Secret Path - FasterEFT Australia

25/07/2020

I think that one of the most profound realizations in taking the creative role in life is just that: “My life is my own. I can create as I choose.”

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Complimentary Mindfulness Meditation this Saturday -

23/07/2018

If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves, rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.

- Yogi Bhajan
📸 Cathsimard

24/06/2018

FRIENDSHIP

is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us to see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.

A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.

In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves, to remain friends we must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation, thus subtly discouraging what makes them smaller, less generous, less of themselves.

Friendship is the great hidden transmuter of all relationship: it can transform a troubled marriage, make honorable a professional rivalry, make sense of heartbreak and unrequited love and become the newly discovered ground for a mature parent-child relationship.

The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disasters and vulnerabilities found in even the most ordinary existence…

Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on after death, the exchange only transmuted by absence, the relationship advancing and maturing in a silent internal conversational way even after one half of the bond has passed on.

But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the self nor of the other, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
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Excerpt From ‘FRIENDSHIP’ in
CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment
and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte & Many Rivers Press

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WALKING TOGETHER
Photo: © David Whyte
Ullswater, Cumbria July 5th 2016

26/04/2018

“There is an active partner of “letting go,” it’s called “replacement”. If you want to release unconscious habits and fear based behavior, consciously replace that behavior with the opposite conscious choice.
This is a willful choice and it comes from the desire to live the way of love and unity.
The beauty of this choice is that it feeds the integrity of your soul.
In order to practice this, you have to live in self witness so that you are very aware of your thoughts, feelings and your ensuing reactions.
So for instance, when you feel threatened by another’s accomplishments and the temptation is to compete with that person, you make the decision to promote or compliment their greatness instead.
If you feel threatened by another persons actions because you feel that it will threaten an attachment that is fear based and you are tempted to try to manipulate and control the situation to allay your fear, you willfully “let go” and allow the situation and allow that person the freedom to be and do what is right for them.
When the temptation is to hoard and grab for your self,
you give generously instead.
When the temptation is to shun someone and put them down,
you speak kindly instead.
The list is endless but each person has their own fears that rule their behavior in an unconscious way and choosing actions to protect your fears from happening will never cure feelings of inadequacy, those choices will enhance them instead.
When you rise above those behaviors and you witness the abundance and the appreciation coming back to you and you feel good about your own ability to transcend your fears, feelings of inadequacy disappear naturally and you find yourself living in a state of love and grace.”
~Caroline de Lisser

24/04/2018

But underneath every addiction is the longing for home, for Mother in the deepest sense of the word. Find the deepest sense of home within yourself, then. Make your body your home, your breath, your belly as it rises and falls in the present moment. Find your ground in the sense of being alive. And in that place of presence, spend time with others who nourish you, who help you feel alive, who empathise with you and can validate your precious feelings. When you are not trying to win love, when you are not running from your own uncomfortable feelings, you can afford to truly love and be loved.
Invite others into your love field; let them stay, let them leave, bow to their path and walk your own with courage. But do not for a moment buy into the lie that salvation lies anywhere except at the very heart of your exquisite presence, the place where there’s nobody to be saved. The place where you touch life, and are touched in return, moment by moment...
For you are The One, your own greatest lover, partner, friend, guru and Mother.
And so you can say to yourself:
“I can’t live without you”.
“You complete me”.
“Without you I’m nothing”.
“Never leave me”.
~Jeff Foster

19/04/2018

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