Steve Marshall

@innertalks (22344)

Australia

Joined myLot 10 years ago

An older guy who loves to think a bit differently and use his own words to write with. I don't like stealing others thoughts, ideas. Original writing is my way.

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Steve Marshall's Discussions

Short story: Can love be inherited?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 17 Feb

Pastor Fred Gallows was giving a sermon on love. He said to his captive audience that Sunday morning: "I was reading where a Rabbi claimed the Bible figure Abraham's love was inherited by the Jewish people." "This got me...

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Short story: Ridding ourselves of doubt

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 10 Feb

Pastor, Ruffy Gornish, was chatting to a parishioner about doubts, after the man had expressed his doubts about God to the pastor. Here are the words given in reply by the pastor that Sunday morning, after his sermon that...

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Short story: The knowing heart

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 3 Feb

The Spiritual master, Sri Kotan Zerskoski, was distinguishing to his students about the heart, and the mind. He said that the thinking mind does not really know reality, and only the knowing heart knows the true reality...

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Short story: The zen master bounces into life, as himself

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 30 Jan

The Zen master was walking along a beach, when he picked up a flat stone, which he then threw into the water, so that it bounced three, or four times, off of the water. He said to his students: "We all need to bounce off...

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The ego, life, and love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 26 Jan

We should not try to destroy our ego, but to work with it. Our ego is a part of who we are. Our total person includes our ego. We need to connect our ego to our soul, rather than to our mind, and so instead of...

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Short story: The energy to do evil never comes to us from love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 25 Jan

Rabbi Reskil Resposke, had been asked about the human inclination to commit bad acts, and not to always be willed by our higher self to live rightly, correctly, God aligned, lives. [b]This inbuilt inclination moves us away...

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Awakening to yourself, never needs you to develop a new self

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 16 Jan

I read this on the Internet recently, written by some religious scholar. "Only the awakened can guide others to be awake." I thought about it, and came to the conclusion, that it is just not true. No, this is not true,...

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Discussion piece: The oneness of God

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 13 Jan

An old Zen master was talking to a local Priest about the concept of oneness. [b]The Zen master knew that oneness was also advocated for by Christianity, as it was Jesus Christ himself who said that he, and his father,...

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The cunningness of a conniving Government

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 7 Jan

After a long, lengthy, and protracted, almost painful, application process, I was finally approved for the pension, and a pensioner discount card. I was rather annoyed that I would not be getting a full pension, as the...

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Zen story: The blind Zen master

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 2 Jan

The Zen master, Arturo Rexoskpi, was now rather old, and feeble, and he had lost his vision too. He was approaching 80 years of age, old for someone, at that time. He kept on being the Zen master of the monastery,...

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The stink of a New Year’s resolution

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 31 Dec

Many of us might make a few New Year’s resolutions, but then as the year gets going, they often fade away into the background, and with that fading though, a noticeable stink is emitted. We might feel bad about not being...

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Short story: A chat over a back fence, between two elderly gents

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 29 Dec

An older man was talking to his neighbour, also old, over the back fence, about his life, and he told him that life had brought him much pain, and that he had had to live through many a dark, and horrendous, moment. His...

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Wisdom, and thought

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 24 Dec

There are reportedly two types of wisdom. One type of wisdom, we see in every aspect of creation, in that every element of creation can talk to us, and we can receive its wisdom, if we allow it to flow into us. [b]This...

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Short story: The Zen master who remained humble, despite criticism of himself

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 22 Dec

[i]The old Zen master claimed, but only to his students, that he was enlightened, aware, and that his level of consciousness was higher than which a human mind could take one, as the mind of no mind connects to higher...

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Indifference, tolerated, kills life, with its lack of caring, and its non-connection to love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 19 Dec

[i]When you tolerate someone, you allow them to operate in their own false way around you, and this, in a way, is not caring both for yourself, and for the other person, too. You are emptily indifferent to what is happening around...

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What is really real?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 16 Dec

I recently came across a spiritual guru, who made this all-encompassing statement. "Nothing inside the mind is real." And then, he defined the "real" by saying that the real is that that never changes. On his...

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Some Christmas humour, despite the rush

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 12 Dec

[i]This morning, I went to the Post Office, to post a parcel to someone I knew, and the queue, at opening time, 9.00 am, was already a mile long, so I went into the supermarket first, to buy some stuff there, thinking to myself...

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Short story: Do not try to kill off your ego, more learn to control it

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 11 Dec

[i]The old Professor, of Philosophy, Professor Arndo Respekler, was talking to his students about mankind, and what he is, if the greater picture of him is included in our thinking, or is a part of a philosophic way of...

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Short story: The aura explained

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 8 Dec

The Spiritual teacher, Sri Arowld Lersproski, was talking to his group of students about our aura. He said that in the spiritual sense, an aura is an energy field that surrounds our body, which some gifted people can see,...

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Short story: Entering Heaven

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22344) • Australia 5 Dec

Alf had recently died, and he was then carried up into some other world, just as his soul then, and then he came to a stop in some room, with the sign on its door, "heavenly courtroom". Alf went inside, ushered in by the...

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