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Mari-am
Thank you very much.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 28, 2006 at 6:53 AM
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Cee
Yes, 'backing off' is the lesson of surrender.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 28, 2006 at 6:52 AM
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nice post , thanks
posted by
Rosetree
on August 27, 2006 at 5:24 PM
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Avant
So you backed off and this started going right! Isn't is something how good can let us get so far in "choice" but if it still is not in the betterment of what and who you affect the next guy, we've got to keep trying and learning. Hope that makes sense. It's pretty late!
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 27, 2006 at 12:55 AM
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Whacky
Well, we either learn or retreat into isolation and despair.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:48 AM
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Wiley
Well, the only reason I say that is because my wife and I pushed so hard to move. It turns out now that we would have lost a lot of money, were we to have actually done it.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:47 AM
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YPunday
Thank you. I might have a look, then if it is about the sea!
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:46 AM
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Jomei
Yes! Good to hear from you again. Will you be staying for a little while?
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:45 AM
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Bhaskar
The consequences are self-evident.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:45 AM
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bel
Exactly. Am I here to play God, or be a student?
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:44 AM
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Moon
You are right. They are running unchecked.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:43 AM
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Tanga
Thank you, my friend.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:42 AM
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naorem
Yes. How can something so simple become so complicated?
posted by
avant-garde
on August 27, 2006 at 12:42 AM
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Seems that familiarity should breed content....
We keep getting the same lessons till we finally learn.
posted by
Whacky
on August 26, 2006 at 10:19 PM
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avant-garde
Hmmmm, Hydro's teaching for me will probably be shocking
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 26, 2006 at 7:14 PM
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LOvely wisdom for these times--closing minds fro old comforts/politics
I like how u focus on the micrcosm (the individual) when the effects are in fact mascrocosmic (global and cosmic). Our thoughts shape and remake the universe
On a mundane level, however, come and play haiku with seaweeds when u have a minute--shalom brother
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 26, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Hi Avant!
Nice to read your words once more.
I always think of it like expectation. For example, if I'm about to meet someone I usually have an image of what they will look like. If they don't match it, part of me is disappointed. But if I have no expectations, just a beginners mind, then who they are is a kind of revelation.... "oh.... of course you are you! who else could you be!"
I emdeavour to have this beginner's mind in more situations, yet habitual thinking can be layer after layer of past that actually creates the future, as you suggest.
posted by
Jomei
on August 26, 2006 at 4:59 PM
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Avant - Some thoughts on Heaven and Hell...
Two roads diverged from the woods;
I took the one less travelled by,
And look where I am.
Unless you have the courage to follow the one not followed by the other Heaven is where you reach.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on August 26, 2006 at 1:10 PM
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Avant
This is how I try to live my life "
a choice to decide that others exist to teach us about ourselves". I believe all to often we get too comfortable with what we know instead of seeking out more not only about ourselves but about the world around us.
posted by
bel_1965
on August 26, 2006 at 9:45 AM
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Excellent post Avant. We pay almost no attention to 'tending our minds' preferring to allow them to run here and there and amuck at their discretion. MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on August 26, 2006 at 9:21 AM
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Wise words
posted by
Tanga
on August 26, 2006 at 8:16 AM
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RiFDaws
Precisely. Thank you for reading.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 26, 2006 at 4:47 AM
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naorem
Yes. The choice is ours. Thank you.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 26, 2006 at 4:46 AM
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I like this ....
"Familiarity can foster the guise of security, even as the foundation upon which it rests is ever changing and evolving. It is the want of this guise that justifies the mind's misuse of ideas to create what does not really exist."
Good point, and can apply to much of our lives if we do not guard our mind with truth as you suggest.
posted by
RiFDaws
on August 26, 2006 at 4:43 AM
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yes... one to hell and other to heaven
posted by
naorem
on August 26, 2006 at 4:36 AM
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