by Merci Gracia | Aug 6, 2016 | interpretation
Who causes your unhappiness? Can you point to someone else or are you responsible? Actually, it’s neither. It’s the thought that things should be other than they are that makes you feel bad. But you aren’t your thoughts. You just use them to design...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 10, 2015 | Mastery
We can change our jobs, home, clothes or friends, but unless we change the way we think, our habitual emotional responses will continue to create the same quality of experience and nothing that happens in the external world will make much of a difference. The only...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 13, 2014 | interpretation, Problems
Everything that happens to you can potentially serve you. When you encounter something unpleasant, you can either resist or remember that it contains both positive and negative aspects. Anytime you categorize something as all bad, you inhibit yourself from perceiving...
by Merci Gracia | Nov 26, 2014 | Create Your Reality
“Everyone’s doing the best they can considering the story they’re telling themselves.” Jay Lalezari. According to Noam Chomsky, there are only perceptual realities and these are unique to each person. Quantum theory confirms this with the axiom...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 8, 2014 | Appreciation
You are the captain of your own private ship, continuously sailing the waterways of life. You can’t always predict the conditions: sometimes there’s too much wind, sometimes too little. Occasionally you’ll have issues with your vessel that require...