Comments on: Letters From Readers: Best Decision or Careless Risk?

By: sajal nandy

sajal nandy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:15:20 +0000

GO, LISIS … GO …
Whatever preparations you could have make for your life, surprise will always stand there to dispose your plans. So?? Isn’t my favorite, Dostoyevsky right ??… take life as it comes and life lies in the heart not in the brain.
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By: Lisis

Lisis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:15:39 +0000

@ Wilma: One of my favorite zen sayings is: Never underestimate the power of the ego to lead one astray, no matter how far along the spiritual path one has come.

That is a very real issue we’ll have to deal with. Having spent a life as over-achievers and success-seekers, it’s going to take some getting used to when we kindly step down for the treadmill of life and just stop to look around. But deep down, in our hearts, we KNOW what is right and, more importantly, we know the life we do NOT want to be living. So we’ll forge a way that is more authentic for us.

I imagine your business is very love based because you seem like such a warm, caring and compassionate soul. I feel truly blessed whenever you visit.

By: wilma ham

wilma ham — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:37:00 +0000

How you are going to live makes far more sense than living how most people live. They live in fear, trying to make life secure with a paycheck and insurance and never giving it a thought that they give their own power away to a system that is not trustworthy or reliable anyway.
In this new way of living, you are taking responsibility for yourself, you don’t expect anybody else to provide and the interesting part is that you allow a far bigger and trustworthy network , called the universe, to actually partner you.
I think it is a win/win all round, your decision is a no brainer.
We have detached ourselves as much as we can, growing veggies and working from home building our own love based business and we are healthy, totally in love with every day we live.
BUT there is one thing, the ego who has been the captain for a long time, is not always coperative and can sometimes bring up fear in a way you would not believe. However there are now such good logical explanations for the other way of living that I can quieten the ego down more and more successfully much faster.
wilma ham´s last blog ..How mother and daughter manage the fear driven corporate world.

By: Lisis

Lisis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:35:16 +0000

@ Kaushik: Yes, yes, yes!! I love this part.. “Then we realize a certain rightness about living, a flow, a oneness with everything there is. There is no feeling that is more secure than this.”

@ Zeenat: I think it’s wonderful that you have found your true calling, the thing you were meant to do. I always felt I didn’t have a calling, except maybe to be a mom, or a Ben & Jerry’s flavor tester… but this blog is starting to feel a little calling-ish. I’m growing into it, and it’s becoming part of me, and connecting me with all of you. Kinda cool… although I haven’t given up on my flavor tester dreams.

@ Lena: Thank you. That’s precisely what we aim to do here, keep our spirit alive!

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:13:55 +0000

I admire your courage in doing this. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith to really keep your spirit alive.
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