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(09 Dec - 22 Dec, 2008)
Dec 09, 2008: People often start
People often start by falling in love, and they go on for
years without realizing that love must change into some other love which
is unlike the original.
Iris Murdoch
Dec 10, 2008: Man had always assumed
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he
had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the
dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But
conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man
for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Dec 11, 2008: The main thing to remember
The main thing to remember is that the spirits
are always available for protection; in fact they
protect the shaman when they are not called,
but acknowledging their presence makes the protection stronger.
As the Yakut shaman says, the spirits are above and below,
in front and behind, to the left and the right,
and like a flock of birds accompany the shaman wherever he or she goes.
Sarangerel Riding Windhorses "A Journey into the Heart of
Mongolian Shamanism"
Dec 12, 2008: Human beings love being told what to do
Human beings love being told what to do,
but they love even more to fight
and not do what they are told,
and thus they get entangled
in hating the one who told them in the first place.
Carlos Castaneda "The Second Ring of Power"
Dec 15, 2008: Then, when you die
Then, when you die, the waking consciousness falls off,
and what was unconscious before,
which is outside the brain,
is now who you are - and where you are.
It is a place you see. It is the mind-realm.
This is what follows life.
Death is by no means simply a doorway to heaven.
What is on your mind when you lose physical attention?
What kind of thoughts do you have,
what kind of dreams do you have,
what kind of fears do you have?
Whatever they are they make your experience after death?
The Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj "The Scale of the Very
Small"
Dec 16, 2008: The hunger for solitude
The hunger for solitude visits each of us at various points
in our development as whole, healthy human beings.
It's in our solitude that we come to know ourselves,
to appreciate the many nuances that distinguish us from others.
It's in the stillness that we detect our soul's inclinations.
The privacy of silence offers us the answers we need.
The distractions that stood in our way no longer fetter us
when we've invited solitude to be our guest.
We need time away from others, from the chaos of our job,
families, and society if we are to find, once again,
the clarity we need to make the best forward movement.
We cannot hear "The Director" call to us
when all around is the clatter of voices and anxiety.
Unknown
Dec 17. 2008: Unless we change
Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Old Chinese Proverb
Dec 18, 2008: And we all know how to wonder
And we all know how to wonder, don't we?
From the depths of a Kosmos too miraculous to believe,
from the heights of a universe too wondrous to worship,
from the insides of an astonishment that has no boundaries,
an answer begins to suggest itself, and whispers to us lightly.
If we listen very carefully, from within this infinite wonder,
perhaps we can hear the gentle promise that,
in the very heart of the Kosmos itself,
both science and religion will be there together to welcome us home.
Ken Wilbur "The Marriage of Sense and Soul. Integrating Science
and Religion"
Dec 19, 2008: The process
The process of becoming a person begins with a mess.
Carl Jung
Dec 22, 2008: In the dead of night
In the dead of night I suddenly awoke
from my slumbers as if aroused by some gentle whisper
from another world.
And astonished to find above me a heaven full of stars
as I had never seen before.
It was as though I had stumbled
upon a great and spectacular ceremony in the cosmos,
a celestial event hitherto unheard of or unrevealed to humanity.
Like the toys that come to life at night when all the world is sleeping,
this vast array of stars was in the midst
of some fantastic wild and playful performance-
Eternity and the universe hovered naked before my eyes.
A sudden display of such spectacular beauty
humbles the mind and may draw it back to infancy,
and I found myself making the sort of mute utterance
I had learned as a child whenever a star fell from the sky;
I made a Wish
Michael Leunig: Finke River, Simpson Desert of Central Australia
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