Our Lives Bear our Signature

When we produce a thought, it bears our signature… 

Right thinking is the thinking that goes along with understanding, compassion and insight…

Everything we say is also a product of our person… Our words can cause damage.  So with mindfulness we may enjoy producing only right speech, the kind of speech that goes along with understanding, compassion, joy, and forgiveness…

Our physical actions also bear our signature.  Whatever we do that helps protect life, helps people to suffer less, and expresses cur comprehension and compassion is a right action

                                                                                                     Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation, p. 21

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right thoughts, produce

right words, produce

right actions

there is a beautiful simplicity here that we seem to have forgotten

we often try to start with action

we try to change out behaviors

but too much else is unchanged, leaving us angry and bitter

we try to control our words

but surprise!

they seem to have a life of their own

no, it all goes back to right thinking,

back past right thinking,

to where right thinking comes from

our hearts, our souls

to that place which makes us who we are

sometimes wonderful

sometimes terrible

that deep place, where Sacred dwells

is what shapes everything

and makes us who we are

it is that place that ultimately determines our actions

in the Bible it is written

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength

indeed!

But how?

Jesus said (in essence)

Connect to the vine

which is the same as saying

keeping going to that place within

where Sacred dwells

your life is determined

from the inside

out