Steve Marshall

@innertalks (22864)

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 we become who we really are?

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 9 Jun

The Philosophy Professor was philosophising over this quote to his class. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." This quote is from the well-known psychotherapist, Carl Jung. The Professor...

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Short story: A New Age guru meets up with a Zen master

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 3 Jun

A new age guru, had come to put his ideas to the old Zen master, the head of the Segana Monastery. He asked a student monk to go, and to make his request, to the master. The Zen master left the monastery meditation room,...

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Short story: Stay away from contention of any sort

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 31 May

[i]The old Zen master, Artrop Verboxki, had been the Zen master for the last fifteen years, of the Longarc Zen Monastery, after the mantle was passed onto him by the last master, who had died, but not before picking his next...

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Short story: A sermon on love

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 26 May

Reverend Patal Gerbroskja, used to begin most of his weekly sermons, with a short poem of his own, and then he would talk about what it meant. Last Sunday was no different, and Reverend Patal started with this short...

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Short story: Intelligence is not even knee deep in the Universe

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 22 May

Rabbi Shaho Rexospki, had been asked this question by one of his students Is the Universe intelligent? Here was his answer: "I have heard that someone said that the Universe is not intelligent as a whole, but some think...

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Short story: Truth lives in us when we live within it. Do not live a lie.

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 19 May

Rabbi Anton Breshnev was asked by one of his students about truth. He told him, that when we come across truth, we are meant to come across it, and it is meant for us to receive it right here, and now. [b]If we come...

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Short story: Never remain just a shadow of your real self

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 14 May

[i]The old Reverend, Tony Delsfield, told a parishioner that words from the heart are one with God, whereas words from the mind can distance you from both your heart, and from God too, when they are spoken without due...

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Zen story: The Zen master who bowed to his student, acknowledging his poignant words

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 12 May

A student went into the Zen master's room one day, to hand him a letter from another Zen master, who had passed by, but had not wanted to come in. The student, never being in his master's room before, was surprised that...

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Zen story: When is enlightenment not enlightenment? When its delusion!

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 7 May

The Zen master was eating a meal of fish, when a student asked him, why are you not a vegetarian, a man of your stage of enlightenment? The Zen master replied simply: "Diet is more of the body than of the soul."...

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Zen story: The nodding rock

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 5 May

The Zen master was walking along a road, when he tripped on a small rock, placed there by someone for some reason, or another. He said to the rock: "Your smallness creates your bigness, and even the big like me can fall...

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Zen story: The way of the foot, should not lead us astray

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 1 May

The old Zen master walked along the river, looking down at his feet, as he walked, and then a man, walking towards him said, to him. "Why look down, when the whole world should be looking up at God, not down at his...

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Zen story: A real friend always remains a real friend

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 28 Apr

The old Zen master had lived in the Zen monastery for all of his long life, and his friends were mostly only his fellow monks, and students. There was one other friend, though, who would visit with him, about once every...

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Short story: Being who you are, is being not who you are not

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 21 Apr

"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." This quote is from the author, Deepak Chopra. John was at a question, and answer, session with his local Rabbi, Rabbi Chekov Rustevvly, and he asked...

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Short story: A crooked mind leads us nowhere. A straight heart takes us to God.

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 18 Apr

The New Age guru, Sri Anton Gertzlov, was talking to a Priest about how life works. He claimed that the Universe itself looks out for people, looking after them, and bringing them all that they need. The Universe...

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Short story: A joke that backfired

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 17 Apr

John's wife pulled a trick on John, who was always a bit innocently naive, and overly trusting. One day, she came home from work, with a dog in her car, telling John that someone from her work, was moving overseas, and...

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Short story: The blind Zen master who had plenty of sight, just the same

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 9 Apr

The Zen master, Clintof Zerbroski, was blind, but being blind didn't dim his inner wisdom at all. This old master could give insight to the spiritually blind people who came to him, looking for answers to what life is...

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Short story: God, and the Universe

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 3 Apr

Rabbi Arton Bresjoveski was a controversial figure in Judaism. Here are some of his way out there ideas. The Universe is limited, as anything created always is. It is a mass of energy, directed into it, by its creator....

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Short story: Real preaching comes from a real heart, and so is heartfelt

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 30 Mar

The renowned preacher, Reverend Frelish Abatus, always gave lengthy sermons, of which, most people let go in one ear, and out the other, without really paying it any attention. Then, one day, a man came up to the preacher,...

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Being your best self, must include growing that best self into a better best self too

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 26 Mar

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self." William James, an American philosopher, (1842 to 1910) said this. It sort of rings true, in some ways, but it might be more true...

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Zen story: The way of Zen is the Zen of your way

Steve Marshall @innertalks (22864) • Australia 24 Mar

A would be student approached the renowned Zen master, Artov Breshsky, and asked him if he could he teach him the way of Zen. The master replied, [b]"I have nothing of Zen to teach anyone, as there is no way of Zen, no...

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