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carenkh · 07-08-2008, 04:28 PM

I was just reading A Thousand Names for Joy, and I thought of you & this thread as I read Chapter 77. I don't have time to excerpt it here, but she makes the point that it's our thoughts about things that create the problem, not the things themselves.

I look at myself, and my ability to be stable despite losing everything, and the picture I get is: where is my anchor? Where am I anchored? If I'm anchored in what I'm calling my life: my work, my kids, my play, my stuff... then I will be blown about if a storm takes those things away. If I'm anchored in my own heart, in my deepest, most expansive self, then nothing can shake me. I will always have me... until I don't have me anymore, then I'll return to source, which is probably also an illusion!

Eventually, all things merge into one... and a river runs through it.

07-08-2008, 04:28 PM	#8 (permalink)
carenkh Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 1,136	I was just reading A Thousand Names for Joy, and I thought of you & this thread as I read Chapter 77. I don't have time to excerpt it here, but she makes the point that it's our thoughts about things that create the problem, not the things themselves. I look at myself, and my ability to be stable despite losing everything, and the picture I get is: where is my anchor? Where am I anchored? If I'm anchored in what I'm calling my life: my work, my kids, my play, my stuff... then I will be blown about if a storm takes those things away. If I'm anchored in my own heart, in my deepest, most expansive self, then nothing can shake me. I will always have me... until I don't have me anymore, then I'll return to source, which is probably also an illusion! Eventually, all things merge into one... and a river runs through it.