Vancouver, Saturday, January 23, Choose Again Workshop

Saturday January 23, 10am - 5pm in Vancouver, $150
Call Christie Dakin at 604 720 7093
See www.choose-again-vancouver.com for details

Diederik leads a workshop that is limited to 10 people as an introduction to the work that we do at the center. This time is totally interactive and personal. The purpose of the workshop is for each participant to learn to experience the peace of mind that comes from recognizing their intrinsic and unchangeable worth, and to then be able to make choices in their lives which lovingly reflect the person they truly are rather than the person they believed themselves to be.

Vancouver, Thursday, January 21st, Choose Again Open House

If you or friends or family would like to know more about the retreat, please come to our Open House in Vancouver to learn more about the program. You can ask questions in a casual atmosphere. Diederik and the rest of the staff will be there to answer any questions. Please RSVP, we have limited seating.

See www.choose-again-vancouver.com for map and contact details.

Thanks!

Workshop in Vancouver on Nov 29

Sunday, November 29th, 10am - 5pm in Vancouver.
Call Christie Dakin at 604 720 7093
See www.choose-again-vancouver.com for details

Diederik leads a workshop that is limited to 10 people as an introduction to the work that we do at the center. This time is totally interactive and personal. The purpose of the workshop is for each participant to learn to experience the peace of mind that comes from recognizing their intrinsic and unchangeable worth, and to then be able to make choices in their lives which lovingly reflect the person they truly are rather than the person they believed themselves to be.

Choose Again Society in Vancouver web site

The new Choose Again Vancouver site is now fully operational! The webmaster is still looking for photos that would be suitable for the site. Please send to sabalitoweb@gmail.com. Thanks!

Oneness

This morning I had a communication with a wonderful friend who recently helped her friend through the last stages of her life. She felt good about all the help she was able to offer her friend and her friend’s family and now, while mourning her loss, began to question what the real motivation behind the helping was. My response to her follows: Rest assured that all the good you ever did (and enjoyed doing) came from your true Self. The ego cannot stand that idea and will always come in with that nasty little voice (sort of sounds a little like my brother Dick Cheney ……..) and questions what your real motives are. You already know the response to that voice: " ...... awww, honey ..... ". Yes, your sadness is in part due to losing your friend and at a deeper level losing your friend is a symbol of the belief that you lost connection to the Truth. Your sadness is an indication of your longing to return to the Oneness and the mad belief that you could actually have lost the connection. In Truth, of course, that could never happen. Oneness cannot be divided by definition. That i (the small 'i') don't question that separation with a smile is an indication of the profound insanity of my ego. Wondrously, when I do lovingly question my ego it vanishes. Love to One and all, Diederik

Perception

There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this.

Our perception of what we see in the world comes from how we are seeing it. How we see it depends on how we see ourselves. Therefore, to change what we see, we have to first change how we see ourselves.

Private sessions with Diederik in Vancouver

From April 1-12 Diederik is available in Vancouver for private
therapeutic sessions. Call 604-221-2292

Workshop April 11 in Vancouver

On Forgiveness: What is forgiving, who am I forgiving, how can I forgive someone for being cruel or mean to me? From 10 AM to 5:30 PM at 4438 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver B.C.
Call Christie at 604-720-7093 or email at csdakin@shaw.ca.
Maximum 10 people. Cost $150.

Vancouver Photos

We are working on the new website for Choose Again in Vancouver and we need photos of the activities such as the workshop. Also, shots of the Vancouver skyline or bay would be appreciated. The photos need to be without copyright, you own preferably. Send them to sabalitoweb@gmail.com. Thanks.

Blame and innocence

The blameless cannot blame.Those who have accepted their innocence see nothing to forgive.

Seems a little circular, doesn’t it? This is how this might work for me: if I am innocent then everyone else must be innocent because we are One. That means that as long as I see anyone as guilty I still have forgiveness to do for myself. Projection is such an easy and appealing ego game. I am tired of playing. Love to One and all, Diederik

New photos in the slide show

I just added a lot of new photos out of Fahreen's collection to the slide show. See the bottom of the right sidebar. If you want to get bigger size images click on the slide show.
Peace,
Guus

Any wish

Any wish that stems from the ego is a wish for nothing,and to ask for it is not a request.It is merely a denial in the form of a request.

Any wish? Let me see how I can see this. If I ask for something, clearly that implies that I think I don’t have it. Now, if the Truth is Oneness, if the Truth is that ‘everything I see is the Self’ (Upanishad) than it is impossible for me not to have something. So when I ask for something I must first have denied the Truth of my Oneness. Having denied my True Identity, and substituted the shabby ego ‘personality’ I so deeply treasure, I now have to ask for literally everything or fight for it, or take it from someone else….. not so pretty now, is it? Meister Eckhart says so lovingly: “The prayer of the heart asks for nothing”. Love to One and all, Diederik