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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

Chogyam Trungpa
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

Chogyam Trungpa
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Chogyam Trungpa
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

Pema Chodron

Plus a bunch of similar authors!

Enjoy.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Core values to live by

How enlightened are you - sep thread in Jokes section?! :)

Ego traps page?

"Positive" book better than I expected! -

Happiness write down things you like about yourself

Happiness auto pilot

Happiness boost gratitude

Happiness look in mirror

Happiness learn from mistakes

Happiness deep breathing

Enjoy the rest of your day!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Have you ever felt down on yourself because when you look back and find you have everything that you said you wanted all of those years ago, you still don’t feel fulfilled? Do you shake it off and say to yourself, “I’m happy. Of course I’m happy”? Or maybe you say it in front of a mirror, put on a happy face, and try to further convince yourself. Here is a secret; gratitude may increase happiness but delusion won’t. “No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. She just is.”[1] If you’re truly content with who you are and what you have, then you shouldn’t need to convince yourself or anyone else that you are. You’ll feel it above all else. Beware of trying to convince yourself that you’re happy just because you believe you should. If you aren’t happy it’s because you’re neglecting a key aspect of yourself and it’s calling out to you.

No Truly Happy Person Feels The Need To Stand In Front Of A Mirror And Recite That She’s Happy. She Just Is.

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Let’s face it. Every time you turn around, you find new advice on being happy. Books promising to reveal the true secret of happiness. Blog posts telling you, “Write down three things that make you happy today.” Friends saying, “Move on!” and, “Cheer up!” after you’ve had a bad day.

And maybe you’re wondering… what’s wrong with that?

Happiness is a good thing right? Well, yes. Of course it is.

But we are being taught that our lives should be a straight and narrow path toward happiness.

We are taught that we should strive for happiness, and happiness alone in everything we do.

7 Crazy Mistakes We Make in the Pursuit of Happiness

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Happiness inner critic - esp pathway to happiness site?

The Inner Critic can be tamed - Pathway to Happiness

It would be nice if the Inner Critic, what I call the Judge, would go away in a one step process. That rarely happens. There have been a couple people that might have done it. Eckhart Tolle, or Byron Katie, maybe, but I don’t know their personal process in detail to say. They may have still had extra cleanup work on their mind to do once their big shift happened. For the rest of us normal humans that want our Judge to calm down, or even become completely reformed, there is work that can get it done.

What I have learned through my own process, and guiding others, is two important things. One, is that it can be done. You can tame your Inner Critic so that it is a kind ally instead of a punishing bully. The second thing is that the change is most effectively done in steps and accomplished through practice.

:)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Happiness blame finger pointing

Unhappy people look for happiness in the wrong places. They spend their time focusing on what others think of them, when they should focus on themselves. An unhappy person concentrates on trying to please others, in an effort to gain approval.

This is something we should refrain from doing. You cannot always gain approval from others, nor can you tailor your beliefs to suit others. You will only find dissatisfaction in this. To be happy you must put yourself and your beliefs first. Do what makes you happy and not what others will approve others.

10 Things Unhappy People Do That You Shouldn't Be Doing

Cheers!
 
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