Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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One day a Zen master told his students that he was going to teach a new technique of shooting an arrow.
He instructed his students to cover his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. When he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students, they looked embarrassed because their teacher had missed.
The Zen master asked, ‘What did you learn?’ Continue reading “What is the ONE THING that decides your future?”
I had a rough night. I could barely breath, especially when I lied down. So I didn’t…
It’s been coming for about three weeks, and it didn’t respond to healing.
It felt likely that it was my last night on earth.
And I had no idea what was causing it. I sat on the edge of the bed. I sat on the chair by my computer. taking even just five steps felt like the end of me. Continue reading “I had a rough night. I am still tired and foggy…”
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I had a flash of insight today.
I have been looking at books, movies, TV-shows and see what attracted me, and when I was not attracted, what turned me off.
I saw that I would stop reading or stop watching in the middle, if the main character isn’t made Continue reading “Do not die in the attempt! Die in the doing!”
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If I see you as beautiful… will you see yourself as beautiful?
If I see you as magnificent, great, awesome… will you see yourself like I do?
Muscletest and my experience says: no.
The most beautiful women spend hours in front of the mirror staring at their imperfections… trying to hide them.
There are also beautiful women who can say: so what. They are in search of some other imperfection.
We know ourselves intimately, and rare is the person who can leave it alone… who can refrain bemoaning their faults, and stop trying to fix themselves while keeping up appearances.
Continue reading “If I see you as beautiful… will you too?”
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One of my ‘favorite’ practices is this:
I find out that I misunderstood something. It cost me to miss something. It cost me to misunderstand. And it always does.
So instead of getting upset. Or angry. Or beat myself up. I do something constructive.
Trying to act like a Buddha won’t make you a Buddha.I just finished a webinar… Before the webinar one of my students wrote an email to me wondering why I don’t lie to them before and during a webinar. Why I don’t say that it is going to be easy. That it is going to be piece of cake.
But it had taken me quite a bit of time and effort to learn that trying to act like a Buddha won’t make me a Buddha.
The vulnerability that honesty requires isn’t something everybody can handle. So lying allows people to be comfortable. Continue reading “Authenticity is a matter of integrity on the highest level”
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The less spiritual capacities you have now, the less likely that new ones are willing to open up.Especially if the new capacities would alter your being and behavior dramatically.
If you are a woman, you probably have fewer capacities than men, because in most cultures women are an appendage to a man. even the Bible relegate a woman to companion status. not a full person.
The vessel is all about receiving, and the channel is all about giving. Continue reading “The less capacities you have, the less new will open up”
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Today finally I found out why the holidays lower your vibration.
Why I never knew it? Because for the past 42 years I have had no family, so I wasn’t obligated to participate in any of the festivities.
So there there, the first reason: it is not an invitation. It is like death and taxes. Unless you go, you are disinherited.
But somehow until today I wasn’t feeling it. I wasn’t feeling that there was no choice.
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The ground of your being is the dominant way you are… to which you return, like returning home.
Religion, spiritual teachers have been duping you. They say that the ground of your being is “being a spiritual being, having a human experience.” That is horse shit, and largely the reason no one has been able to carve out an enjoyable life with that principle.
Some issues cannot be fixed. One such issue is your identity, the identity you built and have been polishing. The ground of your being. The dance floor of your life. Continue reading “The ground of your being… The dance floor of your life”
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Personal note: I have been in this transformation game since 1985. I never understood why the human condition was the way it was, why it was hopeless. I didn’t know about the selfish gene… I was completely ignorant. Like most transformational teachers I was ignorant.
A little knowledge is dangerous in the hand of someone who only missed that little knowledge… a little knowledge is dangerous in my hands. I am now confident that with this new knowledge I can guide you to better to win in life.
Continue reading “Why can’t you get from A to Z? Why does it look hopeless?”
