tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post8047466933253599009..comments2023-09-15T05:24:29.125-07:00Comments on What lies within: Not the same woman today......Margaret Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-59651659837665042012007-10-23T01:47:00.000-07:002007-10-23T01:47:00.000-07:00What a great comment, thank you so much. It makes...What a great comment, thank you so much. It makes getting up to write my blog at 4.30am so worthwhile. You have a knack of sending me a comment when there is something nagging at me that I don't write about.<BR/><BR/>What was nagging at me is precisely what you have pointed out. That is the the correcting of myself that I do when I see something I didn't see in an earlier blog entry. I have also been thinking about this and how much confidence it inspires in those who are reading this blog when this is the kind of thing that happens. I do this to show the process of how resistance can prevent us from seeing things as they really are. It is only when the resistance lessens that a truer picture can emerge. For me this is often an overnight occurence where I wake the next day and see immediately what it was that I was resisting. <BR/><BR/>I really liked the quote from Shakespeare which is also in line with what Socrates said when he said 'know thyself'. You are right that it's not easy to be honest with myself because there is much hidden from my view. This blog is a record of a process of transformation. The nature of transformation is such that it shifts and expands consciousness. So the way things are seen one day is not the same as another. I have never claimed to present my truth as THE TRUTH. I wouldn't dare. I have always been clear that what I present are views, opinions that can be taken or left. There is Truth contained in the ancient scriptures. It would be relatively easy for me to take a sentence from one or other of these scriptures and write around that. But would that be of any real benefit to anyone. It would only be repeating what is already out there and available.<BR/><BR/>That would be much safer for me than what I have chosen to do which is to leave a personal record of how a journey transforms from the human to the spiritual. It is a challenging blog. I admit that. Both for me writing it and I'm sure for some reading it. It gets to the heart of what is blocking our spiritual essence from emerging which is why there is resistance to it. I am intrigued why out of all the blog entries it is this one which has triggered the comment. <BR/><BR/>If someone had told me that in 2007 I would be writing this kind of blog on the internet I would have laughed at them. All I have ever wanted to do is to belong and not stand out. For years I studied spiritual literature quietly and without having any idea of what was available. In 1998 I had an experience after which life flowed and was in harmony and balance. In 2002 to try to make sense of this experience I wrote to a friend of my Reiki master. A man who is a medium and clairvoyant. Something told me not to see him in person but to write a letter. This is what I did. I explained about my background of studying Buddhism for many years, then giving everything up when I returned from India and then this experience which shifted and changed everything for me. I don't have the contents of the letter to hand but in it he spoke about 'the choice I have to share what I know'. I will dig out the contents of the tape he sent me back in response to the letter and put a little on a future blog entry.<BR/><BR/>It is this message together with the dream I sometimes off of meeting a person who is looking at me very sadly saying 'you knew what you had and you wouldn't share it because you were afraid. Every time I have this dream I wake up and my resolve for this not to happen becomes stronger. I take very seriously the axiom 'to thine own self be true'. This is why some of the blog entries can appear inconsistent. It is me being completely true to myself. This means going against my own ego that says 'don't go back on yourself, you'll look stupid' ' to be authentic and reveal what had been hidden from my view in one blog in another.<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for this comment. It has really focused my mind.Margaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-20998109118395239332007-10-22T21:18:00.000-07:002007-10-22T21:18:00.000-07:00Running through your blog is a persistent thread: ...Running through your blog is a persistent thread: you try to be completely honest about yourself, but you often are not, and correct your record in subsequent entries. I think the problem is this: your desire to be what you think is a better person clouds your ability to see, or describe, yourself as you are. Being honest with yourself isn't easy, but if you aren't able to do that, then how can you present "the truth" to others through your blog?<BR/><BR/>As Shakespeare put it: "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-33361279402175266292007-10-22T21:07:00.000-07:002007-10-22T21:07:00.000-07:00It's "he is seated at the right side" simply becau...It's "he is seated at the right side" simply because most people are right handed, and this has created a prejudice in favour of those that are right handed and against those that are left handed. If you want an example, think about the origins of the words "dextrous" and "sinister".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com