Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
Frank Overton Th.M.
NCLMFT, NCLCMHC
Frank Overton Th.M, NCLMFT, NCLCMHC
819 Broad Street
Durham , NC 27705
ph: 919-450-7930
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There is a candle in your heart,
Ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
Ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
From the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,
Embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that
Love comes to you of its own accord,
And the yearning for it cannot be learned in any school.
— Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher)
(Source: permenantheadamage, via atom-storm)
❂ "Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you."
— Rumi
❂ "Anyone who genuinely and constantly with both hands looks for something, will find it."
— Rumi
❂ "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (via larmoyante)
(via lonelypath)
❂ "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
— Sigmund Freud (via larmoyante)
(via justspeakinthetruth)
❂ "Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, ‘The faithful are mirrors to one another.’"
— Rumi (via thelittlephilosopher)
(Source: ririnara)
❂ "The ego is a veil between humans and God."
— Jalal ad-Deen Rumi (Molavi)
(Source: islamic-art-and-quotes, via ririnara)
❂ "Notice how each particle moves.
Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.
Notice how each wants a different food.
Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all the streams stream toward the ocean."
— Rumi
❂ "Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you."
— Rumi
Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
JULY 31, 2013
1. Declare amnesty for the part of you that you don't love very well. Forgive that poor sucker. Hold its hand and take it out to dinner and a movie. Tactfully offer it a chance to make amends for the dumb things it has done.
And then do a dramatic reading of this proclamation by the playwright Theodore Rubin: "I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."
2. The greatest gift you can give might be the gift that you yourself were never given. Give that gift.
The most valuable service you have to offer your fellow humans may be the service you have always wished were performed for you. Offer that service.
An experience that wounded you could move you to help people who've been similarly wounded. Heal yourself by healing others.
3. Every seven years I do a performance art piece called A Pilgrimage to the Sacred Shopping Sites of North America. During one, I visited a store called Kosher Intifada in New York. There I had a consummate experience of apocalyptic delight. Shopping and spirituality converged, and for a brief interregnum, all contradictions were annihilated, all contraries harmonized.
On the holy ground of Kosher Intifada, I listened to the house band Yo Tifereth sing Hebrew lyrics and play Arabic tunes on the oud, darbuka, violin, and kanun. Later, a rabbi and imam took turns reciting prayers from their respective traditions. I bought a yarmulke decorated with Palestinian political symbols, a T-shirt that read "I Got Stoned on the West Bank," and the DVD of a musical comedy film West Bank Story, which portrays the love affair between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian cashier, whose parents operate competing falafel restaurants on the West Bank.
I'd love for you to have a comparable experience: an immersion in an eerie sanctuary where you're simultaneously entertained and confounded. It would provide a counterpoint for all the more excruciating and demanding manifestations of the shadow you have to endure. Find or create such a sweetly discomfiting thing.
4. In his book The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, psychologist James Hillman writes: "The question of evil refers primarily to the anaesthetized heart, the heart that has no reaction to what it faces, thereby turning the variegated sensuous face of the world into monotony, sameness, oneness."
What would you have to do in order to triumph over this kind of evil in yourself?
5. "The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset," wrote J. Krishnamurti. "The obstacle is the path," says the Zen proverb. What frustrating puzzle do you love the best?
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Your addiction is obstructing you from your destiny, and yet it's also your ally.
What?! How can both be true?
On the downside, your addiction diverts your energy from a deeper desire that it superficially resembles. For instance, if you're an alcoholic, your urge to get loaded may be an inferior substitute for and a poor imitation of your buried longing to commune with spirit.
On the upside, your addiction is your ally, because it dares you to get strong and smart enough to wrestle free of its grip; it pushes you to summon the uncanny willpower necessary to defeat the darkness within you that saps your ability to follow the path with heart.
(P.S. Don't tell me you have no addictions. Each of us is addicted to some sensation, feeling, thought, or action, if not to an actual substance.)
Extol your sublime, painful addiction—celebrate it to death. Ride it, spank it, kiss it, whip it.
Rob Brezsny
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“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
Kabir
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
| — | Carl Jung |
“ It is the recognition that “all things are lawful for me,” even if “not all are expedient,” but probably in a far wider sense than St. Paul ever intended. Stated boldly, if crudely, it is the insight that whatever we are just now, that is now what we should ideally be. This is the sense of the Zen Buddhist saying, “Your ordinary mind is the Tao,” the “ordinary mind” being the present, given state of consciousness, whatever its nature. For enlightenment, or accord with the Tao, remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are tests and standards of success. It is much rather freedom to be the failure that one is.Unlikely as it may seem, this outrageous and nonmoral freedom is the basis of all mental and spiritual wholeness, provided, I was about to say, that it seeks no result. But so full an acceptance includes also this seeking, along with just anything that one happens to be doing or feeling. The apparently extreme passivity of this acceptance is, however, creative because it permits one to be all of a piece, to be good, bad, indifferent“to be good, bad, indifferent, or merely confused, with a whole heart. To act or grow creatively we must begin from where we are, but we cannot begin at all if we are not “all here” without reservation or regret. Lacking self-acceptance, we are always at odds with our point of departure, always doubting the ground on which we stand, always so divided against ourselves that we cannot act with sincerity. Apart from self-acceptance as the groundwork of thought and action, every attempt at spiritual or moral discipline is the fruitless struggle of a mind that is split asunder and insincere. It is the freedom which is the essential basis of self-restraint.”
Excerpt From: Alan W. Watts. “Nature, Man and Woman.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/QJyaG.l
The central core of the experience seems to be the conviction, or insight, that the immediate now, whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of all living. Surrounding and flowing from this insight is an emotional ecstasy, a sense of intense relief, freedom, and lightness, and often of almost unbearable love for the world, which is, however, secondary. Often, the pleasure of the experience is confused with the experience and the insight lost in the ecstasy, so that in trying to retain the secondary effects of the experience the individual misses its point—that the immediate now is complete even when it is not ecstatic. For ecstasy is a necessarily impermanent contrast in the constant fluctuation of our feelings. But insight, when clear enough, persists; having once understood a particular skill, the facility tends to remain.
Alan W. Watts. “This Is It.” Vintage Books, 2011-10-05. iBooks.
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In the modern Western world, we seem to have developed to a very high level this ability to see what is wrong.
Ajahn Sumedho
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell
"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace-- not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth."
James Baldwin
from "The Fire Next Time"
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy; pure, creative energy.
There is an underlying indwelling creative force infusing all of life including ourselves.
When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the Creators creativity within us in our lives.
It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams we move toward our divinity.
From:The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
An article from The Soapbox- Railing Against AA Does a Disservice To Those Trying To Get Sober:
I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~ Goethe
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Frank Overton Th.M, NCLMFT, NCLCMHC
819 Broad Street
Durham , NC 27705
ph: 919-450-7930
frankove