Thinking Out Loud

I'm studying a bit about Yogis and I really like the idea they teach about how God is found within. In fact, they believe that if you can't find God within, you will never find him elsewhere. Additionally, once you find him within, you can't help but see him everywhere. I guess that is why yogis spend so much time meditating. They take the time to quiet their minds and commune with the universal, divine conscience. Meditation allows them to go within where they can attune themselves to the infinite. Additionally interesting is this idea that we have to travel to sacred places to find God. Not so, God is always with us. In fact, we can make any place a sacred place by simply worshipping there. No need to go to a temple, ashram, cave, grotto, meditation hall, if you are on a mountain, let that be your sacred spot. If you are in your room, let that be your hallowed location. These ideas remind me of the truth I discovered when I studied abroad in Israel. I thought that b...

Wherever you go, there you are. I asked my kids tonight what they thought that meant. We were eating dinner at Outback Steakhouse. I suppose it contains many meanings, but tonight I was struck by the fact that we can't run away from our problems because our problems aren't outside of us, they are within. Whenever we want to run or leave a difficult situation behind, we are really running from our own inability to handle the situation. If we want to make progress, real progress in the area of self-improvement, it behooves us to figure out what it is inside we need to really work on. I can leave my job because I don't enjoy the culture, or I can look within and figure out what is really going on. What's really the problem is that I'm not feeling valued. Sure I'm being compensated well, but for a lady hungry for words of affirmation, working without them is difficult. So I can leave and sure enough when I arrive somewhere else where I don't feel appreciated...