Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone and an awesome New Year!

Your two cents: what is karma

Hi everyone

In preparation for next year's topic "Karma in everyday life", I would like to get an idea of your perception of what karma is (or isn't).  Hopefully this will give me an idea of which areas I will need to cover for the topic to be relevant.  

Thanks!

Gratitude week # 3

This week we looked at a couple of quotes...one was relating to fear and how this may stop us from showing our gratitude to others. (I have received permission to post this from The Pacific Institute's publication 'Winner's Circle Network' just this afternoon...see below..)

The other quote related to developing a philosophy of life.

The philosophy of life seemed to require some more reflection and we will follow up on this on Saturday 6th...our final session for the 2008 year.

Look forward to sharing the pleasure of your company then!

In the mean time please consider what your fear may be costing you...

"I am fear.

I am the menace that lurks in the paths of your life, never visible to the eye but sharply felt in the heart.

I am the father of despair, the brother of procrastination, the enemy of progress, the tool of tyranny.

Born of ignorance and nursed on misguided thought, i have darkened more hopes, stifled more ambitions, shattered more ideals and prevented more accomplishments than history can record.

Like a changing chameleon, I assume many disguises.

I masquerade as caution.

I am sometimes known as doubt or worry.

But whatever I'm called, I am still fear, the obstacle of achievement.

I no no master but one; its name is Understanding.

I have no power but what the human mind gives me, and I vanish completely when the light of understanding reveals the facts as they really are, for I am really nothing."