The greatest breakthrough is risking friendship 🥰
… feel free to meet shamelessly
at the Garden Of Friends and at Magdi’s.
Practical Peace in daily living.
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Hello world!
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Love scares us all
It is everywhere.
There’s no escaping it.When we were younger
we dreamt we were scared of
concrete things like enemies and friends.As we got older we realized
It was always uncomfortable feelings
that scared us.We cried when we saw that
we had spent years
avoiding those feelings
only to find out
each was a gift.
Not even shame needs to be resisted any longer.And so the stark reality is
that love has scared us all along.Every anxiety.
Every worry.
Is love.It is the electrically dark night.
The unbearable pleasure of being alive.
The animator of all things.
That which breathes
life into all those enemies and friends and feelings
and shame.
It is love we are avoiding.It is okay dear one.
There is a good reason to be scared.Love will to consume us whole.
Love will lay us to waste,
leave us with nothing
and pull our crutches out.Once we are destroyed.
Left without
our will
or ourselves.
We will fall in love
for the very first time.And it will make a home in our chests
And shine from our eyes
And speak its words with our mouths
Saying over and over again
Thy will be done
Thy will be done.Joe Hudson
Thank you Ralph for sharing this!
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me-virus.com
Ai: Expressing gratitude to Magdi can be done by acknowledging the profound impact of his teachings and the space he creates for shared exploration.
You could mention the value of the guided meditations, the insights shared during the conversations, and the sense of connection and love that is fostered within the group.
Highlighting the experience of recognizing oneself as “this effortless presence, this aware presence” can convey the depth of the work being done, as can mentioning the freedom and peace that are revealed through this understanding. The fact that these meetings are a gift, and are deeply appreciated, could also be part of the expression of thanks.
A message of gratitude might also reflect on the teachings that point towards the understanding that there is only one reality, one consciousness, one self. It may convey appreciation for the way the meetings encourage the release of limiting beliefs and the habitual tendencies of the mind. It could also acknowledge the importance of living from that understanding in daily life, and the way Magdi encourages one to “live as impersonally as you can,” exploring a life that is in harmony and grace, rather than struggle.
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Love your neighbor as yourself (but use a condom)?
Sorry for this click-bait.
It’s potentially a good thing that Mr. Trump is selling Bibles, but who can handle love and wisdom?
“Me” was my challenge for 50+ years.
Shame, pride, isolation…
being intimidated and bullied by thinking and feeling,
always hungry for “more”.I didn’t feel comfortable in my own skin, easily exhausted, lacking basic wisdoms.
Sorry, so embarrassing that I cannot (just yet) give you a look, a word and boom you are enlightened 🎉😂😍 blissed out, forever happy.
It is true that we are always whole and complete, loved and lived by Life… ya but!
“Oh, I don’t feel that way” 💩😂
The me-virus somehow keeps us busy being busy, overlooking the obvious.So embarrassing, but somehow we need each other!
Not to suck on each other, but to wake up from a subtle misunderstanding that makes us feel that we need “more” in order to be safe and happy (Mr. Jesus‘ Kingdom… back to the “good book”).
Besides the teaming together spiritually, emotionally, understandably, we also need each other on a practical level:
I don’t generate my own electricity, I don’t know how to do wifi… It’s shortly after 6am and I am starting to feel a little hungry… I don’t bake my own bread, I don’t know how to make cream cheese or how to grow bananas…
This “modern world” is quite amazing with all its uncounted conveniences, but somehow in regard to spiritual maturity we are in a kindergarten.
Instead of feeling ashamed and avoiding to look into your eyes, instead of bullying myself in myself, I risk to invite us to meet freely at the GardenOfFriends.com. (I am over 55, I don’t want anything personal from you! Boobs, vagina, penis, money, fame… so boring and ephemeral).
What a marvelous gift to wake up together (figuratively) from the hypnotism of personhood, to embrace the gift of Life.
“Embrace with your heart what mind cannot understand.”
“It takes a universe to make a sandwich.”
Life is collaboration!
It is wonderfully refreshing to risk in-team-a-see.But somehow it is too easy to get intimidated by doubt and fear.
So, most likely I won’t see you at the Garden Of Friends, because…
(the list is just endless).❤️
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Most elegant, academically
“The materialist interpretation of reality
is a failure in terms of happiness.”
Francis Lucille