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THOUGHTS ARCHIVE
"When we adults think of children there is a simple truth that we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life; childhood is life. A child isn't getting ready to live; a child is living. No child will miss the zest and joy of living unless these are denied by adults who have convinced themselves that childhood is a period of preparation. How much heartache we would save ourselves if we would recognize children as partners with adults in the process of living, rather than always viewing them as apprentices. How much we could teach each other; we have the experience and they have the freshness. How full both our lives could be."
- John A. Taylor, Notes on an Unhurried Journey
While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
- Dr. Gerald Grumet
Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the suffering and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?
- Gary Zukav
Falling in love and sexual attraction means that we have found the perfect person that is going to mirror, trigger in us, rise to the surface, our unconsciousness, all the traits in ourselves that we have disowned, repressed and denied. No one can trigger in us what is not already in ourselves. Once we have embraced all the parts of ourselves - the pretty, the ugly, the good and the bad - when we are fully integrated, have complete self-acceptance, we are fully conscious, have total self-knowledge and taken responsibility for all our traits. We don’t fall in love anymore and have sexual attractions. We are in love; and if we meet another person in love, and if we choose to stay together, then we'll be two people in love together. We find love when we are love.
The President of the United States (George Bush) in an interview admitted to have had a drinking problem, and one day he just stopped drinking - that he let Jesus Christ inside him and became a Christian. Addicts don’t just stop! They change addictions! His new addictions are religion, power and money. Just because his new addictions are more accepted by our society it does not make it any better. Addiction and greed are the same thing. Greed or addiction means that whatever the object of our affection is, we can never get enough of it. Addicts live in constant fear of losing the object of their affection and go to any lengths to protect it. They will lie, cheat, steal, go to war without thinking twice, and exploit others even their own children. No wonder so many young people are so angry; for when we feel used and exploited we get angry. Only addicts will elect and support an addict to be our leader. This means there are a lot of addictive or greedy people in our society!!!
When we admire people for who they are, instead of for what they have or do, we will have a better society. We are not the things we have or what we do. If you are the things you have or what you do, one day if you lose all your things and can not longer do what you do, you are nothing. Right?
The great malady of our society, implicated in all our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is the denial of our shadow and the neglect of our soul. When our shadow is denied, and our soul neglected they don’t just go away. They appear symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, greed, deceit and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one; but the root problem is the denial of our shadow and the neglect of our soul.
Falling in love is more dangerous than most people are willing to admit. If we knew falling in love meant going into all the dark chambers of the soul, none of us would risk it. To become a real lover involves opening up our whole being.
What does not contain real love must contain an illusion.
Real love is eternally present.
Only illusions come and go.
We get deeply hurt when we mistake an illusion for real love.
What do you contain - an illusion or real love?
Being a parent is a privilege not a right. Unfortunately, most of us are not born with this privilege. Sadly, the majority of people do not have self-awareness to see it; and because of parental ignorance, blindness, and denial, they bring innocent children to a life of endless suffering.
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