Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Value

Maintain the state of undistractedness, and distractions will fly away. Dwell alone, and you shall find the Friend. Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest. Hasten slowly, and you shall soon arrive. Renounce all worldly goals, and you shall reach the highest Goal. If you follow this unfrequented path, you will find the shortest way. If you realize Sunyata (the absolute Emptiness), compassion will arise within your hearts; and when you lose all differentiation between yourself and others, then you will be fit to serve others.
--Tibetan Yogi Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135 CE)

"I again realized that everything is impermanent and time is relative. You can never, ever, ever be in a permanent relationship. Being with somebody for 3 minutes is no different than being with somebody for 50 years, when you see the big picture. And being by myself for 3 minutes is no different than being by myself for 50 years. When you realize this, loneliness ceases. And you realize that you are by yourself exactly at the right time and you are with people exactly at the right time. When you give up control and worry, then everything and everybody comes exactly when and where you need it. Everything. "

-Excerpts and quotes from http://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/

Very interesting, excellent concepts, food for thought. And that, my dear, is free.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Thoughts of the Day

I'm going to try to post a thought of the day, daily. We'll see how that goes.
Today's thought...

I'm thinking that maybe the people who claim the most to be right, and good, non-crazy, great energy, and have the ability to point a finger at those they claim are bad, bad energy, negative spirit, this person/that person somehow affects them in a bad way, can sometimes be the ones who are most crazy.

We're all good and bad. In different ways, on different scales, but nonetheless. And I think those with bigger bad sides, sometimes work harder to cover it up..

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Siiiigh. Forgivvvenesssss...

I've recently added several family members to my facebook. Aunts, cousins, etc. People that all for reasons large or petty, I've really just fallen out of touch with. Some for shorter time spans, others for the last decade. So maybe it's not really forgiveness, I don't really know what it is. Just kind of trying to be bigger, better, ya know. I think it's important to stay in touch with your family. It's hard for me to add those people, but it also makes me feel really good. So that's that.