete as a path to Peace. Being complete means that everything that needs to, has been said, accepted, acknowledged, let go of or forgiven.
Here's a way to do it. Make a list of everything that seems incomplete for you. Then look to see what you need to say or do to be complete. Take one item at a time and say, do, accept, acknowledge, let go of or forgive. The key is that you are willing to be complete.
Voila! Peace!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Peace Means Being Fully Alive!
Have you noticed how unsatisfying it is when you hold back in order to avoid failure, how restless you become knowing that something wonderful is possible if you venture out?
We kill Peace when we hold back. To be fully alive and at Peace with ourselves means risking doing and being things that scare us. Paul Tillich, a brilliant 20th Century theologian, describes the great wisdom of an even earlier, less known but equally brilliant 18th Century Romantic philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (say that five times really fast), who said "there is only one alternative to life without failure AND THAT IS LIFELESSNESS without failure."
Lifelessness! Who wants that? So, go create some Peace today; do what old Freddy recommends. Get your Peace game on. Risk some mistakes in service of being truly alive and watch Peace show up. Yeee Haw!
Love,
Darlene
We kill Peace when we hold back. To be fully alive and at Peace with ourselves means risking doing and being things that scare us. Paul Tillich, a brilliant 20th Century theologian, describes the great wisdom of an even earlier, less known but equally brilliant 18th Century Romantic philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (say that five times really fast), who said "there is only one alternative to life without failure AND THAT IS LIFELESSNESS without failure."
Lifelessness! Who wants that? So, go create some Peace today; do what old Freddy recommends. Get your Peace game on. Risk some mistakes in service of being truly alive and watch Peace show up. Yeee Haw!
Love,
Darlene
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Peace as Art
Nearly every day I forget my commitment to Peace,
when I want to be right more than I want to love what is.
Then, like an artist, I remember that Peace
is a passion and a process; that the creative journey
is as important as the result.
And I take up my brush and begin to paint again.
Love,
Darlene
when I want to be right more than I want to love what is.
Then, like an artist, I remember that Peace
is a passion and a process; that the creative journey
is as important as the result.
And I take up my brush and begin to paint again.
Love,
Darlene
Monday, March 16, 2009
Embraced by Peace
It is one thing to embrace Peace.
Will you allow it to embrace you?
Will you allow it's silence?
Will you walk with it all day,
gracefully arm in arm,
let it breathe for you, feel for you,
talk for you, and think for you?
Will you dance to the tune it whistles
and laugh at it's jokes?
Will you have a conversation with it about the future
and all of the loving possibilities it sees for you and humankind?
When will you?
Love,
Darlene
Will you allow it to embrace you?
Will you allow it's silence?
Will you walk with it all day,
gracefully arm in arm,
let it breathe for you, feel for you,
talk for you, and think for you?
Will you dance to the tune it whistles
and laugh at it's jokes?
Will you have a conversation with it about the future
and all of the loving possibilities it sees for you and humankind?
When will you?
Love,
Darlene
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
