The greatest courage of all, is surely the courage to be true to our true nature in the moment.

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Being courteous shows that we respect and value our interactions with another, and that we are prepared to accommodate them as a fellow human being. It is not, as some assume, a submissive posture, but a humane, human one.

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Our privilege to create and call something forth, arises from our ability to conceive a reality that we imagine is greater, or for the better. The power to begin manifestation is stored in our generative life force; guided by our focus and attitude; balanced by conscience and virtue; nourished by our love and devotion; and persisted with until completion by our will.

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In today’s music, movies, art, books, and consumer products, we can see whether the primary motivation is profit, or the love of the creative process. The fact that many of these products pass quickly, indicates that the motivation is profit, rather than creative endeavours which tend to stand the test of time.

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By only taking into account the immediate environment around us, without knowing of anything further afield, including history or books, science, technology and so on, we would only be able to base our actual knowing upon firsthand perceptions and experiences. In other words, much of our present day knowledge, beliefs, philosophy and so on, would not exist. We would not know of historical figures who were instrumental in founding religions, or of discovery and invention in the sciences, medicine, engineering, psychology, or of other languages, mathematics, the arts and so on. Therefore we would not know of a Christian, Muslim, Jewish or any other kind of Creator God, including any pantheon of gods such as in Hinduism. And we would only be able to learn about life from our environment, and of the waxing and waning of life force within and around us, as well as our profound interconnection with it all. Consequently it appears, that if we were to experience any kind of original and unique connection to a Creator or a God, then we would need to focus on a more primordial perception of ourselves, others, and of our environment. We would not be able to rely upon…read more…

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To inordinately stress an apology, a point of view, an ability and so on, can stretch our credibility a little too thin. With any such attempts to impress ourselves upon another, we are more likely to impress them with our egocentricity, insecurity or obsessiveness.

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At those times when a crisis of any kind occurs, the fundamental lesson is that along the way we have lost our attention to the real. And therefore, the winds of change that have been restrained are now blowing unhindered; they are demanding we transform, make decisions, and embrace new openings. Now is the time. For crisis support please phone your local Mental Health organisation.

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Most of us are acutely and reactively sensitive to criticism of what we think to be our identity (our ego) even though many of us profess to be able to listen to, accept, and learn from criticism. However when criticism spontaneously occurs, we invariably respond with emotions of hurt, and may attack and criticise our critic. We need to ask ourselves whenever giving or receiving criticism; does criticism make change; does it bear fruit, or does it simply make the criticised sense their own inadequacy, hurt and anger, and the critic more self-righteous?

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Do we ever crosscheck our so-called beliefs, facts or statements? If we are not motivated to do so, then we are likely upholding a biased generalisation. And if we refuse to look at beliefs and facts, or crosscheck them, then we are surely upholding a prejudicial view.

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