"I looked at my watch and decided to use the last ten minutes to talk about Norman rather than about myself. I interrupted again and asked him if he believed the things he saw in the cards.
'Not 100 per cent, otherwise we would no longer have any responsibility for our actions,' he said. 'The cards read the shadows of things, of events. What I can do is help people to change the position of the light, and then, with free will, they can change the shadows. That I really do believe: you can change the shadows.'"
A Fortune-Teller Told Me, p314
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Remember
Life is not yours, and it can be taken from you at any moment. Reflect on this.
A Fortune-Tell Told Me, p262
Do you believe that which is truely yours no one can take? Not even god?
So many things "happen" to us in the course of our lives...as kids we immediately grasp the concept of "mine". Something to which we feel very close to and if taken away we get upset. As we we lost apart of us. Why is that so inherent in us at such a young age? What is it about being human wants to claim things as ours, as possession? When we are young, it can't be power, prestige, vanity, greed? How can a child even understand the concept of greed? As a child we don't choose the toys, clothes, food, etc we receive yet we quickly claim it as ours. Interesting... in that there are two ways, maybe more, this can lead to.
1. Greed/Ego possession is something we learn at an early age or is developed in us as a survival instinct. Or just the natural nature of being human.
2. The child immediately at a subtle level that the things they receive are a result of past lives and they are claiming them. There is a story about a Buddhist monk walking and carrying beads. He walks by a young child. The child immediately comes up to him and says these beads are his. The child became the Dalai Lama.
This book rightly points out that we don't choose our parents, the time we are born, where we are born, our brothers and sisters, and yet we claim. So the cycle of continues on even as adults.
What is it that we have to unlearn to understand the truth of life?
A Fortune-Tell Told Me, p262
Do you believe that which is truely yours no one can take? Not even god?
So many things "happen" to us in the course of our lives...as kids we immediately grasp the concept of "mine". Something to which we feel very close to and if taken away we get upset. As we we lost apart of us. Why is that so inherent in us at such a young age? What is it about being human wants to claim things as ours, as possession? When we are young, it can't be power, prestige, vanity, greed? How can a child even understand the concept of greed? As a child we don't choose the toys, clothes, food, etc we receive yet we quickly claim it as ours. Interesting... in that there are two ways, maybe more, this can lead to.
1. Greed/Ego possession is something we learn at an early age or is developed in us as a survival instinct. Or just the natural nature of being human.
2. The child immediately at a subtle level that the things they receive are a result of past lives and they are claiming them. There is a story about a Buddhist monk walking and carrying beads. He walks by a young child. The child immediately comes up to him and says these beads are his. The child became the Dalai Lama.
This book rightly points out that we don't choose our parents, the time we are born, where we are born, our brothers and sisters, and yet we claim. So the cycle of continues on even as adults.
What is it that we have to unlearn to understand the truth of life?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
I like this
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below.
He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."
"You must be in Information Technology," said the balloonist.
"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is,
technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."
The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."
"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or
where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact
is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."
He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."
"You must be in Information Technology," said the balloonist.
"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is,
technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."
The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."
"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or
where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact
is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Choose wisely
I believe this world, this life is here for our own personal desires. We build this world as we want to see it through our eyes. We assume the capacity to control and manipulate events in our lives and others. We set our desires, our wishes and act accordingly. And for some reason we betray them, not willing to pay the price up front. This leads to unintended consequences that results in getting what you exactly wished for, but not in the way you had visioned, dreamed. And some times once you have what you wanted you realize it was an illusion all along; created by the mind to fulfill some desire or emotion. That desire turned into thoughts, thoughts turned to wishes, wished turned to subtle changes in behavior triggering a domino that set life in motion to deliver exactly what you wanted or so you thought. The world operates at a very subtle level, far beyond our awareness so be careful what you wish for...
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