You hear one curse God for his miseries and say, "If He
knew what I should have had, why didn't He give it to me?"
The air that gives you life is there for the using, but even
God can't make you breathe if you decide not to. God
works through us according to the purposes of our soul.
Alice Steadman
Who's the Matter with Me
...as I made room in my heart for me, I gradually found the ability to
relate to my anger and frustration without being threatened by it. And by
accepting it as is, I could, at times, enter it with a merciful awareness
capable of dissolving the glue of the pained self-image that holds our
suffering together. And perhaps the other person too was allowed a bit
more space to let go of their anger. To send love to another we must first
be in our heart.
Stephen Levine
...Suffering is the lot of God and hence also the lawful lot of his
partner. It is bearable always because it is divinely shared, and, in
the measure which man freely shares it, it is transformed into the
love which transcends all and is the light of darkness that leads
man and God to the final wisdom.
Sir Laurens van der Post
A Walk with a White Bushman
...the group dynamic we were aiming for: to serve as many people changing their level of awareness in a way that was helpful...
...Regression says let's live on the side of a mountain and progression says let's get rid of these psychic toxins from cellular structure by running amok and acting needy. Humane tactics in the now says let's define spaces where pain and fear can be defused and work where pain and anger are used for the good of the community as time passes until there is no longer anger or fear. There remains only the deep grief at man's lack of understanding and the psychic distress of the collective disease known as man's inhumanity to man through the ages.
Pain on the physical is known as illness.
Pain in the emotional is the fear of: "Have I forgotten, rejected and abandoned, and am I worthy to receive, anyway?"
Pain in the mental structure is outside pressures and anxiety as to input and output levels in environmental relations.
Pain in the abstract or the psychic is the setting of standards.
Pain in the spiritual is trust that in spite of collective pain you can trust in the next stage. Plus unconditional acceptance of present circumstance. And then, in group form, trying to find the pathway of ease that allows these stresses to be the pressure that 'kick starts' the motor for the next stage.
In my experience, if you resist you expose the group to collective distress and get stopped in your tracks and your direction gets changed for you...
Judy Fraser
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the
human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
To change may be more difficult and challenging than to continue to suffer
Change is always fearful to the separeate, because they cannot
conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation. They
always perceive it as a move towards further separation, because
the separation was their first experience of change. You believe
that if you allow no change to enter into your ego you will find
peace.
A Course in Miracles
Symptoms of Inner Peace
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experience.
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest in judging other people.
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
A loss of interest in conflict.
A loss of the ability to worry.
(This is a very serious symptom.)
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling.
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to love them back.
When you have changed the thought that triggered
the emotion that caused the aches, then keep it
changed. When you throw out the garbage, don't go
fingering into it for bits around which to build your
next meal. We do just that when we 'dig up' those
old hurts and fears and wallow in the miseries of
the past. "Let the dead past bury its dead" while
you go on to new glories.
Alice Steadman
Who's the Matter with Me
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