Insights for February 2023
AWAKENING Insights
“Illumination
Freedom
Soaring heart
Transform
Where do you start?
You start where you are. “~ The Insight Center
“Since your mind is with you wherever you go, you need to sit down and start unwinding your ball of yarn.” ~ Jakusho Kwong-roshi, @tricyclemag
“You are built to handle the pressure that comes with your calling.” ~ The Insight Center
“Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” These lines are often attributed to the great German playwright and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ~ Mark Jones Astrologer.
“Every time I set myself free, I am freer. This is obvious, and we forget. Freedom grows incrementally.” ~ The Insight Center
“Self-love helps us build internal cohesion so that we are no longer far away from ourselves. The more we come in contact with our truth and learn to embrace it with full acceptance, the more we are able to find greater personal harmony Building this self-awareness opens up a gateway where we not only learn to love ourselves better, but we start to have a deeper sense of love for the people in our lives. At its highest levels, self-love continues expanding, ultimately becomes an opening to loving all beings unconditionally.” ~ Yung Pueblo. “Lighter” page 26
“Letting go can literally be an unwinding process. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is HARD. You can unwind attachments and release them from your body and energy system. I can help you do this!” ~ The Insight Center
“You won’t see it for what it is until you stop looking through the lens of what you want it to be.” ~ @tinybuddhaofficial
“Letting go is not a dramatic moment we build up to some time in the future. It is happening now, in the present moment—it is not singular but ongoing. Letting go is based on our present realization of the reality of impermanence.” ~ Judy Lief, “Letting Go”
“If it is done, it is destiny that it be done.” The Insight Center
“You are not in a body,
On the planet,
To live someone else’s life.” ~ The Insight Center
“Don’t wait is a pathway to fulfillment and an antidote to regret.” ~ Frank Ostaseski
“Your new level will require a new version of you. Don’t fold.” ~ @farahmsiddiq
“Before you do something think about how much attachment is involved. If you are doing something that has a lot of attachment you are potentially setting yourself up for suffering. Live freely without attachment and you will be free.” The Insight Center
“Reminder: “Everything that exists is subject to change.”
“If everything is always changing, that me as we are experiencing change all the time.”
“Change is everywhere, so we are never choosing between change or no change. We are just choosing between different sorts of change.” Dan Zigmond
“Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
“There is within you that which is beyond birth and death, beyond success and failure. It just knows that you are, and it is.” ~ Yoshin David Radin
Be intuitive meaningful wisdom.” The Insight Center
MEDITATION insights
“With each session of silence, the fog lifts a bit more, until one day the egos “I” with it is insistent look-at-me voice, drops away, revealing the true self afloat in a vast blue sky.” ~ Joan Duncan Oliver, “The Sound of Silence”
“You can experience multidimensionality in meditation and everything becames one.” ~ The Insight Center
“Part of it is observing oneself more impersonally… When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. And so, I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.” ~ Ram Dass
“If you have mindfulness enabling you to read yourself and understand yourself, craving will have a hard time forming. In whatever guises it arises, you can read it, know it, extinguish it, let it go.” ~ Upasika Kee Nanayon, “A Glob of Tar”
GRIEF insights
“These books on grief were recently recommended and look great:
“How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief “, Author Devine Megan
“It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand”
Author Devine Megan and Mark Nepo
RELATIONSHIP insights
This is a new book by Rick Hansen about relationships. Check it out along with his other books. He is a great practitioner and writer. Simple chapters to read and work on with your partner!
ASTROLOGY insights
“Astrology is a symbolic language of truth; that’s why I want to share it.”
“The story of Uranus is, “Where do you feel no barriers?” ~ The Insight Center
”Inside you, there is an eternal flame or diamond of truth that becomes more condensed or brighter, lifetime after lifetime.” ~ @markjonesastrology
“Jupiter doesn’t lock things down. It opens things up.” ~ The Insight Center
“Aquarian energy does not resist change while at the same time leads the resistance.” ~ The Insight Center
“When you are looking at the nodes think of the word “ease.” Where do you feel ease (S. Node) and where do you feel less ease (N. Node.)” ~ The Insight Center
“I am a collector of key words for all parts of astrology. Today I gathered these new words from a conversation about Aquarian energy between Dr. Safron Rossi and Alejo Lopez, in The Astrology University podcast:
Pluto was in Aquarius during the French Revolution
Eye on potential
Radical
Break out of known to unknown
Chaos and potential
Non hierarchy
Break free
Higher vision
Inventor
Ruthlessly original soul” ~ The Astrology University Podcast
“When you are a strongly cardinal (initiating) person you can be afraid you might forget your latest greatest idea(s!). Cardinal signs are Aries Libra Capricorn Cancer” Write them down!” ~The Insight Center
HEALING Insights
“What do you feel in your heart?
What do you need in your heart?
How can you give it to yourself?” ~ The Insight Center
“Rest is more than napping on the sofa.
Rest is anything that makes your nervous system feel safe enough for your stress response to switch off so your mind, and body can recover and restore.” ~ Nicola Jane Hobbs, @realizeemepath