from GARY ZUKAV:
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Release your specifications and say to the Universe: “Find me where you know I need to be.” Let them go and trust that the Universe will provide, and so it shall.
Gary Zukav
The Seat of the Soul
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The goal of pleasing others is to avoid experiencing emotions that are too painful or shameful to confront. Pleasing others is a technique to isolate you from your fear of losing love.
Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
The Heart of the Soul
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Let go of what you think is just reward. Let go. Trust. Create. Be who you are. The rest is up to your nonphysical Teachers and the Universe.
Gary Zukav
The Seat of the Soul
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Passion is the unfolding of joy.
Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
The Heart of the Soul
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Emotions that pass through you and are used to manipulate other people are like ripples on the surface of the ocean. They are not the same as currents that run deep.
Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
The Heart of the Soul
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Spiritual growth is replacing survival as the central objective of the hu-_man experience.
Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
The Heart of the Soul
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The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.
Gary Zukav
The Seat of the Soul
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task, for the advanced or expanding mind is to expand to a level at which questions that cannot be answered from within the accepted understanding of truth can be answered.
Gary Zukav
The Seat of the Soul
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Gary's bio:
Born in Texas, grew up in Kansas, graduated from Harvard, and served in Vietnam as a Green Beret officer. He thus describes himself in his self-intro.:"I have grown older my anger and sexual addiction have been replaced by a passion for creating authentic power – the alignment of the personality with the soul. The more pain I see in the world, the more I see how it can be used to find and transform the parts of ourselves that are creating so violently and destructively into parts that create consciously and constructively. I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself, and where necessary, change myself, to create authentic power, to align personality with soul, and I love sharing what I know about how to do that."
知凡 发表评论于
good night, sleep tight!
影云 发表评论于
goodie :)
i am imagining now - - - mmmmmm, a pointer that points, just kidding :)
sweet dream:)
LTG 发表评论于
hahaha!!!
g o o d 9
friends!!!
rc 发表评论于
Good nite...YY, I will keep my eye half open and half closed and my heart wide open..:))
影云 发表评论于
hahahhahaha
goodie nitie :)
LTG 发表评论于
ooopzzz....my joke
didn't work
with r.c.
:)
i must be
t i r e d
rc 发表评论于
Nooop. What makes you think so???
LTG 发表评论于
p a o t i l a
p a o t i l a
p a o t i l a
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a night!!!
please keep your
spirits high!!!!
see you all
in a better
tomorrow!!!
good dreams!!!
[rc, r u in China?]
:)
影云 发表评论于
yeah, west coast :) eyes still wide open :)
rc 发表评论于
Are you all go to sleep? I thought LTG is a night owl. Are we all live in the same time sone right? West coast?
OOpes, Pao ti la again...:))
影云 发表评论于
Body & soul
a perfect couple
con- -tra - - di - - -ctory
but make a life compleeeeeeeeeete
we taste bitterness of miserable then
know the sweetness of happiness
Feed yourself now
Good nite
Sweet
Dream
dear
P
O
E
T
!!
rc 发表评论于
I missed fun cause I need to ran away to finish my "homework". Good to hear your laughing and wispering....Feel happy..
LTG 发表评论于
i w i s h m y b o d
y w e r e l i k e m
y s o u l s p i r i
t t h a t d o n o t
n e e d t o e a t
t o s l e e p t o
g o t o m a k e $
l i k e n o w m y
b o d y i s d r y
t i r e d h u n g
r y s l e e p y
seems like we are talking about other things...hahaha....pao ti le!!!
side tracked???
poetry does not need a big "audience".....only like-minded friends, 3 or 5, gather from time to time, have a chat, a drink, maybe a party :)
[forgot who said that!]
知凡 发表评论于
Wow, more than two years ago?? I missed the most exciting part, otherwise, I can bite or tear the attackers with my thick face and sharp teeth too... :)
影云 发表评论于
Okay, okay, RC has always been behind an “iron curtain”, eyes wide open, fists clenching when other monkeys and mice look for a fight : )
rc 发表评论于
ZF:
Oh, I met LTG more than two years ago. YY has been his "iron rod fan", I am not...:))) His poems got a lot of attack from the others, but LTG had a very thick face and sharp teeth. He can bite and tear you apart! OOpes, shouldn't reveal his "shortcoming"...:)))
影云 发表评论于
Thanks : )
I believe you will have more parties like this to throw : )
mmmm, ltg says, “happiness is not easy to find, but when you have found it, never hesitate to claim it.”
Confucious nods , true, true true ;)
i have had a day of happiness : )
LTG 发表评论于
y.y.,
you almost missed the party!
:)
like your new poem too!!
thanks for coming!
hope you all had a day full of happiness!!
"happiness" is not easy to find, but when you have found it, never hesitate to claim it!
( LTG said that :)
知凡 发表评论于
RC,
I started to read LTG’s poems from the last minute of the last day of last year and became one of his fans right away:)
And then I met Qiu-ling, and now I meet you...:)
影云 发表评论于
Am I late? Glad to see so many friends here; )
RC: thanks. : )
LTG: love your new poem!!! Flowing like water:
“Maybe the life of the soul
Is a circle
Without beginning
Without ending
Evolve
Involve
Resolve”
Love is happiness though happiness can happen to be somewhere else : )
LTG 发表评论于
rc,
thank you for calling my response a poem....
thanks to the inspiration i got from everyone, a new poem is on its way:)
please do not apologize for making friends on here....my "poetry room" is much bigger than my home, hahaha.....
rc 发表评论于
So, ZF: You also knew Qiu-Ling..I am wondering did we met before? :)
rc 发表评论于
HI, Qiu-Ling:
Nice to see you stop by! Greetings! I haven't be here for a long time. Just recently remembered to come back. But I find myself being hooked again. When you have time, welcom to join the "useless" discusion here..
LTG: Excuse me for inviting without the host permission.:))
LTG 发表评论于
you guys are funny!!
ZF, good sense of humor!!
:)
i am learning from all of you at the same time!!
"blogging" is a very good way for people to share some valuable ideas [not just stock market info.!]
nowadays, people's lives are filled with business and busyness, we hardly have any time to take care of our soul....
it seems fine for the "bodies" to walk, eat, shit, eat, work, sleep, eat, work etc...without a soul...."dead" men walking....:)
so many of them!!!!
i am happy to hear all the thoughts from you and it seems to be the meaning of blogging, right????
cheers again!
:)
知凡 发表评论于
Hi Qiu ling, how are you!
Hi LTG, like I said before, I am one of your fans! Qiu ling knew it:)
many young girls are fans of movie star or pop star.
I feel I am very young now because I am a fan too.:))
rc 发表评论于
" Be able to love is Happiness." for sure! for sure!! For sure!!!
"Truth is worth to seek." Feeling! Being!! Creating!!!
"Life is a circle." Evolve! involve!! Resolve!!!
A lot of passion and energy between the lines....I am charged..:)))
LTG: Your should revise the "Love and Happiness" poem and post it on the top. We can continue our discussion under a new title...:))
LTG 发表评论于
thanx, ZF!
i feel flattered :)
Hi, Qiu-ling,
How r u!
i wish i had wings like yours so that i can fly like clouds :))
秋菱 发表评论于
Greetings!!!
Just stop by and enjoy your discussion very much as usual.
Bye, I'm floating away like a cloud~~~~
:D
知凡 发表评论于
Unconditional love!!!!
I love poems here because
poetry is a kind of seek-i-n-g-
you'll never "find" it
but IT's there
always & makes this life
worth living
Love is Happiness!!!!
Good thinker! original thinker! Great poet! :))))
LTG 发表评论于
Hi friends!
rrrreally really tru::ly enjoy reading all your intelligent
Mature passionate honest words
On love soul heart happiness
. . . .
thankyou for making me Think!!!
There is always a teacher
When one travels with three friends
Confucius said that:)
are love and happiness 2 separate things??
I am coming to realize that
To be able to love is Happiness!
The ability to love!
Different cultures, religions, etc. have come
To more or less the same kind of conclusion.
Love by loving
Love by creating
Love by protecting
Love by being
Love by sacrificing
Love by suffering
Etcetera etcetera etcetera
But Love is only one of the many
Wonders we experience in Life
Aren’t you happy when you can cry
Feel up and feel down
Taste the bitter leaves of love
Or drink the sweet juice of giving?
Is it Give and Take?
Lost and Found?
People say:
Unconditional love!
What’s that???
Are children [us] aware of
Unconditional love from our parents?
Or
Are we seeking other kinds of Luv?
poetry is a kind of seek-i-n-g-
you'll never "find" it
but IT's there
always & makes this life
worth living
. . . .
How little do we know!
How much do we know!!
Maybe the life of the soul
Is a circle
Without beginning
Without ending
Evolve
Involve
Resolve
知凡 发表评论于
RC, what I want to say now is going to repeat what you had said. :))
Let's talk about something new OR
find or get the answers of the questions that cannot be answered from within the accepted understanding of truth.:))
nice to meet you!!!
rc 发表评论于
Agree with "“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
I remembered there is a Chinese phrase "Only study without thinking make people lazy, only thinking without study make people confused." Guess we have to find a fine balance between study and thinking.
The same as you, I found myself read less than I used to...Indeed, aged...:))
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Happiness is another topic. One thing I know is that pleasure is not happiness. :)
知凡 发表评论于
Hi, Pals,
原谅我不能完全用英文表达我想说的。
可能是因为年龄的关系或我天生的个性，我现在思考、观察和想像的时间比阅读的时间要多。谈论很多问题时，我开始很喜欢引用一些别人比我说的好得多的句子。
太阳底下无新事。毕加索说：
“I do not seek, I find.”“One never stops seeking because one never finds.”
爱因斯坦说：
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. ”
当然必要的阅读和知识的获得是必需的。
关于灵魂，我非常赞同RC所说：“I believed that the origin of "soul" is like an ocean. The soul reside in us is like a drop of water, after we die, the drop of water will return to the ocean….”
所以“SOUL has always been THERE long before we were born!!!!”（LTG）
“what's new is our own experience, mostly importantly, our spiritual experience...”
我想正是因为海洋里的每一滴水都是独一无二的，也就是我们的灵魂是独一无二的，所以我觉得我们自己的心灵体验唯一有可能会是新的，也是唯一有可能有创造的…… 那正是为什么诗人的诗歌会让我有震动和感动我的地方，因为诗人特别是用心灵写作的诗人，他们在创作……
“我们感兴趣的是如何在心与灵间悟到一种“平衡”的，美好的，有人性的生命“哲学”。”
我认为创造力和想像力是唯一有可能获得这样的理想的途径，如此也有可能让其他人受益，而是否会让其他人受益不决定于我们个人的理想愿望或所立的利他的无私志向。因为我们自己认为是无私，是否让他人受了益是很难说的。爱因斯坦曾说：
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
因此 “HAPPINESS” 又是另一个很大的命题。:)
rc 发表评论于
Haha, YY: You made me laugh.:)) You got me! I am too much scientifically minded, which explains why I can't be a poet. I love to read LTG and your writing, especially his love poems, because you can writing those "vague and tender" words that I can feel, but can't write...:)
影云 发表评论于
What I read is a drop of water in the ocean of books. However, great minds like Goethe, Paz, Fromm, Miller, Jung... have influenced more or less by Eastern philosophy which is relatively more feminine than that of western. “Feminine” here means we can feel and “Wu (understand)” through senses and hearts, not through w-o-r-d-s, like when feel about love. The union of Eastern and Western philosophy itself is like the integration of “ying and yang”, melting like “qi (air)”. I think maybe they were one, then branching, and ultimately will reunite together - - - the wholeness.
RC's “In order to live a fulfilled life, one should satisfy his/her self-interest, his passion (selfish) and meanwhile benefit the others (altruism). Focusing on either end won't bring happiness.” - - - wow, art of being! True, we have duel roles which are inseparable through our life: an individual and a node of a society.
I am okay with Fromm, not particularly interested in him - - - his words (out of his minds) sound too "clear" to me, lack of the "vagueness" or "tenderness" that I can or need to feel. In the word that RC used, dissecting - - - which means scientific and reasonable, but not that touching hearts. I don't like being hammered but vibrating together. Glad that we have so many great minds before us, who have brought their best to us - - - altruism.
p.s.
i really really love our "chatting" here - - - i have never thought i could be this "talktive". After English 1C (Critical Thinking - - - something suffocating too when i thought of Grade) I have not "Thought" much, but lived through each day. Now i feel like a tree embracing sunshine :)
Thanks, Pals :):)
rc 发表评论于
Long long time ago, our ancestor summarized the contradictary nature of the universe in the simple Yin-Yang circle. Oriental philosophy views the contradictory in a more intergrated way than the Westerns. The Westerns tend to dissect them.
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Personally, I think that in order tp live a fulfilled life, one should satisfy his/her self-interest, his passion (selfish) and meanwhile benefit the others (altruism). Focusing on either end won't bring happiness.
Writing poem is a good example. The poet has a need to write and the readers can enjoy his/her writing.
知凡 发表评论于
“探索的动机来自于人们对自己反复无常的欲望桎梏的摆脱，但是更来自于对先天和谐的渴望与激情。”:)
知凡 发表评论于
“宇宙中最不可理解之处的就是宇宙可以理解。”:)
影云 发表评论于
Another thought: I guess I should free my mind more.
“the world moves forward because of contradictions/conflicts” - - - my mom always says that too : )
I always think artists create not for eternity, but capture the moment of enlightenment. : ) yes! Nothing is lasting forever . . .
Yeah, poetry does make more sense. I come to realize if we follow philosophy or some intellectual too much, the way we think can be influenced and shadowed. But reading is a shortcut for us to understand the world and us.
That’s why someone say, something creates us, also destroys us. Oops, another contradictory :)
The goal of pleasing others is to avoid experiencing emotions that are too painful or shameful to confront. Pleasing others is a technique to isolate you from your fear of losing love.
I know it’s true, but I have to say, a heart who keeps pleasing others can be burdened, which means ultimate losing love.
Emotions that pass through you and are used to manipulate other people are like ripples on the surface of the ocean. They are not the same as currents that run deep.
I like this one which causes me to think of the contradictory mentioned earlier. The currents running deep are forces bringing us to the state of maturity and self-completion. Whatever floats above it is ephemeral. That’s why I think this transformation will lead to two souls facing each other equally. Maybe I misunderstand “pleasing others”, which can also be interpreted as “bringing joy to others willingly” not from a distorted heart that is full of fears of losing.
still thinking and combing my thoughts - - - but glad that it makes me THINK :)
LTG 发表评论于
yy,
it is not surprising that if we find some point-of-views contradictory... actually, it will be helpful if we can face the "contradictions" with some mature ways of looking at Life in the face!!
For example, what we do is mostly "contradictory"---humans contradict themselves all the time!!! Many things we do daily are not all aligned with our inner needs, but we do it anyway. No one forces us. Or, we don't know who/what forces us.
Artists, poets, etc., want to create though they know "nothing" last.... isn't that contradictory??
The only thing i remember from high school is that "the world moves forward because of contradictions/conflicts" :)
As i say these words, i realize that it is hard not to "philosofy" it....for me, poetry makes more sense :)
thanks!
影云 发表评论于
Love this post, but some of them are kind of “contradictory” to each other - - - I don’t know, just a feeling - - - I will let you know when I know what I am thinking about now.
Rc, I am reading Fromm’s The Art of Being and will share with you you you when I finish that book : )
LTG 发表评论于
Hi, RC and ZF,
Thank you for the feedback!!
rc wrote:
"A real poet, a serious scientist or a person who truelly appreciate the aesthetical aspects of the universe will ultimately choose to walk this spiritual path."
Yes, i think the spiritual world is far more "richer" or enriching than the material world!!!
I am sure you'll have a lot to talk about E. F.'s book with YY!!
This "soul" stuff is surely not easy to talk about, well, what's easy?? :)
in writing and practicing art, or practicing kindness in general, i think we all need "mindfulness"....
soul is there....it requires mindfulness to realize it and consumate it!!!
"reading club" is a great idea :)
more later!
cheers!
rc 发表评论于
Aha, LTG, You are really into the metaphysics STUFF now, the favorate subject of mine as well..:)) A real poet, a serious scientist or a person who truelly appreciate the aesthetical aspects of the universe will ultimately choose to walk this spiritual path.
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Due to the discussion, this weekend I picked up one of Eric Fromm's book "Escape from Freedom" that I bought long time ago, but never read and forgot. When I finish, I can share something with you and YY and the new friend "Zhi Fan".
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Zhi Fan:
Good to meet you. Not many people share the same interest as we are discussing here, because those things are not popular and practical...Glad we have one more friend..Maybe we should organize a "reading club" and exchange thoughts after we read something..It should be possible, just need to figure out how..:)
