Love says, "I am everything". Wisdom says, "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!
It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home.
I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my
trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness
to ourselves and others.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see.
The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we
breathe can be a source of joy.
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness
that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years
for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in
the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh
BUDDHA is a wonderfully imaginative story of a man and his iconic journey to personal spiritual growth.
| The teachings & discourses of the wise arise from an abstruse inner experience which was and is theirs alone, not ours. Perhaps we may have intellectual awareness of the truths which are contained therein but this is not enough. Any path that leads us away from what is leads us to disorder. What is - is here and now. What is not is that which lives in time, holding onto yesterday and living in tomorrow. |
posted by I Am This at 11:44 PM
Comments on "Nowhere"
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Dr. J said ... (3:33 PM) :
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post a commentWhat is? What is what is?
This is a good. I’ve just read an article, We've Been Living in a Dream World, in which the author talks about Attention and Intention. The result, in my mind, is the manifestation of Now. That’s a super short synopsis - if you read the article let us know what you think of it.
I think the revelatory inner experience actually belongs to all of us. There are ways to induce it. The trick is to enter the portal of the Now and leave your thoughts at the door. Just be there, even for a few seconds, and you get a glimpse of it.
Dr. J - I agree wholeheartedly. The experience does belong to us, but in the same breathe I say it does not as it is our experience to experience. What happens to the man who delves only into the experiences of another? He is not experiencing his own experiences, his mind fixated on measuring up, labeling and comparing. There is no experience other than THE experience.
Thanks Donovan for the article.