“In the end I’ll know…but on the way I wonder” ~Cat StevensI’ll always remember that lyric, but I think its truth is often over looked.Believing is the result of theorizing, and as such…it’s just a mental game. The mind feels, at first, curious… maybe lost, maybe lonely; it has to figure this shit out. Why is this one way, and that another way? What is the truth? What should I believe? It’s always worth remembering…that analysis, like dissection, is an…
If you are looking for salvation at some future time, that is just another way of saying that you are not “there” now. You are always “here”; and how you think, look, act, and say determine what your “successive NOWs” will look like.BE the light. BE the Change.See the change.
If we only had the wisdom to fix what was destined to endure, and let go of what was fated to break, we might then realize that there is nothing to fix. and only NOW to endure.
“So you sit at home, drinking your wine…television on. You wait for a miracle, ’cause you say one day, one will come along. But wishful thinking boy…any minute now, you might be gone.” ~Cat Stevens
When society lived directly from the land, we knew that we may or may not survive, there were no guarantees, and “fair” had no meaning. Our best chance came from our elders, for they had accumulated all of the wisdom of survival passed down for generations, and their compassion and knowledge was seen as the treasure that it was, and they were treated as the most valuable of our society. We looked at them with reverence, and they looked to…
Where you are going is so much more important than where you have been. Where you have been has done its job, got you here, put on its coat and left for the evening. Now the job, the job that was always your job, is to SEE. NOW. What’s right in front of you.
I don’t need you to think like me, look like me, or live by me. I will fight for your right to live your truth, make your music, and complete your journey.I’ll be right by your side, on the ready.even if it is not my journey.But..If you stand for limiting another’s journey, if you stand for limiting another’s dreams. if you stand for hatred, judgement or violence simply because something is different from you, then I wont be there.Then, you…
Your beliefs hold no weight and are subject to change. It’s quite possible that most of human tragedy has been caused by conflicting beliefs.They used to believe the sun circled the Earth.Facts are relative only to where you currently stand, which is always moving. Your opinions don’t mean shit.Your actions determine most of your outcomes.If you doubt, Go to the wilderness and try convincing that charging Grizzly bear that it is your opinion is that bears shouldn’t attack people…its not…
We are taught since youth to do the right things, develop the right habits, and build a good life. As words are only as good as their interpretation, perhaps stating the formula for a successful life in this way does more harm than good, for maybe we are not building at all…Maybe life is more like sculpting; not an additive process at all, but a subtractive one, where unessential layers are peeled back, or chipped away- revealing what was hiding…
How do you define greatness? Is it in wealth accumulated? Is it the adoration of multitudes or the kind words written about you? Perhaps Greatness needs a new definition; perhaps greatness can be seen in the love you have left to spare, after life has ravaged you with grief.