Words of Wisdom for September 28, 2023

Dear Friends:
I come to you without me, come to me without you.
Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.
Merge with others,
If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop,
If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine.

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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We Can Be Peaceful

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 27, 2023

Dear Friends:
Cultivating Equanimity

Equanimity is the midpoint between favoring and opposing, between wanting what feels good and not wanting what feels bad. It is not indifference but a more refined attitude of understanding and acknowledging.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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Meditation Practices Could Change Everything
Flynn Coleman, a yoga, meditation and mindfulness teacher says in her recent Huffington Post article that meditation practices could change everything. Flynn is the founder of Samya Practice, an organization offering seminars, workshops and consulting to busines …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 26, 2023

Dear Friends:
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with.
Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

– Joanna Macy

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In Praise Of Mother Earth
This poem came to me by email from the monks and nuns at the Deer Park Monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in honor of Earth Day. IN PRAISE OF MOTHER EARTH (written by Thay, Thich Nhat Hanh)   Homage to you Refreshing Earth Bodhisattva Mot …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 25, 2023

Dear Friends:
With the realization of one’s own potential and
self-confidence in one’s ability,
one can build a better world.
According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important.
That sort of confidence is not a blind one;
it is an awareness of one’s own potential.
On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities
and reducing the negative qualities.

– The Dalai Lama

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Inner and Outer Purpose
Yesterday, we learned a lot about volition and what we want to do in our lives – our inner and outer purpose. Mostly, as spiritual seekers, our inner and outer purpose may not be that obvious to us. Eckart Tolle tells us what Einstein wanted to accomplish and tells us why we ar …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 24, 2023

Dear Friends:
“Remember to breathe, remember to feel, remember to care. Let us do this for our children and ourselves and our children’s children. Let us practice for life’s sake.”

– Gunilla Norris, Inviting Silence

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No Complaints – day 18
yada “People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they’re awake, and whenever they’re asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.” ~ Adam Zimbler We’re 3 days away from the end of our challenge. REMINDER: Today’s happiness theme is …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 23, 2023

Dear Friends:
In enaction, there’s this added layer of awareness of the participation of the living being in the creation of meaning, and the creation of the reality that it exists in. That’s where wonderful new enactive thinkers have come up with this notion of ‘participatory sense-making’–which is that meaning is made, not in my head or in your head, but in the space between us. So it’s through participating together in a relationship that we create meaning.

– Amy Cohen Varela, Mind & Life

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Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
In the words of Jesus, we are taught to love our neighbors as ourselves. These days, many people are so miserable that they don’t love themselves. Instead, they find someone else to blame and go off to create more misery for other people. The are caught in a self-destructive cyc …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 22, 2023

Dear Friends:
Authentic Love

There are zillions of relationship-advice books out there but many share a failing: their readers, desperate in their relationships, are still trying to control things. They’re using the book to “make things better,” when the key is in accepting ourselves and our partners for who we are.

The arc of the spiritual path and the arc of the relationship path aren’t merely parallel; they are intimately bound together. As we practice our spiritual path more deeply, it inevitably changes the way we are in our relationships. Likewise, as we learn to ease up on our demands and needs from others, we learn that the spiritual path is not about fulfilling a need — a need to change what we don’t like about ourselves, for example — but about letting go of needs altogether.

– Sumi Loundon Kim, Lion’s Roar

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Los Angeles, CA)—September 15, 2015—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 14 million people are diagnosed globally with cancer each year. Dr. Jerome Freedman, a cancer survivor, provides those with cancer with healing methods that su …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 21, 2023

Dear Friends:
The Spirit of Recognition

Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting. It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in others, and of realizing that we’re not so awfully alone.

– Sharon Salzberg, “A More Complete Attention “

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Gratitude is a Way of Undercutting Your Ego
The Force of Gratitude | February 22, 2015   Gratitude is a way of undercutting your ego—that is, it is a way of being Buddhist. There is an awareness that we get now and then about what we owe to others, and Shinran [the founder of Shin Buddhism] feels that that shoul …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
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Words of Wisdom for September 20, 2023

Dear Friends:
Take some time to look at suffering rather than avoid it by looking elsewhere. There are opportunities for doing this all around you, as both small and large examples of suffering abound. Pay close attention to the quality of mind that occurs when you are giving sustained attention to the suffering of another. It is not about getting lost in pity or sorrow but about allowing the mind to feel the pain with an attitude of caring.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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Words of Wisdom for September 07, 2023
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Words of Wisdom for September 19, 2023

Dear Friends:
Arbitrary Divisions

We divide our world into me/you, friend/enemy, desirable/undesirable, fulfilling/frustrating, and so on. It’s a natural process, but a very arbitrary, utterly subjective one.

– Pamela Gayle White, “The Pursuit of Happiness “

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We All Have What It Takes To Thrive
Thrive is a two hour movie that has been reviewed on Best Meditation Videos. The movie demonstrates that we all have what it takes to thrive rather than merely survive. We All Have What It Takes To Thrive httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk This article p …

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