Rachel Talley

Fruit-The Best Medicine!

"After I had overcome all fear as to the fatal consequences that would befall me if I failed to adhere strcitly to "scientific protein" necessities, I found, experienced and demonstrated the hitherto unknown and unbelieveable fact that in the clean, mucus-free, and poison free body these foods, poorest in protein-fruits-develop the highest energy and an unbelieveable endurance."

-Arnold Ehret

by Rachel Talley

The Meaning of Maturity

"The meaning of maturity which we should develop in ourselves is that we should strive always to become simpler, kinder, more honest, more trustful, more peace, loving, more gentle, and more compassionate."

-Albert Schweitzer, 1950.

by Rachel Talley

Empathy

"Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable. defuse potential violence, help us hear the word "no" without taking it as rejection, revive a lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence. Time and again people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. in book
"Non-Violent Communication"

by Rachel Talley

From Negative to Positive

Know who you are and what your life is about.
It's about the loving, it's about the Light, it's about joy.
And when you come across hurt and pain and destruction, what do you do?

If it's in your level of concern, meaning on your way andyou can't avoid it, you must deal with it. Deal with it withthe consciousness of Light and love and healing.

We deal with negativity not by becoming negative, but by being positive and holding into the positive, which converts the negativity. Negativity is transmuted by the force of the Light and the love, which is a constant positive force.

- John Morton (From: "Choose You This Day" on the NDH http://www.newdayherald.org/template.php3?ID=570)"Letting Go, Letting God" class with John Morton on theInternet - Saturday August 19th, 1:00 p.m. pacific daylight time at http://www.msia.org/live

by Rachel Talley

10 Signs of Inner Peace

1) A tendency to think/act spontaneously (ratherthan find a fear or worry what others think
2) Unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
3) A loss of interest in judging other people
4) A loss of interest in interpreting or comparing actions of others
5) A loss of interest in conflict
6) A loss of ability to worry
7) Frequent episodes of overwhelming appreciation
8) Frequent bouts of smiling
9) Increase in tendency to let things happen rather than make things happen
10) Increased susceptibility to the love offeredby others and the urge to extend it.

-John Morton, Spiritual Director for the Institute for Individual and World Peace

by Rachel Talley

Staying in the Present

"When you stay present, in the moment, taking careof what comes your way to the best of yourability, keeping your heart open, and asking forSpirit's assistance and blessing in all that you do or say, then you are in good territory."

-John Roger,"Loving Each Day for Peacemakers", p. 220 - 221

by Rachel Talley

Letting Love Lead

When I talk about letting love lead, I'm referring to a very
profound inner movement that comes from the depth of our
being. Putting love in charge is not how we normally live;
usually, we let our reactions and ego lead us. Though love
is all around us, we seldom give it our full attention;
there are so many other places where we focus our energy.

It's amazing how easy it is to give up our loving nature.
We're conditioned to deriving our worth from outside
ourselves - from what other people think of us, from what we
achieve materially, from what we look like. "I don't really
know who I am," we may say to ourselves, "but if these
people love me, I must be okay."

That's another example of living life from the outside in.
It's an empty promise, because if, in the next moment,
people stop loving you, or don't look at you the way you
want them to, you will no longer feel okay. When others
withdraw their love, you find yourself withdrawing, too, and
contracting. Contraction is a kind of pulling back -
physically, emotionally, or mentally - that closes us down
to life.

The objective of letting love lead is to move you to a state
of expansion, of opening to life and fully embracing it.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 21-22)

by Rachel Talley

Observing Without Evaluating

I have been reading a book called "Nonviolent Communication." It has helped me to understand the importance of how we see our world and what interpretation we give to it. This is an excellent poem that teaches us to observe the world around us but we don't have to evaluate it.

"I can handle your telling me what I did or didn't do.
And I can handle your interpretations but please don't mix the two.

If you want to confuse any issue, I can tell you how to do it:
Mix together what I do with how you react to it.

Tell me your disappointed with the unfinished chores you see,
But calling me "irresponsible" in no way motivates me.

And tell me that you're feeling hurt when I say "no" to your advances,
But calling me a frigid man won't increase your future chances.

Yes, I can handle your telling me what I did or didn't do,
And I can handle your interpretations but please don't mix the two."

-Marshall Rosenberg

by Rachel Talley

Unselfishness and LOVE!

I have finally found time to post more on this page. Someone emailed this to our homeschool group and I really liked what it had to say. Email me your comments about it. I would LOVE to learn what your ideas are. It really opened my mind more to alot of things I have already been pondering and praying about.

"If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love." (I wonder what virtue good people today would say is the highest?) He goes on to say, "The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

"It may be asked what practical use there is in the speculations which I have been indulging. I can think of at least one such use. It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often of too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour's glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious think to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. . . . There are not ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. . . . But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. . . . our charity must be a real and costly love with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

by Rachel Talley