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On Aug 23, 2022 Susan wrote on Lessons On My 70th Birthday, by Kevin Kelly:
On Aug 23, 2022 Susan wrote on Lessons On My 70th Birthday, by Kevin Kelly:
On Aug 22, 2022 Susan wrote on Lessons On My 70th Birthday, by Kevin Kelly:
On Aug 20, 2022 Susan B. wrote on Fishing Before You Know How To Fish, by Courtney Martin:
On Aug 11, 2022 Susan B. wrote on The Opponent Relationship Is Not A Contest, by Shannon Lee:
On Jun 21, 2022 Susan wrote on Pay Attention To A Sense Of Space, by Rob Burbea:
On Aug 27, 2020 Susan wrote on Glory And Terror Of It, by Irina Tweedie:
On Jan 16, 2019 Susan wrote on Signals Even GPS Cannot Detect, by Aylie Baker:
On Jan 16, 2019 susan wrote on Signals Even GPS Cannot Detect, by Aylie Baker:
Relying on our internal compass... trusting our intuition... allowing space (patience, time, listening) to others and our environment... engaging with others and our environment... allowing these to guide us, is almost a radical thought/ideal/action today! Thank you for this wonderfully and thoughtfully written article to remind me this early afternoon in southeast China!
On Dec 18, 2018 susan wrote on How Observation Changes Relationships, by Vimala Thakar:
This is really powerful for me. I have experienced this observer role and my behavior and response, and have been able to adjust in the morment and respond more positively. I have also failed and experienced the residual feelings that the author describes. It is plain and simply awareness. My awareness is still growing. I can see the impact on the relationship with myself and others... very cool!
On Sep 18, 2018 Susan wrote on The Question Of Being, by Adyashanti:
To me we are all at different places in our walk in this life. I was put off the article by the authors writing,
"The fact that most people do not see life this way testifies to how deeply asleep and in denial they truly are."
It is a judgment statement.
As I am living and being in a different country, in a different culture, people do things differently. I am finding we are basically the same, just different. Everyone's journey is different and self discovery for each of us will be different...
On Sep 18, 2018 Susan wrote on The Work Of Love Is To Love, by Mark Nepo:
Wow, loved this read! Such a wonderful thing to begin my day with here in my world. A reminder of love in everything, of doing the small things with great love! The analogy of the conch shell and our whole being and the universe... of the holding and listening and the challenge to us all for compassion.
On Aug 31, 2018 Susan wrote on Sense Of Self Is An Essential Skill Of Mind, by Paul Fleischman:
Wow, this is a thought provoking essay; thank you.
True, we, none of us, can abandon or forget our 'self'.
I guess for me, in my continuing to grow up in this life, it is a balance of humility (that helps me engage more deeply with others and enables better empathy within), and the care and love of me much like that which I work within myself to cultivate for others. I seem to be balancing this with increased awareness of my internal responses to others and pausing and feeling and allowing for understanding of others and myself in these situations. Also, the realization and experience of the larger world really does drive home the sameness of us all which has humbled me rightly.
Your term 'internal executive' is one I am not familiar with and cannot seem to find specific information on the almight worldwide web, though I feel I understand what you are referring to.
On Aug 31, 2018 Susan wrote on Bedrock On Which We All Stand, by J. Krishnamurti:
Wow, this is a pretty cool story! Relates also to last weeks reading by Timber Hawkeye and the question in his thought on wrongs and understanding, empathising with those that do the perceived wrong... and then here you are connecting it to wholeness, wow, good stuff!
The situation you approached worked out somehow for you and the old man - happily.
I struggle with stepping in or stepping up these days, when I see a wrong. I'm a pretty plain spoken person and fierce about fairness and doing right. I've picked up a few peoples stuggles in an effort and with desire to help a situation. For me, I'm in a pausing mode at present, when I witness perceived wrongs. Living in a different country and culture and interacting with others from round the world, gives ways to many, many different perspectives on right and wrong, good and bad... I appreciate your attempt to do right and bring right and calm and a broader vision/perspective to the situation here in your story.
Susan
On Aug 24, 2018 Susan wrote on Fueled By Love, by Timber Hawkeye:
Personal responsibility... I value it, and live by it, too.
On Aug 24, 2018 Susan wrote on Bedrock On Which We All Stand, by J. Krishnamurti:
I have been living in a new country now for two years. I am wowed at how many things though different, are the same.
I am from the San Francisco Bay Area and I am living in another 'bay area' in South East China in Zhejiang province - there's a bay and a harbor, and commerce, but it's different. As I move about my city, there are many plants that are the same and though I'm in a different place, the familiarity makes my new city feel friendlier. As I enjoy the different food here in China, I am wowed at the spices and ingredients of which many are the same that I have cooked with back home, yet the culinary outcome is different.
I am a teacher here in China and I see families that love and care for their kids. I observe families enrolling kids in activities, mom's and aunties and grannies picking up and dropping kids off, just like back home in the bay area where we love our kids and want to give them what we think they need to be successful.
The recognition of so many similarities, of so much 'same-ness' really gives way to empathy, to learning to let go of the differences and to simply accept and welcome others in to my life. This recognition and living in community in this new city, is also teaching me that for all our differences, we are more the same than imagined.
On Aug 20, 2018 SUSAN wrote on Fueled By Love, by Timber Hawkeye:
It's a beautiful thing to be so aware as to be able to pause, to empathise, and to understand why someone hates, hurts, is racist, etc.
I fall short of this empathy far to often, I'm afraid. I feel so fierce about fairness - fair treatment of others. I am tending to just become quiet especially now with the challenges politically in my home country, America, when I read or hear terrible talk about immigrants, about race, etc. For me my 'right and wrong' are really clear to me and I have sincere difficulty understanding this idea of protection or protecting with racism, or any 'ism' really.
For me the real deal is being more loving within myself, to myself and others, to be of meaningful service to someone else daily, to be accepting and loving in my words and deeds... to be my best self, better and better in every way every day... and when I fall short, I remember that tomorrow is a new day!
On Jun 28, 2018 SUSAN wrote on Where's Your Umbrella?, by Nazeer Ahmed:
Sad, real life story reflected in comments by Ranuath in 2017 here and still in many places in the world... water is such a precious resource. I can recall living in an area of Japan as a young girl where water was scarce. We would have to fill our bath tubs and large containers with water to bathe and flush toilets. We had to collect drinking water from natural sources and treat it for drinking. When it would rain, in celebration my family would run out in the rain without any umbrellas, and play in the downpours!
For me the story is also a metaphor for scarcity and expecting and visualizing abundance. I live in a foreign country and am a newcomer. My mantra for meeting new people and for doing and seeing new things, is to be open to new things an dpeople and to say 'yes' to all invitations and opportunities... I expect and hope them to pour in!
On Mar 31, 2018 susan wrote on Do A Nice Thing For Your Future Self, by Elizabeth Gilbert:
I love that you do this!
Me, too! It feels so far it good to come home to all the goodness in my space!
On Sep 13, 2022 Susan wrote on On Love, by Justin Faerman: