Stretched thin – between holding on to what is fleeting, and resisting what is inevitable – leaves us with not much energy left to take action where we are actually effective.
– pierre –
Resist nothing and hold on to nothing. In this space of surrender the water is calm and therefore clear. And in this clarity you’ll be able to see what your next action should be.
– pierre –
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Looking into the week ahead this is my mantra today: “Whatever comes my way, I choose to find meaning and magic in every experience. I CHOOSE what to take seriously, and I will laugh at the rest.”
– pierre –
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As a generalisation when we look at our “self”, when we think about who we are, we come up against all our worst qualities first. We see all of our worst habits and all of the “bad” things that we have done, and we mistakenly believe, “this is who I am…”
– pierre –
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Your mind will forever produce a constant stream of thinking / feeling content like the feed on your Facebook account. Do you double click on everything in your feed? Or do you become better at knowing what serves you and what doesn’t?
– pierre –
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When you are able to feel safe while coming face to face with the ‘worst’ parts of you – and not feel like you need to look away – you will make the biggest changes of your life!
– pierre –
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You cannot soar and do great things while you’re carrying the weight of your resistance to being human. Give yourself permission to collapse when that is what’s called for, without any guilt or shame. And I promise you will rise stronger and more free every time.
– pierre –
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Don’t turn. Don’t run. Stay… Lean in and feel this all the way through or you will run forever. And if you run forever, you’ll never be home.
– pierre –
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When I am not being present, every action I take is decided by an old subconscious programme created by an event from my past. Being “present”, is how I spend my energy only on how I CAN be effective in this moment right now.
– pierre –
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There is magic in you! But do remember that while magic takes serious focus and dedication to pull off, it is only ever enjoyed with the heart of a child. You have the capacity for both.
– pierre –
Find more context for this quote here: https://onemindonline.com/the-world-is-like-a-dropped-pie-most-of-the-time/
For the most part things come and go without the need for our interference, but then there are of course those few examples where we do need to take action. And when you do need to act, wouldn’t you want to be able to pour all to your energy into being effective without being distracted by all of the things you have no control over?
– pierre –
Find more context for this quote here: https://onemindonline.com/the-war-is-over/
Are you going to wait for the world and the humans around you to first be perfect before you start loving? Love starts right now, by loving everything that is!
– pierre –
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If I am triggered by what someone says or does I have to ask myself the question, “why am I not free of this? Why is the reaction inside of me so loud?” No one can “trigger” something in me, unless the trigger already exists in my nervous system. “What is this wound I need to heal?”
– pierre –
I can walk through the world with my emotional state always being at the mercy of what people say or do around me, or I can walk through the world free.
– pierre –
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We have all had experience in our past of being shown by people around us that “how we are” is not acceptable to them, and that we need to somehow change in order to be accepted. These experiences are what lead us to wear a mask, hiding how we really feel for the sake of acceptance.
– pierre –
But when YOU are the source of your love, your approval and the appreciation of YOU, you will stand in front of anyone as an equal, and never have the need to wear a mask again.
– pierre –
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The power of NOW… “Being present” has such a spiritual connotation that its pure practical application is often missed. It’s a shame because “being present” is simply the most effective way to apply your effort. Dealing with what this moment makes available to you right NOW, is the only place where you have any power at all.
– pierre –
Really being present and surrendering to reality just as it is, brings clarity. While I’m fighting with reality, I’m trying to take action from data that doesn’t exist. But when I accept this moment just as it is, then I become available to see all the data that presents itself. Taking action from clarity.
– pierre –
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Everything we experience offers us one of two paths: “Will I shut-down and shrink from this experience?” … OR… “Will I open-up and expand through this experience?”
– pierre –
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“YOU are the master and your mind is the servant”, this is not a power struggle though. Your mind’s natural place is in service of the being that you are unless… unless your mind has never gotten to know your ‘being’. If your mind doesn’t recognize the soul that you are then it believes that all responsibility rests on its shoulders, and that it has to be the captain of the ship. And this is scary. Introduce your mind to your soul, and you’ll be surprised how readily your mind lets go of control.
– pierre –
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We struggle to find meaningful connection while our ‘being ok’ is dependent on another person to make us feel loved and accepted. But when deep acceptance comes from your own heart, you’ll ‘be ok’ forever, and you’ll show up to relationships empowered.
– pierre –
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It’s natural for any of us to look at our own “worst” qualities and want that to change, but attacking ourselves means that we engage in an inner war. And while this might seem to create the behaviour change that we want, it also creates an inner civil-war that could last forever.
– pierre –
There is no need to force the “worst” parts of you to change in order to change your behaviour. You need to hold them in love and acceptance and realise that every time you do this you are BEING your soul. Keep practising being your soul and you’ll find yourself naturally acting from your soul. Keep acting from your soul and your old behaviour is changed.
– pierre –
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Being “willing” to look at all of the humans around you while wishing only good things upon each and every one of them – even those who have wronged you – requires your heart to really open up wide. And from your own open heart you will be the one who benefits the most! Blessing everything in existence, blesses you with your own wholeness.
– pierre
When you look at all of the humans who have walked into and out of your life while sending a blessing to every heart, then you are standing in the vibration of love. Your mind is vibrating with love, your heart is vibrating with love, every cell in your body and nervous system has become the vibration of love, and you yourself become the biggest beneficiary.
– pierre –
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I am the mountain – a poem.
Within you there is a mountain,
immovable whether sun or storm or snow.
Your mountain has seen all of the beginnings,
it knows that whatever comes will also go.
This doesn’t mean that you should never act,
only that you lose your power when you act in fear.
When you find the mountain within you before you respond,
your energy is never wasted and your action becomes clear.
– pierre –
Outside of us is a crazy world of people running around like frightened ghosts expecting us to do the same. Just imagine being able to always take a step back, and find the wisdom to spend your energy only where you will actually be effective – No more acting in fear. No more wasted energy.
– pierre –
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Don’t try to control things that are beyond your control and remember that whatever you encounter always offers you one of two paths, “will this experience make me close up and contract? or will this experience make me open up and expand?”
– pierre –
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We might have built a whole collection of coping mechanisms on top of our original foundation, but we can work our way back again. We can peel back the layers of everything that we are not, until we come to the deep realization of what we are – the physical manifestation of what is divine!
– pierre –
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When you’re able to take a look at you and just OBSERVE, you’ll start to learn about yourself. You’ll learn to understand why you do what you do. You’ll get to see how old programming plays a role in dictating your actions before you even get the chance to think. And without self-judgement you won’t be in fight-or-flight, and you’ll be able to see more clearly what the best course of action will be.
– pierre –
Find more context for this quote here: https://onemindonline.com/being-the-observer/
This is the most basic truth… every act of love brings happiness, so always choose to be love. Live with your heart wide open because you deserve to experience the peace that comes with being the embodiment of love. This doesn’t mean that it won’t sometimes hurt. But when you decide not to close your heart when it hurts… when it hurts so much that you allow your heart to break, you will learn that your heart can only break open!
-pierre –
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Surrender IS how we free ourselves from being controlled. Surrender allows us to be OK despite what is happening around us. Surrender teaches us that we can even be happy in the middle of the storm. And now in this place of surrender my options are no longer just fight or flight, because surrender expands my options and helps me see that there are many more avenues available to me when I am not in a state of fear.
– pierre –
When you fight, you limit yourself to the results that are possible from fighting. When you surrender, you open yourself to the results that are possible from cooperation.
– pierre –
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“Every morning when you wake up, you have one of two choices… this day can make you shrink, shut down, and play even smaller in the future… or this day can make you grow, expand, and play even bolder in future!
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Contract or expand… what will today be?”
-pierre –
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“Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.”
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If you’re trying to create a Vision and all it does is make you uncomfortable, experience fear – then THAT is not your vision right now. You have to keep experimenting with your vision until the picture you create wakes up passion in every cell of your body. You might need to take smaller steps. There is a MASSIVE amount of possibility in creating a vision – have you explored them all to find what makes the cells of your body come alive?
-pierre –
The sad truth is that for the most part we were all taught the following lesson – “no you’re not allowed to just be human!” – We all hold too much shame, guilt and self judgement over everything that we’ve done ‘wrong’, and it’s only when we can look at our own shortcomings with kindness that we’re able to allow the people around us to also just be human.
– pierre –
It tends to be true that talking to ourselves harshly comes quite naturally, yet it seems ‘weird’ to deliberately talk to ourselves in a positive way. When we don’t consciously create an empowering inner narrative, then we are left with only the wounded inner voices that we took on board in childhood.
– pierre –
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There is no place in the world to travel to where the presence of God exclusively lives, but within your-SELF. You have divine wisdom in you, we all do! And we can learn to sit at the feet of our soul and listen.
– pierre –
Find more context for this quote here: https://onemindonline.com/there-is-no-other-spiritual-teacher-than-your-own-soul/
You already hold the key to all of the wisdom you will ever need. The muddy water that keeps you from seeing with clarity, gets stirred up only by the splashing of your own fears. Form new, healthier relationships with your old fears, and clarity will become available in the calm water that is your true nature.
– pierre –
We can create from a place of fear or we can create from a place of freedom. The problem with fear as a motivator is that we are trying to create while looking over our shoulder, and the best we can ever do is only just escape punishment or bad consequences. With fear in the driver’s seat we’re unable to see the possibilities available to us and will never create to our true potential.
– pierre –
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Of course we can plan ahead but we must be clear that the place where we create our future is here and now, by taking action right here in this very moment. Don’t get stuck in the thinking and the planning but immerse yourself in this moment. Pour your energy into the only place where you can cause an effect… the opportunity that this very moment makes available to you.
– pierre –
Energy spent on anything that is not in this present moment is always wasted. Spend your energy only on what this moment asks you to step up and do.
– pierre –
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It is only when you stop judging the busy weather of your mind, that you start to experience the beautiful sky of your BEING.
– pierre –
Your true nature is not something that you have to work for or strive to achieve. Your true nature has always been a part of the soul that you already are. Doesn’t it just make sense that surrender is the act that gets you there?
– pierre –
Find more context for these quotes here: https://onemindonline.com/dont-mistake-the-weather-of-your-mind-for-the-sky-of-your-being/
There’s a time for DO-ing. And when it is time to take action let ALL of your focus be poured into your DO-ing. Just don’t forget that there is a time to rest too. And when it is time to BE, let ALL of your attention rest in just BE-ing.
– pierre –
Find more context for this quote here: https://onemindonline.com/help-me-see-where-to-surrender-and-show-me-where-to-take-action/
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Have you ever looked back at a conversation and realized, “that was clearly just 2 egos going head to head?” One ego trying to convince another ego of a point of view is always unproductive, because each ego is invested in getting a win. Neither is willing to back down and seem like a loser.
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We raise our voice when we get caught in the trap of believing that we need to “win” at any cost, that we need to take control of the other person’s reaction. We mistakenly equate being loud with being heard.
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Lean into what your heart “feels” says Rumi. Not just the “good” feelings but the hard ones too, especially the painful feelings! When it hurts, go there, allow it to be felt even if it feels that your heart will break, actually dare it to break! Be there for your heart when it breaks and you will learn that your heart doesn’t, it cannot actually break, it can only break open.
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When your heart leads and you follow, you always find your way back home.
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It is when you have overcome the fear of feeling that you experience how your willingness to feel EVERYTHING always leads you back to “feeling” the wholeness that IS your soul.
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True growth lies not in suppressing our emotions, but in embracing them as doorways to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
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Finding the sweet spot between effort on the one hand, and ease on the other, is an ongoing journey. The good news is, it’s entirely possible to learn how to excel without feeling like you’re constantly pushing uphill.
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You can do your best without trying so damn hard. It’s a balance that we only find through experience. We have to feel and adjust… feel and adjust…
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We have to understand that our options are to either contribute to the hate in the world, or contribute to the love in the world. And if our response to what is “wrong” in the world is an aggressive finger pointing and attacking, then we are just contributing to the disease of division.
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When I am holding on to the thought of what this moment “should have been”… then I am not in this moment. I am “trying” to be in some other moment that doesn’t exist.
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For various reasons we might have built our own inner walls against love, not because we don’t want to feel love but because there were other things – that were painful – that we didn’t want to feel. But our hearts don’t work this way, we can’t close our heart to only some things and keep it open to others, we either live with our hearts wide open feeling everything, or our hearts slowly keep closing until we feel nothing. Very often this leads to a belief that, “I am not worthy of being loved” or “I am unlovable” which are such difficult walls to break down.
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Your thoughts are the source of the matrix that you live in. Old programming, old patterns produce the same old thinking on repeat every day, and the only way to escape the matrix is to step away from the thoughts and take a good look at them. But here’s the trick to escaping the matrix – do not judge any of the thinking. – pierre –
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If you want to be free from “The Matrix” you have to be able to watch your own thoughts as they come into being and choose, “will I react in the same old pattern as before, or will I choose to respond in a new way?” This is true freedom of choice. – pierre –
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Here is a promise though, if you don’t turn away in fear but come back to silence again and again, all of those old layers start to soften. It could be a long process but over time everything that is not YOU – will dissolve, until it becomes clear that what you are left with is the divine creature that you really are. – pierre –
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Keep your attention on what there is to do that is right in front of you, and trust that as you step on the path – even if you cannot see it – more of the path will be revealed to you. – pierre –
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To be effective, we must change the things we can, and let go the things we can’t. But when “doing” is our default, and we act before we think, how will we know when to do and when to don’t? – pierre –
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Wu Wei is not about the absence of action, it’s about taking the right action at the right time by being in touch with the flow of things. But while we are unable to be at peace within discomfort, our own compulsions will always trick us into jumping the gun. – pierre –
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Being present in this moment requires me to let go of my idea of “what this moment should have been”. Subconsciously we always form an expectation of what we’d like a moment to be, this is not “wrong” it’s just what a brain does but if I don’t catch myself I’ll end up spending all my energy on an idea that has followed me from the past, leaving me without energy to deal effectively with the present. – pierre –
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Whatever moment I find myself in, I’ll either be foolishly wasting my units of time being in resistance to what this moment is, or I’ll be spending it wisely in the process of creating the human that I am happy to be. – pierre –
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We are always chasing some kind of goal – and goals are not bad – but we have to realize that our goals are often what dictates how we spend our time, and by the end of our lives we’ll have a small collection of goals reached, but we will have spent an inordinate amount of time in the process of chasing those goals. This process shapes us! Who are you becoming in your process? – pierre –
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How we spend our time is who we become and at the end of our lives we will have become the sum total of the processes we were involved in. – pierre –
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The journey back to self-trust isn’t about acquiring something new – it’s about returning to what was always there. You were born as pure potential, the embodiment of love, proof of abundance manifested in human form. This essence hasn’t disappeared; it’s simply been covered by layers of conditioning and stories filled with fear. – pierre –
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As a biological system, your human architecture is beautifully designed for survival first and foremost! Like any other animal your brain makes a big deal about the information that says anything about your ability to survive. And to this end, since you were born you’ve been learning from the world around you what you need to know in order to survive. – pierre –
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… these old recordings from the past shaped how you see yourself, and they speak loudly within you still, reminding you of what you were told was true about you. But these stories were never the truth of who you are, they were just the reactions of the imperfect humans around you who were themselves acting and reacting from their own past woundedness. – pierre –
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You will learn to trust yourself. You will learn to trust that you always find your way back to the BEST version of you, because in fact you always do! – pierre –
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Look at your partner, your child, your friend, or your parent and say these words, “I trust you to always find your way back to the best version of you, because the truth is you always do.” Now look in the mirror and say it again. – pierre –
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Even with the best of parental intentions, as kids we are likely to associate love with who we need to be for the people who raise us. – pierre –
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Ask a hundred people to describe what love is, and you’re likely to get a hundred different answers. It can be a complicated topic because for most of us, our history with love is well… complicated… – pierre –
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The “complicated” topic of love, suddenly becomes very simple when you look in the mirror and like the person you see. – pierre –
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When you finally come to the very deep realization that the only acceptance that you need is from YOU, then your wholeness becomes something that is established from within, and then love is no longer something that you need, but something that you share. – pierre –
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While we believe that our wholeness is dependent on something or someone being added to our lives, we will always be disappointed in the humans around us – because no one is perfect enough to always say just the right thing. And also, we’ll always be disappointed in ourselves too – because when we feel rejected, it must mean that we’re not good enough. – pierre –
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It’s easy to see how the meaning we make of love becomes distorted, how “love” becomes a desperate transaction that buys approval but always feels as though it’s about to slip out of our grasp. We have learned that without the acceptance of some other human we are incomplete. – pierre –
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We first learn about love in our childhood homes where from a kid’s perspective, it’s so easy to feel like love is something we need to earn – we’re loved when we’re “good” but we’re rejected when we’re “bad”. – pierre –
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Whenever we become confused, we can trust that we’ve fallen into the trap of thinking too much. And for me personally, I often don’t recognize walking into the trap until I’ve wound myself up tightly in its snare. When my brain has become busier and busier and my thoughts become less clear, I often succumb to the belief that I just need to think harder, I need to think “better” thoughts. – pierre –
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And once the image in the mirror becomes beautiful to you, you won’t care about the world’s response any longer. You’ll have become “The Child” again, the independent, clear-minded, all-seeing child. “A child who knows”. – pierre –
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The nice, neatly wrapped little package we’ve always been trying to show the world starts to unravel and we come face to face with what’s inside, and this is why most people want to look away… because we’ve been taught to wear the masks, that the world will accept the pretty smile but not what’s underneath. And what makes it worse is that we started to believe it too! Don’t look away, don’t turn your head, stay… – pierre –
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In every moment that an old programme, an old pattern, decides the action we take – we will continue to recreate the past. And in every moment that we recognize the old reaction and stop in order to choose a new response, we are breaking free from the past – we are creating a new future! – pierre –
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Your willingness to encounter every moment with awareness, breaking free from the compulsion to act in an old way and sincerely ask the question, “what does this moment require of me?”… THIS is how you are creating your future, moment-by-moment. – pierre –
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Will you react in the same old way? Or will you choose a new response? – pierre –
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Our minds often try to force solutions, but inner wisdom speaks in a quieter language. To hear it, we need to create a calm inner environment, like stilling a pond to see the reflections clearly. – pierre –
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It’s our natural response to use our brain to try and ‘think’ up the answers, but have you tried finding answers by NOT thinking? The key to unlocking your inner wisdom lies in creating space for it to be heard. Embrace a practice of silence, and learn to discern that quiet voice from the noise of your thoughts. – pierre –
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Recently I’ve been working with quite a number of clients who’ve lost love ones, and it’s clear how love and grief are intertwined… we can’t have one without the other, our grief is a direct reflection of the depth of our love. It doesn’t make it hurt less, but we can honour the grief as a natural extension of what it means to love. – pierre –
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If there’s love, there will be grief. When we experience grief it is proof of the love we have felt. Grief is the natural continuation of love and we should have the same appreciation for grief as we have for love because they are one and the same. Grief simply invites you to extend your love over a greater distance. – pierre –
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Grief is a voice that says, “this is what I used to love SO much!” In that way grief is what we feel when our love gets confronted with distance. For your Soul, time and space is meaningless and it has no problem loving over distance. But if your body is not allowed to feel into its grief, then the body will prevent you from feeling into the expansive love of the Soul. – pierre –
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Both science and spirituality is an attempt at describing the truth. So ultimately as our understanding grows, they will come up with the same answers. – pierre –
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Just like holding a gem up to the light, is the practice of being the observer. Being able to hold your thoughts and emotions up to the light, and by turning them over being able to see them from all perspectives. – pierre –
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The goal is not to manage your emotions. The goal is to manage how you respond to your emotions. – pierre –
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Maybe being authentic is less about… not being afraid to show the world who I am – and more about… not being afraid to find out for myself who I am. – pierre –
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