And ultimately, I believe that suffering leads to salvation. In fact, it’s the only way…that we have to, somehow, accept, not deny, but feel our suffering and feel our losses. And then, we make one of two decisions. We either decide to go through the gate of resentment, which leads to vengeance, which leads to self-harm, which leads to harm to others. Or, we go through the gate of forgiveness, which leads to grace.
[Y]our being here is an indication that…You’ve made the decision to walk through the gate of forgiveness to grace, just as Christ did on the cross.
He suffered terribly and He was broken by it, to the point of doubt and a feeling of absolutely abandonment, which all of you have felt. Then there was a decision to be made. And the decision was to look upon the people who were causing that suffering with compassion and with forgiveness, and that’s what opens the gates of heaven for all of us. I wish that for all of you. I wish that for myself.
Jim Carrey – message for a group of former gang members and prisoners at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles.
Tag: Choice
Connection between mind and brain
So once we go into the subatomic level we actually see that the atom is not really an atom.
You know particles change according to their waves and they are particles only when you actually look at them. So it is considered the observer effect.
And it is really interesting because it means that we have these waves of energy and as we make a choice we create reality – which we do – so as you think, feel and choose you change your brain.
Think, feel and choose those three things always go together. Always thinking means you’re always feeling. Thinking and feeling means you’re always choosing.
It’s happening at like 400 billion actions per second constantly so we’re processing this world around us through this think-feel-choose and then we build thoughts so there is this structural consequence. So thought is actually a physical response of the think, feel, choose. And quantum physics is kind of helping us understand that. But quantum physics is real and is easy to understand with classical physics. So classical (physical world) and quantum (the sort of non-physical world) work together.
Caroline Leaf, Neuroscientist
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
M K Gandhi
Sometimes the most courageous act is what you…
Sometimes the most courageous act is what you don’t do.
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The key to being happy is knowing you…
The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
-Dodinsky