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(23 Sept - 08 Oct, 2008)
Sept 23, 2008: To love a person
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and
to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
(Arne Garborg, Norwegian author and politician, 1851-1924)
Sept 24, 2008: Do you know that trees pray?
One day I asked my Grandad about prayers. For a long time Grandad
was quiet. He didn't say anything until we came to the tallest tree in
the forest. And then he answered with a question. "Do you know, son,"
he whispered, "that trees pray?" I listened closely, but I couldn't hear
them. "See how they reach for the sky," he said. "They reach and reach
- for clouds and the sun and moon and stars. And what else is reaching
for heaven But a prayer?" Douglas Wood,"Grandad's Prayers of the Earth"
Sept 25, 2008: Some people...
Some people enjoy being miserable. Some people enjoy the frustration
of trying to comfort them. It is always best to leave them to the themselves
as both are engaged in a pointless exercise in self - indulgence.
Bryce Courtenay: "A Recipe for Dreaming"
Sept 29, 2008: There are only so many tomorrows
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we
are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every
day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only
so many tomorrows.
Michael Landon
Sept 30, 2008: Thus shall ye think
Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world:
A star at dawn,
a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud;
A flickering lamp,
a phantom, and a dream.
Diamond Sutra
Oct 01, 2008: My life as I lived it
My life as I lived it had often seemed to me like a story that has
no beginning and no end. I had this feeling that I was a historical fragment,
an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I
could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there
encountered questions I was not yet able to answer, that I had to be born
again because I had not fulfilled the task that was given to me.
Carl Jung
Oct 02, 2008: The Importance of Nonsense
The importance of nonsense hardly can be overstated. The more clearly
we experience something as "nonsense', the more clearly we are experiencing
the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. "Nonsense"
is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have
superimposed on reality. There is no such thing as "nonsense" apart from
a judgmental intellect which calls it that. True artists and true physicists
know that nonsense is only that which, viewed from our present point of
view, is unintelligible. Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet
found that point of view from which it makes sense.
Gary Zukav "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
Oct 06, 2008: When Your Truth Forsakes its Shyness
When your truth forsakes its shyness,
When your fears surrender to your strengths,
You will begin to experience
That all existence Is a teeming sea of infinite life.
There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic
In this luminous, brimming, Playful world.
Hafiz "The Subject Tonight is Love"
Oct 07, 2008: Art Can Demonstrate
Art can demonstrate the intricate interconnectedness of life, as in
magnificent landscapes or cosmological mandalas from native Americans,
Australian Aborigines, and Tibetan Buddhists. Art can portray human struggle
and suffering but can also uplift and heal the soul. Art can point to
a transcendental source of wisdom. By doing all these things and more,
art can encourage and nurture what is best in us and give people hope.
If we cannot envision a better world, we cannot create one.
Alex Grey "The Mission of Art"
Oct 08, 2008: Body Memory
There are shamans who will tell you that memory is not kept in the
brain neither is consciousness, for that matter - but in the body and
the fields of energy that surround the body. They are able not only to
see these fields, but to reach out with their own and see the other's
history, their present, their possible destinies, even.
Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendresen "Dance of the Four Winds.
Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel"
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