Day 85

10:00 AM

Reality is what we take to be true. 

What we take to be true is what we believe. 

What we believe is based upon our perceptions. 

What we perceive depends upon what we look for. 

What we look for depends upon what we think. 

What we think depends upon what we perceive. 

What we perceive determines what we believe. 

What we believe determines what we take to be true. 

What we take to be true is our reality.

                                                                         ~ Gary Zukav ~


Perception... So tricky, one has to be really careful with it. Our perception is never really correct, but we rely on it heavily. Another automatic thing that we do, like a reflex. Whatever we see, whoever we encounter, we make perceptions of, without even knowing that we do it. That's our starting point, we don't know how to act if we don't have our own perception of something. It is closely connected with our habitual role playing. Once we meet someone, we perceive him or her, and we think that we know what this person is about. Then we act accordingly...
Most of the time our perception is wrong... Then our act is wrong as well... Then we suffer... Simple...


2:00 PM

Life is the movie you see

through your own unique eyes.

It makes little difference

what's happening out there.

It's how you take it

that counts.

                                                          Dr Dennis Waitley

Fantastic quote... It is just a movie, nothing more. Outside has no weight in our life, the only reason why it does is because we don't realize that we are in the movie. The question is not what is going on in your life, the real question is what is your reaction to what is going on in your life... It is hard, no doubt about it, but you really get to choose... Well then choose...

11:00 PM

This doesn't feel like a journey anymore... It feels like a part of my life... A way of life...

Day 84

10:00 AM                                                                       MM

" No one is born with any kind of talent and, therefore,  every skill has to be acquired"

                                                                                        Ayn Rand

We are all the same... All one... The difference is in what seeds inside of us we water every day. Every skill has to be acquired... Our inner self is like a rich soil, full of different seeds, waiting to be watered, waiting to become a skill, a habit, behaviour, an asset or an obstacle. From birth we start to water our seeds, some we water ourselves, some are watered by our parents, some by environment, society, people... Then we are who we are. That part is true...
The part that is not true, is the one that we believe that this is who I am and I can't change, it's just me... Everything changes, so do you. Again, it all starts with the seeds that you water. If you commit to watering the seeds of love, compassion, bravery, eventually the seeds of anger, jealousy, and fear will start fading away, back into the deep parts of your inner self. Become determined to water the seeds of knowledge, success, wealth, than the seeds of ignorance, failure, and struggle will fade...
It really is all up to you... Start watering...

2:00 PM

How hard is it to pay attention... To focus on the moment, to hear, to see, to smell... I think it is possibly the most difficult thing for a human to do. The mind is just too strong, and it is extremely hard to keep it quiet. You have the intention, you try and try, 10 000 times, but before you know it, the mind is talking... Sometimes you will not even notice that your focus is fading, the mind talk is so natural and normal to us, that we actually feel weird when we do pay attention.
However, the beauty is in the trying... Even if it last for a few seconds, that pause in the thinking is priceless. You can feel all the potential in that moment. You can see that there is nothing but happiness, real happiness, inside this world. When in this world, one doesn't complain and suffer, one accepts. In this world one doesn't worry, one just does... Its a simple world, it doesn't lack anything. Its too bad it only last 3 seconds...

11:00 PM

16 days left... Good class today... Even with a few pauses...