Archive for November, 2009

Inviting You & Yours to ToMePeaceIs.com

The press release says this website is the brainchild of inner peace activist Dr. Susan Corso. For many years, I have looked for an organization to which to devote my peacework. There are some wonderful ones out there. At last it came to me that I needed to begin something much simpler than what I was finding out there.

Because you are a reader of these pages, you know that I believe that peace is the only goal every single living being can agree upon. Where we have trouble agreeing is upon how to get there.

So, today we are launching …

ToMePeaceIs.com

It’s a simple website designed to help you begin to create the habit of inner peace. The single page will take you to a community page on Squidoo. Then, for 21 days, finish the sentence To me, peace is …

(Maxwell Maltz discovered that it takes 21 days to form the new neural pathways in your brain which begin to create a habit.)

The point here is that what inner peace is to you
changes all the time! Sometimes every minute. If you will commit to finding out what inner peace is to you at any given moment, you will naturally be contributing to peace in relationships and peace on the planet.

All peace starts with inner peace.

Won’t you join me and invite those you love to join us on ToMePeaceIs.com?

Grand Theory of Self

Seeds XI, 48

Seed: Grand Theory of Self

In that same issue of Parabola, Margaret Pierpont, a student of insight meditation since 1991, writes of her experience on retreat.

She laments “the way the mind spins a web of thought, feeling, body image, and identity out of a fundamental discomfort, or pleasure.” Sitting zazen, she discovers that she’s simply hungry.

She is further dismayed. “I began to see how voluntary simplicity and stillness of outer form revealed the lack of stillness and volition within.” Ouch.

Then she nails herself. I was “unable to let fleeting impressions go by without elaborating them into a grand theory about myself.”

Sound familiar? It’s called story-telling, story-spinning, story-building—and we all do it. The poor woman was just hungry, and did she create a tale to tell about it!

The next time you catch yourself evidence-gathering so you can tell a good story, check in with your deepest needs. You might just be hungry, which needs no grand theory at all.

Go into the kitchen and eat with thanksgiving.

Be joy,

Susan Corso

Dr. Susan Corso

Seeds are remarkable gifts. Sown in consciousness, they bring you to the most important part of your being—your Divine Spark.

Check out the Seeds Archive for past messages of inspiration.

 

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New Computer—ish

It has taken some good long time but at last my computer is on the way to health. It seems a perfect metaphor as we approach Thanksgiving.

As you know, I had an IT person who turned out to be less than stellar, shall we say. The process muddied my thinking so that’s why this took so long. Anyway, a dear, responsible computer wizard arrived last night and took everything off my computer. Then he installed the newest version of Windows (7) and now I’m back on a steep learning curve with my own machinery.

The best news is that there are no longer three users on my computer! Yep, three. Even though I’m the only one who has ever used it. Here’s what the other person had done: whenever something didn’t work right, he did a workaround. Not a bad solution necessarily, but a devastating one when there are workarounds around workarounds around workarounds.

The other IT person was self-taught. He knew how to create workarounds like nobody’s business which is great when you are working on your own computer. No problem. But when you’re working on someone else’s computer, workarounds can really bollix up the works.

Someone commented recently, “It’s like your computer was full of wads of bubblegum.”

So how does one person with one computer end up with three users? C’mon, tell the truth, do you really want to know?

The amazing thing is that I know, and I could explain it, but why?

The more important thing is that even though the configuration is far from done, I am awash in gratitude—appropriate for Thanksgiving week. What really happened here?

Three parts of me have been integrated into one whole me—is the simplest explanation. It’s the metaphor anyway. I’ve been doing some deep healing work around my health lately, and this feels like a kind of liberation into the simplicity and speed that a truly healthy person/computer needs.

So after the Macy’s Parade and seeing Santa—a must on Thanksgiving Day—I will be spending some time climbing into my new technical reality, and singing silly, little gratefulness songs as I do so.

How’s about you?

What makes you sing gratitude?