28/ “ We confuse the world as it is with the world as it is thought about, talked about and figured about –the world as it is described.” Allen Watts The Germans have a word for it –a “hintegedanka”. The word is a hint about something we all relate to, if only vaguely, and […]
29/ Love is allowing what is, and fear is resisting it. Nirmala The beauty of all this is that it exists. What happens – and naturally so – is that we become misplaced. Fortunately, the mis-taking is only in our mind! We misplace our connections, our heritage in Here. We lose our balance, reaching […]
30/ Dancing this dance “He that writes to himself, writes to an eternal public.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Sitting down this Monday morning to say something to myself without a clue about what that might be – in the spirit of “ see what happens! “ – I’m reminded that the minds’ worst nightmare is […]
31/ The life in “life” as we see and live it is in our mind only; it’s totally recycled material; our yesterdays form our today’s and our tomorrows. In our mind. I repeat: “ in our mind.” That’s because the only place where things seem to repeat themselves is there. In reality, in truth, in […]
32/ We’re always making up the little dramas of our life! This morning, I got up with a nagging concern about how all this blog thing would be received, especially by my friends- my closest critics! After all, who am I to even think about doing this kind of thing? And why am I doing […]
33/ “ I opened myself too wide. I forgot there’s more outside than things and animals at ease with themselves, whose eyes reflect the wholeness of their lives. I forgot my habit of grasping every look that fell my way: looks, opinions, scrutiny. “ Rilke The personal ego can only fake responses to life. […]
34/ “ We are not part of something; we are all that is –the whole of Being.” I found the above and all the following quotes and notes in my back pack this morning. They’re from my Yellow Period which lasted about 3 months– a time when I was jotting down randomly encountered and seemingly […]
35/ “ Suppose…suppose…” Wyatt Earp’s recorded last words We’re all living legends – that is, we live the life that’s handed down to us; the Legend that finds us just at the time we’re looking for it! For me, as a boy, it was Wyatt Earp! I got into him right around my sixth […]
“ It was like his thoughts were dipped in a belief sauce, you know? “ ( Overheard ) We learn to Compare and Contrast from childhood. The more we use our mind to “C & C” the scene, the less we “see”. Our mind bores holes into reality, establishes what it “thinks” and […]
37/ “ Enjoy your Self “ Adyashanti I’m at home here now. It seems my Air Miles have been cancelled and the former high life of terrestrial travel has landed me right here; nowadays I just move in place. Mind you, I’m still hanging out like always, eating my bad habits, prowling the […]