Teachings Gallery
A mutually exclusive choice is one in which you can do one thing that cancels out doing another thing.
Hanging on to something wonderful or traumatic that happened before is only creating blocks in your present ability to relate.
No problems exist in life except the one problem of not being in tune with what is happening now.
Resisting something only intensifies what we are resisting.
The prelude to deal with what is happening is to accept what is happening just as it is.
A commitment is a sustained choice over a definite period of time that I keep no matter what obstacles or resistances come up.
A commitment is a sustained choice through a certain segment of time.
A compulsion, or addiction, functions not just to dull or detach us emotionally but to force us to seek experiences of more intensity.
A fundamental practice necessary to living a fulfilling life is to be able to go with any reality shift as it is happening.
A little bloodletting makes things more real. Sometimes on The Path one gets cut up pretty badly. There is always broken glass to step on. No one gets to avoid reality.
A tragedy, in terms of now psychology, is when suddenly Present Self seems to cease existence, leaving feelings and emotions of chaos, of no connection between Past Self and Future Self.
A true follower of reality does not believe by faith or authority. A reality person experiences directly the principles and practices that he and she as journeyers choose to try out and live for themselves.
A true humility submits to reality.
Accept everything first, then change what you have the power and purpose to change.
Accept the Tao of the moment and you deny your ego tendency to play God.
Accept the unacceptable.
Accept your lot. Humble yourself by always seeking the Greater Presence of what is.
Acceptance of things as they are, inner feelings and outer actions, is a wonderful practice for centering oneself in life.
Acceptance precedes service. To accept is to serve. What we serve ultimately serves us.
Stephon, Sorry for being so harsh on my last message. I began reading the teachings and the wisdom that you have filled these pages with. My question is sincere, there is very few people that can deny you of all the truth you represent. It isn’t difficult to go in that space and connect to all the goodness, you would like your followers to know you by. I on the other hand know how easy it is to deceive and manipulate the truth into any illusion that suites your purpose. You appear to be a very angry man, it is an exceptional insight of awareness that can feel the words, feel the energy and know the truth, without speaking. Not to say that is me. Question: Is it difficult to know so much, and keep up an expectation that isn’t really effective, as people become wiser than you. It’s difficult I found when expectations are so high, there is never a chance of just being and actually experience these truth’s as “the truth”. I was saddened when I realized in all you shared, you have worked so hard and it doesn’t appear to be about you. Only what you do. There is so much information that is changing from the past. Whether it was last year yesterday or 5 min. ago, it’s changed. It’s never written with such an informal matter-of-fact inner understanding, or programed knowledgment that has too many words, too many understandings and a common feeling of simplicity without depth of experience in the now, or present. I’m over, you felt anything I’ve written, it wasn’t about you. I take responsibility for only myself, it’s about me. Thank you for letting me share my thoughts with you. Love is who we are in the experience. Jennifer
Jennifer, Hi!
For me you write in a difficult to understand fully, flowing prose, so please recognize if I don’t understand some of what you are saying. I appreciate your words and shall certainly read them more than once.
You ask me if I have felt anything you have written? I am feeling something now, moving in my breathing and belly and in my mind searching understanding between us.
I feel that when I do my podcasts I am speaking out of my own experience and the experience of hundreds of people now who have been my students and taught me many things I need to know.
So many voices! You know what I mean? So now I accept and add your voice also to my present being. You are a living voice for me today, as I am a living voice for you today.
You ask: Is it difficult to know so much, and keep up an expectation that isn’t really effective, as people become wiser than you?
My answer is that no one is wiser than me because true wisdom among individuals does not brook of comparison. At age 72 I do feel wise, and it is this wisdom source that is the basis of my talks and writings.
I search the web for other speakers talking about themselves and life and find so often they are intellectualized or egocentric. Yes, as a psychologist, as well as now philosopher, I think I see where a person is using mind-thought to make themselves be right to themselves and others. I want none of this for myself.
So that you understand me better, my practice is to not be attached to my thoughts in a righteous way. I will show passion. I will give feeling for what I articulate, but I will not claim absolute truth, only the best truths that I can come up with.
My commitment to share my truths in language, such as these podcasts, is to share the clarity that comes through me. However, the effect on you and others is your own responsibility. I cannot be responsible for all that you and others have going inside.
This is why I practice the principle: take one hundred percent responsibility for your own thought, actions and reactions. Don’t try and put the responsibility on anyone else.
So while I may evoke reactions in people with the way I put my thought, it is up to each receiver to understand within themselves what is evoking within themselves their reactions to my thought, which is not even my thought since it comes through me and my personal ego is receiving but only co-creating it.
As one example, you mention that I have anger. I certainly do. I do not consider this a bad thing, only a negative and destructive thing.
This is what anger is for, to point out issues of hurt, abandonment and destruction. It is a keen tool, anger is not to just be angry but to get to the hurt behind the anger.
So I use anger sometimes to be keenly aware of issues, and to challenge others as well as myself.
Well, thanks again, Jennifer for your remarks. I have to keep response a bit limited, so I end with this now. Thanks again for sharing.
Oh, I think you raised the issue about others surpassing me in wisdom who are younger, like maybe yourself at age 53.
I am an old dog unwilling yet to let go of his bone. I say, get your own bone to chew on and share with others. As I go out, whether a year from now or twenty, who knows when, I am chewing down the old bone that has been my life and values. See what I mean?
-Strephon