Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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I discovered yesterday on my weekly podcast with Bonnie that unless a client knows what is the method behind what I do, they consider me rude, uncaring, untrustworthy, and hurtful.
Ugh.
So I am putting it now out there, in an organized fashion: my methodology.
Two parts, this is part one. Continue reading “The method in my madness… you need to know. Part 1”
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I am on a ‘cooking Hungarian’ spell…
So yesterday I looked up how others make spinach in Hungary.
To my utter surprise and maybe mortification, more than half of the recipes put bread into the dish.
That’s not how I know it! I can’t eat bread!
Both of those are hidden ‘shoulds’…
So today I made the dish exactly like they say. Continue reading “Sometimes you need a do or die situation to open your mind”
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Many, maybe most people live as if they were driftwood. Driftwood is a stuck state…
The most important thing I can tell you about driftwood is not that they drift…
The most important thing I can say about them is that they have no say in the matter of their life.
No power. Continue reading “When what comes out of your mouth is glub glub”
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The first question that you should ask when I suggest you become a better human being, is ‘what do you mean: better?‘ Continue reading “Will Practicing Compassion Make You A Better Human?”
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How do you think of yourself less?What does that mean? Thinking of others? By becoming a do-gooder?
OK, I am going to clarify something. Something that myself don’t quite know how it works, and why it works that way.
So it may come out incomprehensible, botched up, and useless. But, in my view, it is worth to try…
Note: if you only read one example, make it #5!
OK, the issue: one of the measurements is to what degree your life is about you and your life… the words I use I borrowed from someone else… True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. and the words are ‘to what degree you think of yourself’… as a measure of humility i.e. how much room you have to learn and grow, how much room you have for the world, for work, for life… for others. Continue reading “How do you think of yourself less? your about-me score”
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I thought I was going to have a domestic day. you know laundry, dishes, stuff. and watch myself, my emotions, and have a good old time.
The weather is gorgeous. My neighborhood is even prettier in the fall than in the summer. you can see far. and the contrast of the blue sky and the rusty color of the leaves and branches is really beautiful.
The thought: ‘I could actually be happy‘. The though of being cured. These thoughts were very present there for a few minutes. I made myself a nice cup of tea, and checked my email.
There was a note there from Youtube that I have a comment on my ‘Why are Jews smart?‘ video, so I went to check it out.
Continue reading “Self-Awareness and the The Sideways View…”
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The Desire Trap and how to release it… A life with greed, want, desire, or resistance cannot be a happy life
The book Feelings writes at length about the Desire Trap,
Quoting from the Feelings book by Margoczi:
Continue reading “The Desire Trap and how to release a life of wants”
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Are you stingy with yourself? Do you say you don’t deserve?
You may be. And you may be right.
One of the obvious signs of stinginess with yourself is that you don’t give yourself enough time to do what there is to do, enough time so you could actually ENJOY what you are doing.
I call this ‘homework attitude’, where you are more interested in checking an activity off your todo list than actually doing it, enjoying it, savoring it.
And to no one’s surprise, you can do everything with this homework stingy attitude. Sex. Conversations. Dinner. Reading. And, of course, the 67 steps. Continue reading “Are you stingy with yourself? Do you say you don’t deserve?”
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If you find yourself behind the eight ball… or way behind…
I am surprised this is just surfacing now.
Someone being behind their rent, behind other payments, or behind taking care of their health and the numbers are going crazy.
Getting to what seems to be unmanageable.
What do you do?
Your/my inability to be with what doesn’t work will take you there. Just give it time.
The sound of scrambling is everywhere.
So without making you wrong for what you have done wrong… Continue reading “If you find yourself behind the eight ball… way behind”
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I assume that the Bible is talking about strait and narrow spiritually.
And then there are sermons, and teachings, and mimes about it, because it’s not working. people don’t know what to do with it.
But strait and narrow is a very potent medicine. It could heal a lot of the ills that anyone can experience.
So what are the ills of people, what are the ills of society that strait and narrow, and its brother strait and deep could reverse?
Inversion is a great tool to start with. Continue reading “What is really the strait and narrow in real life?”
