If we pay attention and listen to ourselves,
negative emotions and difficult feelings
surrender a strength we may not have
known.
Aug 262010
In hate, we do harm to ourselves and harm
others.
The hate we feel is our own hate, caused by
ourselves, and no one else. We are the only
ones who can stop it.
This hate we feel is ours alone and hurts us
the most. We are feeling it, the hate, with
our own heart, our own mind, our body and
soul.
The hate is ours, and we are hating
ourselves as we hate others.
Hate is a physiological activity in our brain and
body. Hate for another begins in us, and stays
with us alone.
When we hate, we are the ones being hated,
the ones we hate are left alone.
When we hate, this hate and resentment hurt
us the most, regardless of what others have done.
Our hate inevitably hurts others, blameless
others in our way.
Hate disconnects our brain and heart, we go
numb with senseless harm… coming from our
behavior.
Hate must stop. We stop hate by looking in
its face and asking hate some questions?
We stop hate by listening to what it says, by
asking our hate what it hates and why? How was
it hurt and what happened? What can be done to
repair the harm? Where is the hate coming from?
Talk to hate as you would a child; hate operates
on a child’s terms. Hate can be extinguished as we
would extinguish hate in a child… by loving firm.
We listen to our hate as we might listen to a child
who has been hurt. We listen and understand. We
give calm to that vulnerable place and space that
has been hurt with hate and harm.
We let the innocence arise where there has been
hurt. We find the strength behind the hate and
grieve the pain that hate has hidden for so long.
“Gold” will arise; the soul will emerge unharmed.
Love may then come, to replace the space once
held by hate. We feel better, are more complete
and strong.
Hate can weaken and fade, as we give it attention.
Hate can lead to a love in full strength, if we follow
the harm.
Hate is good if we listen. Hate is holding the “gold”
of our heart, trying to keep it safe.
If we are patient and strong, hate will surrender
a gift we thought gone.
Love gives us full strength; hate leads to love.
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For more help on this topic, see my talk: “Immortality Is a Word and a Thought”
Aug 262010
Fear, held too long, turns to hate.
Hate is wrong; it is a state of mind
that does not think, a state of mind
that causes harm.
Hate and resentment, held too long,
begin to look like fact and make our
senses numb.
In a condition of hate and resentment,
we cannot make good decisions.
We can’t help but do harm.
Aug 262010
Too much fear, held too long, makes us blind
and easy to anger.
A little fear may save our life, in an emergency.
This is how fear is designed.
But the challenge of modern life is the
containment of fear, so it does no harm.
Fear that is held in ourselves for too long,
beyond the time for appropriate use, can
hurt us from the inside out by distorting our
thoughts and feelings, by giving forth actions
of harm to ourselves and others for no
productive reason.
Fear, held too long, can destroy us and make
life wrong.
Aug 262010
To love everyone and everything is difficult.
It is not something a certain part of our brain naturally wants
to do. Some of our neurological anatomy is designed to fight
or run from danger, to defend our ground and families, to
attack and compete in the need to survive.
So how do we love?
The answer is simple: It takes practice and patience. The work
can be hard.
First, we make a decision to love, not false affection for
everyone, but a decision to turn on our overriding ability to love
and see love as the character and quality in all things.
We decide to look for the best in people and love them as a
Grand Creator might see. This is not about liking everything
a person does or has done, but about seeing the world as a
Creation of Love.
Why do this at all? To be perfectly honest… for ourselves.
The motive to love can be selfish; it should be. We are our best
when in love—acting and interpreting life from a loving
perspective. We benefit the most.
The survival or primitive brain can be used to generate love, to
envelope all our doing, actions, thoughts and interpretations in
a love response, a loving comprehension. Love comes from all
of us, as our soul.
The primitive brain that fights and runs, can turn around and
light up everything in an aura and factual basis of love…
If we practice using our will to love and not judge, or
attack, we can love everyone and everything. This takes
practice, and continual effort that gets easier in time as we
create love as a habit. As we move away from harsh and critical
thinking, to a more natural and calming response, love becomes
habit
To love and be loved: It is up to us, and our decision alone. We do
not wait for the world to come to our aid and make us feel good
before we act and decide to love.
We take the initiative and focus in on love first; the world
will then turn around, and our day will be better.
Others may notice and benefit from our loving presence,
without a doubt! However, we will benefit the most…
immediately and over the long term.
Our bodies respond quickly and strongly to an attitude of love,
initiated by ourselves. Our brains work better in love. With love
we have more accurate, honest and productive interpretations
of the world, that bring better experience and results.
Our hearts, kidneys, knees, eyes and lungs work better, and
all of our body is more at ease and functioning well when we
have an attitude of love, a deeply committed practice of loving
response.
Life simply works best, as we love.
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Please see this week’s talk: “Immortality Is a Word and a Thought”
for more commentary and help on this article: http://immortalnow.com/?p=2871&preview=true
Bad feelings lead us to good thoughts and personal “Gold.”
Find one bad feelings: a hurt or injury from another, a resentment
or ill will of your own toward someone else.
Specifically, there may be someone you do not like, or something
someone did you are not happy about. First, look to those closet to
you; this is the most productive place to begin.
What happened? What is the thought? What are the feelings?
With no judgment of yourself or the other person, take a look;
what do you see and feel? Keep looking. Withhold judgment of
yourself and the other person; simply observe your thoughts and
feelings around the situation.
Slowly, focus away from the thoughts and move toward feelings.
What is the feeling? Where is the feeling in your body? What is the
shape of the feeling; give it a shape. What is the size and color of the
feeling, give it size and color.
Now, simply observe the feeling and associated thought. Don’t do
anything else; observe and watch.
With awareness, solution will come. Simply observe, without judgment
of yourself or the other person. Observe in a gentle an caring manner.
With the intention of acceptance and love, simply observe.
Immortality works the same, observe the immortal quality of your
soul as your body. Observe and look at the immortal quality of
your physical self.
If nothing happens and you have no “experience” of your immortality,
it does not matter. In time you will, in your own way, understand
your immortal nature.
Your immortal nature is already in existence. It is there as your body,
mind and feelings. Simply watch it, observe, and it will emerge to teach
you who you are.
Aug 212010
Sometimes a dictionary definition says it best:
Ho·mo sa·pi·ens
/ˈhoʊ
moʊ ˈseɪpiənz/ 
Show Spelled[hoh-moh sey-pee-uhnz] Show IPA
–noun
1. ( italics ) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
) the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong, characterized by a brain capacity averaging 1400 cc (85 cubic in.) and by dependence upon language and the creation and utilization of complex tools.
2. humankind.
[New Latin, from Latin homo man + sapiens wise]
Origin:
1795–1805; < NL: rational man
1795–1805; < NL: rational man
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Aug 212010
We are not working towards immortality, trying to
attain immortality, tying to transform, progress,
evolve or metamorphose into an immortal
expression: we already exist this way.
We were born immortal; it is a trait of our species,
homo sapiens. We already are immortal: body, mind
and soul. There is nothing to do but recognize who we
really are.
The body responds to the environment and directions of
its operator. If death is the command, the way of life
and belief; if death is the practice and observation, the
body responds and conforms to these inputs. Yet there
is another way.
In our work, “The Immortality Process,” we are focusing
our awareness on something different, immortality, and
beginning to understand what it means to be human.
Is there grief, fear, disbelief… and hesitation to walk a
different path, away from death and into life ? Of course:
it is hard to change a habit.
It is difficult to turn away from a direction, taken by many,
for so long. This work is rewarding, but changing a habit
can be a challenge.
We are changing the habit of death.
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