8 Folded Limbs

What worth do you place on a thing?  Can you walk away from your furniture, cooking bowls and photos? What if someone gave you cash for all of your things in a lump sum? You could go anywhere -- start over. What price would you accept for your life's cache? Things to think about.

Our lives are a path of mirrors.  Everyone we know and everything we own is a mirror of who we think we are.  The people we come in contact with provide varying degrees of reflections of who we are to them.  The things we surround ourselves with offer a small reflective window into our likes and dislikes.   Why do we set ourselves up with a hall of mirrors? The fear of annihilation of the self is so strong that we constantly search for and need re-authentication of who we are. One interesting shard to this mosaic: we are concerned mostly with how we appear to our external mirrors.  The reflections of these outer glasses imprint on our own vision, changing our perceptions regarding self-identification.  This loop of composition affirmation does not lag unless we seal ourselves off from the distortion of reflection. In solitude, we are able to examine our own mirrors and ask who we really are.  There is nothing there in that m...

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Tomorrow is my birthday.  It does not mean as much to me now as it did years ago, but I treat it like my new year.  Most people make resolutions and take stock on 12-31, but I do it on January 12th every year.  For me, my birthday marks the time I began to breathe.  From that time, I have been able to create my life to a certain extent.  In the last few years, I have had more latitude in the menu of my life. Choosing to work for myself as a teacher has put a significant strain on my finances.  The ability to help people search for what they are looking for is worth it to me.  You cannot buy soul fire.  You can help magnify it in someone else with your own.  That is what I want for my life.  To use my light as a catalyst for sparks in others.  I want to set the world on fire from the inside-out.  Where there is hatred -- let me sow love.  So may it ever be. Namaste

Patience is not something you are born with.  It is also not something you can cultivate if you fill up all of your time, every day.  When you are waiting -- wait.  Try not to play a game on your cell or check social media sites or do whatever it is that you do to never experience the 'suffering' of waiting.  The less you allow yourself to be in a position of   supposed 'pain', the less you will be equipped to mitigate that response.   Try to just wait. Try to just drive. Try to just talk on the phone. Try to just read. Is it really necessary to have 15 things going on at once? Or ... could it be that most people feel that if they do not do many things at once that they are somehow 'wasting' time? Time still passes.   Do not lie to yourselves:  You are putting the pain of emptiness on the table when you inundate yourselves with external chatter.  Try to be still. Try to do this and you will grow ...

HEY Attention is very important in the 21st century to everyone.  There are so many ways our minds can be entertained there days.  We have cell phones with Internet access, television, social media sites, news blurbs, tech forums and so on that all collectively pull our attention in 10,000 different places every day.  If you were able to count all of your thoughts during a conversation, the net result would be almost shameful.  When another human is trying to communicate with you, please do not check your email or watch television.  Stop. What. You. Are. Doing. Focus. What that person has to say is important.   Electronic friend- keeping has made personal relationships dilute and arbitrary. Don't just text someone when they are ill -- call them or go visit if you are able.   When you are engaged in conversation, please do not yell at your dog or scold your child.  If there is an emergency, close the call and deal with your business. ...