The Meaning Is You: Recent Comments

Comment on Ten Check Points to Improve Your Life (and mental health)

2009-11-08T22:12:40Z

Thank you. Very well said.
No matter how you feel about your habits, your experiences, your beliefs only you can choose to make that first step to change. No one can choose, or make, that first step for you.

Gilles

Comment on Ten Check Points to Improve Your Life (and mental health)

2009-11-03T02:43:02Z

My life experiences have taught me that every one of the ten points you have listed are valid. In fact, in some cases I have been a hard learner who had the same lesson presented to me over and over again. Happiness is a choice we make between our ears over and over again every day of our lives.

Comment on Expectations and Happiness

2009-09-24T05:47:13Z

I really like this article, usually I don't browse the web much. I've been feeling really off lately and everything that I've put my heart into always seeem to not go right, I came across your site on askyahoo.com and your site is very inspiring. It help me realized a lot and hopefully ill continue to pick myself up each time I fall.

Comment on Being All That Is

2009-01-22T01:36:02Z

Thank you for your comment.

Being is total awareness in the NOW, before our minds can formulate thought and create illusions of understanding.

Truth is a powerful word.

There is no universal truth. I only know my truth.

Words are illusions with which we communicate with our selves and others.

Since thought and words are the same, I like to approach words with "I believe" or "Here is how I think" or "Here's one way to look at it."

Our mind becomes a tool that "I" directs to create. The "Being" that is "I" is no longer slave to the illusions created by an uncontrolled and randomly drifting mind.

At least, that is the way I see it.

Gilles

Comment on Being All That Is

2009-01-22T00:41:10Z

Your words are so powerful as they are truth.

I am not my body.
I am not the thought I think.
I am not my deeds and accomplishments.
I am the gift of life for this body.

Thank you.

Comment on Expectations

2008-12-06T17:43:11Z

Thank you Lori, for the kind comments.

I haven't been writing much lately. The 90 or so articles on this site are the result of my own personal struggles to make sense of life. I'm happy that others can find something to help them too.

Years ago, I read about NLP and other psychologies that I found interesting. More recently I have been greatly influenced by the writings of Eckhart Tolle (The New Earth).

How we expect the world to behave is often the cause of many of our own problems.

We cannot change the world, but we can change how we respond to it. We cannot change what happens around us, but we can change those ideas about how we think the world should behave, our expectations,

Gilles

Life happens now.

Comment on Expectations

2008-12-06T02:48:45Z

You know, I just found this particular
entry this evening. I had tagged this blog for my favorites probably back in July when you wrote this. Tonight for some reason I looked at it and read it aloud to my husband. We nodded, we smiled..we loved it. It meant something to us..at this moment.

So I am taking this time to let you know. That something you scribbled several months ago touched people in Buffalo who forwarded it on to those that we feel will appreicate it.

Thanks for your inspiring thoughts. I will check back frequently for some fresh perspective. Take care, Lori

Comment on Awakening

2008-12-03T18:04:15Z

Thank you Chris.

I haven't added too much to this blog recently. I felt that I had said what I wanted to say in the 90 or so articles. I am glad that someone is still finding usefulness in the articles.

Gilles

Comment on Awakening

2008-12-03T08:22:08Z

Your articles are beyond fascinating. I cannot even explain how much they have meant to me. I waste so much time of the day thinking, thinking, thinking of answers to the endless questions I have, questions that cannot be answered. These articles are helping me change that. Know that at least one more person has read them, and been touched. Thank you endlessly.

Comment on Tricks of The Mind

2008-07-21T06:42:45Z

This very good, the more I read of this blog, the more I like it. Thiis totally on track, sensible and in a way reminds me of Krishnamurthi material but without feeling like I've just been sledge hammered.

Logical Jnana that is based in Being, not becoming this or that, just Being

Very very nice