This morning I came across this tidbit on the book of faces.
“People’s power…to take you out of your equanimity and love and consciousness has to do with your own attachments and clingings of mind. That’s your work on yourself, that’s where you need to meditate more, it’s where you need to reflect more, it’s where you need a deeper philosophical framework, it’s where you need to cultivate the witness more, it’s where you need to work on practicing opening your heart more in circumstances that aren’t optimum. This is your work.” – Ram Dass
When I feel like blaming another for causing me to be less than peaceful/mindful, then I know I’ve found a shadow in my life that needs to be pulled out to have some light shined upon it.
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Nov 12, 2014 @ 06:10:57
i have more than a few shadows. thanks for passing along the wisdom.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 06:42:01
Me too.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 06:13:06
absolutely true and sometimes my shadow closet is full.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 06:42:26
I have plenty of work to do.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 12:14:38
Shedding light on my shadows has been a three-year process. So far, they have seen fit to graciously leave the premises. I’m sure there are other shadows left, and they will likely do the same.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 13:26:12
Mine are similar. I discover new ones.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 13:07:53
i have a shadow that has been overshadowing me from my teens to now. I know I have to bring this up to light. I hope I will find a closure through therapy.
Thank you JR, for sharing this beautiful message.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 13:27:54
I hope you find closure too. I’ve brought many long buried shadows into the light. Some were quite painful to work through.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 13:28:58
This is very painful to me. Hard to work on.
Nov 12, 2014 @ 13:32:31
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