Alchemy of Real

You can love the child in others. If you are confronted with a person that accuses you of causing them (ego) harm or disappointment. If they say you "let them down." Then love that Being by SEEING the Child there, the One "within" that remains loving and innocent. This is spiritual "action" put in to play. The personal love becomes Universal Love.

A Passage from "A Thousand Names for Joy" by Byron Katie

"I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. 'If I felt completely peaceful,' they say, 'why would I bother taking action at all?' My answer is 'Because that's what love does.' To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible." (pg. 75)

"I had learned many English words and could recite part of the Ten Commandments. I knew how to sleep on a bed, pray to Jesus, comb my hair, eat with a knife and fork, and use a toilet...I had also learned that a person thinks with his head instead of his heart."
-- Sun Chief, Hopi

forgiveness and gratitude are two sides of the same coin

With Forgiveness Comes Gratitude

Parents, sisters, husband, old friends. Edy (and Monika), thanks for being my guide(s) on this road of forgiveness.