“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return”
…Your Life is ideal for your growth. Everything is a gift of the universe - even your shame, guilt, resentment, hatred, anger, jealousy, or frustration. It's as though the University of Life has set up the exact curriculum to create happiness.
By getting on with your practice using your daily life situations, you can win in the inner growth game no matter what happens. Your life is really set up to work - if you do….>
<> When we first embark on our journey of personal growth, our egos will be clawing for enough sensations to avoid the major frustrations, and enough pride, prestige, money, and power to protect us from our angers, resentments, and irritations. <…> We find our attention going outward, away from self-centeredness. We see how much suffering there is everywhere. There’s a lot of healing needed, repair work to be done, and preventive programs to develop – in our neighborhood and all over our planet.
The social cooperativeness that flows when we love everyone as a brother or sister is needed to help solve the immense planetary problems we have created by living out our addictive, separate-self programs.
All of us have helped others at times. How do we grow in giving of ourselves? We can do something meaningful each day: a smile, a hug, a question that shows we care a letter, an unexpected note, a heartfelt appreciation – or an anonymous helpful act. Generosity becomes a habit. We act as a conduit to sort things out and put them where they’re needed.
We give some of our precious time!
We give some of our precious energy! Each of us can find our personal ways that let us give what we can afford to give.
Depending on your approach, the work you do may be self-centered or it may be a way to help others. It depends more on your inner motivations – not so much on the type of work you actually do. You could live out “ another dollar” programming in which people are objects from which you extract money. Or you could go to your job each day motivated by a wise balance between making money to live on and generously helping your customers. You may have discovered that when you open your heart to people and treat them as friends, the money will take of it self. If you do your work while listening to your heart, you may even experience your “work” as “play”.
Author: Ken Keyes, JR.
By getting on with your practice using your daily life situations, you can win in the inner growth game no matter what happens. Your life is really set up to work - if you do….>
<> When we first embark on our journey of personal growth, our egos will be clawing for enough sensations to avoid the major frustrations, and enough pride, prestige, money, and power to protect us from our angers, resentments, and irritations. <…> We find our attention going outward, away from self-centeredness. We see how much suffering there is everywhere. There’s a lot of healing needed, repair work to be done, and preventive programs to develop – in our neighborhood and all over our planet.
The social cooperativeness that flows when we love everyone as a brother or sister is needed to help solve the immense planetary problems we have created by living out our addictive, separate-self programs.
All of us have helped others at times. How do we grow in giving of ourselves? We can do something meaningful each day: a smile, a hug, a question that shows we care a letter, an unexpected note, a heartfelt appreciation – or an anonymous helpful act. Generosity becomes a habit. We act as a conduit to sort things out and put them where they’re needed.
We give some of our precious time!
We give some of our precious energy! Each of us can find our personal ways that let us give what we can afford to give.
Depending on your approach, the work you do may be self-centered or it may be a way to help others. It depends more on your inner motivations – not so much on the type of work you actually do. You could live out “ another dollar” programming in which people are objects from which you extract money. Or you could go to your job each day motivated by a wise balance between making money to live on and generously helping your customers. You may have discovered that when you open your heart to people and treat them as friends, the money will take of it self. If you do your work while listening to your heart, you may even experience your “work” as “play”.
Author: Ken Keyes, JR.
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