I haven’t looked up this exact quote attributed to Jesus, I believe it is from the Sermon on the Mount. This is close: “Consider the lilies, how they grow. They toil not, neither do the spin. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Why should he not also take
Since my dog Coco was lost in the woods for two days and two nights just a couple of weeks ago, which was quite an ordeal for both of us, he has aged significantly. I thought he was coming back, but suddenly every aging symptom he was demonstrating before has
I have long observed the resistance in spiritual people to the integration, rather than splitting off, of darkness. I learned early that dark emotions have an inner core of something that is trying to inform and protect us. And light emotions have an inner core of something dark also. I
I’ve had the best time tonight watching the White House Correspondent’s dinner, DVR’d from last night. Wow. It makes me think back to a post I wrote recently about power and function of the trickster archetype to diffuse the harmful potential in taking ourselves too seriously or holding ourselves in too
I encountered a quote by Anais Nin today that seemed to say everything I needed to hear, very specifically and precisely at this moment. “I postpone death by living,, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
I looked at every single one of those words and took them in
I had a flu this week that took wind out of every sail in my body/soul/spirit, and am struggling really hard to get back from it. At such times feelings of being useless and a failure are ripe to strike like a virus too. When I get just the tiniest
Tonight I visited my friends who own property across the mountain, RB Morris and Karly Stribling, who were bringing their daughter Oona, one month old, to her mountain nest for the first time. In 2004, RB and Karly invited me here from California as I was considering a move in this direction.
As the fates and muses work things out, after writing about thought and thinking for the last couple of days, my next movie in from Netflix was Little Ashes, which I saw yesterday. It was the filmmaker’s musings on the possibly erotic relationship between Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca.
I do believe that thoughts create our reality. As David Bohm says, “Thought creates the world, and then hides and says it didn’t do it.” We look at that reality and think it’s just there, objectively, not that our thought created or could influence it. I’ve been observing this for
David Bohm, the physicist, pointed out the distinction between thought and thinking. Thoughts occur to us, go through our head, a lot of what occurs in our life is a result of what we have thought. Actually in Buddha said everything that happens to us is because of our thoughts.