People don’t want to hear
the truth
because
they don’t want their
illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mar15
Category Archives: Blogs
Mar15
The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie–
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet’s unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find–it’s your own affair–
But … you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!).
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone–wherever it goes–for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
We’ve sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we’ve kept ’em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long–
So why in–Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Mar14
Life
Life is risky and dirty and unforgiving sometimes.
It’s OK
It is also stable, bright and tolerant.
g.piazza
Mar11
Truth
The truth hurts,
The truth heals.
I read that somewhere and it brought to mind how I would much rather be hurt by the truth than hurt by a lie.
When you know the truth you can move on. Lies only keep an untruth alive and the truth comes out anyway.
Please tell me the truth. I can handle it.
Mar8
Fill In the Blank
I would __________________
if I had the chance.
From James Mottram/astig FM photo
This should be fun. Try to keep it clean.
Mar5
Love and Hate by William Shakespeare
Love me or Hate me.
Both are in my favor.
Love me and I’ll always be in your heart.
Hate me and I will always be in your mind
William Shakespeare
Mar4
No Problem
No Problem
Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there is a problem it is our perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of ‘the problem’. When you decide that you will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts or a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless it is in the past, then it’s just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can cancel from the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of ‘problem’ then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.
Thoughtfortoday.org.uk
Feb26
Withholding Information
What people don’t say is just as important as what they do say.
g.piazza
When someone is not willing to be transparent in a relationship it can make my mind race with what might be. I come to all kinds of apocalypse meanings of the situation.
Actually I need to mind my own business because what I need to know is eventually revealed.
I trust myself enough to listen to my hunches. Have patience. Everything I want is coming in it’s right time.
Feb22
Weirdness – Robert Fulghum
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness-and call it love-true love.”
Robert Fulghum
Well said Mr. Fulghum.
Feb20
Thoughful Thursdays #52 Resistance
Steven Pressfield is one of my favorite writing idols. He writes about resistance all the time and is incredibly insightful. Resistance is something I struggle with all the time.
I will paraphrase his discussion with Rabbi Finley and resistance. Rabbi Finley said: “There is a second self inside you-an inner shadow Self. This self doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t love you. It has its own agenda, and it will kill you. It will kill you like cancer. It will kill you to achieve its agenda, which is to prevent you from actualizing your Self, from becoming who you really are. This shadow self is called, in the Kabbalistic lexicon, the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara, is what you call Resistance.”
Well said Rabbi. 100 % true.
This leads me to the Buddha. As he sat under the Bodhi tree and was confronted by Mara and his army. Mara represents denial, fear and distraction. His demons are violent and wicked. The Buddha used his noodle to figure out that Mara and his demons are nothing but a distraction to us. Mara goes out of his way to distract us from our true path, just like he did to the Buddha. Mara’s the king of thoughts and situations that create fear and resistance. The Buddha found a way to transcend his own denial of what is important and what is not. Being in denial of all there is in your life is the ultimate in resistance. The Buddha recognized this in his enlightenment.
What are your Mara’s? Is it addictions, distraction, negative patterns, denial? Is it violence in thoughts, words and deeds?
What is your yetzer hara? Is it illness, sadness, inability to focus?
The list of negatives is endless. So what is the answer? How do we recognize resistance especially if you don’t have a ton of time to meditate or devote your life to a religion?
Keep looking for those pesky negative incognito signs in your thoughts, words and actions that are holding you back. Chances are whatever you are afraid of or avoiding is resistance.
Wake up into your own awareness. Make Self Care important, a priority.
Yes you are that important.
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