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We’ve moved
February 6, 2012 by Peggie
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Me and My High Horse
January 23, 2012 by Peggie
I’m turning into a censor.
A self-censor but a censor.
You see – I get myself all jacked up and pompous and flailing about something that makes my blood boil. And I RANT and RAVE about it in my journal. I have it in my head during my meditation. I focus on all the parts of it while on my yoga mat and when I’m out walking the girls.
I formulate 10 different headlines and lead-ins and points to make in the kick-ass post I’m going to write.
And then I realize that the point I WANTED to make in my vitriolic post was that we’re all individuals and able to make choices in our lives. That we have the right (hell, the responsibility) to be informed and to make decisions because we are all connected and Divine. (in this case the rant was going to be about those people that I had labeled ‘holier than thou food gurus’)
Oh.
We’re all Divine.
We’re all connected.
Trying to write a persuasive post to harass people into thinking for themselves (and maybe, just maybe making some of those holier than thous think twice about ranting and raving) is a bit ego-driven.
Writing that piece the way that I had envisioned it — well, it would just be me/my ego speaking from it’s very own holier-than-thou-my-way-is-right-theirs-is-wrong place.
Sigh.
What you have instead is the humor in the realization that we’re all mirrors.
This kicks open a whole hornet’s nest of ‘issues’ for me – does this mean to back down at all times? How to be compassionate and state your beliefs without being sanctimonious? Yes. all that and more.
Still. Today is a day I’m grateful for the introspection and the peace of a journal and a meditative practice. Even though I’m not on my high horse. (especially because I’m NOT on my high horse.)
Have you ever had this happen to you? How do you deal with it?
Category Personal Development, Spirituality | Tags: can you have strong opinions and be compassionate?,i laugh at myself,the ego in hiding | 2 Comments
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Guilty or Not
January 16, 2012 by Peggie
photo credit: ♥ HunterJumper ♥My dogs don’t feel guilt.
In fact, I don’t believe any dog feels guilt. They’re not hard-wired that way. Guilt, like opposable thumbs is reserved for us humans. (now that I’ve included thumbs in this I need to spend some time perseverating on whether or not monkeys, apes, gorillas and their kin feel guilt).
There are going to be more than a few people who disagree with me on this.
“If my dog doesn’t feel guilt, then why does he slink away from me when I come home and he’s eaten the trash?”
“When I’m mad at her for chewing my favorite shoes, my dog practically buys me a bouquet of roses to make up — if that’s not guilt, I don’t know what is.”
Mmmokay.
I’m not here to convert you to living with your guilt-free dog. That’s like trying to convince you that there’s only one way to Heaven (or even that there is such a place).
My dogs are constantly in the now.
At least they’re better at it than I am.
In the now there is no, “three minutes ago I destroyed the drywall, and now I’m thinking about how badly I feel about that.”
In the now there is only, “hey there, you’re here, hmm, you seem mad, you smell frustrated, I know that when you smell this way you raise your voice and it is not a good feeling now at all, so I’m going to play small and hopefully you’ll not pick on me.”
In the now there is no sitting on the couch and thinking about the trouble you’re going to get in when your human gets home.
It’s just now.
Love me now.
Be near me now.
Let us hear each other now.
That’s a pretty good way to be. If only I could figure it out. now.
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