Refelections
"to comfort than to be comforted to understand than to be understood, to love than to be loved. For it is by self forgetting that one finds it is by forgiving that one is forgiven"
See I can't get St.F out of my mind. I ruminated on it all day yesterday sat by the creek with the sunshine bouncin' off the clear water and I felt what he was saying. That he isn't in some way saying..ignore yourself..ignore your needs always put others first. What he is saying is ...that ....when you are able to feel secure..fed by THE POWER...you feel no fear in doing these things. That it is by self fogetting that you find..you find Peace...with yourself..b/c no longer are the coyotes of Ego ripping at you skirt as you run frantically through the woods as the moon shines on your face and bushes rip your skin....you feel peace.
Now we live in a culture so scared that our immediate needs will not be met. We've created an entire economic system basedd on our ability to feed that fear and create synthetic passions to give us the feelingt hat yes I am okay.. We have created psycho babble that tells me " I must have my needs met" ...yet at what expense? The expense of peace? To expect any human being to fully meet our needs..including ourselves we have in a way set ourselves up to be victims of that very economic system which would offer us a fancy dress or a new T.V. show to help meet the needs that we have left hanging from our interactions with others.
What if..for a whole day...we reminded ourselves of The Power..of our ability to BE regardless of whether SOMEONE..including ourselves....was able to meet OUR needs..what if we believed ...Deep within us lay the ultimate NEED MEETER???METER??? haha...what if we tried that? What if that meant we could easily sit and be with others that we could easily perceive and aid them in their journey..what if...they were doing the same thing...??????? AT NO FEELING OF LOSS TO OUR SELF >>>>WHY?? Because...
IT IS BY SELF FORGETTING that one finds!
Maybe St.F....Maybe he meant that.
See I can't get St.F out of my mind. I ruminated on it all day yesterday sat by the creek with the sunshine bouncin' off the clear water and I felt what he was saying. That he isn't in some way saying..ignore yourself..ignore your needs always put others first. What he is saying is ...that ....when you are able to feel secure..fed by THE POWER...you feel no fear in doing these things. That it is by self fogetting that you find..you find Peace...with yourself..b/c no longer are the coyotes of Ego ripping at you skirt as you run frantically through the woods as the moon shines on your face and bushes rip your skin....you feel peace.
Now we live in a culture so scared that our immediate needs will not be met. We've created an entire economic system basedd on our ability to feed that fear and create synthetic passions to give us the feelingt hat yes I am okay.. We have created psycho babble that tells me " I must have my needs met" ...yet at what expense? The expense of peace? To expect any human being to fully meet our needs..including ourselves we have in a way set ourselves up to be victims of that very economic system which would offer us a fancy dress or a new T.V. show to help meet the needs that we have left hanging from our interactions with others.
What if..for a whole day...we reminded ourselves of The Power..of our ability to BE regardless of whether SOMEONE..including ourselves....was able to meet OUR needs..what if we believed ...Deep within us lay the ultimate NEED MEETER???METER??? haha...what if we tried that? What if that meant we could easily sit and be with others that we could easily perceive and aid them in their journey..what if...they were doing the same thing...??????? AT NO FEELING OF LOSS TO OUR SELF >>>>WHY?? Because...
IT IS BY SELF FORGETTING that one finds!
Maybe St.F....Maybe he meant that.