Tiler Thoughts
Well, I’ve joined the computer age and am engaging in this new way to communicate. I wanted to do it because we are all doing so many wonderful things and having such powerful insights that I wanted to allow them all to connect.
Check this out, this was sent to me by Anton Troy in the Thursday night acting class:
The process of spiritual development is an expansion, and this expansion is brought about by the widening of the outlook. The outlook depends upon the attitude of mind. If a mind is focused to thinking of small things, then this process of widening the outlook will not be completed. … Spiritual progress is the lifting of the consciousness in order that the consciousness may expand to perfection. Therefore it is a continual work of trying to look into a wider sphere. By this attitude a person, without learning to be spiritual, will naturally become spiritual; his outlook on life will become different. Little things that people take to heart will seem to him of little importance; things that people become confused with will become clear to him; things that matter so much to everyone will not matter to him. Many things that frighten and horrify people will not have the same effect upon him; disappointments and failures will not take away his hope and courage. His thought, speech and action, as his outlook becomes wide, so everything he says or does will be different. What we call nobleness, that natural nobleness which belongs to the soul, will blossom.
~~~ “Sangatha I, Ta’lim”, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Yes, this is really powerful stuff. We all need to look at the bigger picture, that is why acting is so great because it shows us what it is like to live through the eyes of another and therefore discover more about who we are. Now in looking at who we are, we may find things we do not like, and many use that as an excuse to not look in the first place. It is not an excuse because we all are responsible for our past our present and our future. We have the power to do the work, but there are blocks, there is fear and there is our conditioning. A client said to me today in regards to acting: “It’s uncomfortable, but I like it” The discomfort is to be expected, acting is a metaphor for life, the struggles, the joys, the peaks and valleys – but it sure beats the hell out of ________ yeah that’s a flatline.
With the dynamic act of self-searching, spiritual and creative work one of my friends said that “along with the nightmares, you get the Goodies”
I like that.
June 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
It was put so beautifully in a book I just finished reading (The Knowledge By “Don Miguel Ruiz”) –
“The best moments in your life are when you are authentic, when you are being yourself. When you are in your creation and doing what you love to do, you become what you really are again. You are not thinking in that moment, you are expressing. Your emotions are coming out and you feel great.
Also from this book I found this phrase which I thought really pertains to acting.
“The truth is not in the story. The truth is in the power that creates the story.”
June 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Many times when asked what sparked the change in my mind and my behavior I wasn’t able to put into words all my thoughts and feeling, but now with that passage, everything was put into simple and yet very powerful words. Those who have this awareness make life simple and in my eyes simplicity can be the key to achieving a higher level of understanding and acceptance of life. May we all achieve such levels one day. But do not rush to achieve it because rushing creates tension; and as I was once told tension will stop any forward progress so instead let it flow and enjoy the process.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Every being has a definite vocation, and his vocation is the light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is a lamp unlit. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
June 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow
Don’t Die with your music still in you.
Be enthusiastic about all that you do. Have that passion with the awareness that the word enthusiasm literally means “the God (enthos) within (iasm).” The passion that you feel is God inside of you beckoning you to take the risk and be your own person.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
June 19th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I wanted to list some of my favorite quotes -
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trails – Chinese Proverb
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Allophanes Karr
There is no transference of secrets from master to disciple. Teaching is not difficult, listening in not difficult either, but what is truly difficult is to become conscious of what you have in yourself and be able to use it as your own. – Kenneth Beittel
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow. But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides. – Robert Pirsig
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. – Rainer Maria Rike
June 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
He then learns that going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson