1. Spirit tells me that

Ego as a distorted work of art – a personal collection of coping skills?

The good news is that we can learn to adapt to new situations in original ways if we’re aware of having developed a less than ideal pattern of response in the past.

We can kick bad habits.

Our personality doesn’t change simply because we develop new ways of doing things, or new ways of looking at the world we live in.

Our personality has been with us from birth.

It might just have been smothered under learned ways of living.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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2. Spirit tells me that

Have we infected the Moon with human thoughts and emotions?

Are emotions and thoughts human?

Our pets can read our thoughts and emotions, and respond to them.

Are animals more developed in this respect than humans are?

Or have we simply dumbed down?

Do thoughts and emotions exist around and within us, in an interconnected world of their own?

Do we each live in an interconnected world of our own?

We’re separate from each other, and yet we’re interconnected in a non-physical way.’

Some of us seem to be more interconnected than are some others.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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3. Spirit tells me that

It’s time to wake up.

We need to dare to face the awareness of reality.

Is reality different things to different people?

If we’ve each been living in our own little world of illusion, then the answer must be yes.

And yet, how to wake up?

Would we be waking up to another world of illusion?

An old song tells it well.

“Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, we’d live and laugh forever and a day.

We’d live the life we’d choose.

We’d fight and never lose. …”

“While another song goes, “Meanwhile life outside goes on all around you.”

Bob Dylan gave us that thought.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 4

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4. Spirit tells me that

Ego as an apprentice to Self – a master of the art, skill, or teaching who the ego is.

Ego is studying and serving under the direction of Self – a master of whatever art, skill, or teaching that she/he shares with Ego.

It’s not a Master/slave relationship, for each chooses the other, more or less.

Master is an honorarium.

We don’t call our teachers by their first name.

And we don’t usually call our parents by their first name.

Mom and Dad are as teacher and master in that they express respect.

In time we, as ego, will also reach, perhaps, a level of skill or position where some others will call us Mom, Dad, teacher, boss, or Master.

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Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 3

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5. Spirit tells me that

Artificial Intelligence and humanity – is there a powerful connection?

And a clue?

Is humanity itself as a form of artificial intelligence that is slowly awakening to its possibly infinite potential to develop expanded awareness and understanding of the so-called mysteries of Life?

Could the gift of awareness (or invention) of artificial intelligence itself be as a clue to our own, as yet, underdeveloped mind?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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6. Spirit tells me that

When the worker is ready, the boss will appear.

When the worker is really ready …

Perhaps the time has come to bring so-called high spiritual thoughts down into the world of lived physical reality.

“When the student is ready” timeless wisdom teaches us, “the teacher will appear.”

“When the student is really ready, the teacher will disappear.”

“We’ll no longer need a teacher (or at least not that particular teacher), for we will have learned all that we can from her/him.

It will be time to move on, and perhaps become our own teacher.

Some workers rise up from the ranks of their fellow workers, to become leaders or directors of other workers, or of former fellow workers.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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7. Spirit tells me that

Our comfort zone is a judge who may have sold out to social conditioning.

It happens.

I once so believed in my comfort zone to guide me.

I trusted its judgements.

I lived my life by its guidance.

And then, lived experience kept pushing different perspectives.

What to believe?

Could our personal comfort zone have sold out to social conditioning?

And yet, it isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

I had to learn to question where it got its information, and who or what benefitted by me believing whatever.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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8. Spirit tells me that

“Women count, and add up, too.”

A protest sign from 50 years ago.

I was still in my 30s and still full of righteous indignation at the second-class treatment of women by our political leaders.

We marched on Victoria.

Well, actually, we had to take a ferry.

Whatever.

I had never created anything like it in my life.

Where did the inspiration come from?

And yet, my work of art (We were instructed to create our personal protest sign) was scorned, even by my fellow protestors, whom I hoped to impress with my depth.

They saw simplicity.

Has anything in the world changed?

We see what we see.

What more can be said?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 7

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9. Spirit tells me that

If we all live in a personal world of human experience, then perhaps we all dream …

Is there possibly a master dream wherein all individual dreams interconnect?

Is there a master plan of human experience that we each and all fit into?

Has the script been written a very long time ago, and just updated as human evolution develops?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 5

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10. Spirit tells me that

If we’ve tasted one small piece of pie, then we’ve tasted pie.

As with pie, so with …

Where could we go with such a thought to meditate on?

Where could we not go?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 6

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11. Spirit tells me that

Ego as a personality’s adaptation to society.

It develops from birth until death.

How well do we adapt to our society?

We do the best we can without losing or distorting our individual personality along the way.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 5

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12. Spirit tells me that

Here and now is where and when in a moving world?

Who knows how and why?

Life is moving into the future but everything else is moving into the past.

Life experience is a two-way street, with no U-turns allowed.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 12

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13. Spirit tells me that

Social-conditioning is self-conditioning, but we feel more comfortable giving credit.

We learned to sleep through the night without being fed, or a diaper change.

Actually, we learned that it was pointless to try to get service.

Office hours?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 11

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14. Spirit tells me that

Is loss of faith a price we must pay to follow rational philosophy?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 8

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15. Spirit tells me that

Segments of an orange and personal or national boundaries – held together and …

We’re each and all held together, and yet we’re each an all as individuals.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 8

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16. Spirit tells me that

Humanity is a unique expression of energy within a unique expression of form.

Are energy and form as the original Yang and Yin?

Each is within the other and neither exists without the other.

We’re each unique, more or less.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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17. Spirit tells me that

Sharing our personal pain gets bad press.

“Oh do stop complaining.”

And yet …

Sharing our personal pain may be seen as having survival value, if not for ourself, then possibly for some others.

Babies cry to let caregivers know they have real needs.

And yet, when adults cry, they’re often called a cry baby.

Is the urge to complain as a built-in safety device that can protect some others from experiencing our painful situation?

Humanity has survived for tens of thousands of years.

We’ve learned to avoid the fate of some others because we learned from their mistakes, more or less.

People think and feel the way they think and feel for reasons that even they may never fully understand.

And, whatever we think, we may not always have thought.

We live and experience new situations and/or old situations in a new way.

some of us are exposed to a greater number of perspectives than are some others, for whatever reason.

There’s always a reason why we respond to whatever the way we do.

We are individuals in so many ways, and yet we’re all as one in one basic way.

We’re human, and being human, we can open our mind, or close it, to new ways of seeing the world we live in.

No blame.

We develop as we do, in our own way and in our own time.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 17

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18. Spirit tells me that

Some call it religion.

Some call it spsirituality.

Whatever.

We each live our unique …

We each live a very personal and unique grass-roots philosophy of life, without perhaps even thinking that it is a philosophy of life.

After all, philosophy sounds rather academic, when in reality we each live a very personal life that is more directed by physical and emotional needs than by any so-called higher levels of mind.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 17.

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19. Spirit tells me that

Change is the only constant, some say, and yet we each and all possess an ever …

We each and all possess an ever-expanding capacity to adapt to and influence the ever-changing realities of our personally lived life experiences.

Actually, we can’t not influence our world, no matter how we choose to respond to it.

We each make a difference, one way or another.

What an awesome opportunity, or responsibility, eh?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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20. Spirit tells me that

The reality is that we each do have power, but not absolute power, which is probably just as well, considering how we might use it.

Releasing the illusion of complete control is not surrender.

It’s waking up to reality.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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21. Spirit tells me that

When will so-called spirituality face the slippery slope of passion, or is it one?

Is spiritual and religious, and possibly even political extremism no more than a substitute for a satisfying physical relationship?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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22. Spirit tells me that

To make sense of something has come to imply a rational perspective, ignoring …

How can making sense of anything without input from our physical senses make any sense at all?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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23. Spirit tells me that

The more we change, the more we stay the same.

New ways of doing whatever …

Monkey see, monkey do.

And yet, a monkey is still a monkey.

What does that mean, re humanity?

I was always such aa tag-along, except when I needed to be an individual.

Has humanity learned to tag along behind a few individuals who are really changing the way we do whatever?

The most of us seem to simply adapt to the changes that a small group of individuals have made by thinking of more efficient ways of doing whatever seems to be in need to be done.

Most of us don’t get our hands into the wash water any more when we do our laundry.

We drop our clothes into a machine, add detergent, close the lid, and push a button.

Who could have believed that washing and drying clothes could be that easy, fifty years ago?

Gone are the days for most of us, when hanging clothes out on a line to dry was normal.

Someone, or some few someones, invented an easier way to get things done. and the rest of us were only too willing to adapt.

“Monkey see, monkey do” gets bad press, and yet, there are times when we benefit by following what some others have learned to do.

Do a few lead the pack in all ways of life?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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24. Spirit tells me that

Plato seemed to know that we are what we are and we’re not what we’re not.

And yet …

Why didn’t he ask us to know how we came to be what we now are, or what we intend to become, if we can?

Awareness says it all.

The curse, or blessing, of humanity is expanding awareness.

Other species don’t seem to expand their way they see the world they live in and are part of.

It’s us humans who seemed to have been designed to be dissatisfied with our lot.

And how to make us dissatisfied?

Provide a vision of a better way, a more expanded outlook on the world we live in and are part of.

Is human awareness infinitely expandable?

And, how to live a simple life after we’ve been given an expanded perspective of it being more simple than it might be with a little effort, and then more and more.

It can get wearying.

Mystery – the concept of mystery is a luring one.

We humans seem by nature to deny the reality (if it is) of mystery.

It’s just something that we don’t know, yet.

And yet, we might know if we …

What does it take to see through mystery, or what seems to be mystery?

We’ve gone a long way, and yet, as an old song tells it, “But Baby, you’ve still got a long way to go.”

In the final analysis, where are we?

It’s almost enough to make us join the illusion group of “Now is all there is.”

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 22

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25. Spirit tells me that

Not one man in ten – and that’s a good thing.

A contented seed wouldn’t grow.

Discontentment with the status-quo is what keeps the world turning.

I wonder if that’s another of those Universal Laws we hear about?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 20

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26. Spirit tells me that

There is no Ego separate from Self.

Each is a variable of the other.

We are one.

And, as with individual humans, so with collective humanity.

So, if this is true, then it must also be true about individual nations and the collection of nations that live on our dear little Planet Earth.

Egos t the top may have much more in common with Egos at the bottom than anyone cares to accept as true.

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Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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27. Spirit tells me that

1, 2, 3. Physical, emotional, and thinking. From the one comes two, and from the two comes …

Lao Tzu described the process of human development away back then, and away over there.

“From the One comes the Two, and from the Two comes the Three, and from the Three come the ten thousand things.”

Emotions are rooted in physical existence, while thoughts …

Do emotions attract thoughts?

Does how we feel determine what we think?

If wo, then how to inspire a higher level of thought than survival and thrival?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 25

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28. Spirit tells me that

“I’m dead” he sighed, and then he pushed the Start button to begin another game.

Caring for young children is, or can be, an incredible learning experience, not to mention a total pleasure.

And yet, I was shocked at how unemotional and impersonal young video players can relate to deadly actions in the game.

Is human life as a video game that we shrug off?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 23

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29. Spirit tells me that

If all lived experience is as A Course in Self Awareness, then what have we learned?

“A Course in Miracles” was channeled from a higher level of intelligence for the benefit of a certain group of people, as is any and all teachings of timeless wisdom.

We each seem to need lessons that make sense to us, where we now are, on our journey through physically lived experience.

What helps some others may make no sense to us, at all.

No blame.

We each are where we are for whatever reasons.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 23

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30. Spirit tells me that

The reality is that we each do have power, but not absolute power, which is probably just as well, considering how we might use it.

Releasing the illusion of complete control is not surrender.

It’s waking up to reality.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 15

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31. Spirit tells me that

How well are we doing?

If our lived experience is as an initiation …?

If our lived experience over a lifetime is as an initiation into a higher and more expanded level of awareness, then how are we each doing?

And, how can we know how well we’re coping with whatever comes at us?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 30

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32. Spirit tells me that

If we each have a unique but expandable capacity to develop a unique but expandable potential to do …?

To do what?

Whatever.

But, we have no capacity to be anyone but whom we are.

What we become can change, but who we are can’t, at least not during this lifetime.

We are whom we are, for better or worse.

Is that true?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 30

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33. Spirit tells me that

Without lived experience, how can we know?

We’re each developing quality …

“If I was in her (or his) position, I would not have responded to … the way she (or he) did.

And yet, if we’ve never been in her (or his) position, it’s just talk.

“Know thyself” the philosopher told us.

And yet, we can’t know ourself unless we reflect on the why of what of what we’ve done with our life.

And, since we’re all human, some others may respond as we do, and some might not.

We can compare outcomes to help us choose future options.

Live and learn, though some may take more living for less learning.

No blame.

We each progress in our own way and in our own time.

Quality of soul doesn’t come without a price tag attached.

The price?

Lived experience.

There may be no other way.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 29

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34. Spirit tells me that

Some of us are aware of what’s happening, while some others only see what they see.

The world we live in is changing.

Forces of destruction seem to rule all over our dear little Planet Earth.

How will Gaia respond?

Nature can join in and outdo any harm that any of our leaders can imagining.

It’s happened before.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 29

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35. Spirit tells me that

Emotion fills the gap between what is (or seems to be) and what might have been.

And then along comes thought to …

What role does thought play in this scenario?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar28

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36. Spirit tells me that

There is no love without intelligence, or it’s a very unwise love.

At their highest …

Love is all there is, and so it is with intelligence.

They go together like a horse and carriage.

Whatever did happen to horses and carriages?

Will love and intelligence also go the way of the Dodo bird – into extinction?

Or has it already happened in our so-called modern society?

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Ref. My Facebook Posts – Mar 27

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37. Spirit tells me that

There is no ego separate from self.

Each is a variable of the other.

We are one.

And, as with individual humans, so with collective humanity.

So, if this is true, then it must also be true about individual nations and the collection of nations that live on our dear little Planet Earth.

Egos at the top may have much more in common with Egos at the bottom than anyone may care to accept as true.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 19

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38. Spirit tells me that

Some say that all there is is love and explain evil as …

If evil can be explained as the absence of love, then why can’t love be explained as the absence of evil?

As within – so without, and if there is a higher whatever then there must necessarily be a lower whatever.

Perhaps it’s time to return to the acceptance of the concept of angels and devils?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 3

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39. Spirit tells me that

Why did “All roads lead to Rome.”?

Easy.

Romans built the roads.

What choices do we really have in life?

It’s like “Pick any color you like as long as it’s red or blue.”

Has our thinking been chosen for us?

Education?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 3

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40. Spirit tells me that

Formless doesn’t necessarily mean without form – an ocean wave?

More or less form.

Thoughts are considered (by some) to be forms, while emotions are as a type of moving energy.

And yet, individual emotions must necessarily have some form or we wouldn’t be able to identify one from another.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 2

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41. Spirit tells me that

Freedom to choose is an illusion.

Our emotions pull us one way or another.

Perhaps the only way we can get to choosing is to become aware of our emotions, and then asking them why they want to go one way more than another.

Talking to ourself may be the timeless wisdom way to really know why we do what we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 1

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42. Spirit tells me that

Thoughts and emotions can never be totally separated from each other because they …

They each rise up from the same source, Life.

The material world is alive.

Our physical body is alive, while it is, and the physical/material world is expressed on The Tree of Life as the foundation of life.

From the foundation, Feeling rises up and then divides itself (from the one comes the two) into Emotion and Thought, which go their separate ways, for a time, as they rise, thought to the left and emotion to the right, until they reach the limit of their possibility to move away from each other.

And then they each turn inward as they continue to rise, until they meet and merge again at a higher level of togetherness.

Do our personal (and collective) thoughts and emotions play this same game, or do they get trapped in the illusion of separateness?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Mar 31

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43. Spirit tells me that

To be brave is one thing – to be foolish is something else.

Listen to your inner guidance when it makes sense to do so.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 6

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44. Spirit tells me that

We may be the who we always were, but we’re the what that we have become.

Life is an incredible learning experience that keeps on keeping on, as long as it does.

How can we know what we might yet become?

And why?

And how?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 7

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45. Spirit tells me that

I’m a spirit being, learning to live as a human.

Being spirit/energy is no big deal.

We’re all spirit/energy with no effort required to be what we are.

But, being human?

Hey! That takes effort, and there are so many different ways we can practice being human.

It’s a creative work of art.

What kind of human are we?

What kind of human do we care to become?

How much effort will it take?

Is there any reward other than selfj-satisfaction?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Post – Apr 5

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46. Spirit tells me that

Talking to myself, the wall, or Spirit – which suggests a higher authority figure?

I can talk to myself or Spirit with my eyes closed, but the wall seems to require a different response.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 4

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47. Spirit tells me that

Be your own best friend.

Plato and Shakespeare said it in their own words.

“Know thyself.”

Plato probably referred to an intellectual perspective, while William spoke from the heart.

“This above all, to your own self be true.”

We need head and heart in this physical world, to know ourself and to care about ourself.

Perhaps, if we can’t care for ourself, then we might not be able to care for anyone else.

It all begins closer to home.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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48. Spirit tells me that

“Praise the Lord. I’ve seen the light.”

Does anyone remember?

The light of understanding.

Understanding, awareness, enlightenment, knowing – do they each and all mean the same thing?

When we’ve experienced something, if we have, then we know.

It’s not like anything we might read about, or hear about.

Also, it can related to simple physical activities, such as playing in the snow.

Not everyone has touched snow, made a snowman, had a snowball fight, built a snow fort, created an angel by lying on our back in the snow and moving our arms to create wings. Any physical experience that some others may have enjoyed, or not have enjoyed, is a personal experience, a knowing.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 10

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49. Spirit tells me that

Mysticism is as mist.

We see, but not too clearly.

Are we all mystics, more or less?

“I see” said the blind man.

But, of course, he doesn’t see at all, but he understands, more or less.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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50. Spirit tells me that

Are we the way we’ve always been?

She was a lady, and I was not.

There I was, sitting in a local cafe, by the window, sipping a latte, close to my walker loaded with a week’s supply of groceries, and enjoying the scenery.

I always was a people watcher.

I felt comfortable with myself until she sat at a table near mine.

she couldn’t have been much more than ten years or so younger than me, and yet she carried herself and dressed with a comfortable sense of elegant simplicity – the classic kind.

No excess, and yet – I could only envy her.

The old question that always seemed to linger around me again pushed my buttons.

Why couldn’t I be like her, when I had no idea of what she was like, except for her outer appearance.

If “What you see is what you get” then what she had was something that I always seemed to need, and yet it just wouldn’t happen.

Would I have felt comfortable with myself if I was aware of presenting myself in such a state of gentle self-approval?

I don’t know.

It might be a satisfying place to be.

And then, would self-satisfaction be a dead-end game?

I seem to need space to move forward in.

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Ref. My Facebook Posts – Apr 9

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51. Spirit tells me that

Our leaders are not perfect, and yet, neither are we.

Who said it?

“He who is without …”?

How do we develop the concept of right and wrong?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 15

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52. Spirit tells me that

Consciousness expresses itself in thoughts, emotions, and forms.

There is no other way?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 15

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53. Spirit tells me that

Co-creating reality is an ongoing process that we each and all contribute to, one way or another.

Everything we do makes a difference.

We co-create our world by being part of it.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 12

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54. Spirit tells me that

If spirit is conscious energy then there is no consciousness without spirit, more or less.

The concept of spirituality can get a lot of spooky press.

And yet, we’re each and all energy beings – and most of us are conscious of being.

We’re not just energy beings, we’re conscious energy beings, and so we’re each and all spiritual beings, living a human life, in a human form.

Why is that considered mystical?

Simple.

Mystical refers to mystery, and there’s so much mystery about life, whether in general or specific.

Our own individual life may always be a mystery to us.

Why are we the way we are?

Could we have possibly have been any different?

If not, then we might as well relax and accept ourself the way we are.

That doesn’t mean that we can’t improve or change what or how we are, if we care to.

We may simply need to begin to feel comfortable with how we are now, at least for now.

Energy and consciousness may each refer to potentiality of awareness.

We each have potential to become more and more aware of the world we live in and are part of.

We activate and expand that potential by consciously choosing to do so.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Poste – Apr 12

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55. Spirit tells me that

Can we feel stress without being aware of the tension that’s causing it?

Actually, tension doesn’t cause mental stress.

It’s our resistance to deal with the tension that causes stress.

But, the question remains.

Can we feel the stress without awareness of its cause?

Is that when psychotherapy steps into the picture?

Self therapy, or professional therapy, may help us to understand why we feel dissatisfied with what’s happening in our life.

Dissatisfaction causes mental stress.

It can be reduced and possibly even eliminated, at least for a time.

And yet, it’s never usually very far away.

Something will push our buttons, and we feel stress.

Awareness makes a difference, even when if it might not be able to totally release whatever tension.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 13

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56. Spirit tells me that

Everything we do makes a difference.

We cocreate our world by being part of it.

Cocreating reality is an ongoing process that we each and all contribute to, one way or another.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 11

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57. Spirit tells me that

Talking to myself, the wall, or Spirit – which suggests a higher authority figure?

I can talk to myself or Spirit with my eyes closed, but the wall seems to require a different approach.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 4

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58. Spirit tells me that

Whatever it takes and no more, and yet, no less either.

Lessons of life are learned.

Do we each learn the lessons that our more or less unique life experiences teach us in our own way and in our own time?

Some of us are, or seem to be, slower learners than are some others.

We may not all have started this lifetime on an equal footing.

Some seem to begin where some might hope to end.

Talk of equality denies the evidence.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 20

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59. Spirit tells me that

Love is an emotion.

Compassion is a feeling.

Emotions are variable.

Unconditional?

Is it possible for love to be unconditional?

I love you unconditionally because …

Can we measure so-called unconditional love?

We may easier measure compassion.

We may feel more compassion for some situations than for some others because we’ve experienced some, but not all.

And, we can’t feel compassion for something that we have not experienced.

Or can we?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 20

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60. Spirit tells me that

Instinct and intuition evolve and then dissolve into each other at ever higher levels ….

At ever higher levels of human development of awareness, what was one intuition becomes an instinctive awareness.

The Tree of Life tells it well.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 19

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61. Spirit tells me that

Feeling as depth analysis

Hearing and seeing provide a surface awareness.

Future psychoanalysis and future studies of psychology may give more value to feeling than they now seem to do.

Feeling is a blend of thought and emotion, from which each arise separately, if they do.

Perhaps most everyone has witnessed a sense of disbelief of what some others have said, now and then, and yet were aware that the other may have had no intention of deceiving them.

We can share what we believe is true, whether or not it really is true.

And then, at times, we can pretend that something is so when we know, or strongly suspect, that it isn’t so.

We have our reasons for defending what we have been taught to believe is true.

Who wants to be a social outcast?

Let’s be polite and get along.

Is seeing beyond the surface of what we hear and/or see as a psychic gift?

Or is it a natural human faculty that has been devalued by those in control of our social conditioning?

Perhaps my dimming eyesight and reduced hearing have been intentional – as a way to dare me to feel beyond what I hear and see.

I can see more clearly now, when I can hardly see at all.

Is that what it took?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 19

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62. Spirit tells me that

We glance through the display cases and the open doors of shops along the street and in within a mall, as we stroll along, waiting to feel the urge to enter in.

Do certain moods tempt us more than do some others?

Are we addicted to some, or have just developed a habit of letting some moods move us more than some others?

Moods and attitudes , and other states of mind – as cafes or shops at the Mall?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 22

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63. Spirit tells me that

What you see is never all you get, unless you’ve seen it all before, and even then …

A box is a box, and yet, what’s in the box?

Some of us recycle boxes that are clearly labeled as containing something other than what we’ve put into it.

Is our memory as a box that we keep storing newly, and recycled, experiences within?

Or, does memory also have a life of its own, and rearranges what we drop into it, in an order of its own choosing?

Some of us remember more pleasant past experiences easier than some remember not-so-pleasant past experiences.

Some remember experiences from last year easier than those from last week.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 22

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64. Spirit tells me that

A dependent personality disorder – is it a disorder if we’re each dependent on …?

We’re each dependent on outside sources for our very existence, and yet, we may be equally dependent upon our inner resources to make the best use of any outer resources that we may have access to.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts Apr 22

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65. Spirit tells me that

Our ego will survive when our false self has dissolved into dust and memories.

We each had our beginning with a drive to survive.

Some call it Ego, the original personality.

Social conditioning and learned responses to life experiences has smothered nature as much as it can, and created a false self that few of us feel comfortable with.

And yet, perhaps it was necessary for us to adapt to the world we live in.

The good news is that in quiet meditation we can learn to reconnect to our real being, as separate from the roles that we have been taught to play, and become.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 25

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66. Spirit tells me that

Not everyone in the audience is biased – the stage of life is not a race track or …

Or stadium.

Some may only have come to watch the show out of curiosity.

Cheerleaders for different interest groups will be doing what they can to inspire the audience to root for this one or that one, or this side or that side.

Is it possible to be an unbiased spectator in today’s world?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 24

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67. Spirit tells me that

It’s easy to say “I love me,” but “I like me” requires a sense of self respect.

Can we develop a gentle dignity, or does it develop itself, if it does?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 24

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68. Spirit tells me that

Thoughts and emotions may come together as feelings.

We feel emotion, and yet there can be no emotion separate from any thought.

And it also goes the other way.

If it feels right, it is right, if only while it is.

The simple math of awareness, and the miracles that it can create.

Thoughts create emotions and emotions create thoughts.

Neither may intend to create the other.

They just do – a law of Life?

Happy or kind thoughts create happy or kind emotions.

Sad or angry emotions create sad or angry thoughts.

And then what happens?

The spiral affect takes place – upward or downward movement of thoughts and emotions.

That’s when awareness can step into the picture and say “STOP.”

I mean, it just isn’t mentally healthy to allow one’s thoughts and emotions to get too far out of control.

So, a simple reminder.

“Be aware” posted on the frig door.

Actually, the frig door may be to post such a notice.

We need to be aware of what we eat.

It’s the law – as within – so without, or, as we take in, so we spread out?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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69. Spirit tells me that

A comes before B if only in the alphabet.

Breakfast comes before lunch, unless …

Breakfast comes before lunch unless we bring them together with brunch.

The beginning of a story comes before the end, even if we start it with the ending.

Where am I going with this train of thought?

Is it a train?

Or conveyor belt?

Is everything we might possibly feel, think, say, or do as necessarily only one step in a sequential order of our feeling, thinking, saying, or doing?

I’ve allowed myself to become disorganized re personal duties to myself.

How to set it all into some form of sequential order?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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70. Spirit tells me that

Love is as the horizon – it doesn’t really exist, and yet it’s an ideal emotion.

Not everyone sees the same horizon.

Some see further than do some others.

When we see a boat near the horizon, the people on that boat also see a horizon, beyond what we see.

So it is with love.

We can feel it, and yet so can everyone else, more or less.

How much more?

How much less?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 27

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71. Spirit tells me that

I wasn’t always an old woman.

It’s taken many years of practice to get here.

Why haven’t I aged gracefully?

I seem to have fought against the inevitable, all along the way.

It must have made sense at some time.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 26

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72. Spirit tells me that

We the living are ancestors in training.

Will we inspire the next generations?

Or, …?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 3

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73. Spirit tells me that

It may never be an either/or situation, but rather this, that, or some other.

Either/or sounds so confrontational.

There may be many more options than two in any given situation.

Flexibility and willingness to adapt one’s position may be prime requirements of peaceful co-existence.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – April 30

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74. Spirit tells me that

Every path that ever was, is, or yet might be, is necessarily a two-way street.

We might each and all be walking a unique (more or less) path through life experiences.

So, how can it be a two-way street?

We look back to see where we’ve come from, or we can look ahead to see where we’re going.

Where does instinct and intuition fit into this picture?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 8

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75. Spirit tells me that

Our conscious mind as the surface of an ocean, the cover of a book, or short-term memory.

The so-called unconscious mind is where it’s at.

Think of short-term and long-term memory, or the front or back of a deep closet.

The front of a book or closet is window dressing.

Our true character is safely stored deep within.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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76. Spirit tells me that

Some things are meant to be, and some things are not.

But everything else is possible.

What is meant to be and what is not meant to be may be as limits with ten thousand variables of possibility between them.

With a little bit of luck, intelligence, and a powerful intention, who knows what humanity might yet become?

Who knows what each of us might yet become?

But, we’ve got to have a dream.

Or, as a song tells it “Get a new plan, Stan.”

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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77. Spirit tells me that

Life is a learning eperience.

Pleasure and pain both win – more or less.

Can all of our lived experiences be measured as producing more pleasure than pain, or more pain than pleasure?

Can it ever be an either/or?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 7

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78. Spirit tells me that

It comes with the territory.

We have an emotional relationship with everyone and everything in our life.

It’s only a matter of how intense, relaxed, or distant it is.

And what degree of positive or negative relationship it is.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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79. Spirit tells me that

Change happens.

I’ve always asked Why?

But not How?

A sequential order of events.

I left the bank without my copy of transaction slips, and without the bill I had paid.

How did I manage to be so careless?

It’s never happened before.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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80. Spirit tells me that

Our so-called conscious mind allows us,, if we will to, focus on here and now, or this and that, while our so-called unconscious mind claims a more expanded view.

A microscope vs a telescope?

A spotlight vs a flood light?

It throws much more light on the problem, if it is one.

Perhaps we can only see what we see, until we can see more.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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81. Spirit tells me that

Whoever blames herself?

Social conditioning is necessarily self-conditioning.

We learn to do what we’re told to do, if we do, because it serves us well, or at least more well than to disobey.

And then we project the blame onto those whom we chose to direct our thinking.

They had reasons of their own.

And so did we.

Survival?

Or, was it that we really wanted to please?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 9

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82. Spirit tells me that

It may never be an either/or situation, but rather, this, that, or some other.

Either/or sounds so confrontational.

Note: there is more on my Facebook post

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – Apr 30

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83. Spirit tells me that

Until we learn to navigate our own ship on the Sea of Life Experience, we’ll be as crew.

Timeless wisdom teaches 7us that we either lead ourselves or someone else must, and will.

And, it’s usually not a simple case of either/or, but of how much we are able and willing to be self-directed, and what price we’re willing to pay for sailing our own ship.

Learning to navigate through whatever life experiences face us isn’t usually a piece of cake.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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84. Spirit tells me that

Feelings come before thoughts, if only in point of time.

Aristotle was so wrong.

I feel, therefore I am.

We feel thoughts and emotions, if we do.

And, if we don’t, then we’re as good as dead.

Feeling connects our physical body to the worlds of emotions and thoughts.

Consciousness gets high press for being the foundation of our world, and yet, unless we feel conscious …

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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85. Spirit tells me that

Physically, emotionally, or mentally – where wherever we are, it’s here and now.

Emotions connect our physical body to our mental world.

There is no other way.

And yet, gentle emotions connect us to more gentle thoughts than harsh emotions do.

What if we read the news to learn what emotions were being intentionally triggered within us?

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 14

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86. Spirit tells me that

Some will say we do too little, some will say too much.

We do what we can, if we do.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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87. Spirit tells me that

Even knowing that I may be wrong – I accept that you are the way you seem to be.

How can we ever really know where someone else is?

We can only see from where we are, at any given time.

The back end of a house can’t be seen from the front.

Our vision is necessarily limited.

A very angry person may see a less angry person as being more positive, and yet, to an even more positive person, that more positive person may seem to be negative.

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Ref. My 2024 Facebook Posts – May 10

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88. Spirit tells me that

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