Supporting Non-Duality and Awakening in Asheville and Beyond
From the Daily Inspiration service of Don Miguel Ruiz
Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.
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Exploring our inner landscapes,
especially the darkened places
where the candle has been seemingly snuffed out.
It often takes multiple visits
to relight the candle that seems to have blown out.
And, even then, those mind-made miseries
may take a while to relax and dissolve.
Sometimes it requires a courage to eat the demon.
Sometimes it is manifesting the patience…
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Time to reassess.
Time to sober up.
Time to let go all the false pretenses and ignorance.
Time to stop that hiding in the shadows,
relying upon all those repetitious patterns of self-medication.
Engaging life.
Riding the bronco.
Looking the dragon in the eye.
Eating the demon for breakfast.
Being in this world without acting out
fear, or…
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We humans live in the seeming paradox
of being both distinct life forms as well as being interwoven into life.
We believe our pain is unique
instead of shared
and we disconnect into the artificial illusions of separation.
We can become so practiced with separation that what is artificial
covers over what is real
and we become lost in the smoke and mirrors…
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What is universal,
lights up my eyes
and all my senses.
Membranes, skin and bones
form these temporary boundaries
and I claim this shell-of-a-body as my home.
Fifty trillion cells coalesce and make agreement to cooperate
in organic, clockwork-like rhythms.
The bounty of our Earth is brought to my table,
all this effort brought to bear to sustain my life
and…
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Like experiencing magic for the very first time,
like the first glimpse of the ocean
or the snow-capped mountains,
we hold a depth-of-capacity
to vibrate with delight.
A ten year old sofa bed is retired from the vacation rental cabin
and is donated to a consignment shop.
A single young mother scrapes up the money to buy this,
so very delighted to have something like this to grace…
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The troubled mind is so easily isolated, so easily it maneuvers our awareness back into a corner:
too much information,
not enough information,
needing to control outcomes.
The mind cramps and our inner weather darkens
as old patterns of trouble accept invitation to take root and dominate.
LIKE SELLING A HOUSE AND BUYING A HOUSE
The mind wants to quantify and…
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Become deeply anchored in this home, your organic body.
Let your emotions be felt,
passing them through your heart,
to guide your purity of intent.
Intermixed with all the blissfulness,
are the emotions of anger, grief and shame.
These are the emotions that have been allowed
to bypass the heart
and fester in the mind
as wounds that ooze as suffering.
Consider how…
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Set aside, for the moment, that special someone we refer to as our sweetheart.
Turn inwardly with me so together,
we can cultivate an appreciation for our inner heart-space.
You are the chef, the alchemist, the director responsible for the sweetness of your heart. When you place all your resources,
all your being, in the service of keeping your heart sweet,
life itself becomes increasingly…
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I’m overwhelmed again,
having encountered an inner burden,
a blockage that alters and depreciates
my connection to the present moment.
Being overwhelmed is reaching another inner threshold,
an opportunity to grow, inwardly.
It could be something you need to fully witness to integrate.
It could be shifting your relationship with another and reclaiming your power.
It could be surrendering…
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