Time: 11:40 PM
Drink: Water
Music: Jeff Nibbler - Deep House
"The real learning is unlearning all that one has learned." - Sufi Saying
Sometimes the most interesting part of having strong convictions is to learn that your strengths create your weaknesses, and all the ways that you hold yourself to one belief alienate you from the possibilities of accepting new beliefs.
There is a story in India about a sage that follows: The sage approaches his mother, who is a peasant living in a village, upon reaching his manhood and in search of his path in life. He asked her, "Mother, what is the best occupation?" His mother replied, " I do not know son, except to tell you that those who searched for the highest in life, went in search of God." The story continues but that is the part I want to focus on. I'd like to point out though that when you're thinking about the search for God, try not to think so much about the traditional idea of God that you might have learned growing up. Growing and learning also has alot to do with unlearning what you already know, such as unlearning the perceptions you might already have in respects of spirituality or your impression of God. So often when someone says something like "sprit" or "god" your mind almost immediately attaches that word with a visual representation of that idea, which can limit the growth of that idea or the ability to adapt that belief to your own surroundings. I like that story because it helps add perspective as to what we do and what our motivations are. So many people get lost in their goals or the means to an end that they forget about the end results they desire, or what they were working towards in the first place. The good job, the social status, all the accomplishments that you have, are meaningless if they are lost to the goals you made when you started down that path. I guess all I'm really trying to say is, simply to keep things in perspective and don't lose sight of your goals by your accomplishments.
When I was 18 I had a conversation with a much older man who offered me a simple but powerful bit of advice that I've held onto since.. all he told me was "live below your means" , to which I have done to this day, which has helped me to see that the constant struggle for success in life, love, career, or whatever aspect you want to come at it from, is much more gratifying when you taste the small samples of your efforts instead of wallowing in it; Staying humble to the fruits of your labor.
Drink: Water
Music: Jeff Nibbler - Deep House
"The real learning is unlearning all that one has learned." - Sufi Saying
Sometimes the most interesting part of having strong convictions is to learn that your strengths create your weaknesses, and all the ways that you hold yourself to one belief alienate you from the possibilities of accepting new beliefs.
There is a story in India about a sage that follows: The sage approaches his mother, who is a peasant living in a village, upon reaching his manhood and in search of his path in life. He asked her, "Mother, what is the best occupation?" His mother replied, " I do not know son, except to tell you that those who searched for the highest in life, went in search of God." The story continues but that is the part I want to focus on. I'd like to point out though that when you're thinking about the search for God, try not to think so much about the traditional idea of God that you might have learned growing up. Growing and learning also has alot to do with unlearning what you already know, such as unlearning the perceptions you might already have in respects of spirituality or your impression of God. So often when someone says something like "sprit" or "god" your mind almost immediately attaches that word with a visual representation of that idea, which can limit the growth of that idea or the ability to adapt that belief to your own surroundings. I like that story because it helps add perspective as to what we do and what our motivations are. So many people get lost in their goals or the means to an end that they forget about the end results they desire, or what they were working towards in the first place. The good job, the social status, all the accomplishments that you have, are meaningless if they are lost to the goals you made when you started down that path. I guess all I'm really trying to say is, simply to keep things in perspective and don't lose sight of your goals by your accomplishments.
When I was 18 I had a conversation with a much older man who offered me a simple but powerful bit of advice that I've held onto since.. all he told me was "live below your means" , to which I have done to this day, which has helped me to see that the constant struggle for success in life, love, career, or whatever aspect you want to come at it from, is much more gratifying when you taste the small samples of your efforts instead of wallowing in it; Staying humble to the fruits of your labor.
Yet you post something like "I am soooooo pretty"
And you get dozens.
I think people are a lot more intimidated by intimacy than I can really ever appreciate.
Which leads me to wonder whether any of those people will really ever even learn what they really desire, let alone attain it.
You may never read this comment, unless you're the type of person who back-checks their own journal for new comments. But be that as it may; even if you never receive this, let it be a digital prayer wheel, eternally spinning in the transistors and circuitry of the SG server, wherever that lives.
And let the prayer it speaks be:
Stay cool, Ami. Stay cool.