"When things fall apart" Pema Chödrön

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This book fell into my hands at a time when its title and my life situation were absolutely interchangeable. Fortunately, the contents of the book shed light on my perception of the situation and how to approach it, so I am very grateful to this "heart advice for difficult times".

Pema Chödrön, Buddhist nun, very commited to her path, warm, loving and sympathetic to human weakness, suggests clues to cope better with chaos. She aims you to perceive chaos as an opportunity to recognize and face, with no fear, the impermanence and constant change of life, instead of rapidly seeking a solid basis on which to rest again.

It is quite interesting and a real challenge.

I leave you with some thought-provoking words of the book:

"It is not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to.
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape."
"When things fall apart" Pema Chödrön

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Love

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When Heaven wants to save a human being

sends him love

Lao Tse

                                      

Gaining Perspective

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http://youtu.be/1Vuj_3T_MLA

It´s very possitive to gain perspective from time to time. It´s interesting to realize that we are very important, but at the same time insignificant unless we can see ourselves as an integral part of everything else. We are not outside Nature, or other animals or plants. In other words, we are not alien to the rest of the universe. Quite the contrary, we are part of a whole and it is precisely in that being part of a whole that our greatness emerges.

We often forget that we belong to Life, to Nature. We forget that our place is in there. Because we forget, this loneliness, a sense of isolation and fear of "all out there" appears. It is this illusory presumption that we are the center of the universe that causes our loneliness and it is where our greatest absurdity lies.

The good news is it´s all a phallacy. A mere invention of the ego to think that so by we  become stronger. Just a bad dream based on a phallacy.

When the I cries because it has lost,

essence laughs because it has found

Abu Said

"Creativity and Fullness of Life" Antonio Blay

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Antonio Blay Fontcuberta is one of those authors that I love reading because you realize that everything he says comes from his own experience. What he is telling you is the product of years of serious research and testing in himself and others.
I like the way he writes, clear and straight to the point, and I have always found his teachings very helpful.

Antonio Blay Fontcuberta

"Creativity and Fullness of Life" ("Creatividad y Plenitud de Vida") is not a book to be read lightly, but is rather one of those books you should read again and again, finding new meanings each time. You can also use it as a reference book.
Blay is a precursor of positive thinking and its materialization in the physical world. As the author says: "we will try and study in special way a fundamental capacity of human being, that of producing changes in his existence". And he goes on to explain clear and concisely, both theoretically and in practice, steps that lead us to achieve  that fullness that we seek in our life.
To finish off I quote a paragraph from his book and invite you to think about it:
"Everything that exists, as it exists and functions, it is an expression of the mind. The mind is what gives shape to things. Even what we call ideas already exists as forms in the mind. These forms in the mind are the ones that will materialize as physical forms later. All physical forms have its corresponding matrix in the idea, in the mind".
"Creativity and fullness of life" Antonio Blay

Discipline, Flexibility and something else

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQ3BdjCc4I&feature=player_embedded#at=35

Love and compassion always find a way to embrace

everything harmoniously 

That produces much joy and comforts the heart

"Rel-aCCion-Arte"

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I insisted that the blog title and URL coincided. At first I did not know how hard the task was going to be: "sorry, this blog address is not available", and again and again... And the fact is that, although it was not available, I liked that "relacionarte" as the heading, because the very word itself suggested to look at relations as an art.Then I thought, if a put aside the spelling and tried adding a "c", google would be smart enough to still locate me and my favourite heading would not have lost its initial charm, it would more or less be the same.
And so I did it. It wasn´t the same, it was even better!. At last, it was accepted, and without renouncing nor to "relationships" nor to "art" a new word emerge: "action" and with it the true meaning.

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If you wish to make an art out of your relationships you must first be willing to do things to the best of your ability with love and great respect. This consideration and care in your relationships depends on a deliberate and conciencious action on your part, so that the outcome will be more positive and harmonious. It is through the exercise of this deliberate and conciencious action, which undoubtedly requires an effort, as we gradually aproach in making relations into an art.
This is an interesting approach as it breaks through conditioning and helps me to find my true self.
With this blog I start this path today, if you wish to accompany me, I am delighted to have you on board!