Daily Wisdom from CoffeyTalk.com
“Each step upward makes me feel stronger and fit for the next step.†-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
One day at a time. One step at a time. Sometimes this journey is a struggle, like we’re trying to conquer some huge mountain. But as long as we keep going, we make progress. And our progress encourages us to keep going. We’re flexing our spiritual muscles, and getting stronger all the time. -Lissa Coffey
Timely: I had just been thinking about the life coaching class that Pam and I took in 2006. I was wondering if even though we have yet to pursue it as a “career” if it has affected us in any way. I started to think about conversations I had had over the weekend with friends from out of town. It was almost “unconcious” coaching. The curious child.
Curiosity may lead you to ask probing questions of everyone you speak with today. You may feel like you are prying, but you know you won’t get answers if you don’t ask. Pry as gently as you can, and do your best to make the person feel comfortable so that they feel like responding. This inquisitiveness is the universe working through you. It may be for you to find answers for yourself or to help others find their own answers by telling you. Sometimes we need to hear ourselves speak the words before a situation becomes real to us. Sometimes we need to hear other people’s stories to appreciate our own. Your curiosity has a purpose, so while following its lead be aware and observant of what it brings into your life today.
There may be times when people don’t have anyone to talk to about their lives. They may be relieved that you asked and offered them that outlet. There are times when being polite actually keeps us from relating to others, because we fear being rude. But this is why we find children so surprising and refreshing. They have not yet built up their filters, so they ask what comes to their minds and feel free to share their opinions. If you are receiving guidance to go beyond the bounds of propriety today, give your curiosity full reign, trusting that the universe needs you to nudge something into existence by helping thoughts manifest in the material world.
Daily Wisdom from CoffeyTalk.com
“Frozen food is not progress.†-Russell Baker (1925- )
Our topic this week is progress. Technology has offered us some amazing conveniences – but at what expense? Do we hole up with our computers rather than socialize with our fellow travelers? Do we make a habit of eating fast food rather than enjoying the wholesomeness of something freshly prepared at home? Where, for the sake of “progress,†have we gone awry? When we remember the lessons we have learned in the past and build on them, then we make progress. It’s not necessarily about making life “easier†but about experiencing the beauty that is already there. -Lissa Coffey
The Good In All
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Sometimes we find it difficult to see the good in people, places, or situations that aren’t to our liking. We focus on the things we don’t like in our lives as a way of fueling our efforts to create change. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, and it is one way we make progress. However, if we get too caught up in this way of looking at the world, we lose touch with our ability to sit back and simply say yes to everything on our plates, which is the true starting point for all successful activity. Sometimes what we really need is to encourage ourselves to look deeply into all things in our lives to see the inherent goodness at the heart of everything.
At the core of this inquiry is the practice of unconditional acceptance, which can be scary because we feel as if we are being asked not to change the things we don’t like. But when we think this way, we are still operating on the surface of our lives. In order to feel the beauty and warmth of full acceptance, we have to be willing to sink deeper into the stratum underlying the external manifestation of our lives. This deeper place of being is the origin of all lasting change, yet its paradox is that when we are in it, we often don’t feel the need to change anything. From this place, we experience the pure beauty of the process of being alive, and we see that all things change in their own time. We don’t need to force anything. If there are things that we do need to change, from this place of serenity we create the shift easily, our hands guided by an energy that resides at the very center of our hearts.
In our active, goal-oriented culture, we learn to distrust stillness and to engage in busywork on the surface of life. This tendency can blind us to the good that lies at the heart of all things. But all we have to do to see again is stop for a moment, let go of our preconceptions and our agendas, and settle into the very center of our hearts, remembering that it is only from here that we can truly see.
Daily Wisdom from CoffeyTalk.com
“Spiritual living is a fulfillment from moment to moment, in which the outer person is in a state of living rapport with the inner being and becomes an extension thereof.†-N. Sri Ram (1889 - ?) Thoughts for Aspirants, 1972
A lot of times we tend to separate our “outer life†from our “inner life.†Maybe we’re working at a job we hate just for the money, while our heart aches for something more. Or we can’t seem to find that certain relationship we’re longing. We can come up with all kinds of justifications for these things. But there’s always a solution. To fully integrate ourselves, we’ve got to make our outer life an extension, or an expression, of our inner life. We’ve got to develop that rapport spiritually within so that we understand how much power we have to create anything in our lives. -Lissa Coffey
