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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 661599" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>I wanted to share some of the notes I took at the conference this weekend. A lot of these ideas are applicable to the conversations we have on this forum all the time. </p><p></p><p>***Our Higher Power is closer to us than our very breath.</p><p>***What our Higher Power created is all good. All of it. </p><p>***We are people who see in duality. Good/bad. Either/or. Black/white. We create a problem when we choose a side. Comparing one thing to another. The more we can change that thinking...and become more non-dual people, seeing the grays in all things and stopping the comparison, the better off we will be. </p><p></p><p>***A truly compassionate person has at his or her foundation a basic belief in the goodness of human nature.</p><p>***Do you have a foundational mistrust of humanity? </p><p>***Transformation (our goal) is always an inside job, taking place completely inside us. </p><p>***Are you happy? Are you free? What makes you free? </p><p>***Our Higher Power is praising a foundational openness in people that is grounded in: this world is good, this foundation is for me and on my side, I'm not alone, It's going to be okay, Because our Higher Power is good and cares enough to do good for me, I am good.</p><p>***I am not the doer. Someone else is doing the doing. </p><p>***The purpose of silence, stillness and solitude is to allow contemplation and to give us time and space to find out that we are loved. Then, we can learn that we don't have to seek love in all of the "other places." </p><p>***We need stillness. Stillness teaches us to stop. We need to wait. We need to learn how to wait. </p><p>***We will receive the gift of who we are through contemplation. We will learn how to "patch up" our own lives ourselves. Recovery takes a long, long time. It is the hardest work. </p><p>***Make peace with yourself. The patches---where the bad spots are---are what makes us beautiful and accessible.</p><p>***We have to: lament, confess and dismantle our own false center. </p><p>***..."When we come to the end of ourselves...then, our Higher Power can do something for us."</p><p>***Through great love or great suffering, transformation occurs.</p><p>***Freedom and the ability to see comes from surrender and truth.</p><p>***Do you want to see? Do you want to know? Do you want to be transformed?</p><p>***We need something certain. We need the "really real." We are on a search for something that will make all of "this" make sense. If we don't find the "really real" we will substitute something else. </p><p>***We all have to grow up and deal with failure, uncertainty and humility. </p><p>***In order to be transformed, our present comfort level has to fall apart. </p><p>***When the false self has nothing else to hold on to, that is when our Higher Power can step in to save us. </p><p></p><p>Things to think on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 661599, member: 17542"] I wanted to share some of the notes I took at the conference this weekend. A lot of these ideas are applicable to the conversations we have on this forum all the time. ***Our Higher Power is closer to us than our very breath. ***What our Higher Power created is all good. All of it. ***We are people who see in duality. Good/bad. Either/or. Black/white. We create a problem when we choose a side. Comparing one thing to another. The more we can change that thinking...and become more non-dual people, seeing the grays in all things and stopping the comparison, the better off we will be. ***A truly compassionate person has at his or her foundation a basic belief in the goodness of human nature. ***Do you have a foundational mistrust of humanity? ***Transformation (our goal) is always an inside job, taking place completely inside us. ***Are you happy? Are you free? What makes you free? ***Our Higher Power is praising a foundational openness in people that is grounded in: this world is good, this foundation is for me and on my side, I'm not alone, It's going to be okay, Because our Higher Power is good and cares enough to do good for me, I am good. ***I am not the doer. Someone else is doing the doing. ***The purpose of silence, stillness and solitude is to allow contemplation and to give us time and space to find out that we are loved. Then, we can learn that we don't have to seek love in all of the "other places." ***We need stillness. Stillness teaches us to stop. We need to wait. We need to learn how to wait. ***We will receive the gift of who we are through contemplation. We will learn how to "patch up" our own lives ourselves. Recovery takes a long, long time. It is the hardest work. ***Make peace with yourself. The patches---where the bad spots are---are what makes us beautiful and accessible. ***We have to: lament, confess and dismantle our own false center. ***..."When we come to the end of ourselves...then, our Higher Power can do something for us." ***Through great love or great suffering, transformation occurs. ***Freedom and the ability to see comes from surrender and truth. ***Do you want to see? Do you want to know? Do you want to be transformed? ***We need something certain. We need the "really real." We are on a search for something that will make all of "this" make sense. If we don't find the "really real" we will substitute something else. ***We all have to grow up and deal with failure, uncertainty and humility. ***In order to be transformed, our present comfort level has to fall apart. ***When the false self has nothing else to hold on to, that is when our Higher Power can step in to save us. Things to think on. [/QUOTE]
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