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Sailing - by Christopher Cross
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know of avoiding the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
What would it be like to fall asleep and never wake up? Now, this poses the next question: What is it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. And when you’re ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. And if you’re not, you’ll stay pretending that you’re just a poor little me. Not all seek meaning but those who do will find it. And it will disturb you because you never imagined it was actually seeking you. Fierce grace feels like fear oftentimes so let it pass. The experience you’re having which you call ordinary everyday life — pretending you’re not it — that experience is exactly the same as it. There’s no difference at all.
Who are you? Who is the one who can die and live to speak about it? Who died and is now living within you? There could be absolutely no fear whatsoever of death if there wasn’t already within you that willingness to feel the fear even a second longer. And what possible good could fear have? Well, none that you have intellectually thought to see. For you don’t think and then see. You simply see and awareness makes it so. Thinking makes everything merely conceptual. As a child you also did see but without what your mind terms thinking. You were then fully conscious. There were no airy abstractions, labels, theories or words to obstruct that one immortal sense that your reasoning relinquished and yet will recognise upon being like a child. What is the obstruction? You will know and when you do you will be willing. Surround yourself with no conclusions.
Sailing Click HEAR God refuses to be known by the intellect but is even now known by the heart. Who is the one who can die and live to speak about it? One who is never born and who can never die. The cause of death is birth. The cause of birth is life. The mother knows her baby is within her alive. The father knows the baby is alive without. The baby is alive and growing while both her mother and father are asleep. Who sustains the mother, father and the baby voluntarily while all three are involuntarily asleep? The One who keeps each heart beating and each lungs breathing? Who provides the oxygen? The electricity required for the neurological impulses to fire? It is a foolish thing for a fish to complain of thirst as it swims here and there in the ocean, isn’t it? The baby is unaware of when it is born but the mother certainly isn’t. And so it is with waking up from being insidiously lulled asleep sometime after childhood. It’s like climbing a staircase and after humbly accepting that the climbing is also part of the necessary descending, before we know it we’re aware that, all along, the way down is up and the way up is down. Falling upwards. Heaven was never a matter of distance. And here and now, we see dimly as though peering through a darkened glass. Yet before we know it, we’ll know as the baby is known before one leaves the womb.
He suffers most who suffers before it is necessary. Rehearsing tragedy is not tragic; the thought that one cannot stop however most certainly is.
Ceasing the FRET
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I've heard said that the majority of our fears are irrational to the extent we haul them around even when and particularly when no danger is present. And might the answer be discovered in the last word of the above sentence? Present. The word demands our attention but we too often go with the painfully predictable or the many familiar falsehoods.
You know you can't change the past but you can ruin the present by trying to. God gives a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball for forecasting our futures. Both extremes are banal, nothing but tommyrot! Also, both conditions are gravely dangerous to twaddle with. With one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, we straddle the present in an almost concussed dividing of our minds.
George MacDonald penned the following and it makes profoundly good and common sense:
“The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for the morrow, or for a day in the next thousand years—in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Those claims only of the morrow which have to be prepared today are of the duty of today: the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next is nowhere till God has made it.”
Excerpt From: C. S. Lewis. “George MacDonald.”
Read that again for there are excellent reasons for redundancy. The mind is less apt to wander when in the present. It's practically impossible to panic while living in the present -- right NOW!
Do dogs worry? Not that I can see. They aren't aware of yesterday's squabble at the dog park or concerned the same cranky canine might show up tomorrow. They're quite content with now.
Could it be that worry is nothing more than a bad habit? Jesus seemed to think so. "How will worrying add a single hour to your life span?" It won't and He knows we know it. What do we get from worrying? Some puerile and pitiful feeling of having some control? Common sense shouts 'Yes' but we are determined to lug and tote yesteryear's regrets and tomorrow if not 10 years from NOW along as a soldier bears the weight of his Rucksack!
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
Remember, there's often a very good reason for redundancy.
On Being: Krista Tippett w/ Richard Rohr (Father Hunger & Deep Time)
Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and eternal thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls "father hunger"; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning.
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Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and eternal thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls “father hunger”; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning. Non-dual thinking isn’t reactionary nor does it seek to immediately shoot to ALL or NOTHING or Either Or - “I’m Right, You’re Wrong.” A ’Third Eye’ Perspective. At this time in history, the contemporary choice offered most Americans is between unstable correctness (liberals) and stable illusion (conservatives)! What a choice! There’s no real transformation in either case. There are commonly two kinds of human beings: there are people who want certitude and there are people who want understanding; and these two cannot understand one another. Really. Those who demand certitude out of life will insist on it even if it doesn’t fit the facts. Logic has nothing to do with it. Truth has nothing to do with it. “Don’t bother me with the truth—I’ve already come to my conclusion!” If you need certitude, you will come to your conclusion. You will surround yourself with your conclusion. Travel away from the hustle and bustle. Enter into the countryside on a starlit night. Listen to how quiet and still it is and while embracing the eternality of this Now, soak in this solitude allowing nothing, save The Unconditionally Loving Creator Him and Herself, to interrupt the silence.
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On Being takes up the big questions of meaning with scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you'll love to meet. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — updated every Thursday. Hosted by Krista Tippett. Discover more at onbeing.org. On Being Studios is the producer of On Being, Becoming Wise, Creating Our Own Lives, and more to come. Jesus did not come to found a separate or new religion as much as he came to present a universal message of vulnerability and unity that is necessary for all religions, the human soul, and the earth’s survival. By very definition, vulnerability and unity do not compete or dominate. The Cosmic Christ is no threat to anything but separateness, illusion, and the imperial ego. In that sense, Jesus, the Christ, is the ultimate threat, but first of all to Christians themselves.
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Leo the Late Bloomer - Read by Olivia Jett (Bedtime Stories for Infants)
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One Step Beyond - Emergency Only (Old TV) 1933
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Awaken 2 NOW - Brand New Podcast ft the Best Spiritual Teachers
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I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Find happiness first where you most had it last.
Whoever or whatever we judge, we simply will not understand. Truth is, we don’t want to.
Before we question another person’s character, we’d better have answers that fully explain our own.
Peace of mind comes by way of making our final decision decidedly final.
It takes only a moment to be kind and only a moment to wish we would have been.
Awaken 2 Now Podcast
Humility & Some Footnotes
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call ‘humble’ nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
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I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Find happiness first where you most had it last.
Whoever or whatever we judge, we simply will not understand. Truth is, we don’t want to.
Before we question another person’s character, we’d better have answers that fully explain our own.
Peace of mind comes by way of making our final decision decidedly final.
It takes only a moment to be kind and only a moment to wish we would have been.
You have never NOT been now.
I have no desire to proofread your past for I love you more than I edit you.
Many make impressions; few leave them.
Either get to the point or admit you never had one.
A know-it-all must be prepared to eventually do-it-all.
Natalie Cole - Unforgettable Concert (1992) 25 TUNES
Natalie Cole - 1992 Concert LIVE (I saw her in Cincinnati outside in same year). She didn’t miss a note. 01. Overture 02. The Very Thought Of You 03. This Can't Be Love 04. Paper Moon 05. Nature Boy 06. Mona Lisa 07. Lush Life 08. Non Dimenticar 09. Almost Like Being In Love 10. Route 66 11. Straighten Up And Fly Right 12. This Will Make You Laugh 13. Frim Fram Sauce 14. For All We Know 15. The Song Is Ended 16. Smile 17. That Sunday That Summer 18. L-O-V-E 19. Orange Colored Sky 20. Thou Swell 21. Medley: Sentimental Reasons; Tenderly; Autumn Leaves 22. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 23. Dance Ballerina Dance 24. Unforgettable 25. Avalon Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". ______________ Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
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https://g.co/kgs/Egwav1Natalie Cole - Unforgettable Concert (1992) 25 TUNES
Natalie Cole - 1992 Concert LIVE (I saw her in Cincinnati outside in same year). She didn’t miss a note. 01. Overture 02. The Very Thought Of You 03. This Can't Be Love 04. Paper Moon 05. Nature Boy 06. Mona Lisa 07. Lush Life 08. Non Dimenticar 09. Almost Like Being In Love 10. Route 66 11. Straighten Up And Fly Right 12. This Will Make You Laugh 13. Frim Fram Sauce 14. For All We Know 15. The Song Is Ended 16. Smile 17. That Sunday That Summer 18. L-O-V-E 19. Orange Colored Sky 20. Thou Swell 21. Medley: Sentimental Reasons; Tenderly; Autumn Leaves 22. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 23. Dance Ballerina Dance 24. Unforgettable 25. Avalon Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". ______________ Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
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Chance to Dance - Brian Jett (Alegre MelodÃa) Joy Tune
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Diego Torres - Que Sera (MTV Unplugged)
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I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Diego Torres - Que Sera (MTV Unplugged)
Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
Relaxing nature sounds. Check my music out here:
_____________________________
I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Your Image of God Shapes You! -Richard Rohr
Your image of God shapes you by Richard Rohr
This thread snapped a long time ago. Sweet Mother of a Split Hair and a Mountainous Molehill. Jesus thought such as this to be equally jejune. "You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel!” Last heard, we were at around 33,000 de-nomiinations and it’s comically clear that we can and will complicate a one car funeral. Really. Read this overly theatrical theologically illogical thread and it’s more divisionally senseless than an outdoors quilting convention. Christ conveyed a stunningly simple truth and we’d sooner drink Drano than be stunned by simplicity. Our hubris raised hell, earned heaven, hated grace and was bound by de-nominationally determined domination to rescore Christ’s sermon on the mount and make it but mere moonshine. I recently read where the American adage: “United we stand, divided we fall,” has conclusively been thought entirely too confusing, by a feckless few theologians, for the common herd to clue into and thus, a concordance is in order. Indeed! What could that polysemic double entendre possibly mean? Well, soon we’ll all find out. To be sure, some won’t like what they’ll find and a multiplicity of splinter cell small group studies will convoke to discern what the deeper semantical meaning just might mean and then each group will justify what it means. Another churlish chapter is to be written into ‘Christianity’ and all for the sake of yet another common enemy.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” But, in America, we don’t have much use for blessing the beasts and the children. Could it be we too soon see them both as the same? And the elderly? "Unless you change and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” But that’s going backwards, isn’t it? A child wouldn’t want to imagine messing up a one car funeral. And Mother Mary or just Mary? (Trying to contain the camel). Mary saw her Son bloody, naked and unashamed on two occasions. At Jesus’s birth and at Christ’s death. Human AND Divine. But? No. “Grace AND Truth.” (John 1:27) Hardly dualistic.
Unlike much of today’s ‘Christianity’ these two words aren’t mutually exclusive. Somehow, neither EITHER nor OR, ‘You’re Wrong BUT I’m Right’ got tossed into the divisional mix. Truth absent Grace isn’t truth, it’s hostility and if you hold the idea of ‘love thine enemies’ (often merely thine neighbour) in contempt, the hostility metastasises and hatred will hold you hostage. Humiliation is its own convincing and when it hurts, let it. Being committed to everything yet surrendered to nothing just won’t get any of us there. And the little beasts and innocent children are very much the same in three unitive ways: They don’t judge. They don’t compare. They don’t compete. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. If we chose our friends with the same highly conditional exclusivity as we do our so-called foes, we’d likely have far fewer of both. "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” None of us requires a concordance or even much common sense to get what Christ was getting at, and, is still this very second getting at.
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