"Don't just sit there---Meditate!" "Don't just meditate---Sit there!"...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 2, 2007 1:28 am
... Yo Aideen, Thanks for sharing this. It reminded me of one of my favorite Swami Sivananda sayings that went something like: "Before any actions, there are...
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aideenmck
Sep 1, 2007 2:13 pm
Observe your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become acts. Understand your acts, for they become habits. Study your habits, for...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 30, 2007 7:16 pm
Aideen, I got a laugh out of that. Yep, can't go back and family has a way of being the most relentless objectors to allowing your own path. Interestingly, a...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 30, 2007 4:48 pm
... I here ya, Candy. The odd thing is, all the years I was growing up and while in church I learned those values and believed in them and then more and more...
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Aideen McKenna
aideenmck
Aug 30, 2007 4:15 pm
Sean’s wife’s karma ran over the Baptist lady’s dogma. (Sorry – I’ll try not to do that again). Yes. I went into group therapy (long overdue) with...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 30, 2007 3:46 pm
Jeff, Thank you. Everything you say makes perfect sense and is like the soothing sound of running water to my brain. What is funny about that to me, is that I...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 30, 2007 3:42 pm
Ted, ha ha, that;s true. Nothing like a good trauma to bring people together ;-) Sean, I'm having sympathy pains for you. I went riding for the first time in...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 30, 2007 3:30 pm
Sean, That is really cool. I was with a small church comprised of mostly younger people shortly before I left. One thing a few of us we were doing was...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 30, 2007 12:59 pm
Great story, Sean. Jesus said "when you look, you'll find." Modern interpretation. Your wife's client was able to look past the dogma. (The word "dogma"...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 30, 2007 12:50 pm
Hi Sean, sorry about the hand. Hope you get better soon! On one level it's always nice to share experiences but in this case it's more like the comfort people...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Aug 30, 2007 8:58 am
Candy And Ted both touched on something I am witnessing at my wife work (please excuse the typo's I have a bandaged finger wahhh) My wife has a studio where...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Aug 30, 2007 8:37 am
I would assume this shared experience of you and Candy is a very strengthening thing Ted <txhandyman57@...> wrote: Hi, Candy. There's probably...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 30, 2007 2:48 am
Hi, Candy. There's probably no other event that makes us consider, or reconsider, our faith than death. The bonds that tied me to Evangelical Christianity...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 29, 2007 10:36 pm
Ted, Beautiful post, thank you for taking the time. I share your background in evangelical christianity. I left organized religion because of being burned out...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 29, 2007 10:34 pm
Often when I've completed a literary masterpiece I say to my wife, "I have something I want to read to you...." She groans, looks at the clock and asks, "how...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Aug 29, 2007 8:55 pm
Nice one! All of you It's refreshing to come home to and drop the work load with postes like these I won't be writing much I screwed up my hand at work(nothing...
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Jeff Belyea
mindgoal
Aug 29, 2007 5:33 pm
Thanks Ted Beautiful Love Jeff ... really ... blog, ... Up ... rubbing ... reached ... the ... me. ... Truth ... projects, ... like a ... as ... Truth ... ...
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Aideen McKenna
aideenmck
Aug 29, 2007 3:49 pm
WOW! Thank you, Ted. Thanks to all of you. Aideen _____ From: meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com [mailto:meditationsocietyofamerica@yahoogroups.com]...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 29, 2007 3:19 pm
OK, the heading is a bit lame but what can I say? ...this is a really long thought... just a warning. lol I think I'll post it on my blog, too. So anyway.......
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Jeff Belyea
mindgoal
Aug 29, 2007 1:10 pm
Hi Candy - Thanks for the postscript note. You are right about the speculative questions of how and why. We "find" ourselves in this human form - not knowing...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 29, 2007 4:23 am
All, I hope you do not mind me jumping in here? I have searched, for a long time, to settle questions I have. The problem I experience in every avenue,...
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C. Joubert
ombp2002
Aug 29, 2007 3:23 am
Ted, That's beautiful. I'm a stay at home mom to a 3 year old girl and it is amazing. There is no place I'd rather be than holding her, hearing her thoughts,...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 29, 2007 3:12 am
Nice to meet you too, Sean. Sure, we're talking. And thanks. The fact is, though, those kids are the greatest gift. My boy, when he came, was as wild as...
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Aideen McKenna
aideenmck
Aug 29, 2007 1:41 am
Sean, I really don’t think it’s a matter of submitting one’s ”will to another”. I think it’s more like completely letting go – dying without ...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Aug 29, 2007 12:08 am
Jeff , I have had many teachers in some most unlikely places. Most did not see themselves as such. The way of many teachers is the way of being open to all...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Aug 28, 2007 11:17 pm
Ted koodo's and much respect, there are alot of good kids (all of them are good) and its nice to see folks or so willing to provide the love they need. I've...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Aug 28, 2007 9:47 pm
Gee thanks! Gee, look how many times I used Gee! haha I do appreciate your kind words. Some folks aren't so understanding. ... Sean, 'tis an interesting...
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Grace Yllana
yllanagr
Aug 28, 2007 7:55 pm
I am soooooo impressed with stay at home dads...great example.. Ted <txhandyman57@...> wrote: Gee, Sean, 'tis an...
