Published 8. March 2012 at 4:01 pm - No Comments
The truth about acceptance…
I had this idea that I needed to completely accept myself to get to that better place. I also had this idea that if I accepted myself fully, then I would have a much easier time accepting others as well. I don’t necessarily disagree with this. But the thing is...
Published 8. March 2012 at 2:24 pm - No Comments
On being present…
Yesterday I saw a beautiful Vespa, sparkling new and shiny in maroon colour sitting in a shop window. Something inside decided it would really like that Vespa. What is it within that causes us to want?
While there is a difference between wanting and needing and simply having...
Published 5. May 2011 at 12:47 pm - No Comments
Within the real: daily meditations for happiness
by Salima Stanley-Bhanji
Within the Real is really a response to my own need to find the words to express myself in a devotional language that is not attached to any faith, set of beliefs or group. I use...
Everything is already accepted.
How is this so?
Well, because everything is here.
I used to believe that this was the practice, forcing those bad, bad thoughts away and dragging myself, against my nature, unwillingly into the present moment. Was this really what I had to do?