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12:14 pm
January 4, 2009
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I thought you might like a place to find the quotes I refer to in our current Focus Five Intent.
And at the same time, it gives us a place to share with the Per U community what is going on in Focus Five Intent!
This is NOT a members only topic – so feel free to share quotes!
Here are some from Focus Five Call One -
"Truth is an unfolding process that deepens as your wisdom increases." – Kathy Tyler and Joy Drake
"If someone else has a clearer intent than you do, his or her intent … prevails over yours." – Beca Lewis
"For the first time ever you can know consciously what you want, and why you want it." – Beca Lewis
And one we will be discussing throughout the course -
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." ~ Japanese proverb
This is such a good idea – a place for quotes.
If you get the the email called A Word A Day you saw this quote today: I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglas
LOVE this. Goes along with the proverb that Jet shared.
10:05 am
January 4, 2009
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In the Focus Five Intent course, we share ideas, practices and tools we've learned. Del teaches us a tool called POL – which stands for Pause, Observe, Listen. Stephen Covey first presented it to me as "the pause between an action and a reaction." But Del takes it further – it's not enough just to pause (sometimes it is), but we must also Observe and Listen. What do we observe? Our reaction, what we think we heard, saw, experienced, felt, whatever. And what do we listen to? That still, small voice, giving us the alternative Truth to the world view lie. So we must be very quiet in order to hear it.
Then what do we "do" with what we have observed and heard?
Act.
So, POL became POLA. Pause, Observe, Listen. THEN Act on what we have observed and heard, based on Truth, not just knee-jerk reaction.
That is what I think the Japanese proverb and the AWAD quote are telling us.
So, today, Choose Response rather than reaction. For each occurrence throughout the day, Pause and take a breath. Observe what you are thinking, feeling, hearing, seeing. Listen for and to that still, small voice speaking softly, clearly through the clamor. And take Action based on what you observe and hear!
Here I am practicing "Good" muti-tasking. I have made a commitment to post to Per U daily. I have also made a commitment to provide more useful information for the Focus Five group. This post represents both!
9:30 pm
January 4, 2009
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There is an uncomfortable quote that caught my eye a few months ago. It goes something like this:
"The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action." Winston Churchill
Something to consider when thinking, "Detach from the outcome."
The impact of choosing consciously to possess what is present now has changed my focus. I'm definitely making conscious choices and choosing to act, not randomly, but choosing to put my intents into actions. This is not done to "get more done." This is to be clear, so the actions flow simply and follow to fulfill the intent. That's how to achieve fulfillment. At least, that's my best understanding at the present.
11:13 am
January 4, 2009
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The more I realize, the more I listen, the more I read, the more I recognize how much Intent is linked to Conscious Awareness. And communication is linked to Conscious Awareness.
I am listening to the recording of the first call, and we are talking about "the one with the clearest intent prevails."
Clear Intent is evident through awareness. And making choices to continue doing what you were doing, or do something different, are choices made based on awareness of what is present right now.
For instance, Beca uses the example of grocery shopping in the Intent Course. Your intent may be to fill your grocery list. The intent of every retailer and wholesaler in the store is to get you to buy their product. If they win, you buy the product whether you need it or not.
Here's the key – if you buy the product, whether or not it was on your list, because it perfectly fulfills your need, that is Provision, and both you and the retailer win. Win/Win.
If you buy the product without conscious awareness, or you buy it because it's shiny and cute, but you don't need it, really want it, nor does it provide you with any satisfaction beyond the initial "wow," the retailer wins, you lose. Lose/Win.
Prevailing Clarity of Intent? Win/Win. Conscious Choice.
8:31 am
January 4, 2009
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“If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play… if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.”
– Patricia Nourot
11:26 pm
January 6, 2009
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Amen to that quote Jet! Perfect description!
Since it is our intent to tell the Truth to ourselves about ourselves and others , when searching for quotes I found this one.
Beautiful and difficult to swallow at the same time. No one wants to be hurt and no one who loves really wants to hurt. It is love that is comforting. So, the words comforted by a lie are arresting! Imagine, how could a lie offer comfort? Makes me really want t oexpunge all lies I tell myself about myself or others. Good work is going on here.
“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini
10:07 am
January 6, 2009
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Questions come to mind while reading the Khaled Hosseini quote Michal. Can we ever be hurt by truth? Who is claiming this hurt?
I read a most arresting article yesterday, too long to reprint here, but what most caught my attention is part of a discussion centered on singing. Singing, you ask? How does this relate to being hurt? The topic of the article is about "Being Judged vs Feeling Judged". As I substitute the word judged with hurt (or any other word you choose), I think the response from the author, Per Berstow, singing coach, fits this discussion.
"Every time you feel self conscious, it it because of your concern of how you are being judged. The feeling of being judged is what makes you feel smaller, more self-conscious and more nervous. You do not experience this feeling of being judged because you are being judged. You experience the feeling because you are judging. It is you who are being the judge."
Another slight twist on the "Face & Replace"? Perhaps. What was highlighted to me is how this concept enlarges and exposes that as we let go of belief that we need to take specific steps to get to our spiritual being. As we stand in Truth, we let go of belief that there's even crap that we need to let go of!
Our solution is to let go of judgment.
10:12 am
January 6, 2009
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Oh, and also to LOVE!
12:02 pm
January 4, 2009
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I like all this discernment going on, you two!
10:29 am
January 6, 2009
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"Straining at gnats and swallowing camels…" I love this statement. Mrs. Eddy uses it in several places in Science and Health. It captures with succinct precision what we sometimes are willing to accept when thinking we're to figure out how to walk in the right direction and in the name of truth.
Those words of Eddy's show up as part of a sentence, "strain out gnats while they swallow camels of bigoted pedantry…" That's a mouthful isn't it? I was lead to look up pedantry: "qualities or practices of pedant (person who puts unnecessry stress on minor or trivial points of learning–narrow minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to set of rules), an arbitrary adherence to rules and forms."
Then bigotry: "intolerance, prejudice"
Listening, as suggested by Perry Marshall, to what my inner voice continues to speak to me, I hear this idea when thinking about Karma. I see this as a belief that walks very much in the wrong direction of where I want to walk.. As I follow and understand Truth, it is not necessarily easy, but that doesn't mean I am to look somewhere else in or to find answers that are easier to swallow.
"Not materially, but spiritually, we know Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love."
I'm continuing to connect the dots with these angel thoughts in the broadest spectrum of what I call life, but the one gentle guidance I feel at the moment is that I am to let go of believing that I must take responsibility, but rather let God, Truth, Love, direct. As I let go of habit of allowing anything unlike God to enter thought, I am letting go of insisting that Life look a certain way.
Barb ..Really appreciate your thoughts and words. I, too, have been wanting to have a clearer understanding of the source of my actions, my intents. MBE writes in Prose Works, The Message to the Mother Church, 1902, pg 9, "Loving chords set discords in harmony."
As the reflected expression of the one Mind, God my intent is to act in the direction and as the direction of the one Mind. That means that I am in the present, always, which precludes past and future. I know only now. I know only hat Mind knows. And, "what Mind knows, Mind shows." I'm just going to give praise, gratitude, power and cause to God, Mind, Love.
Websters:
karma |ˈkärmə|noun(in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.• informal destiny or fate, following as effect from cause.
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