30 Oct Waves Come And Go
Waves of light come and go but when is hard to know as what we see is only our memory. Waves of sound come and go neither fast nor slow. All we know is when they show....
27 Oct The Way Of The Way 193
Stupidity is the privilege of the young. The young are forgiven for doing stupid things so they can learn they are stupid. Those who don't learn this lesson are stupid....
26 Oct Spilled Champagne
A funny (as in odd and humorous) thing recently happened to Victor. Victor was taking a night flight from NYC to Lisbon, sitting in First Class. As Victor never eats on commercial airplane flights, Victor wasn't paying attention to the food service. Apparently, he was not alone. The Stewardess also wasn't paying much attention until she saw Victor drenched in 3/4 of a bottle of Champagne which she inadvertently dislodged from its casing. Victor's immediate reaction was to laugh. Likewise, in other similar passed situations, Victor was quick to laugh . However, until now, I didn't realized why Victor thought such situations funny. Now, upon reflection, Victor's nature is such that Victor instinctively views a situation as how others in the situation might react and how others would perceive the situation. These perspectives are generally funny. Victor has been embracing alternative perspectives since he was a child, when he realized that everyone views a situation differently and as such there is no definitive perspective, including Victor's. Thus, to understand a situation, Victor automatically takes many perspectives. What's funny about a passenger's Champagne accident is that many people in that situation would have been upset or even angry. That's a selfish reaction as being upset is succumbing to their ego and not realizing how happy they should be in their circumstances relative to most people in the world. An egotistical fool is always funny. Moreover, many people who are forever stressed out about money matters would love to be in the passenger's situation, with the presumed freedoms accorded to someone wealthy enough to fly First Class. Yet, these people are fools as well because an angry passenger has no freedom; he is a prisoner of his ego, as are those who admire his situation. Of course, the Champagne accident could have been actively made funny had Victor had asked the stewardess to give him her shirt as she had wet his and he needed a replacement. Now. I understand why when Victor has been to the movies, he is often laughing while others are not. P.S. While I am who I am, people socially refer to me as Victor. I refer to myself as "I" when talking in the present and as "Victor" when referring to myself in the past, a person who is now passed. Referring to oneself in the third person is call illeism....
25 Oct Wayne Dyer
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." We see what's passed in reflections our mind has constructed. The reflections are illusions, not real. When we change our reflections, what we see invariably changes as it never had an inherent reality to it. ...
24 Oct Sigmund Freud
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” Material things come and go, if not in our lifetimes then when we exit the play of life. The true value in life is life itself; appreciating the wonderfulness of it all, awakening to our divine consciousness, and helping others likewise....
22 Oct The Way Of The Way 192
Politicians are best as a form of comic entertainment. However, when many people take politicians seriously, we’re forced to take these people seriously because the politicians will lead them to war....
21 Oct Evening Prayer
Even-ing is when we are all made even; the smart, the stupid, the rich, the poor; all even, equal, in sleep-death. In sleep-death, our soul returns to its source where all souls are sole, one, even. Evening Prayer Oh eternal universe. Oh endless universe. Oh ever-changing universe. Oh timeless universe. Thank you all for giving me a role in the play of life, "Terrific." Thank you for divine consciousness. Now, in sleep-death my soul returns to its source to which it has always been connected to be one with everything before everything becomes something that is what it is whatever it is and before time begins. Hopefully soon, my soul returns and awakens the vessel holding the light of life. Life begins not upon our awakening, but in sleep-death. A wonderful Earth life awaits us upon awakening when we enter sleep-death in a happy state of mind. In the Evening Prayer we express our gratitude. Gratitude is the essence of happiness....
21 Oct The Way Of The Way 191
There are many interesting and wonderful roles in the play of life, but the role of God is incomparable as God creates the universe and is eternal. Unlike roles for which many people compete for the few available vacancies (there are just so many professional football team owners), the role of God is accessible to all. However, the greatest impediment to our realizing our role as God is our individual and collective identities....
19 Oct Casey Stengel
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for...
18 Oct Elohim
Elohim is a Hebrew word that literally means "gods" but is used in prayer to refer to God in the singular, one God. Literal meanings relate to the mundane. In the secular world, there are a virtually infinite number of human manifestations of God, the faces of God. These are elohim, gods. In prayer, we enter the spiritual realm in which there is only one God from which everything emanates. As humans, we are elohim; we are gods. As such, we can view ourselves as different from other elohim (in which case we don't recognize them as gods) or realize that we are one of the infinite faces of God; that is, that we are God. Hashem, "the name," is a Hebrew word referring to God. This name for God is purposely ambiguous, unspecified. If God's name was specifically identified, it would imply God is one thing and not another; the antithesis of God as God is everything. However, referring to God as "the name" suggests that knowing God's name reveals the nature of God. When we come to know the meaning of Elohim, the secret of our oneness with God is revealed....