Rev Paul Taylor at his finest

• Don't assume you are the whole reason for someone else's anger.


• When you are at the peak of emotions, the very next thing you say is usually wrong.


• Why do we get angry? We believe we have been treated unfairly or unjustly.


• I cant figure out why you did what you did; but I am going to forgive you anyways, even though you didn't ask.


• If I have to know why something happens in order for my heart or mind to be at rest, then I am going to be in trouble.
  


• I cant live my life feeling guilty about something I covered up.




• Am I going to believe that I have a right to make you pay for what you did (or said)?

Thoughts

• By placing limitations on our source, we give it the appearance of what we believe it is, but these are just the conditions that we believe are there. The TRUTH is, there are no limits.


• Whenever I feel like I don't have enough, stop, pull my own self imposed limits back, and my unlimited source will flow as it was intended.


• The limitations that we place on ourselves are the only things keeping us from the life that we want and dream of. There is nothing else in this world denying us our happiness, or what we deserve. Maybe this is a reason to exist: to learn to use and appreciate the absolute freedom that we have in this world.

By taking an idea, a thought, a dream; and focusing as much of my own energy on it as I can, it will begin to attract energy. Slowly it will start to grow; and as more and more energy coalesces together, that single thought has grown enough to become a reality.

True Source

• Your paycheck is not your "source" of abundance, it is merely an "avenue" for your abundance to come through. The universe is your source and uses different avenues to give you your abundance.


• Appearances in your life change, the TRUTH of your abundance doesn't. We may lack at times, but this is just an appearance, the TRUTH is still there, and doesn't change.


• We are only able to receive what we are willing to accept. If we don't have enough, its simply because we weren't willing to accept any more yet.
  

Dirty Minds...d

The mind is luminous, but it is stained by defilements that come from without. Ordinary folk do not realize this, so they do not cultivate the mind. The mind is luminous, but it can be cleansed of defilements that come from without. This the noble disciples understand, so they do cultivate the mind.

He is able who thinks he is able. - Buddha

Depression Impression

When depressed, depress not your head-lift it up. Look to the sky. Gasp-take a deep breath. Open your eyes wide. Smile. And where is the depression now?
If you are mindful of your body postures when you are depressed, you will notice that it takes certain patterns-you slouch and your breathing becomes sighing, and your eyes become lifeless and small as you frown. Maintaining these postures is almost a sure way of maintaining the depression. Do the opposite and see what happens.

Our body, speech and mind works in unison-each affecting the other. Hence, spiritual cultivation means the mindfulness and purification of these three doors.

Forgive Me Not

A friend realised something rather amusing yet enlightening. He became a more forgiving person when he realised that he had been letting himself off again and again, readily forgiving himself for his own misdeeds to others big and small, while being easily unforgiving and grudge-bearing towards others for their little mistakes. He realised how fat his ego was. It was as if he alone had all the right in the world to be wrong and forgiven, while the rest of the world should do him no slight wrong.

Being a forgiving person is part of the path of practice towards Enlightenment. Forgiveness liberates both pain and guilt. It unties knots of tensed negative karma, stops ill seeds from growing into greater hatred. Being unforgiving is nurturing our sense of hatred - which is no less than one of the three poisons that keep us swirling in Samsara's vicious cycles.

However, forgiving another does not mean we allow the same wrong to be repeated. We have to realise that while it could be our negative karma that we are wronged, we should put in the effort to prevent the person who did us wrong from doing more harm, creating more negative karma for himself.  By being complacent, we could well be creating more negative karma for ourselves! Remember - forgiveness is "for giving".  It is a gift of reassurance - it sets both parties' hearts and minds at peace.