Insights for March, 2022

AWAKENING Insights 

 “Flowing will get you places forcing never could.” ~ spirit daughter

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.” ~ Pema Chodron, @wisidomventures

“See transform be
at every step of the way
see transform be” ~ The Insight Center

“You have to do your own work; those who have reached the goal will only show you the way.”   
 ~ Samuel Bercholz and Sherab Chodzin Kohn

“When you set yourself free
You literally make space
For magic” ~ The Insight Center

“In the end, the measure of our strength is in how we face the fact that we are simply human — mortal, vulnerable creatures of uncommon creativity and courage, body-minds born to die and to make meaning of our fragile existence not by clinging to the self but by practicing our various parts of unselfing: love, creative work, transcendent communion with the rest of nature.”  ~ Maria Popova
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“I don’t know, and I’m good.” ~ The Insight Center

“Seek insight only from higher sources. Forget about peer reviews. According to the black holes, at best, peer persuasion is lateral insight. Learn from masters, the experts, the best of the best (regardless of material or not material costs). Realize what you know and act like you know it. Speak with authority without diminishing tones toward those who do not yet possess similar realizations.
Put everything you know into action.” ~ Philip Sedgwick

“Remember where your seat is. Front row? Second row? Third row? Not anywhere in this room?” ~ The Insight Center

“Slowly you will become a master of your own bliss, a chemist of your own joy, with all sort of remedies always at hand to elevate, cheer, illuminate, and inspire your every breath and movement. What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration.” ~  Sogyal Rinpoche

“I am not going to spend the rest of my life asking for permission.”  ~ The Insight Center

“We must hope that the love of destruction, the desire for power is not stronger than our love for each other, and our respect for the freedom of humanity.” ~ Lynn Bell, Astrologer, Paris

“We actually have incredible power over our thoughts—more power than any one thought has over us. To tap into this power, we need to find the creative potential for wisdom and of compassion within ourselves.” ~  Martine Batchelor

“There are other methods you can use to avoid falling into loops of thoughts. Notice when you use the words “always,” “nothing,” “never,” “nobody”—these are all words that amplify and hyperbolize disturbing thoughts. When you think, “Nobody loves me” or “Nothing works in my life,” actively question these thoughts. Is this true? Is it always true? What is this thought? Could I think something totally different?” ~  Martine Batchelor

“How much of who I was yesterday is defining who I am today? How much can I allow who I am today to be totally open and turning and responding to the situation, which includes everything I was yesterday, but also all that I will be tomorrow.” ~ Ram Dass

“The greatest difficulty is the mental resistance to things that arise, and the underlying assumption that they should not.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

MEDITATION insights

“…vipassanā meditation involves pointing a concentrated mind at a flowing stream of experience, with each moment presenting a different object. By watching the rise and fall of phenomena at the point of contact with the senses, rather than through the filters of narrative and conceptual thought, the meditator is able to see beyond appearances.” ~ Andrew Olendzki

“The Tibetans sometimes describe thoughts as writing on water, in essence empty, insubstantial, and transient.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

“It’s not that there’s no self, because that’s ridiculous. You’re you, and I’m me. But the self doesn’t exist in the way we imagined it does… Try to find it as it really exists, not as you think it should.”

~ Mark Epstein

“Meditate to integrate” ~ The Insight Center

“At each level of spiritual evolution, there are effective practices that can help us advance. As we move to a new level, the old practices cease to be effective.” ~  Steven Forrest

MEDITATION COURSE 

  I am teaching Vipassanā Meditation and Spiritual Practice Courses in Portland and on Zoom. Please contact me if you are interested, theinsightcenter@gmail.com or read more at Insight Center Meditation Course.

 “Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of the Matter”

HEALING Insights

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ~ Haruki Murakami, @elephanthjournal

“Once you have genuinely, fully, and tenderly touched your own brokenness, place a seed in the crack. Make a wish in that fissure and share with yourself the aimless kindness of your own presence.” ~ Lama Karma, @tricycle

“If we’re going to change our culture, we have to change our narrative. That’s what is comes down to. We have to change the mental model that our brains are using to make sense of the world.” ~ Trabian Shorters, @onbeing

“Compassion and dread for all humanity today. Not easy to hold. May we build a world without war.” ~ Ethan Nichtern

NEW!!  REIKI l WORKSHOP April 21 and 22, 2022 

  I am happy to offer a Reiki l Workshop in person in Portland, April 21, 1:00 – 4:00, and 22, 9:00 – 4:00, 2022. For more information about Reiki l Workshops, see https://www.theinsightcenter.net/offerings/#reiki. There is a limit of five participants per Workshop.

Reiki Workshop Assistants are welcome at these workshops.  

Please contact me if you are interested in attending the Workshop or in assisting, theinsightcenter@gmail.com.

“In turning toward our pain there’s great freedom—a freedom that grounds us in our core of being. As we slowly but steadily undo our various ways of fleeing our pain, the energy we’ve invested in getting away from our pain—as opposed to simply being with our pain—is freed up, becoming available for us to use for truly life-giving purposes.”  ~ Robert Augustus Masters, “A Painless Present”

“We all need a fresh dose of faith and hope. And rather than looking to angels in heaven to provide it, let’s look for the angels inside ourselves. Many of us are more advanced than we think we are – and the sooner we realize that the sooner we’ll have the confidence to be able to help heal this battered world.”  ~ Steven Forrest

ASTROLOGY insights

 “Uranus will not settle for anything but the truth.” ~ The Insight Center

“The underlying fear is that we won’t do our power well a/k/a Pluto.” ~ The Insight Center

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