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How can Dutton get it so wrong?

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

theinvisibledoctrine.com 'Our dominant ideology - neoliberalism - is so ingrained that we're not conscious of it... turning us into blind consumers instead of citizens... We need a new story.' Awesome documentary if you can access it. Explains why we are where we are today - oligarchy.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes we feel we're not getting anywhere when we're not doing or learning. But resting in being while our system integrates the previous wave & prepares for the new one is so 'productive' for life. When we can sense THAT, we have made progress. #spirituality #awakening #enlightenment #nature

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes a long-awaited life shift seems like it's never coming. And then it does. And I realise (only in hindsight) that divine timing is more intelligent than my impatience. #spirituality #awakening #spiritualawakening #enlightenment #meditation #mindfulness #nature

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

The best agent against darkness in the world is spiritual awakening. In the unfolding chaos, there is profound peace. Compassion sees all points of view, while not condoning lies. From a deep centre, truth, healing & peace radiates. #spirituality #awakening #enlightenment #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Lie detector tests pick up increases in heart rate, breathing & sweating, so imagine what truth-telling with compassion ALWAYS would do for our nervous systems... and our lives? Truth-telling with compassion ALWAYS = peace = awakening. #spirituality #awakening #enlightenment #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I wish 'Mindfulness' was referred to as 'Beingness'. When we come into moments of presence, it's not our mind in presence but rather our Being. Our mind can finally rest. Breathing, smells, sips, caresses - it's all so intimate. #spirituality #meditation #mindfulness #awakening #enlightenment

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Thoughts are just images ABOUT conflicted emotions or beliefs. This detachment from reality renders them without the power to transform conflicts. But your presence has the power. As it enters the REALITY of conflicts via surrender, they transform. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

CLOSE THE GAP Meditation only wants to close the gap between 'you' and your present experience. That's all. It doesn't want to control your mind - just to breathe and be intimate with your experience BEYOND just a rapid and dominant mindstream. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

ACCEPTANCE = = instant STOP to anxious thoughts = immediate surrendering to the present situation = seeing the situation from source consciousness, not the mind = seeing how/why the situation was created - the larger context = truth = peace = awakening #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I live in the present. I play joyfully. I am loyal. I am not resentful & don't hold grudges. My biggest ambitions in life are to love and be loved in return (and maybe to eat - a lot). D.O.G. = G.O.D. #spirituality #awakening #enlightenment #mentalhealth #dogs #nature #spiritualawakening #love

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Anger can be a cover emotion for a more vulnerable one like sadness or rejection, so when I feel anger, I tune into my heart area to uncover: what am I REALLY feeling? There is truth there. The tender emotion arises. Truth arises. Awakening happens. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Jung's use of spirit is known. Other psychologists engaged spirit in therapy: "... my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and becomes a part of something larger. Profound growth and healing and energy are present." Carl Rogers

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

When you allow emotions to flow, you 'become' them, hence dissolve boundaries between 'you' & 'your emotions'. This mirrors the awakening process, which dissolves boundaries between 'you' & 'everything not you'. Allowing emotions = awakening. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

When listening to others, if I feel the urge to interject, I try to catch it and return to listening with presence. Sometimes the urgent 'point' just disappears. When I do respond, it's more 'presence-sourced'. This builds connection, trust & joy. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Episodes of intense challenge are also opportunities for profound connection - to your higher intelligence. A seismic shift. A major breakthrough. Just breathe, see through the mind-churn and wait for intelligence to speak. Have faith - in YOURSELF. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Some people think 'power' = power over others. I think true, inner power is facing my deepest fears, prejudices, judgements and anything that separates me from life as it is. By facing them, nothing can have power over me. What do you think true power is? #spirituality #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

With fear, I try to 'physicalise' it by feeling its tightness in my lower belly / Hara (Zen). Physicalising it arrests the 'fear story' churning in my head. After a while, the tightness, story & beliefs behind the story flow away. Awakening happens. #spirituality #awakening #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

I love meditation when I can do it but sometimes my system is too full of discordance. If so, I lean into what I'm deeply feeling, so my system can transmute what wants to be released. It works every time. Transformation happens. Awakening happens. #spirituality #meditation #mentalhealth #nature

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

When you allow emotions to flow through you, unfiltered & un-judged, you're not only clearing them from your system but layers of the belief systems that give rise to them. When done repeatedly, the beliefs systems fall away. From empty space, awakening happens. #spirituality #nature #mentalhealth

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite spiritual teacher Adyashanti would often say: "Allow everything to be as it is". I'm pretty sure that if taken all the way, this practice will take us all the way to enlightenment. Easier said than done? Nature does this inherently - it just allows everything to be exactly as it is.

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments