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Howard McQueen's Blog – July 2010 Archive (10)

WHAT FEELS REAL?

Version 2.1 | 8/01/2010…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 31, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

PLEASE, PLEASE FOR ME

The pleaser in us

also wanting to avoid conflict,

can quickly cover over our authenticity,

call steal our voice to speak clearly,

to clearly and succinctly represent

our own needs and requirements.

The insecure pleaser places the needs of others

ahead of the welfare of the self.

This can undermine vitality, always keeping…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 27, 2010 at 8:10pm — No Comments

WHOLENESS THROUGH INTERCONNECTEDNESS

When we find the courage,

the curosity to remain in inquiry

when another has lost

the connection to their core,

we gain a greater wholeness

being present with our greater integrated potential.

We can then rest more comfortably

within our own center,

our inner capacty readied and available,

to be responsive and in the service…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 23, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

PERPETUAL DISTRACTION

We are constantly encouraged

to live a life

punctuated by distraction.

Perpetually distracted,

we slip-slide toward a life

devoted to the delusional,

constantly avoiding our discomforts,

constantly empowering our choices,

with preferences that attempt to preserve

a secure sense-of-self.

And, we…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 23, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

THE COVERING OVER OF SADNESS

Version 1.2; July 19, 2010

My anger has again hurt someone I love,

and they have chosen to feel sadness and anger.

Now I cave in again, trying my best to avoid their sadness,

secretly not wanting to know it as my own.

"Please don't let us go to sleep so deeply saddened".

To this plea, I stop avoiding the my partner's sadness,

the…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

STRESSING

When we encounter the inner psychological pressure we know as stress,

we are invited to ask the question

What aspect of my self identity is insecure and threatened?

Often, staying with this question will begin to reveal what the self wants so desperately to not accept.

What a wonderful opportunity to see

what is false in us,

what we…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 11, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

ANYTHING CAN SERVE AS YOUR BODHI [1] TREE

Emory (my wife and partner) are now into our eighth week of intensive scrabble play.

As a result, I have relearned how any activity, if incorporated into our inner work,

can be used as our own personal bohdi tree.

For the first few weeks, Emory won about two-thirds of the games, and I had

seemingly adjusted to this slightly inequitable state of outcomes (;-)…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 8, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Resisting Evil?

In Stephen Mitchell's forward of his fine translation of the Tao Te Ching

"The teachings of the Tao Te Ching is moral in the deepest sense. Unencumbered by any concept of sin, the Master doesn't see evil as a force to resist, but simply as an opaqueness, a state of self-absorption which is in disharmony with the universal process, so that, as with a dirty window, the light can't shine through. This freedom from moral categories allows him/her the great…

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Added by Howard McQueen on July 8, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments