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I Am Not What Happened To Me   The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music We bow.... before your bravery and before who you are in essence. With our love. George & Matilda  

  More or Less or Less or More “He must increase, but I must decrease.” ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭30‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬                    "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” ‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬                   The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Let Your God Love You Be silent. Be still. Alone. Empty Before your God. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still. Let your God look upon you. That is all. God knows. God understands. God loves you With an enormous love, And only wants To look upon you With that love. Quiet. Still. Be. Let your God - Love you. Edwina Gateley                                                        With much love. George & Matilda

  Thoughts Pried Loose By A Birthday Picnic against Tafelkop on my birthday. The Conversation Elements From The Conversation ` Music This past year, I have heard Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, properly for the first time. It touches me deeply and I've caught myself listening to it often. The older I get, the more I become aware of my clumsy efforts and tattered plans being carried by an infinite Gentleness.  With our love. George & Matilda

Sensitive To The Inner Voice The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Schubert's Serenade expresses something of the soul's depth and variation, which often cannot be captured in words, but is communicated in and through beauty. Our longing for you: soulful days becoming a soulful life.  With our love.  George & Matilda

Start With Meaning The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Actually, it is always about choices. And sometimes, when we take our one precious life seriously, we are honest about the things that we have chosen that don't make us happy, that fail to speak to our quiet centre.. Things that we mostly can change. Or, if we can't change that, we can. As George Ezra sings: "Give me one good reason why I should never make a change." As always we share this with much love. George & Matilda

  And . . . Enneagram The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Feeling blue, or depressed is something we tend to avoid at all cost. However, it can be a very wise guide, the bearer of healing and growth. It tends to reveal those times and places where we are off track in our search for ourselves. As Birdtalker sings: But you wipe clean All of these illusions that ain't me Peace, you told me, I'm only here to reveal Where you've been stuck and where you're going if you're lookin' to heal But you've gotta drop these vain addictions and hang on to what's real In essence the message of the Enneagram.  “Ask, and you will receive;  seek, and you will find;  knock, and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks will receive,  and anyone who seeks will find,  and the door will be opened to those who knock.”                                     ...

We've looked at the basics of the True and False Self in a previous post (See: True and False is true ). An article* by Elyse Santilli in The Huffington Post provides valuable insight into the more practical and day to day matters where these two concepts are concerned:  When your ego [False Self]  is in charge: You're often caught in circling thoughts (thinking about the same things over and over). You're often consumed by your emotions (especially hurt, disappointment and anger). Your inner dialogue is heavily focused on anxieties, fears, doubts and self-criticism (I'm not good enough, I'm not beautiful, I can't do this, I totally stuffed up, I am bad at this, my life is meaningless). Your worth is dependent on external things (whether you've got a partner, a mortgage, a great job, a beautiful wardrobe, a huge circle of friends). You desperately need validation from other people to feel good about yourself. You're easily bru...

The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.                                                                                                                  Carl Jung Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you.                                                               ...