Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
I woke up with a start. OMG… The switch… or the pebble… or whatever I called it!
The invisible dynamics is a system. It is like a machine. A complex machine… It takes in life as it could be, and it spits out your life as it is, having sucked all the juice out of it. Really.
That is the machine. Continue reading “Itch, pebble in your shoe… two more invisible dynamics”
I don’t think I have ever really distinguished the difference between these two similar sounding activities… so it’s time.
As usual, I had to distinguish the difference for myself… the hard way.
My strength deteriorated to the degree that I was having heart pain and exhaustion from just going from one end of the apartment to the other… So I started to mentally prepare myself to meet my maker, so to say.
The weird stuff was, that Source answered all my “diagnostic” questions with no… not my heart, not my lungs, not this and not that… yet it agreed that I was dying… Weird, right? Continue reading “Correcting vs fixing or how illness is my racket”
You read the meme that it is not what happens to you that matters, it is how you react to it. You nod, you don’t learn. You have no idea what it means. You are clueless.
This is one of the memes that never gives you pause, because it is a meme that is also a principle. It is true everywhere, and it is one of the most important things to wake up to… that is, if you want the good life. If you want success. If you want love. If you want to be happy. Continue reading “Your homepage attitude… How to have a choice?”
One of my students is asking a really good question.
She has two friends whose soul correction is Forget Thyself… and she has a good relationship with me… and I have that same soul correction.
She asks:
Sophie, after I read your last article I checked my last 2 friends’ soul corrections. My one friend who pushed me to a certain level had a soul correction Forget Thyself. My friend now, whom I met this year, also has a soul correction Forget Thyself. Interesting. Do we get attracted to certain soul corrections or maybe we get along better with some soul corrections that matches our soul correction?
The answer is not that simple.
You are BEING that other self. Continue reading “Who is your soul-mate? Are they nice-nice, or accepting?”
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” said William Faulkner. I agree, even though the language, the vocabulary is imprecise.
The “heart” is one self, and the other self is the precious I, the delusional I, the lower self.
The conflict, the struggle to make those two selves align, as William Faulkner says, is worth writing about… because it is like a hero’s journey.
I call it “soul correction” because I am firmly rooted in Kabbalah’s view of life. But it is the same thing: bringing the two selves in harmony so they cause synergy that allows living a life worth writing about.
This pretty much the context for the next quote: “Either write something worth reading (about) or do something worth writing (about).” – Benjamin Franklin. I added the word “about” in brackets for clarity. Continue reading “The bumbling idiot’s guide to a life worth writing about”
Respect the machine… 1
Many of you will get unstuck reading, understanding, and making what I teach in this post instinctual.
Many topics give themselves better and easier to make an advice, a guidance, a new method of doing things instinctual.
I envy the teachers of those “things”… My favorite teacher, ever, is Robert Plank because of his “how”. I make a point of taking all the classes he teaches, because I can see the path: how what he teaches will be made instinctual.
And try I might, I haven’t been able to duplicate it in my courses.
Worldview, attitudes, how to read, creating context, etc. seem to be not quite demonstrable, and not that easy to tell people what to do exactly to make them instinctual.
Instinctual means you can do it like you can breathe…
I have managed with a few things myself, but quite a few things: I still have to see, suffer, and do…
Everything in what I teach has to go past the hearing and the understanding level. Because the distance between those levels and actually applying them, instinctually, is like crossing the Grand Canyon… not very likely.
Even a little practice can go a long way… maybe half-way? Continue reading “You live inside a machine… now… Respect the machine… Don’t fight it.”
I just spent almost four whole days and whole nights in bed, in and out of sleep.
It was new to me to think of myself first, and of ‘duty’ second.
But I have learned, the hard way, that if I don’t take care of myself, I may be dead sooner than I’d like.
Actually it wasn’t hard to stay in bed. This was for me like a vacation. I vacated my mind. Trial death. Nice.
Until last night… that is. when my mind kicked in and instead of letting me sleep, I was writing articles in my head. Continue reading “Musings. Thoughts that an unplanned ‘vacation’ gave me”
Theory induced blindness
I like to call the phenomenon of not being able to see what doesn’t agree with your theory of life: theory induced blindness. A more popular and better known label for it is “confirmation bias”.
You only hear what you agree with. Or more precisely, you only see what you recognize. And you only consider what you recognize as agreeing with your worldview. Continue reading “What is the number that most predicts how effective you are”
Life is never dramatic. The drama is added by the onlookers or the participants.Things happen. And you do what you do. You may get mauled, killed, or laughed at. But drama only happens in your head… it is never out there.
You look in the mirror and you see what you see.
I look in the mirror and I see loser. Why? I don’t care. I know there is no loser there… in fact there is no loser anywhere. so I have a choice: make drama or not make drama.
Most of my life, like everyone, I was making drama.
I found clever or not so clever ways to make people say that I was a loser or something like it. Other ways to prove I was or I wasn’t.
Life was a drama around being a loser. Continue reading “You are a racketeer. Small time bit player. Smoke, mirrors”
What is the common error in many of the spiritual practices, an error that result in not what someone wanted from the practice, but instead forcing, or self-righteousness… neither of which are very spiritual? 2
I am learning a lot by observing Gurjieff at different stages of his journey, and through the different students he had.
If I am not mistaken, the mistake is made early on… in the intention.
I have learned different meditation techniques. What was in common with them is the desire to be free from the thoughts, and the harmful emotions.
It is the wrong start. Continue reading “Do your spiritual practices make you higher vibration?”
