05 Jan Way Of Way 189
Empathy is selfish. Compassion is selfless....
03 Jan Rumi 1
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." Likewise, the less you look, the more you can see. In quietude and with eyes closed, we are free from the world our mind has created, we forget our self and solely the soul remains which is all that ever was, is and will be....
31 Dec New Year 2023
Dear Subscribers, Hope all is well and getting better. May you have a healthy, wealthy and happy New Year and all time thereafter. Health is key to realizing wealth. Wealth is having our needs provided and not distracting us from realizing happiness. Always and all ways, Victor Teicher...
27 Dec C. S. Lewis
“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending." While this quote is misattributed to C. S. Lewis, a British writer and Anglican lay theologian, it is consistent with his general thinking. We can't simultaneously hold onto the past and have a firm grip of the steering wheel....
26 Dec Preface
IAWIA, the acronym for "I am what I am." Pronounced: "I why?" IIWIIWII, the acronym for "It is what it is whatever it is." Pronounced: "I why why?" Why do I exist? Why am I here? Ultimately, what am I? There is only I and there is no why. I am who I am and it is what it is whatever it is. Whoever knows eye and I are one does not suffer death. The universe is a glass of sparkling water. Each of us a bubble that seems to come out of nowhere, takes a unique journey to the top of the glass and then seems to disappear. We don’t disappear. We become one with everything as we are before we appear as bubbles. “If the thoughts herein echo Zen Buddhism, Taoism, the Abrahamic faiths, or any philosophical school, consider this a familiar path explored from a new vantage point. If this is entirely uncharted territory, welcome to the journey. Ultimately, this book posits that our reality is a complex tapestry woven from interdependence. Our perceptions, shaped by memory and context, are illusions of separation in a fundamentally interconnected universe. You are this universe experiencing itself, and in this realization lies both profound freedom and profound mystery. Or perhaps, you already knew this. In that case, enjoy the contemplation." My name is Victor Teicher and this is a book about the nature of consciousness. Many of the observations herein are based on Kotodama; the interconnectedness of language, spiritual matters and the material world; wherein, broadly, the sounds, meanings and etymologies of words hold mystical revelations and affect the material world. For example: Teicher is a German name. In German, "teich" means pond; Teicher, someone who ponders. That's what I do; ponder reflections from the universal mind which is a reflecting pond. In English, a digraph (two letters together that are pronounced as only one of the letters) made of two vowels is pronounced as the first vowel with the second vowel silent. Thus, Teicher would be pronounced as "teacher." Teaching, sharing these reflections, is the purpose of this blook. In Japanese, the second vowel of the digraph is pronounced; hence, "Teicher" is pronounced "taisha." In Japan, Taisha is the ancient shrine where all the gods meet annually. I am, through this book, a forum for the gods. Finally, the etymology of "Victor" is "conqueror." The purpose of this blog is to conquer the self (our personal identity) which imprisons the soul, precluding us from experiencing the world through the universal mind (the mind of the soul). The soul is every-thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is and before time begins. Moreover, synchronicity has it that in numerology the name "Victor Teicher" is "11" which is a master number. Those whose name is a master number (estimated to be around 1% of the population) are thought to represent spiritual enlightenment, heightened intuition, and a strong connection to the universe or higher power. They are idealistic and have a special spiritual mission or purpose in life to make a difference in this world. This book is the realization of my mission. Yet, I claim no ownership of the chains of the thoughts in this book as I am merely a conduit for the author who is us. Ultimately, hopefully, this book reveals there is nothing new under the sun; all ways always bring us to the here and now which is forever-new and never-changing, eternal. ...
22 Dec Kate Moss
“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.” This motto is the mindset of those with the eating disorder anorexia. Anorexia aside, the motto may serve well those trying to diet and exercise for good health outcomes and conventional good looks. A change in diet and an exercise routine take time before their effects on health and looks are noticeable. For many, these desired outcomes are not as enticing as the immediate gratification from eating with abandon while sedentary, watching TV. However, a diet and exercise program also provides immediate gratification when we focus on how we feel when we dress in the morning and our clothing feels a bit but noticeably less tight than yesterday; a wonderful feeling that lasts all day. Nothing tastes, or lasts as as long, as good as that feels. Moreover, while a healthy diet and exercise are positively correlated with life expectancy, time and effort spent to increase one's life expectancy is a fool's errand as no one is getting out of here alive. However, diet and exercise forestall chronic diseases which are often overwhelming distractions from simply enjoying being alive. Health life expectancy is the time before the onset of chronic diseases. On average, health life expectancy is ten years less than life expectancy. Ten years maybe is a reasonable sentence for the foolish crime of abusing one's body instead of rejoicing with consciously eating and sex, an exercise which provides immediate gratification and longer-term health and appearance benefits. Maybe that's why Kate Moss liked the feeling of being thin, that made her attractive so that she could engage sexually with anyone she wished and have fun exercising....
20 Dec My Guides
When I was a child in Act 1 of the play of life, "Terrific," my parents, friends and teachers showed me the ways of this world. However, their views were not as interesting to me as the views of the elders, my grandfathers. As my grandfathers' perspectives were from the end of days, Act 3, I felt the light they projected from their position to mine would best show me the way forward. My paternal grandfather came from Leipzig, Germany. He, my grandmother and father escaped to Israel in 1938, just before all roads out of Germany closed to Jews. My grandfather was a successful businessman in the printing business in Germany and the envelope manufacturing business in Israel. Yet, after 18 years in Israel, my father, who worked for my grandfather and had married my mother in 1950, yearned for the economic opportunities he envisioned in America. So in 1956, when I was 6 and my sister was 2, we moved with my grandparents to Brooklyn, N.Y. My grandfather opposed moving to America. Before leaving Israel, he told my mother to take a long deep look at the comforts she had in Israel because it would be a long time before she would have those comforts in America. He was right. My family arrived in America during a recession and struggled for several years. My grandfather went through many ups and downs in life. However, with his ability to see situations from many different perspectives, he always found creative solutions to whatever problems arose. Moreover, he always found a perspective that made a situation funny and was always grateful as every situation could have always be worse. This was the foundation of his happiness. His was the attitude that I naturally adopted. My maternal grandfather was a dry goods store owner in Haifa, Israel. His approach to life was to enjoy the physical pleasures of life; eating, talking and sex. However, as his lifestyle took its toll, in his last years, he was overweight, diabetic and unsteady on his feet. That taught me that getting fat is just deserts for eating just desserts. While he would likely have been in better shape had he restrained his desires, in his last days he felt the pleasures he realized were greater than their costs. He too was happy. Enjoy the physical pleasures of life is what I learned from his life. My grandfathers made clear my way; to physically enjoy life and realize my potential by making the best of every situation. That describes my life in Act 2. While my grandfathers would likely not have approved many of the choices I made on the way to where I am now, a grandfather in Act 3, their light guided my way on a happy life which is all my grandfathers would have hoped. Moreover, now that I'm in Act 3, the transition, I'm no longer interested in the views of elders. I'm drawn to the energy of those younger; especially my grandchildren. They are closer to where I'm going than I am. Maybe they can reflect the light from which they come to guide me to where I'm going....
18 Dec Expensive, Defined
The definition of "expensive" is costly. It's etymology is Late Latin expensa, "disbursement, outlay." However, perhaps the root of expensive is simply things people buy without (ex) thinking (pensive) about price. Only without thinking about price, one easily buys an off-the-rack Kiton sports jacket ($9,995) at Neiman Marcus instead of an equally functional jacket at Men's Warehouse for $100. That’s what the Emperor does if the emperor has no clothes. Those who buy expensive jewelry are schmucks. Schmuck is the German word for jewelry....
16 Dec Sara Teasdale
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." All that's now is now no longer. What is gone doesn't exist. All there is is what comes next with which we can just do our best....
15 Dec Alex Bernand
"Like Bernie Madoff made off with the money, Sam Bankman-Fried will be a bankman fried." In German, a digraph (two letters together that spell one sound) made of two vowels is pronounced as the second vowel. Thus, "Fried" is pronounced as "freed." In English, only the first vowel is pronounced. Thus, "Fried" is pronounced as "fried." In Germany, which is not as punitive as the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried, if found guilty, would likely be "freed" after a handful of years in prison. In the U.S., he would be "fried," imprisoned for a couple of decades....