BEFORE IT BECOMES MORBID DEPRESSION
INVITE/ALLOW ANGER TO COMBUST INTO CREATIVE
ACTION OF TAO’S GRACE
∞
PAUSE IN/OF/AS GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH
TO INVITE & ALLOW
ew
3:33 AM-11/20/17
INVITE/ALLOW ANGER TO COMBUST INTO CREATIVE
ACTION OF TAO’S GRACE
∞
PAUSE IN/OF/AS GREAT BREATHER’S BREATH
TO INVITE & ALLOW
ew
3:33 AM-11/20/17
“the sun — is always more than a gigantic mass of ions,
it is a splendor and a mystery,
a force and a divinity,
it is life and the symbol of life.”
Henry Beston
https://www.brainpickings.org/tag/henry-beston/
See Read more at end of this post
....the remedies are expressions of the sickness itself.
In order to “survive” we instinctively destroy that on which our survival depends.
Thomas Merton
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In order to “survive” we instinctively destroy that on which our survival depends.
Thomas Merton
See Read More at end of this post
I am not one of those who neglect the body
in order to make of it a sacrificial offering for the soul,
since my soul would thoroughly dislike being served in such a fashion.
Rilke
Excerpt from
:https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/07/rilke-on-body-and-soul/
A man with outward courage dares to die;
a man with inner courage dares to live.
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/100074-d-o-d-j-ng
a man with inner courage dares to live.
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/100074-d-o-d-j-ng
AFTERNOON....................
Learning to live in such a way that nothing is experienced as either an advantage or a disadvantage is the source of enormous empowerment and liberation.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
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When love and hate are both absent,
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the slightest distinction, however,
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the disease of the mind..
― Hsin Hsin Ming
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the slightest distinction, however,
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the disease of the mind..
― Hsin Hsin Ming
See READ MORE Below
“the sun — is always more than a gigantic mass of ions, it is a splendor and a mystery, a force and a divinity, it is life and the symbol of life.”
Henry Beston
Excerpt from here:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/13/rachel-carson-dorothy-freeman-letters/
It is now the most vitally important thing for all of us, however we may be concerned with our society, to try to arrive at a clear, cogent statement of our ills, so that we may begin to correct them.
Otherwise, our efforts will be directed to purely superficial symptoms only, and perhaps not even at things related directly to the illness.
On the contrary, it seems that our remedies are instinctively those
which aggravate the sickness:
the remedies are expressions of the sickness itself.
I would almost dare to say that the sickness is perhaps a very real and very dreadful hatred of life as such, of course subconscious, buried under our pitiful and superficial optimism about ourselves and our affluent society.
But I think that the very thought processes of materialistic affluence (and here the same things are found in all the different economic systems that seek affluence for its own sake) are ultimately self-defeating.
They contain so many built-in frustrations that they inevitably lead us to despair in the midst of “plenty” and “happiness” and the awful fruit of this despair is indiscriminate, irresponsible destructiveness, hatred of life, carried on in the name of life itself.
In order to “survive” we instinctively destroy that on which our survival depends.
Thomas Merton
Excerpt from here:
http://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/are-you-a-body-with-a-mind-or-a-mind-with-a-body-plus-alan-watts-on-gain-and-loss-thomas-mertons-beautiful-letter-to-rachel-carson-and-more?e=a7b5089357
“I am not one of those who neglect the body in order to make of it a sacrificial offering for the soul, since my soul would thoroughly dislike being served in such a fashion.”-
Rilke
Excerpt from
:https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/07/rilke-on-body-and-soul/
In a talk titled “Swimming Headless,”(Alan) Watts explores the psychological dimensions of Taoist philosophy and its emphasis on cultivating the mental discipline of not categorizing everything into gain and loss. Learning to live in such a way that nothing is experienced as either an advantage or a disadvantage, Watts argues, is the source of enormous empowerment and liberation.
Excerpt from
http://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/are-you-a-body-with-a-mind-or-a-mind-with-a-body-plus-alan-watts-on-gain-and-loss-thomas-mertons-beautiful-letter-to-rachel-carson-and-more?e=a7b5089357
source of above quotes from
Brainpickings
Maria Popova
only 33 years old
Brain Pickings takes over 450 hours of work each month.[18] Popova reads hundreds of pieces of content a day and anywhere between 12-15 books per week.[6] From this, she posts the best to her blog and Twitter feed.[18] She spends three to eight hours writing a day, publishes three articles a day from Monday to Friday, and tweets about four times per hour.[19][20] All these articles and tweets are written and scheduled in advance.[19] She goes to one of her two offices in New York City where she writes for her blog, tweets, goes through feeds, and more.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova
Henry Beston
Excerpt from here:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/13/rachel-carson-dorothy-freeman-letters/
It is now the most vitally important thing for all of us, however we may be concerned with our society, to try to arrive at a clear, cogent statement of our ills, so that we may begin to correct them.
Otherwise, our efforts will be directed to purely superficial symptoms only, and perhaps not even at things related directly to the illness.
On the contrary, it seems that our remedies are instinctively those
which aggravate the sickness:
the remedies are expressions of the sickness itself.
I would almost dare to say that the sickness is perhaps a very real and very dreadful hatred of life as such, of course subconscious, buried under our pitiful and superficial optimism about ourselves and our affluent society.
But I think that the very thought processes of materialistic affluence (and here the same things are found in all the different economic systems that seek affluence for its own sake) are ultimately self-defeating.
They contain so many built-in frustrations that they inevitably lead us to despair in the midst of “plenty” and “happiness” and the awful fruit of this despair is indiscriminate, irresponsible destructiveness, hatred of life, carried on in the name of life itself.
In order to “survive” we instinctively destroy that on which our survival depends.
Thomas Merton
Excerpt from here:
http://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/are-you-a-body-with-a-mind-or-a-mind-with-a-body-plus-alan-watts-on-gain-and-loss-thomas-mertons-beautiful-letter-to-rachel-carson-and-more?e=a7b5089357
“I am not one of those who neglect the body in order to make of it a sacrificial offering for the soul, since my soul would thoroughly dislike being served in such a fashion.”-
Rilke
Excerpt from
:https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/07/rilke-on-body-and-soul/
In a talk titled “Swimming Headless,”(Alan) Watts explores the psychological dimensions of Taoist philosophy and its emphasis on cultivating the mental discipline of not categorizing everything into gain and loss. Learning to live in such a way that nothing is experienced as either an advantage or a disadvantage, Watts argues, is the source of enormous empowerment and liberation.
Excerpt from
http://mailchi.mp/brainpickings/are-you-a-body-with-a-mind-or-a-mind-with-a-body-plus-alan-watts-on-gain-and-loss-thomas-mertons-beautiful-letter-to-rachel-carson-and-more?e=a7b5089357
source of above quotes from
Brainpickings
Maria Popova
only 33 years old
Brain Pickings takes over 450 hours of work each month.[18] Popova reads hundreds of pieces of content a day and anywhere between 12-15 books per week.[6] From this, she posts the best to her blog and Twitter feed.[18] She spends three to eight hours writing a day, publishes three articles a day from Monday to Friday, and tweets about four times per hour.[19][20] All these articles and tweets are written and scheduled in advance.[19] She goes to one of her two offices in New York City where she writes for her blog, tweets, goes through feeds, and more.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Popova
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