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 […]
Welcome to the Club! Everybody’s in the Explorers Club. Every person, plant, thing and entity no matter how cohered, is an active Club member, with or without knowing it, it seems! Natures’ nature is to explore itself. In truth, it’s all about this simple recognition: reality is being perceived by reality, naturally. Take, for example, […]
39/ We imagine our life about as effectively as we imagine our death. The image we have of both is a conditioned one. From the first time we hear our name and toddle on our tiny feet across the floor, we enter into a step by step process of groping for “reality”. We quickly learn […]
40/ We listen to our mind like our car radio. It feels some days like we’re driving along with the radio cranked up and angsting every time the street lights start to change, never change and always change! Fortunately, those sirens of our mind are not where life is lived, they’re where life is thought […]