Risk

Take the chance in life – every single time!

You may end up empty-handed, empty-hearted at times, but the fool is he who sits idly by, watching you live your life.

I Suspect

If you let yourself get into the habit of taking the easy way out, you will find yourself always running around the mountain, and never understanding why you cannot reach the top.

You can never be doing the wrong thing. You are always in the perfect place.

Bold

It is far easier to discover what you cannot do than it is to discover what you can do.

Life

Sometimes Life pushes you around a bit. Sometimes you push back.

It's Really Very Simple

Life is eternal Love, Truth, Joy. Life, Love, Truth, Joy, and God are all interchangeable labels for the great creative force of the universe.

Yes there is a god, but god is not a thing it is a process and you are part of the process you are god experiencing itself. God is not a noun, it is a verb, and so are you.

You can never be doing the wrong thing. You are always in the perfect place.

There is no point to get or miss. So no there is no point other than to experience and choose who/what you want to be in every given moment.

-Excerpt taken from a letter a friend wrote to me

Live Life

Live life wide-eyed and child-like. How else would you have your lone life lived?

Life in Entropy

I tend not to believe in coincidences, but from a practical standpoint:

Two water molecules in the same glass of water may call it coincidence when they collide; however, a scientist observing the molecules through the glass finds it perfectly sensible that two water molecules in the same container of liquid water should interact (rather than a molecule of water colliding with a molecule of salt, or dirt, or orange juice, which is not likely to be in the glass of water).

This is essentially the nature of entropy so far as I understand it.

If you and I collide – or if this or that occurs – we may feel inclined to label this “coincidence” only because of our limited viewpoint. An observer with a broader scope may find it perfectly sensible that two like-minded individuals – who have dwelled within a singular, similar specimen of earth and life – should collide.

However, I have a friend who also does not believe in coincidences, but for a completely different reason. He attributes the aspect of sensibility to his deity:

Two similar molecules in a singular specimen – this occurrence may be incidental. However, the magic that the two particles should collide – he believes – far surpasses the realm of both coincidence and incidence.

The magic that the two particles should collide – or not – is what we are, as of yet, unable to explain, and insofar as we seek to understand this magic through science or reason, we will find a paradox of infinitely more miniscule coincidences that we cannot explain.

A wise-minded scientist may call this entropy.

Inertia

All objects tend towards the path of least resistance; or rather, the path that requires the least energy.

This is so. Our brain develops heuristics to save mental energy.

An individual who awakens enlightened is more likely to remain enlightened. An individual who is anxious is at constant exergonic state and will burn out.

An emotion, once created and experienced, will continue to progress at its uniform state of motion unless an external force is exerted upon it.

A thought set into uniform motion will progress at uniform motion – no faster or more thorough – unless an external force is exerted onto it in a way that should cause it to change its direction or velocity accordingly.

A habit is an action that has been set into motion. A habit set into motion may become a pattern, or an addiction. So in we can control our behavior by mindfully cultivating our beautiful thoughts. Once set into motion they will flower.

But two truths can exist at the same time. A flower and a weed can co-exist in the same garden. And if left to their respective measures, one may act as an external force onto the motion of the other. Perhaps our minds are limited in soil.

I suspect it is our gift that we may tend to our floral minds as we please. We may grow as beautiful flowers as we are able to imagine.

Intuition (II)

Do not jump at everything; there is great pride in restraint. But throw yourself into surprise when your full-joy heart weakens. The virtue of discipline fades when freedom and love flicker.

Ode to Joy

I had no expectations of life when I came into this world.

Kicking and screaming at loud light clamoring into my mother’s womb, but how silly! Had I known the beauty with which this world is endowed, I would have giggled and tickled my mother crawling out.

As it were I had no expectations of life, and whoa the beautiful glorious gifts this world has unfolded unto me!

The Current and The Rock

One day she was eating purple grapes and thinking about why purple grapes are purple. She flowered a thought that she texted to him:

“I like Tolle’s concept that flowers represent nature’s first frivolous/decorative creation; but really isn’t a flower a representation of nature’s adaptation[1]? A green plant develops some alternative red pigment – a variation on the original green – and a bee that develops red photo-detectors in its eyes can distinguish the red from the green. The bee is drawn to the red, and so this adaptation helps the red plant – and the red-detecting bee – survive and reproduce more productively than their former monochrome originals.”

He texted back: “same diff.”

“I don’t think so! I think the two have completely different concepts! One says the source of creation created flower just for the silly sake of beauty and pleasure; the underlying moral is that life wants us to delight in life. The other concept says life is the eternal evolution of randomization allowed to progress infinitely, positively reinforced by reproductive success. The underlying moral – then – is that nature is nature and there is no eternal/moral preference or opinion on joy vs. pleasure vs. the relativity of human emotions, except that they may be a reproductive adaptation – just like the green plant developing red pigment.”

His response: “same diff.”

“I think not same diff at all – you just maybe are tired and don’t want to think it through. One says there is meaning in life that may involve our emotional/mental spirit; the other says life is random and driven by reproductive success.”

He did not text back, but her thoughts continued. ‘…One says that I should go outside and play in the leaves and eat an apple, and one says that I should stay inside and study and culture my mind, as it will benefit me reproductively.

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‘But it won’t benefit me reproductively! If I study and become a doctor I am actually less likely to have children – and more likely to have less children – than if I spend my time enjoying myself and delighting in nature and life and sex and creation!

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‘But my reproductive frequency alone will not indicate reproductive success if I cannot secure the further reproductive success of my reproductive offspring. So then I should keep studying so that I can find a job to ensure the health and wealth and reproductive success of my children, myself, my bloodline, my spirit. Even though the studying may result in less reproductive offspring – and less physically cultured (vs. mentally) reproductive offspring – than if I were to enjoy the moment-to-moment and trust that the earth itself can provide for my future.

He still did not text back. Perhaps the problem was that one or the other did not trust the future.

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She had another thought: ‘However, what if the reality of the current situation on this earth is that the human population is overpopulating the earth, and reproductive success must decrease in order to ensure the stability of the species as a whole. In this case, reproductive abstinence is more productive to the life of the overall species than reproductive success (even though complete reproductive abstinence would not at all result in the species’ longevity).

She took a break, for she was tired. Upon reflection, she wondered: ‘but how much am I myself and how much of me is connected to the human species as a whole. I am much more my mother than I am my friend’s cousin’s mother. However, I am much more human – more my friend’s cousin’s mother – than I am a grasshopper or a worm.

Perhaps a grasshopper hopped by just then, or perhaps the mention of the species conjured an image of a green grasshopper cocking its legs at awkward angle and springing soaring through the air. She felt a warmth of life that connected her to the grasshopper and to the worm, and to the bee and the red and green ferns. And she smiled and enjoyed the warm sunshine on her face.

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Much later he texted back: “Same thing. It’s a dynamic process.”

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[1] Tolle, Eckhart. “The Flowering of Human Consciousness: Evocation.” A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. New York: Penguin, 2005. 1-5.

Intuition

You cannot jump at everything, for there is great pride in restraint. However, if you never throw yourself into a surprise, you can never know full joy. The point of self-discipline is lost because you begin to forget freedom and love.

I can! I can! I can!

"How did you do it?" the child asked the old woman - for she was terribly old, and had accomplished a terribly difficult task.
"By believing I could," the old woman said. "My whole life they told me, 'You can't; you can't; you can't,' and my whole life I smiled and told myself, 'They're wrong! I can! I can! I can!,' and I did."

Learning to Fly

The fibers of the past become a vague background. Everyone has poor decisions and plights in life. The best one can do is to strive for honesty and goodness, and to continue to strive for honesty and goodness, and in so many falls we can finally fly.

I suspect

Probably everyone thinks mostly the same thoughts. Some of the thoughts we act on and some we don't, and some of the thoughts we share and some we don't; and depending on what we choose not to act on or share with anyone else, we somehow come to think we are alone in some small contingent of our mind. We are not.

Life in Entropy

Life. What is life? Is there a God? Am I doing the right thing? Am I missing the point? Is there a point? What is beyond the periphery? Hedonism vs. Asceticism: where do I stand? Can I chose? Do I have free will? What do I believe - and why - and does it matter anyway?

Soul-searching: The act of facing one's inmost self with courage, determined to bring every ulterior thought, emotion, and motive to light (wiki.answers.com).

"Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

(Hughes, John, dir. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Perf Matthew Broaderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara. 1986. VHS. Distributer, 1986.)

"The greatest evil in the world is self-deception, because self-deception preys on the troubled soul," - Anonymous.

Don't think about white elephants; I will do this busywork for you.