They ebb, they flow
My emotions
Come, then go
Each day’s beginning
Is the only time to know
And from that fateful moment
They start to grow
As endless branches
fanning outward
Spawning feelings
that need be answered
By end day’s light
what emotions’ gained
Their painted picture to be
night dream’s domain
And with this power be
Meditators: We practice no matter what. I asked a meditation instructor what drew him to the practice and he said there was a time in his life when he was in a very painful relationship and the cushion was the only place he found and real sanity. That always stuck with me, real sanity.
You get what you give, doesn't necessarily mean what we think it does. Often we believe that it means that we will receive the same or similar things to what we give. But, it seems to me, that I've never received anything from anyone. Well, at least not non-physical things. I have been loved, but the love I felt was my love. I gave love, because I felt it.
Most of us have realized that the world is very wrong. For us it feels wrong most everyday, things occur in the wrong way, hardly anything is as it should be. Overlooked among all the possible reasons and causes of the distortions in our interactions with our world and everyone and everything in it, are the distancing effects of digital technology.
It would be cool to always keep your cool and exchange kind words with kind people in kind situations. It would be cool if what was expected was typically always met, and when not, insight in the situation would be found immediately.
So I figured it out, and you probably already knew because it really is obvious, I just had to organize my thoughts in this particular way that I'll share with you now.
There's two ways to frame most statements it seems.. positively and negatively.
Example, "I prefer women" and "I do not prefer men"
It's got a negative connotation right off the bat. If you feel guilty it's probably because you did something "wrong." But let's break it down a little bit.
Last night while standing outside in below freezing temperatures, I heard a young child crying in a nearby apartment. The cry was of the sobbing variety exuding a baby like desperation to be heard, felt, and fixed, without the ability to describe exactly what was wrong.
It is said that if you have the correct emotions, one after the other, it will create a peak experience within you. That is the reason Shakespeare's "midsummer night's dream" is so powerful. He knew the correct emotional turns to make as to phase conjugate so you could share all perspectives non-destructively, as one!
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
