Steve Marshall

@innertalks (21916)

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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Steve Marshall's Discussions

Short story: Know yourself, and so know God too

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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 (21916) • 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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Short Story: Dream revenge

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 7 Sep

John had had a series of dreams where he was on a train, but without a valid ticket. John was always afraid that the inspector would catch him, and so as soon as he became aware that his ticket was expired, or that he had...

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Short Story: A child is connected to their parents in more ways than just one of flesh, and blood

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 3 Sep

Susan Hortel was talking to her college counsellor about her father, who had never gone to college himself, but who had pushed her, his daughter, into doing so. Why did he push her so much to make something more of her...

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Short story: The search for God can never substitute itself for God

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 4 Aug

John Fredlink, a student of various religions, and spiritual teachings, was a seeker, still, looking for something worthy enough for him to become a member of. One day, he was sitting, resting against a large old oak tree,...

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Short story: A student finally accepts God into his life

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 28 Jul

Eddy Summerfield was a college student, and he was rather proud of his intellect, which had gotten him top marks in his exams, up until now. Then, he met a chaplain at his University, who told him that he was far more than...

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Short story: A brief history of now

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 27 Jul

The Zen student was confused about what his master meant about living in the now. The old master smiled widely, as he said to his student: [b]"Now never exists in the now, because now is not now, but life itself, which is...

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Zen story: The master answered his own koan on his deathbed

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 25 Jul

The old Zen master, Ruckold Riposhke, was known to be rather mean-spirited, and rather eccentric too. [i]But, was his behaviour really real of him, or more a mask that he wore to get through to his students, in a more...

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Short story: Judaism, and Christianity

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 9 Jul

Rabbi Ernev Brunstein, was seated outside, one Saturday afternoon, talking to his student, about Satan. He told him that the Jewish idea of who Satan was is different to the idea held by most Christians. The Devil is not...

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Short story: An ordinary life is never really ever an ordinary life

Steve Marshall @innertalks (21916) • Australia 4 Jul

Susan Jeffries was just an everyday, ordinary, sort of a person. She was an accountant's receptionist, and she had worked for the old accountant, for thirty years now, in his office, on the front desk. Over the years, she...

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