Enlightened Living- Newsletter

Quotes for Enlightened Living, July 2014 by Mike Scozzari

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.” Carl Jung

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
- Albert Einstein

“A man once asked his father
"Father, how will i ever find the right woman?"
His father replied, “forget finding the right woman,
instead focus in being the right man.” - Unknown

“People will forget what you said … They will forget what you did … But
people will never forget how you made them feel” - Maya Angelou

For everyone caught up in conflict:
Deepak Chopra on Forgiveness

The reason that people cannot forgive is that their anger has worn
a deep groove in the mind, and like water seeking a downward slope, their
minds find this groove so easily that new channels of feeling cannot be
formed.

Learning to make a new groove for your feelings is the key. Once again,
the steps aren’t mystical. You can forgive anyone who has hurt you by
taking the following actions:

Choose the intent to forgive, even though your feelings are still hurt.
Have the intention to let new feelings come in. Encourage even the
slightest hints of a new feeling. Experience the old hurt and anger, but
always say, This isn’t me, This is not what I want anymore. Keep
challenging the old hurt with reasons why it should be replaced. Be
patients and let yourself experience both the old and the new feelings
until the old one begins to fade.

You will be working with yourself, privately but not alone.
Unhappiness is solitary; healing is not. Healing is bigger than
personality. When someone gets a cut, we don’t say, Maybe his skin will
heal, who knows? It all depends on the kind of person he is. Your skin
heals independently of who you are.

Psychologically healing works exactly the same way. You don’t have to be
nice, good, smart, or deserving. Yet how many of us secretly believe that
we should continue to suffer because we deserve to, or because we aren’t
nice enough, good enough, or smart enough to change?



The big difference between healing the skin and healing the mind is that
you have to participate in the latter. But this difference is not a
stumbling block once the healing gets under way. At the level of the soul
there lies an entire healing mechanism every bit as effective as the
body’s immune system. If you have the intention to heal, you give new
energy permission to come into you and clear away obstacles. - Adapted
from: Peace Is the Way, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2005)