20/2/2009 - Revisiting An Old Book - Being In Dreaming |
more about "Brian Eno Harold Budd The Plateaux of Mi", posted with vodpod "Being In Dreaming" by Florinda Donner, is a book that has been part of my personal library for many years. My original copy went walking after I lent it to a friend, and a number of years ago I was drawn to repurchase it. It sat in my bookshelf for all that time, and even though I culled my books a number of times, I had no desire to toss it out. Surprisingly, just recently, I felt drawn to open it and start reading. It is about cultivating our connection with the abstract and "dreaming" in particular. It is not about "normal" dreaming but "dreaming" from the place where the Toltec Warriors dream. They call their art sorcery, though you have to read the book to get a better understanding of what they are actually referring to by using that term. This video by Brian Eno & Harold Budd is a bit like the dreamscapes I experience when I have given my abstract imagination space to spread its wings and fly. I might add more about the book "Being in Dreaming" later, but for now just have a great day. |
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30/1/2009 - My Life Works |
"MY LIFE WORKS" When you look at what is working, then you generate a vibration within you that says my life works, and then, in everything that you approach — your life works.
You could have ninety-nine things not working in your life and only one thing working, and if you would focus upon the one thing that is going right, for a disproportionate amount of time, saying “my life works; my life works; my life works...” the other 99 things would fall in line with what is working.
So when we say to count your blessings or look at the positive aspects, that’s just about deliberately activating what is working in your life. Because when you do that, you get more and more, and more of that. That’s how the better it gets, the better it gets — the better it gets. That’s when it’s easy to accept that Well-Being is the order of this Universe.
Excerpted from the workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 22nd, 2003
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24/1/2009 - Changing States of Being |
There are some mornings where it is really easy to discern the parasitical states that invade the mind. In his book "The Voice of Knowledge" Don Miguel Ruiz talks about how at a very early age we lose our authentic Self. We instead get indoctrinated by "the parasite" which is all the internal dialogue that fills our minds incessantly and undermines our greater beingness.
This happens via the people that surround us and it happens to everyone. He continues to state that the world is created on stories and we have a choice as to which stories we choose to believe or to tell our selves.
I was sent a short video the other day and it was one of those inspirational pieces with words and music and beautiful pictures. The line that stood out for me was, "Misery is the oldest habit of the human mind" and you know what I have to admit I agree.
Being the oldest habit of mind, it is also possibly going to be a bit trickier to free the mind of this habit but I am willing to do this. Why? Because I know my life experience is so much more enjoyable when I do free my mind of this "misery habit."
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17/1/2009 - Contemplations on Doubt |
Why do I doubt the capacity of my Inner Being to create my life and my world elegantly? Wny do I allow memories of things that have not worked out to dominate my thinking and hence colour the flavour of my experience in ways that are less than enjoyable?
Why do I give so much realness to the stories of doom and pessimism that people often speak about to me? There is another part of "Self" that I know, through my own experience, creates life in a most enjoyable way, no matter what is happening according to the news or according to the pessimists who I may encounter during the course of a day. |
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