Steve Marshall

@innertalks (22088)

Australia

Joined myLot 9 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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Indifference, tolerated, kills life, with its lack of caring, and its non-connection to love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • 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 (22088) • 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 (22088) • 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 (22088) • 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 (22088) • 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 (22088) • 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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Zen tale: The mind, and its ruminations, compared to our soul, and its truthfulness

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 27 Nov

A student of the esteemed old Zen master, Artur Respozki, asked him about his mind, which was always thinking thoughts, and then, like a cow, it would continually chew over these thoughts, and ruminate on them too. The...

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Short Story: When helping is not helping

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 24 Nov

John was seated in his local church with his wife, when she suddenly gave him a sharp poke into his ribs, and speaking out of the corner of her mouth, but still rather loudly, she said, "Get up John, and take up the...

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Short story: Know yourself, and so know God too

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 13 Nov

Rabbi Abram Abrahams, was discussing, with his students, the best ways to understand God, through first understanding ourselves. Here was his take on this subject on that day. "We can never know all about another soul,...

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Short story: Stop minding life with your mind, and live from the love in your heart, to find peace

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 7 Nov

A Zen student went to his master one day, and asked him, "How do you remain peaceful, all of the time?" The master replied: "I say, 'no' to a life of questioning, and 'yes' to a life of answers from God." "Life...

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Short story: Love must come alive in the fullness of life, as it cannot do so, in the emptiness of life's shadow

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 4 Nov

A young man, John Jones, was an avid tennis fan, but he always preferred to watch, rather than to play the game himself. His father took him aside one day, and he said to him: [b]"Life is not just about watching it, but...

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Short story: When is your personality your real personality?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 29 Oct

The great Rabbi, Arvin Perskosko, was giving a lecture to his students on the personality. He told them that they have two personalities, one is attached to their mind, and another, to their soul. Here is some more...

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Short story: When is vanity, vanity, and when is it just life?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 25 Oct

The old Zen master, Rafu Kerploski, was standing at his mirror, combing his hair. A student said to him, "What is the price of such vanity?" The old master smiled, and replied, to his student. [b]"The price that you...

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Short story: Walking with each other, linked by love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 21 Oct

The old man had recently lost his wife to cancer, and most days, he spent with a tear in his eyes now, as he missed her so very much. Then, at his local shopping centre, he was a bit careless crossing the road, and was...

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Short story: In life, we are called to blow our own trumpet, as nobody else can play it for us

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 13 Oct

The old Zen master, Realopol Zerbrosli, had an unusual way of waking the students in his monastery, and getting them to rise to the new day. Every morning, at 4 am, he would get out his trumpet, and blast some loud noises...

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Short story: The whistling Zen master

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 7 Oct

The old Zen master, Yuperti Zoskarvi, used to always whistle a tune, as he walked the paths in his monastery. He would say cheerfully, that this always helped him to stay in tune to life, both in, and around him, too. He...

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Short Story: Should we go our own way, or be pushed along by someone else?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 29 Sep

The wealthy businessman, who run a successful truck company, was thinking about his retirement, and about what would happen to his company. Ideally, he thought to himself, he would like one of his two sons to take over...

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Short story: Building self-confidence depends on your connecting yourself to God

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 24 Sep

John Spruiker was having a chat with his pastor about self-confidence. John had never been a particularly confident person, and his counsellor had told him that he had little self-belief, or faith, in himself. Work on...

self confidence

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Short story: The unappreciated piano thumper

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 19 Sep

Every weekend, Rob Sinclair would sit at his piano, and play tunes on it for several hours, to help him to relax, from his weekly bout with his work. This settled his nerves, and relaxed him, but little did he know that...

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A word, or two, on love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22088) • Australia 8 Sep

"Love is the bridge between you, and everything." Rumi, the well-known 13th-century Sufi mystic, and poet, said this This sounds good, but love is not the bridge. [i]Love is who you are, and who God is, and no, there is...

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