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Reality
- it's closer than you think!
The word 'seminar'
comes from the Latin 'semin' for seed
and is about people meeting to learn and grow under tuition.
The following is a copy
of the orientation sheet
handed to participants of a recent event in London
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Welcome to realitychecker Namaste.
The purpose of this seminar is to affirm
being present here and now and now and now. Of course,
you say, "I am, here", so are you affirming the sheer
beauty, ease, stillness and divinity of this wonderful state?
If you are not enjoying your being, fully, you have the potential
of using this space to do so. We can support each other in switching
off from worldly matters and switch on to simply being. Where
I am coming from sets the stage for how I am now, at ease or dis-ease,
which sets the direction to where I am heading. So today I intend
having, at least, an interlude. How about you - are you ready
for some realitychecking? Namaste: which means - I honour
the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honour the
place in you of love, of truth, of peace. I honour the place within
you where, if you are in that place in you and I am in that place
in me, there is only one of us. One - I !
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont
feel insecure about you. You were born to manifest the glory that
is within us. Its not just in some of us, its in everyone.
And as we let our a light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberate others."
Nelson Mandela quoting Marianne Williamson
"The fullness of time is here and now, and
Spring does not last forever. It is time to gather my energy and
walk through the confusions and paradoxes, the opposing pulls
and contradictory challenges, the desires and attachments, needs
and programmes, and all kinds of fears and blocks and "get
it on". This means getting centred on a path that is chosen
for no better reason, and no worse, than that my intuition says,
"it feels right".
Rivers, from Dwellings
"Hes here but hes not here.
He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be further up
the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because
he will be "here." What he is looking for, what he wants
is all around him but he doesn't want that because it is
all around him. Every step is an effort, both physically and spiritually,
because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
Pirsig, from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Until one is committed there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all
acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that moment when one definitely commits oneself then Providence
moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise
never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
the decision raising in ones favour. All manner of unforeseen
incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could
have dreamt could have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethes
couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
W. H. Murray
By attending this seminar you
agree that you are your own authority and therefore are fully
responsible for your self and will neither blame others, nor disclose
any confidential material that they may share. The seminar is
for welcoming the present, so dont expect to get anything,
instead let go, surrender. It is the attachment to getting, having
and wanting that obscures - being, right now. For a change of
pace, please dont try to fix anything. Let natural being,
be enough. Thank you, Namaste.
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