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aschleigh

Ascend !

About Me

"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names, and it is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this fire, then find a new-age, sweetness-and-light, soft-speaking, perpetually smiling teacher, and learn to relabel your ego with spiritual sounding terms. But stay away from those that practice real compassion, because they will fry your ass, my friend." Ken Wilbur .. .. ..I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts! Myspace Graphics

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My Interests

Love versus RomanceWhen a couple are genuinely related to each other,they are willing to enter into the whole spectrum of human life together. They transform even the unexciting,difficult,and mundane things into a joyful fulfilling component of Life. By contrast romantic love can only last as long as a couple are "high" on one another,so long as the money lasts and the entertainments are exciting. "Stirring the oatmeal" means that two people take their love off the airey level of exciting fantasy and convert it into earthly practical immediacy. Love is content to do many things that Ego is bored with,love is willing to work with the others moods and unreasonableness.Love is willing to fix breakfast and balance the chequebook,Love is willing to do these "oatmeal" things of Life because it is related to a person and not a projection... ( I think I may be in love for real this time) love, spirituality, kittens, men, kids, travel, laughing, sex, joy, beauty, running, reading, tribe.net, michigan, shoes, vegetables, oceans, swimming, apartments, coasta rica, halloween, sadness, saphires, apples, cheese, pears, napping, the sun ( actual and the magazine) , babies, moms, women, change, light, darkness, stillness, waves, film making, silence, tijuanna, fire, independent anything, film festivals.

I'd like to meet:

The universe is a deity in the process of becoming conscious"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world." --Emmet Fox

Music:

Radiohead, Curtis MAyfield, the Rature, PJ Harvey, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, !!!, devo, eurythmics, madonna, prince, the clash,

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Ferris bueller's day off,,Splendor in the Grass, Rebel without a Cause, Y tu Mama Tambien

Television:

Mr.show with Bob and David, The Pride is back HBO special, documentaries on A&E, HOUSE, Law And Order ( it has a calming effect)

Books:

Brecht, Eisenstien, Eggers, Bukowski, kundera, Roth, Franzen,Harville Hendricks The Sun Magazine Perfect love means to love the one through whom one becomes unhappy. Soren Kierkegaard

Heroes:

Anyone who is cutting their own path through life, especially opinionated women, sensual men and precocious kids. Anyone with a dream and the stamina to see it through. Alchemists who turn pain and experience into consciousness and joy. Wayne Coyne, Oprah, working on being my own hero

My Blog

Healthy relationships

I am really glad I got to experience a relationship where I was committed to doing the work to make it great. It's about where I am in life. I will take the time, effort and energy to have a healthy ...
Posted by aschleigh on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:01:00 PST

Wondering

New me. Hard won. New definition of love. Not so easily fooled. Still a fool for love. Vibrating, aliveness. Running 5 miles, body hurting. Still nervous. And calm. Wondering where it all goes. Wonder...
Posted by aschleigh on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:09:00 PST

Emotional Honesty

Emotional HonestyWe wear a mask that grins and liesIt hides our cheeks and shades our eyesThis debt we pay to human guileWith torn and bleeding hearts we smile * Introduction to emotional honestyHow s...
Posted by aschleigh on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:16:00 PST

being me

Being me... It's going to have to be enough. That's all I got. I hope I have the guy that that's enough for too.He wasn't . Yay!
Posted by aschleigh on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:54:00 PST

heart braking fabulously

My heart is braking and I feel alive. I will take this pain over numbness anyday. i will take this pain over depression, Lexapro, World of Warcraft, or logic any day. I am so strong it hardly touches ...
Posted by aschleigh on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:53:00 PST

Growing Pains

So I feel like the piece and grit and the oyster working together to make the Pearl. yes it's cheesy but I read that and I recognized it for my experience now. Working on my daily gratitude journal. I...
Posted by aschleigh on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:43:00 PST

Love

If only I could write a book or even see a graph about all the ups and downs my moods, but not just my moods It's like this, I am on a spiritual journey. Wheather I am sleeping or sitting or running ...
Posted by aschleigh on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:11:00 PST

soul, self, loss

When you have a really defined , strong sense of self then you can lose yourself... in a moment, in another person, in the waves of the ocean and Know you will never really be lost!
Posted by aschleigh on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:39:00 PST

Being shallow and unconnected is so much easier than this...

Has anyone ever noticed how scary intamacy is? It's like someone is going to know all that stuff about you that you don't want anyone to know. I try not to know too much about myself because I don't l...
Posted by aschleigh on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:21:00 PST

NAKED IN LA

wow, naked in LA. physically and emotionally and spiritually naked. Without armour, without gile in the biggest sketchiest town in the world. And still I am stronger and more alive than I have ever be...
Posted by aschleigh on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:18:00 PST