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Today the wind blew in great gusts

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Today the wind blew in great gusts. People said, “oh a storm is coming.”  I felt the feelings that came up and found my center.  People told me: tomorrow there are things that should cause me to worry.  I felt the feelings that arose and again returned to center.  Tomorrow will be the time to deal with tomorrow.  So I have learned; when things rise, I let them rise, when things fall I let things fall.  While many people yell out their upset, I feel me and find my center, at peace and in balance with my life.  We have this option at all times.  All it takes is the willingness to feel and unfold until we find ourself present and centered within.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

center, feeling, present, Today

We say we want to be free, are you willing to change

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We say we want to be free, yet so few of us are really willing to change in order to get there. For those who are willing to explore what it takes, follow this simple suggestion. Everything that makes you feel like you can’t be free is what takes you to freedom. Allow yourself to feel; keep feeling and you will change.  It is the true avenue to freedom and awakening.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

change, feeling, free, freedom

Watching the clouds in the sky

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Laying on your back watching the clouds in the sky is an experience of presence.  Feeling our feelings and allowing them to carry us like drifting clouds leaves us on the shore of presence as well.  There is nothing to attain here, presence simply is and the opportunity to feel the vastness of wonder smooths the path.  Enjoy the journey.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

clouds, feeling, Presence, Watching, wonder

The Tao is like a well….like the eternal void

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#4  The Tao is like a well:  used but never used up.  It is like the eternal void:  filled with infinite possibilities.It is hidden but always present….  excerpt from the Tao te Ching translation by Stephen Mitchell

The more we unwind our limiting feelings, the more we experience the eternal void.  Some are concerned that this means we can’t think or function normally in the world.  Actually, we function even better because as the internal conflict drops away, the mind is not only quiet and peaceful but more efficient and clear. We realize that the quiet, the eternal void truly is filled with infinite possibilities and creation is only a moment away.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

creation, feeling, realize, Tao, void, well

In the pursuit of knowledge everyday

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“In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added.

In the pursuit of the Tao, every day something is dropped.

Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non action.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone……” — Tao te Ching translation by Stephen Mitchell 

The mind is like a river, once in motion it hard to stop.  As we add feeling to our life we begin to understand that the mind becomes quiet when we don’t feed it.  We feel what limits us and the mind’s chatter begins to drop away. If we let ourselves do this every day we will finally arrive at a quiet, peaceful mind.  When the mind is quiet nothing gets in our way and nothing is left behind either.  As the internal conflict drops away we experience inner peace and a harmonious life.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

feeling, force, harmony, knowledge, peace, Tao

There comes a time on the feeling journey

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There comes a time on the feeling journey when you realize you have touched the edges of everything that is associated with our world as we know it.  This is when things get really interesting, for everything that you now encounter is completely new territory. There are no familiar points of reference, there is only the unknown and the infinite possibilities that this creates. So feel, be willing to go beyond your boundaries and enter the new world that appears at your feet.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott 

feeling, Journey, new, territory

Duality: the quality of dual

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Duality: the quality or condition of being dual. The state or quality of being two or in two parts; dichotomy.  

We are experiencing life as duality.  We appear to need highs and lows, rights and wrongs and so on.  The mind appears to crave issues to talk about in order to immerse itself in duality.  This is just the mind believing the illusion; that it needs comparisons in order to  define “self”.  When we feel, duality unwinds and we experience Being.  There is no longer a need for the inner turmoil of who or what is better; quite simply we are.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

being, Duality, feeling, mind

Our lives are like an endless river

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Our lives are like an endless river.  Within the river are boulders and banks, debris and floating jetsam. The things in the river are the creations of our mind.  The mind clings to these creations even though they are not the river.  Our feelings, when felt and allowed to unwind, support the flow and the clearing of these obstacles we have created in our river.  As more and more obstacles are unwound the river becomes a sea and a sea becomes an ocean, a never ending connection to everything we could ever imagine.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

creation, endless, feeling, support

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

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“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”  ― Philip K. Dick

This is what the mind does, it looks, examines and judges, going on and on without rest.  We can break this cycle of internal overactivity by allowing our feelings to have a role in our life as well.  While it does take some practice the rewards are well worth the time spent.  Feeling and thinking should support each other as opposed to excluding each other.  The act of allowing feeling and the mind to have an equal role in our lives is what leads us to have a quiet mind that is effective and peaceful.  We find that now we can simply be and in so doing experience who we really are.  –Alain & Jody Herriott

feeling, Introspection, mind, thinking