Picture this: On a lovely late afternoon stroll, you are walking along on a hilly suburban sidewalk, already planning your evening at home. Absent-mindedly, you cross strips of grass and the concrete slabs of your neighbors’ driveways when suddenly … the brakes on a parked truck give up. Caught unawares, you are unable to...
Posts Tagged ‘ Spiritual Philosophy ’
Ego dips_ soul dims [what soul is to ego]
As far as most of us are concerned, our soul is just there, hanging somewhere above our head, fuzzily defined, even in religious dogma.
Natural Disaster_Floods and Warm hearts
At the moment, Nature is still not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood, savings, personal plans - horded billions of taxpayers' money = the Economy.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part5/5]
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I never intended for this series to grow beyond the original 3 blogs, which is why the first one was labelled part1/3, but whenever I hear of yet another blatant example of our ‘herd blindness’, my keyboard jumps up and down, demanding words on paper – and who am I to refuse, huh?
Natural Disasters_And Then WHAT? [part 4/5]
Scholarly theories and precautionary principles get bandied around. They generate nods and accolades from peers as well as a few variations on, ‘Uh, yeah ... OK,’ from us laypersons but they can never, never define the original catalyst that created the very first instance of their very first observable piece of data – the...
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 3/4]
Though clearly our culture is well past the point of no return, as individuals, we need to stop pointing the finger as readily as the child who, caught red-handed, blurts in a blatant attempt to shift blame, “It wasn’t me. I had nothing to do with it.”
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part2/5]
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It is far easier to pop pills than trying to earnestly understand what lurks at the low end of our ego. It is also much easier than to begin sorting out from within the fears and insecurities that lead us by the nose moment by moment, one impulse, one knee-jerk at a time.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 1/5]
At the moment, Nature is not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood - and horded billions of taxpayers’ money. At the moment, Nature seems very interesting in cleansing the planet.
beyond our persona
The tale below was given to me a few years ago by my spiritual teacher. It’s time to share it. I am sure you will find easy parallels between what the little stream has to go through and what we need to surrender to get to the *other* side – beyond the low end...
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