Living...people watching...my children and family...my writing...movies, music, art...my work...so many things I can't begin to list here without seeming self indulgent...MY FAVORITE QUOTES:"In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams. "
~Acts 2:17
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places" ~~(Ephesians 6:12).
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."~~~ Joseph Campbell
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo, 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
"To see the World in a Grain of Sand,
and a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your Hand,
and Eternity in an Hour."
~~William Blake (1757-1827)
~~"And the day
came when the risk it took to remain
tight inside the bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom."~~ Anais Nin
"Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee"
~~St. John of the Cross
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. ~ Joseph Campbell
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. ~ Joseph Campbell
"His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!'
Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."~ 113 Gospel of Thomas
"In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone."
~ St. John of the Cross
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks within, awakens." ~~ Carl Jung
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."
~John 17:16
"Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?"
-- Robert F. Kennedy
"The purified heart casts no reflection in the smoking mirror."
~~unknown
I'd like to meet:
Hide My 'View all Friends' linkThe Father, Sting (the singer not the wrestler), Al Gore, Jacque Vallee, the Dalai Lama, Susan Sarandon, Hillary as in Clinton (to wise her up on the war), the Beatles (all of them), the Doors too, Jimmy Page..to ask him a favor, Derrel Sims "Alienhunter", Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Saladin, Pope John Paul, ..my third grade teacher Sister Mary Rose...
For peace in your country
For the victims of violence everywhere
For those struggling for peace and justice
For churches in conflict situations
For a world without war and violence
Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth,
Lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace,
Let peace fill our beings,
our world and our universe. Amen.
Music:
"LET PEACE BE MADE THROUGH MUSIC..THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF THE ANGELS....." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My Angels of Music "Julian, Sean, Elliot, Tori and Joe"...,The Seers, the Doors, Antonio Vivaldi, Sting, Beethoven, Don McClean, Yanni, SEAL, Enya, NIN, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Georgia Kelley, Corvus Corax, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Monroe, Cyndie Lauper,Green Day, Black Eyed Peas,...and many types of rhythms made with air and strings and drums.
Movies:
"The Crucible", "Les Miserables", "Moulin Rouge", "The Forgotten", "Cinema Paradisio", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Cries and Whispers", "Kingdom of Heaven", "Braveheart", "Pride and Prejudice", "The Last of the Mohicans", "The Messenger", "King Arthur", "The Black Orpheus", "the Phantom of the Opera", "Bowling for Columbine" "My Fair Lady", "The Notebook", "The Constant Gardener", "Schindler's List"...want me to go on...yawn....V
Television:
Movies...lots and lots of movies...National Geographic, Discovery, History Channel, Link, UHCH, TLC, Sci-Fi, TV vegetable when with my podlings...Southpark!! and Medium.
Books:
I read anything non-fiction and the classics. I collect books written by my friends...which of course are all signed. I read Joseph Campbell, Malachi Martin, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Blake, Keats, Shelley & Byron, Jane Austin, yes I was a literature major...Billie Letts...a favorite! her husband was my writing professor. I enjoy books on anomalous experiences and things of the unexplained like John Keel's "Mothman Prophecies"...and Karla Turner's "Masquerade of Angels", Leah Haley, Eve Lorgen, Whitley Streiber, Tal Levesque, Branton, James Bartley, Sandy Nichols, Fritz Springmeier((hugs)) and Cisco Wheeler, Andrew Hennessey, Colleen Johnstone and too many to name...
I am in these volumes...your grandchildren will be studying the psychosocial reactions to this historical change of government, sun activity and spiritual warfare....Purchase at Amazon.com
Heroes:
Heroes
Dead Man's Rope
A million footsteps, this left foot drags
behind my right
But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night
And as days turn into weeks and years
And years turn into lifetimes
I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction
You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle of addiction
Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying since the
world was black?
You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone on your back
.
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain
All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space
Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope
Yes I've been walking, now I'm hanging from a dead man's rope
With Hell below me, and Heaven in the sky above
I've been walking, I've been walking away from Jesus' love ...
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain
All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space
The shadows fall
Around my bed
When the hand of an angel,
The hand of an angel is reaching down above my head
All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
Now I'm walking in his grace
I'm walking in his footsteps
Walking in his footsteps,
Walking in his footsteps
All the days of my life I will walk with you
All the days of my life I will talk with you
All the days of my life I will share with you
All the days of my life I will bear with you
Walk away from emptiness, walk away from sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away from anger, walk away from pain
Walk away from anguish, walk into the rain.
By Gordon Sumner "STING"
The
Invitation
It
doesnt interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
It doesnt interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by lifes betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
remember the limitations of being human.
It doesnt interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
Yes.
It doesnt interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesnt interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
2012
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