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I sometimes I think back to moments in my life when I made choices.
Did I really have a choice or were circumstances lined up to fulfill some unknown purpose?

posted by meeshe4 on April 11, 2006 at 4:33 AM | link to this | reply

Isa
Your post was very refreshing and empowering. Keep up the good work and this move will go smoothly for you.

posted by avant-garde on April 11, 2006 at 4:14 AM | link to this | reply

reni
And, I have forgotten how much I enjoyed your presence here.

posted by avant-garde on April 11, 2006 at 4:13 AM | link to this | reply

appleworks
Perhaps it would be helpful if you remembered that you 'are' the other. What you look at is really part of yourself, split off and placed outside you. In this manner, the 'you' that exists is defined by 'others', when in reality it is all thought- some denied, and projected, like a motion picture.

posted by avant-garde on April 11, 2006 at 4:10 AM | link to this | reply

besides my back hurting as hell...
i try to see clear about many things that need to be solved in my life...i need to have my mind clear when i will leave France you know...

posted by Marshallengraved on April 11, 2006 at 1:13 AM | link to this | reply

Oh, my brain has forgotten how to process your posts!

posted by Renigade on April 10, 2006 at 8:29 PM | link to this | reply

avant
I am trying to understand this in relation to others.  i understand hate as hateful and love as loving, but health as healing, as in giving. .maybe i can look in a mirror. i dont understand without seeing ill in another how i can experience by giving. i think you might understand what i mean, how to create it for myself.

posted by appleworks7 on April 10, 2006 at 7:46 PM | link to this | reply

Isa
Oh, pretty well. I'm just tired. I didn't get much sleep last night, and I went out and exercised, then cut on a tree this afternoon. I'll feel better tomorrow. How are you doing today?

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:30 PM | link to this | reply

sannhet
True. But we must experience fear of love first.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:29 PM | link to this | reply

Whacky
Indeed, there are.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:28 PM | link to this | reply

Nanaroo
Thanks!

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:28 PM | link to this | reply

strangelove
If we had it all figured out, what else would we have to do?

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:26 PM | link to this | reply

Isa
It is how we experience success, accomplishment, and well-being. Thank you for reading this.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:25 PM | link to this | reply

abhilasha
I'm not sure about that. Waking myself up seems to be a full time job!

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:23 PM | link to this | reply

FLIGHTPATH
Yes. It's all about choice. Thank you.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:22 PM | link to this | reply

Anthony
That is an interesting take. Yet, I think you have mastered why you came here. You're just too hard on yourself about things sometimes.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:21 PM | link to this | reply

Jomei
Sometimes it appears to be more of a burden than a blessing. Thank you for remarking on this.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:19 PM | link to this | reply

avant-garde
very nice! 

posted by Nanaroo on April 10, 2006 at 12:18 PM | link to this | reply

appleworks
Certainly. You have a specific personality, something unique about yourself that no one else has. To some, I'm sure, that something is condemned, criticized, and endlessly compared to what others have or an idea of perfection.

With me, I believe it is the ability to put things in order mentally and perceive myself very deeply. It has been an invaluable tool to help me understand my hatred, and abject sorrow I've experienced most of my life.

At the same time, the negative nature of my personality is also a tool, allowing me to be what I am not in order to discover what I truly am.

I believe you are a healer. Were you not taken ill recently? And, have you not discovered your healing talents as a result?

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:18 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche
I believe it is possible, but it takes complete honesty and the willingness to own every aspect of yourself, no matter how unseemly it appears to be. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

posted by avant-garde on April 10, 2006 at 12:12 PM | link to this | reply

avant garde...
How was your day?

posted by Marshallengraved on April 10, 2006 at 12:02 PM | link to this | reply

Avant -
The ultimate question - How can I be liberated without first being imprisoned? This duality is true of everything except love. One does not have to hate first, in order to love.

posted by sannhet on April 9, 2006 at 7:28 PM | link to this | reply

...there are mayn types of prisons.

posted by Whacky on April 9, 2006 at 3:45 PM | link to this | reply

...life to me is mystery and contradiction....just when i think i understand, everything morphs.....SL

posted by magic_moon on April 9, 2006 at 9:10 AM | link to this | reply

Willpower...
is everything in life....

posted by Marshallengraved on April 9, 2006 at 1:14 AM | link to this | reply

hiiiiii....

sleep & get awake...sleep & get awake...sleep & get awake...thats all there..is.

profound post...as always....we were sleeping and you came to awoke....

posted by abhilasha on April 8, 2006 at 11:12 PM | link to this | reply

Every single day we awake to choose whether to face its challenges with despair, or with courage. It is different with each and every one of us, as are our lives. The choices we make, too, are ours, for better or for worse.

posted by reasons on April 8, 2006 at 10:00 PM | link to this | reply

Avant-garde
Ah so very true my friend. It is so much safer in my little prison, and I'm tired of the challenges to my existence. I wonder if aging gives dispensation from some needs that require too much courage.

posted by WileyJohn on April 8, 2006 at 9:52 PM | link to this | reply

Avant, the last line is truly profound. The things we struggle with most
become the keys to the kingdom if we persevere with them. I am still not always graceful in this acceptance, yet I'm sure I have made progress. It is always helpful to see another carry their cross as if it was a great honour, thank God for these souls scattered throughout the universe!

posted by Jomei on April 8, 2006 at 5:52 PM | link to this | reply

avant
can you explain what you mean by ones tools?  

posted by appleworks7 on April 8, 2006 at 5:48 PM | link to this | reply

Avant-Garde,
The question for me has become can I dismantle my defenses and attain liberation or is there intervention necessary? Do I do this? Can I?  Whatever path I am on, I've become disillusioned with the outward manifestations of the world.  They don't hold any glamour for me.

posted by Blanche. on April 8, 2006 at 5:29 PM | link to this | reply