Category Archives: Reflections

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~ Gratitude for the body~

What an exquisite pleasure to move within my body! My thoughts and feelings swirl, but I take a deep breath and focus on my body. It is my constant companion, my loyal servant, and my trusted guide.

I am grateful for my body’s strength, endurance, and flexibility. It sustains me, even when I am tired. It gives me courage, even when I am afraid. It is carnal and temporary, but it is also an inspiration and miracle. I am amazed by the way my body can transform itself through exercise and diet. It is a testament to the power of the human body.

I often value my thoughts and shelter my emotions, but my body, present in the moment, carries both. It is through my body that I experience the world, with all its beauty and pain. This is a gift, and I must not take it for granted.

My body is here in the present moment, serving me with its own delights. I can feel the sun on my skin, the wind in my hair, and the taste of coffee on my tongue and the smoothing flow of soft music into my ears. I am spoiled by my senses, and I am grateful for each and every one.

My body will communicate its own state of health through pain, tension, and tiredness. I must just take time to listen. I must honor my body’s needs and give it the care it deserves; the nurturing needed to function optimally with elegance and grace.

The body also gives me the pleasure of fitness and mobility; needed to breathe and to navigate this physical world. I breathe deeply and relax in the comfort of my body. I am more grateful than ever for this energy serving me.

Are you listening to your body? Stop criticizing your body with a negative body image. Take the time today to thank your body for it’s service through some love and pampering.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved.

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Compassion through unity

I still have to make steady progress on my journey of self-mastery. I allowed myself recently to be upset by a few words of unbiased accusation. I did not react vehemently, but I did lash out with my tongue and, in the process, closed myself off from giving and receiving intimacy. In hindsight and reflection, I realize that I could have handled the situation better. I could have remained open in love, inviting and accepting, even in the face of conflict and hostility.

There is nothing wrong with explaining or setting things right during a disagreement. In fact, it might even be considered a duty to clear things up. But these are mere words, and no reason to close off and protect the sensitive ego. In fact, the ego, established on a firm basis of integrity, balance, and harmony, should stand erect and unmoved under any load.

Reason compels me to continue to remain open in love, inviting and accepting, in spite of conflict and hostility. My soul’s nature, where everything is connected, will always be an expression of divine love. I need to express more of this love through my heart center. The heart is not weak, but it is strong and resilient in its expression of love. I must express that love and acceptance fearlessly. I must express that love with courage and wisdom.

Maybe this is where the rune EH and the rune LAF are to be embraced. The bindrune, EH and LAF, is the expression of compassion through mystic union. I believe that the bindrune EH and LAF can help me on my journey. It is a symbol of the power of love, and it reminds me that I am never alone. When I feel disconnected, I can look to the bindrune for guidance and strength to restore my connection with fellow-kindness.

Compassion and unity are keys to self-mastery. When we are able to open our hearts to others, we are able to see them with clarity and understanding. We are also able to see ourselves more clearly, and to accept ourselves for who we are.

Connected compassion the strength to see the good in others, even when they are perceived difficult. It is the ability to see the good in ourselves, even when we have made mistakes.

I hope that this reflection has given you some food for thought. If you are also on a journey of self-mastery, I encourage you to remember the power of love and compassion. These are the qualities that will help you to express your true authentivity and achieve your highest potential.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved.

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Letting Go of Attachments to Move Forward

I continue on my quest for deeper meaning in my life. I realize it will take more sacrifice as I cut away what no longer serves me. I’m really looking at shifting my priorities. Sadly, some things I treasure that helped me in the past have reached their expiry date, and I have to let go. Letting go is difficult because over time I have built up an attachment to things, people, thoughts, organizations, and ideas that have served me so well. Yet, these things can also be precisely the things that keep me from progress.

I want to write more, do more, and experience more. I need to look at my life philosophies and color them from a deeper truth that takes me to the next level. I am constantly aware that time is so very short in this lifetime. I feel a burning agency compelling me forward to strengthen my thoughts in virtue and my deeds in purpose. I am determined to cut away the waste that prevents progress and seek new sources of energy that can take me forward in life. I will not always have the luxury of my present day to be able to write, ponder, contemplate, and most importantly, to do.

Time wasted can never be recovered while effort towards a good cause is never wasted. When time is used well, it is a bountiful crop. In time, we build our confidence in what is, not in what lies in the future. The future is the magnet that pulls us along, which makes us realize that we cannot take our attachments with us when we want to venture into uncharted territory. When I step out of my comfort zone, I need to have only what I need to be agile and flexible.

I understand the struggle with letting go of attachments. It is difficult to let go of things that we have invested so much time and energy into. But sometimes, these attachments are holding us back from growth and progress.

I think it is important to be aware of our attachments and to challenge them when they are holding us back. We need to ask ourselves if these attachments are really serving us in the way that we think they are. Are they helping us to live our best lives? Or are they holding us back from our dreams?

If we decide that an attachment is no longer serving us, then we need to be brave enough to let it go. It is not easy, but it is possible. And it is often the only way to move forward.

I am still on my own journey of letting go. But I am learning that it is possible to let go of attachments without losing the value of the experiences that we have had. We can still appreciate the past, even if we are not attached to it. And we can still move forward, even if we have to leave some things behind.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved

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Decorating inner space

Let me enter the space within. With all my being, I walk through the inner chambers of my mind. What a beautiful place to visit! Equanimity decorates the walls, and sincerity is the thick carpet for me to walk barefoot on. Yes, I took my worldly shoes off before entering the sacred space of well-being, contemplation, contentment, and acceptance.

I love the lush gardens of my inner world and exploring its beauty and intricacies. The growing stems formed, by the virtues I treasure, grow well to form a hedge of protection, a firm boundary that keeps this most mystical and sacred place alive and well. So many life experiences have helped to make this an extraordinary landscape for me to enjoy and to walk slowly through the corridors of my mind.

The air I breathe is love and care. I gently look at the pictures in front of me and allow the peace to wash over me. Here, there is a reassuring intercom that is ever unperturbed. I stay for a little bit longer to absorb it fully and make the space part of my being for the rest of the day.

I truly am here now, grateful to be present and accepting what is as it is.

Don’t neglect your inner world. Take today a break from the rush of the world and enjoy your inner world. If your inner world does not bring you beauty then remember that you are the creator of your inner world. Begin today to reshape and reframe your space of being.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved.

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Conscious questioning

Where will my mind take me? What journey will be my destiny? How deep and wide can my creativity go? Is there a limit to what I can be, what I can achieve, attain? Should I not live with more questions than answers?

Too often I am busy creating solutions and finding answers. Too often I am too busy to allow the questions to surface. To question, we must allow ourselves to become comfortable in the unknown. On the precipice of discovery, we have no answers, and when an answer surfaces, we are no longer at the boundary between the known and unknown. Should I not continue to explore the questions rather than the answers? If the questions are still filled with so much unlimited potential, how exciting will the day be when I just go off to question everything?

The questions allow the inner child to return and play in the world where there is endless freedom to play. What will I ask? How will I explore? Why am I doing what I am doing? The trap is to be so arrogant in our knowing that we stop asking the questions. We limit ourselves by our fixation on our truths rather than breaking its chains to discover deeper, more profound perspectives on truth.

Let us be bold enough to dare venturing on a quest of conscious questioning, so that our fixed paradigms melt and our inner creativity sparks again into a vibrant flame of pioneering deep into the uncharted world of the unknown and the impossible. New truths awake to be discovered.

© Jurgens Pieterse