17 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

All religions hold sacred a simple truth, the golden rule: compassion, treating others as we wish others to treat us, treating others as ourselves because we are all one. This is the way to liberation from the selfish self. This is the way to be one with God; to realizing our purpose in life, divine consciousness. If we are not compassion incarnate, religions subject us to rules, regulations, rituals and absurd protocols in the name of serving God. Only when religious followers awaken and embody the simple truth, the golden rule, can they have freedom from religion....

16 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Within colorless white light hide the spectrum of colors. When the sun dances with rain droplets the rainbow appears revealing the spectrum. Blue is the symbol of wisdom. Red is the symbol of love. Between blue and red is yellow, the symbol of God. Flanked by wisdom and love is where God is hiding. When we know wisdom and love, we know where God is....

15 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

No one is getting out of here alive. We all transition from this finite life to realize we are one with the universe forever. We transition as a piece of the universe to at peace with the universe. In time before the transition, we ready ourselves for sleep unlike the countless thousands of temporary daily sleep-deaths. Best a dome shaped room, like the dome shaped egg from which we came, with a video of the night sky; our hand held by a loving one; and waves of sound of transcendental music filling the room to quiet our mind until we and the waves light and sound become one. If the loving one speaks, what is there to say but "I love you, always have, always will, always and all ways. Thank you for being you. Thank you for having me."...

14 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Food is among the wonderful physical pleasures of life, engaging our senses of smell and taste. Once swallowed, the pleasures are over, our bodies absorb some of the food for nutrition and let the rest go. Not letting it go is constipation. Constipation can be debilitating, distracting us from fully enjoying ourselves at whatever we're doing. Likewise, as to all experiences; best to enjoy them at the time, learn what we can from them and then let them go....

13 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." "I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have." "To be alive, to able to see, to walk...

12 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

According the Guinness Book of World Records,  "drunk" holds the world's record for the word with the most synonyms, as many as 2,241. This attests to how varied each of us experiences things in a free state of mind. However, when really drunk, we're unlikely to articulate but a couple of synonyms and not remember them after we recover. When we're not drunk, our experience of things is likely as varied as when we are drunk which makes it remarkable that we can understand and stand each other. Maybe that's why we get drunk....

11 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Together as two we see each other much of the time. Familiar, comfortable and at ease in the rhythm of habits. From a distance we look as one, very close but not open.   Together as one maybe far but far closer. Always open, connected joyfully all ways, beyond stretches of time.   Together as one and together as two, altogether, joy-us every which way....

10 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Almost everything is measured today. There's more focus on measurements and relative ranking than on the experience of that which is measured. Measurements are abstract, having nothing to do with the experience something provides. Ultimately, our focus on measuring leaves us experiencing things as a function of our mind rather than our senses. That makes experiences absurd, not real. It precludes us experiencing the absolute beauty in something that is relatively not beautiful. As such, we become oblivious that there is much about which to be grateful. As gratitude is a key to happiness, focusing on measurements diverts us from the path of happiness....

10 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

"Art is the order of all things. Confusion adds life to art." The preceding quote was from stream of consciousness writings by Hilton Root, a friend since the age of 13, when he was 16 years old. The quote has stayed in memory over the decades as I found it, ironically, confusing. Now, I read the quote as chaos is the fundamental  art (that which is art-ificial, manmade) is an assemblage of natural elements. When an artwork is ambiguous, meaning different things to different people, it reflects the nature of life itself....

09 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Framework

I'm uncomfortable unless I'm uncomfortable. High anxiety can be extremely debilitating. It can cause us to freeze or panic, not a good state of mind when we need make a decision. Low levels of anxiety may be uncomfortable but can be beneficial. Low anxiety spurs our imagination to envision many potentially negative consequences that can result from our choices. As negative consequences generally unfold slowly and then suddenly, imagining these negative consequences allows us to see them and act accordingly before they fully unfold and it's too late to do much about them. With little anxiety, we are comfortable, tend towards laxity and not see dangerous outcomes even when they may be obvious. Thus, I'm uncomfortable (unless feeling uncomfortable with low levels of anxiety) when I'm comfortable....