To See One’s Self

by | Sunday, March 6, 2011 | Spirituality | 2 comments

The very name, Henry David Thoreau, elicits a fine sense of nostalgia within me.  Not only do I enjoy his thoughts, but also his writing skills.  He said something to the effect that there is only one right word that makes a sentence work.

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In the quote below, the word ‘hard’ does not quite work for me. Perhaps ‘elusive’ would be a better choice.

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Life is a house of mirrors within a labyrinth of caverns and mazes.  Reflections of truth, echoes of truth… all inverting, convoluting and permuting one’s perceptions of truth and Self.

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A jacket, turned inside out, still looks and acts very much the same.  Life affords a limitless number of inside out, upside down, inverted reflections of itself, each consistent within its own self, loaded with more than ample ammunition to overshadow the true Self.

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When the Self is finally seen it says nothing, yet everything within that silence. It never goes away and lands with an all-consuming punch.

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Only then can the awesome beauty of its overt, yet elusive, omnipresence be consumed.  And this at the price of the viewer’s own dissolution into something so far-reaching and grand as to overwhelm all that was, while evading any possibility or inclination of being grasped.

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‘Hard’ is not the word I would choose.  Hard is living a life lost to the permutations and convolutions… and trying to view the Self by holding on to those echoes.

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The awakening is not hard at all.  Nothing could be easier.  It just simply, suddenly, unexpectedly, shockingly, quietly… happens.

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“It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.”

– Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author

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Trust

by | Saturday, March 5, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality | 1 comment

The following is an interesting quote.

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Its validity depends on the depth of the understanding the word trust.

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Do you trust your issues and distorted convictions about life? Or do you trust the Divinity that lies deep within.

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Can you tell the difference between trust with a small or capital “T”?

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At first glance, they can feel remarkably similar.

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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Planning

by | Friday, March 4, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality | 2 comments

“The plan is nothing.  Planning is everything.”

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I’m not sure on the source but I like this quote.

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Planning is alive. Planning is fluid and dynamic.

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The plan does not know what changed – what happened next.  Think of tacking a sailboat.  The plan is how the sail and rudder were set.  Planning keeps your eye on what is now and next.

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When people work with me, they sometimes have a hard time with the rapid pace of change that I set.

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I believe this explains my approach to life nicely.

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Joy to the World

by | Tuesday, March 1, 2011 | Spirituality

Great accomplishments would not have been great if they at first did not seem unimaginable.

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Early on in my life, I decided to dedicate my life to understanding life.

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My dreams are just the natural conclusion of that investigation.

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“To accomplish great things,

we must not only act, but also dream,

not only plan, but also believe.”

– Anatole France

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