About Me
"It doesn't 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 heart's longing.
It doesn’t 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 doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled 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, or be realistic, or remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t 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. Can you 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!!â€
It doesn’t 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 doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn’t 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."
-'The Invitation'
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer~
I am an observer and student of self, life and choice. A curious, loving, free spirit, keeping focus on path of spiritual developement, decay of ego, and resurrection of truth. I have no interest in labels or stereotypes. I am on journey for the soul purpose to serve others. Allowing spirit to guide in lessons on this wonderful adventure of life on earth.
"One who meditates upon the Self and realizes the Self s
ees the Self everywhere, and rejoices in the Self. Such one lives in freedom and is at home wherever he goes."
"But those who pursue the finite are blind to the Self and live in bondage."
"One who meditates upon and realizes the Self discovers that everything in the cosmos
Energy and Space
Fire and Water
Name and Form
Birth and Death
Mind and Will
Word and Deed
Mantram and Meditation
All come from the Self.
"The Self is one, though it appears to be many. Those who meditate upon the Self and realize the Self go beyond decay and death, beyond separateness and sorrow.
"They see the Self in everyone and obtain all things."
"Control the senses and purify the mind. In a pure mind there is constant awareness of the Self."
"Where there is constant awareness of the Self, freedom ends bondage and joy ends sorrow."
"Thus the sage Sanatkumara taught the pure Narada to go beyond bondage, beyond sorrow, beyond darkness,
To the light of the Self."
- Sage Sanathumara -
“Those who are religiously inclined... try to impose upon the person/child the beliefs, hopes, and fears which they in turn have acquired from their parents;
And those who are anti-religious are equally keen to influence the person/child to accept the particular way of thinking which they happen to follow.
We all want our children to accept our form of worship or take to heart our chosen ideology.
What we call religion is merely organized belief, with its dogmas, rituals, mysteries and superstitions.
Each religion has its own sacred book, its mediator, its priests and its ways of threatening and holding people. Most of us have been conditioned to all this, which is considered religious education;
but this conditioning sets man against man, it creates antagonism, not only among the believers, but also against those of other beliefs. Though all religions assert that they worship “God†and say that we must love one another, they instill fear through their doctrines of reward and punishment, and through their competitive dogmas they perpetuate suspicion and antagonism.
Dogmas, mysteries and rituals are not conducive to a spiritual life.
Religious education in the true sense is to encourage the child to understand his own relationship to people, to things and to nature.
If the person/child's mind and heart are not molded by religious preconceptions and prejudices...
then he will be free to discover through self knowledge what is above and beyond himself.â€
~ Krishnamurti,
‘Education and the Significance of Life"
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy.
But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.
The very minds of the people we are trying to save.
But until we do, these people are still a part of that system
and that makes them our enemy.
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.
And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us.You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television.
You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes.
It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
You are a slave like everyone else you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell, taste or touch. A prision for your mind!
Unfornunatley no one can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
-Morpheus-
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A little self observation
Who are you?
What are the quality of my relationships?
Who am I to my family and friends?
What are the virtues that I embody?
What really defines identity?
Do you forgive yourself?
Are you honest with "true" self?
Do I love my self?
Can I love another more than self?
Can I let go of that little “me†to serve others?
~Avry
“ Ultimate joy exists when you are living in such a manner that you would choose to repeat this life over and over, for eternity†~ Nietzsche
Around The Campfire
Have we lost our way?
We must return again to the call of nature ...
This call is muted with the hurts around us ...
Destruction of the good and bad ...
We must return, not as aliens, As keepers of all
life that are a part of us ...
Some are forever gone ...
Others are crying out in despair ...
Just as our Ancestors kept the faith with all Things Great and Small ...
So must we be the guardians of The Sun, the Moon and the Stars ...
It is because of them, and our respect for their powers
that we must raise our voices to be heard ...
We are not just Man, we are THE PEOPLE ...
Our fathers before us worshipped all things of nature ...
This is good, for Nature is the Heart of all things ...
All of us spring from Mother Earth We must return to her with gratitude...
If we poison Her, so will our future be poisoned ...
She will rebel against the hurts and we will be the losers ...
We must return ...
"If humanity wishes to save it selffrom biosphere destruction...it must return to living in natural time".
~ Pacal Votan