🙂 nice to hear that on how the Universe is guiding you.

Regarding the follow up posts….take a look at this follow up post for that same post 🙂
(http://dev.tinybuddha.com/topic/how-can-i-love-myself/page/2/#post-117674)

Don’t let that stop you from having any questions and please feel free to write back but don’t let the thinking mind trick you….don’t allow it to say you that you will have more and more questions as you read else the mind has the capacity to take us into an infinite loop….keep things plain and simple as the action point explained in the above link.

Take care,
VJ

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by VJ.

Dear shipp,

All that I have suggested to you (about having less of questions and more of the actual action “doing” part), is a response to what you have written to me, and I still stick to that. Please continue your questions/conversations/updates on the forums of the site.

As a well wisher I want to suggest you to make sure you don’t reach a stage where you end up even challenging Eckhart Tolle (author of TPON book) or Aine Belton (writer of the booklets) or anyone else for that matter. Of course you can do that because you have the free- will to do so. But what a waste of time and energy that would be. Instead, as a learning process of life, check out for yourself if something works for you the best, and discard the rest. Yes, that learning too requires time but there doesn’t seem to be any option and takes positive energy as compared to simply questioning/challenging without any actual action. These are all traps of the egoic mind and you will get to know more on that in ‘The Power of Now’. If the book is too “heavy” to read for you then your consciousness is not yet ready for it and you may even come to it at a later stage at the right time. One can only point you to a particular direction, but going there and coming will be your job. No amount of explanation is going to help you in that case.

If tablet A does not work for your fever but tablet B does, are you going to go to the level to question/challenge the manufacturer of the Tablet A or the doctor or the person at the chemist shop who suggested you the medicine. A wise person will not waste time and energy in all those things and instead start taking tablet B the next time. What a simple act that is. If you keep life as simple as that then you are going to lead a calm and peaceful life.

Take care buddy,
VJ

I found myself returning to the following book
‘Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life’ by Philip Simmons

“We are all—all of us—falling. We are all, now, this moment, in the midst of that descent, fallen from heights that may now seem only a dimly remembered dream, falling toward a depth we can only imagine, glimpsed beneath the water’s surface shimmer. And so let us pray that if we are falling from grace, dear God let us also fall with grace, to grace. If we are falling toward pain and weakness, let us also fall toward sweetness and strength. If we are falling toward death, let us also fall toward life.”

Dear Shipp:

I like your intent ” to use this space as a means to formulate my own thoughts and understanding.”

You welcomed me to share, so here is a share: my childhood too was violent and explosive. I walked on egg shells. I was afraid a whole lot of the time and developed serious tics (Tourettes) and OCD. And I took refuge in daydreaming, lots of daydreaming.

The gap between my fantasy and life-actually-lived was extreme. In my fantasy I was rich and famous; in real life, I was a lonely girl, twitching and performing OCD rituals to prevent the next violence, the greatest violence yet to happen.

Everything was easy in fantasy, doable, successful. Far, far from it in real life.

anita (using a different username and account)