How can we possibly be bored, when we have access to the depths of our own company?

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Boundaries largely exist to protect the ego. The more rigid our boundaries, the more we are enmeshed in the illusory identity of ego. Boundary-setting can be conscious or unconscious. If conscious, it is an opportunity to find what is appropriate for the ego. If unconscious, the boundary will tend to be set reactively.

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Love, truth, beauty and innocence cannot be completely embraced, for they bring with them, an open horizon to a boundless sky.

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The bounty in our lives has come to us from many unknown and unexpected quarters. Ultimately it has travelled from the far reaches of the universe.

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If we break through to the other side of our anger or frustration, we find peace and patience. If we break through to the other side of our jealousy, we find understanding and connection. If we break through to the other side of being habitually stuck, dependent or addicted, we find a larger, more boundless, harmonious perspective. If we break through to the other side of our disease, we find harmony, health and greater empathy towards others. If we break through to the other side of our prejudice, we find openness and tolerance. If we break through to the other side of our control, we find release and freedom. If we break through to the other side of our indifference and selfishness, we find kindness, connection and inclusion. With all tightened, constricting states we experience, we are missing the states of liberation, truth and expansion on the other side, just as it may finally be at the end of life, when breaking through into liberation, truth and expansion after death. (Please see contemplation on Emotions 90).

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One of the most valuable breaths is done mindfully with deep, slow, silently retained and released breathing. Our clear, unfeigned, inner true nature, can then gracefully come forward. It brings with it centredness, peace, still mind, vitality and contentment.

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Each of us lives in our own perceptual bubble, or in other words in our own world. If we could make our own bubble function as best as possible, then surely that is the greatest offering we can give to the ocean of life we are immersed in.

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Bullying requires a concerted effort at examining the underlying insecurity and its attendant efforts to control others. It appears that much bullying behaviour has its origins in the home through unconscious modelling by disconnected parents, which creates disconnected parenting, resulting in disconnected children. Parents themselves may be modelling such behaviour because of their stress and perceptions of inadequacy around their own lives, which can cause a sense of disconnection from themselves as well as their children. This disconnection also has ramifications in the manner in which bullying is dealt with. A disconnected parent or guardian may not want to deal with bullying, or may want to deal with it quickly, rather than look at it more deeply and carefully. For example if a child tells an adult about the misbehaviour or bullying of another child, the adult may simplistically view the situation as one child attempting to get another child into trouble. They may regard the child as being a tell-tale, and consider them to be mean (which happens fairly often), but we need to realise that children, just like adults, also have legitimate complaints that need to be dealt with by someone other than themselves. We must also realise…read more…

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It is not our responsibility to carry burdens. As soon as the innocent within us starts to carry a burden, we begin to become serious, concerned, fearful adults.

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