06 Nov Haiku 14
Knowledge is a vertical, a double helix perpetual. As we climb this ladder to the heavens from where we came, soon enough nothing is ever the same, Twisting and turning, what's right becomes left and left becomes right. Upward and onward, until Earth is completely out of sight....
02 Nov The Enlightened: Eternal Being
In the now, every thing is what it is whatever it is. Every thing, before and after the now, is the soul. Before our birth and after our death, our sole identity is the soul. Upon birth, we transition from being one with everything, the soul, to becoming a unique manifestation or expression of the soul; a seemingly independent entity. To sustain our independent existence, we develop a self; a sense of being apart and separate from every thing that is not our self. The purpose of the self is to provide us with our needs of food, shelter, security and health. However, the self also engenders desires that become indistinguishable from our needs, putting us in an endless cycle; needs/desires to temporary satisfactions to needs/desires. Clearly, the self demands much of our attention. Alternatively, our soul identity has us living a life of wisdom and compassion; wisdom, as we experience life not solely from the perspective of our self, but through the perspectives of the infinite manifestations of the soul; compassion, as we love and treat all that is not our self as we love and treat our self. In the transition to life, we initially remember our identity as the soul as we in turn develop our identity as the self. In childhood, our soul identity embraces magical (animist) thinking as we feel every thing has a spirit within it that can be conjured for our benefit through our living harmoniously with its spirit. However, over time, as we are educated and socialized, our self becomes our primary identity. While we are both self and soul identity in various proportions, many of us become oblivious of our soul identity. Ultimately, no one is getting out of here alive. Our bodily death coincides with the demise of our self identity. However, before we complete our transition from physical death to our essentialness, the soul; if our soul identity is our primary identity, we realize we are an eternal being. ...
01 Nov Fountainheads Of Love
Love from the self and love from the soul. Each love in life plays a role. Love from the soul connects us to all. Love from the self helps us grow tall. Love is love, it all feels the same both from places that sound alike in name. Love from the soul comes from the whole Love from the self comes from the hole....
31 Oct Way Of Way 145
Love expressed by the soul is unconditional, unlike love expressed by the self which is conditional. Love from soul is gold, while love from the self is fool's gold. A simple acid test can determine whether love comes from the soul or the self. The test is how do we feel when someone we love engages sexually with someone else. If our love is from the soul, we are happy for them and for whomever they were intimate, as how can we not be happy with the thought of people enjoying themselves. If our love issues from the self, we are angry, jealous, sad or have other unpleasant states of mind....
