Mark Twain had some great quotes like “Never argue with a fool…onlookers may not be able to tell the difference” and “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it”.These may be paraphrases, but Mark Twain was keenly aware that the biggest threat to our well being is our own rabid thoughts, and unchecked emotions.I see the danger every day…looking back at me when I brush my teeth.
Albert Einstein was quoted as saying “As the circle of our knowledge grows, so does the circumference of the Darkness”. Darkness is often equated with ignorance (“until I saw the light”), So its no stretch to say that the more we know, the greater our ignorance. In fact, he was also know for the saying that “a person’s intelligence can be directly related to his/her ability to entertain a contrary viewpoint from their own, without needing to believe it”. Maybe…
This season’s “Alone” contestant survived 71 days or so in the wild. This little cat has survived her entire life in the wild, with little effort. That’s worth thinking about…
We all have limitations. We all have fears. We all have doubts, at one time or another. We must be willing to see them, in order to overcome them. But the hardest perhaps, is to objectively observe our own mindset, our own beliefs. Rather, we will defend them, and often with vigor. It has been said that intelligence can be measured by one’s ability to entertain another thought or believe, without having to believe it. It may be true that…
…we need to stop prostituting our time in the NOW moment, paying with lethal doses of misery…
Probably the most courageous thing we can do is to entertain another belief. Another perspective. We feel an existential “loss of balance”, fearing that by examining another belief, we have to believe it first, or we will be lost in free fall. That’s probably why most of us can’t entertain another perspective; we hold on tight, and continue to try to see it from this nice safe place. You won’t see anything new, without the courage to leave, even if…
“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