mediations

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"When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection."

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, in The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom.

Thanks to my local library for surprise treats. And to the humans therein.
And to my affectionate, kind, helpful friends.

xxx x xxx

jaihn [5:54 PM]

*** * ***[ Wednesday, July 23, 2003 ]

 
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"As long as our orientation goes outward in order to seek meaning and direction, we will be unable to recognize the optimizing force that is already operating within us. True guidance appears only when we are willing to value our own experience as it is, and in that way attune ourselves to the signs and messages of optimization that are always present in the field of our experience."

From the 'How Guidance Manifests' section in the 'Guidance of Being' chapter, in Spacecruiser Inquiry by A. H. Almaas

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Welcome to Leo, Sun.

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jaihn [11:25 PM]

*** * ***[ Wednesday, July 16, 2003 ]

 
"Acceptance does not mean you approve of your experience, think it's OK, like it, or are happy with it as it is. Acceptance is not an expression of any kind of evaluation or interpretation. It simply means you can allow your experience to be exactly as it is. There need be no justification or effort to defend, deny, protect, or promote what is there. Acceptance means you get out of the way and stop taking a position. You don't approve, you don't reject, you don't push away your experience, you don't try to hold on to it. If you like it, that's accepted; if you dislike it that's accepted. Whatever it is, your soul is simply there with the experience."

- from Soul Without Shame by Byron Brown.

I give Thanks for Movin on, with Grace, after all.

Chuck S's 3-card-seeings helped.

And so did being with White Bull again.
After all these years / no time at all.

xxx x xxx
jaihn [12:06 AM]

*** * ***[ Wednesday, July 09, 2003 ]

 
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"Letting Go is one of the easiest of the healing principles to practise.
It is simply a willingness not to invest in what is no longer true for us."

(Chuck Spezzano, in 'the Love pack'.)

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Something which is true for me is that I am honoured to be a friend of the fine folk of Rogue.
Beat the rush - e-Meet them and their music now - !!!

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jaihn [1:32 AM]

*** * ***[ Wednesday, July 02, 2003 ]

 
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"When culture narrowly defines what constitutes success or desirable perfection in anything ... there are corresponding dictates and inclinations to measurement in the psyches of all its members.
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Let us attend here to the inner issues of the exile, for when one develops adequate strength - not perfect strength, but moderate and serviceable strength - in being oneself and finding what one belongs to, one can then influence the outer community and cultural consciousness in masterful ways. What is moderate strength? It is when the internal mother who mothers you isn't one hundred percent confident about what to do next. Seventy-five percent confident will do nicely. Seventy-five percent is a goodly amount. Remember, we say that a flower is blooming whether it is in half, three-quarters, or full bloom."

From 'Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing',
in 'Women Who Run With The Wolves', by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
- available from cygnus books !!!

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jaihn [1:31 AM]