Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Dear Brigitte, If you are happy with your story that " bad things happen " , then you have nothing to inquire about. Just be happy! Blessings, STeve D. > Can't bad thing happen at all? > > Seems to me they do but we can make well of them. > > I don't think I live in fear of anything but I see that the Work > leads us to the fundamental assomption that God is good which I > understand that only good can happen. I'm not sure that that is > true.... > > What should I inquire about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Dear Brigitte, If you are happy with your story that " bad things happen " , then you have nothing to inquire about. Just be happy. *****Can not inquiry (or The Work) be engaged in even if one is happy? Just for the pure pleasure of investigation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Andy, Of course it can. I do it all the time. Steve D. > > Dear Brigitte, > > If you are happy with your story that " bad things happen " , then you > have nothing to inquire about. Just be happy. > > > *****Can not inquiry (or The Work) be engaged in even if one is > happy? Just for the pure pleasure of investigation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Find something bad happening. Am 03.08.2004 um 20:09 schrieb Brigitte: > Can't bad thing happen at all? > > Seems to me they do but we can make well of them. > > I don't think I live in fear of anything but I see that the Work > leads us to the fundamental assomption that God is good which I > understand that only good can happen. I'm not sure that that is > true.... > > What should I inquire about? > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 > Can't bad thing happen at all? Hi, Brigitte. I would say that things happen and I judge them good or bad. The goodness or badness is not in the thing but in my judgement of it. > Seems to me they do but we can make well of them. Yes. Something happens and I judge it bad, then do the best I can with it. Something else happens and I judge it good, then do the best I can with it. Either way, I'm just doing my best. I notice that the more frequently the judgement is " good " , the happier and more comfortable life seems to be for me. > I don't think I live in fear of anything but I see that the Work > leads us to the fundamental assomption that God is good which I > understand that only good can happen. I'm not sure that that is > true.... Are you sure the opposite is true? When I look at my assumptions carefully, I find that I'm not sure any of them are true. > What should I inquire about? What stresses you? Here are some ideas that come to me -- some that stress me now or have in the past: " I should inquire about something. " " Things should be different. " (My wife suggested this to me. She calls it the Universal Stressful Thought. " They should think well of me, and they don't. " " I should be kinder. " " I should not want attention so much. " " People should be nicer to each other. " Here's my Work: Things should be different. * Is it true? I don't know. * Can I absolutely know that things should be different? No, I can't. Perhaps they're perfect as they are, but I can't know that either. They just seem to be how they are. * How do I react when I believe the thought that things should be different? I think it's up to me to change them. I feel unhappy with how they are. I believe that reality has betrayed me -- it's WRONG!! I think I'll never get what I want, things will never be as they should, life will always be painful and difficult. " Life sucks and then you die. " I try to enlist others in my cause to change how things are, to make the world a better place, to change human nature. I pressure myself to be better than I am, to be a good example, to be consistent and diligent and effective. I judge myself inadequate and bad when I don't think I'm meeting my own standard. I go through cycles of striving and giving up. I'm in God's business, believing that I know better than God how things should be. If He'd only listen to me! Hopeless! Reasons to drop this thought: - to get out of God's business back into my own, - to stop beating my head against reality trying to change it, - to get out of others' business by trying to enlist them into my cause of the month, - to stop trying to change things I can't change (been trying for years and it hasn't worked . Reasons to keep the thought, " Things should be different " : - to remind me to try to change the things that need change (stressful -- it argues with how they are), - so I won't be complacent (this argues with reality too -- I'm complacent when I am and not when I'm not. Trying to not be complacent when I am is arguing with the reality of what I'm feeling. It's stressful.) I don't see any stress-free reasons to keep the thought. * Who/what would I be without the thought, " Things should be different " ? Man typing on a computer. Man sipping water. Man eating ice. Man sitting in chair. No stress, no lack of stress. Moving and watching the movement. Smiling and laughing, crying sometimes. * Turn-arounds: - Things should not be different. - Things are as they are, no should either way. - I am as I am, no should either way. - My thinking is as it is, no should either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 --- Olli 26 wrote: > Find something bad happening. > > schrieb Brigitte: > > > Can't bad thing happen at all? Ok Your post gave me a lot to think about. (Thanks by the way) I've come to: I do not see anything bad happeining TO ME that does not rely on a thought that can be investigated. But I'm a lucky woman. I have economic stability, I sleep 9 hours every night and have enough food to choose my dinner every night. What a privilege.... Privilege that is not shared by all. It seems to me that basic need most be met before on can have the energy to undo hurtful thinking. But, it seems to me that bad things are happening to others. Presently people are suffering from hunger... Children are suffereing from incest... I understand that thier " spirit " is unbroken, but what about their life? I guess what I don t get is that everything is *for* self realization. " Every thing happens for me " . From my point of vue, I make good of what happens to me. that is quite different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Brigette, You said: " I understand that thier " spirit " is unbroken, but what about their life? " I would say, that their life depends entirely upon their thinking and I can not possible know about that. As says, " There are no physical problems only mental problems. " Have you ever heard describe how creation works? She describes it like this: Think, feel, act have. In other words, we have a thought and if we believe it we get a feeling and then we act out on that feeling and that appears as our life. So, everything in our life comes from our thinking. Steve D. > > Find something bad happening. > > > > schrieb Brigitte: > > > > > Can't bad thing happen at all? > > > Ok Your post gave me a lot to think about. (Thanks by the way) > > I've come to: > > I do not see anything bad happeining TO ME that does not rely on a > thought that can be investigated. But I'm a lucky woman. I have > economic stability, I sleep 9 hours every night and have enough food > to choose my dinner every night. What a privilege.... Privilege > that is not shared by all. It seems to me that basic need most be > met before on can have the energy to undo hurtful thinking. > > But, it seems to me that bad things are happening to others. > Presently people are suffering from hunger... Children are > suffereing from incest... > > I understand that thier " spirit " is unbroken, but what about their > life? > > I guess what I don t get is that everything is *for* self > realization. " Every thing happens for me " . From my point of vue, I > make good of what happens to me. that is quite different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Brigitte, thank you for looking at your thoughts. You said: > …Privilege that is not shared by all. It seems to me that basic need > most be > met before on can have the energy to undo hurtful thinking. Find one person, of wich you think is in need of something he does not have. And he *needs* it. Is it true? How do you feel, when you think that *anyone* on this planet does not have *enough*? And who would you be without that thought? Love, Am 09.08.2004 um 20:31 schrieb Brigitte: > --- Olli 26 wrote: > > Find something bad happening. > > > > schrieb Brigitte: > > > > > Can't bad thing happen at all? > > > Ok Your post gave me a lot to think about. (Thanks by the way) > > I've come to: > > I do not see anything bad happeining TO ME that does not rely on a > thought that can be investigated. But I'm a lucky woman. I have > economic stability, I sleep 9 hours every night and have enough food > to choose my dinner every night. What a privilege.... Privilege > that is not shared by all. It seems to me that basic need most be > met before on can have the energy to undo hurtful thinking. > > But, it seems to me that bad things are happening to others. > Presently people are suffering from hunger... Children are > suffereing from incest... > > I understand that thier " spirit " is unbroken, but what about their > life? > > I guess what I don t get is that everything is *for* self > realization. " Every thing happens for me " . From my point of vue, I > make good of what happens to me. that is quite different... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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