Mary O’Malley – There is a powerful quote from Eckhart Tolle that I have kept close to my heart over the years:
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”
Now, if you are like me, my first reaction to this idea that I had chosen the experiences of my life, especially the difficult ones, was, “Heck no! I didn’t choose the abuse in my childhood, or a head on automobile accident, or my house and store burning to the ground, or my child getting cancer twice.” In fact, I wanted to give life the finger! Continue reading
Mary O’Malley – Imagine you have just put on a pair of glasses where the lenses are fractured. Your view of Life would be warped and even a little weird! And yet this is how we can describe what happened to you when you were young. When you were first born you were wide open to Life. There were no stories in your head that filtered your experience of this living moment. There were no ideas that said you needed to be different than what you were in order to be okay.
Mary O’Malley – I invite you to take a few moments to close your eyes and simply listen to your life. There are myriad sounds happening all around you and within you. If your mind is a little unsettled with this, count how many different sounds you hear. Stay with this for as long as you can… listening…your attention going back to the stories…and then bringing it back to listening again.
Mary O’Malley – We rarely make room in our hearts for ourselves.