I am:
• Studious, a lifelong learner
• Earnest
• Persistent but procrastinatory
• Patient
• Punctual
• Quiet, introspective, and introverted
• Careful (sometimes too careful)
• A householder with all that comes with it
I am not:
• A monk
• An arahant
• A bodhisattva
• A bachelor, master, or doctor of anything
• Appointed, anointed, conferred or transmitted by anyone
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Paul,
Most of what you are, and all of what you are not,
I am not.
All I know or can glean about you is what I read in this issue of Boomer News, and about two hours spent exploring your blog last night.
What I feel right now is that you may have just saved my life (what’s left of it — I am 71-1/2 years old). By way of keeping you (and the universe) posted, I think I will, at last, start my own blog.
For now, I want to share this with you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/garden/10texas.html
Closeup: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/10/garden/20110310-TEXAS-SLIDESHOW.html?ref=garden#17
The beauty of this image — incandescence against the firmament (can you imagine looking straight up at that night sky?)– made me gasp, and the man described in this fascinating article, in some way, makes me think of you. Are those prayer flags I see? If so, how amazingly appropriate.
Are you already aware of this man? The article is current, so maybe not, allthough, in my mind, minds like yours must instantaneously be aware of each other the moment they achieve a certain, well, something I cannot imagine, and are probably connected by those blue Tesla-esque (now that was fun!) strings of crackling light. Better to believe that I may have had a role to play, carrying this bit of information to your feet and dropping it.
Thanks to you, also, for the doorway into Peter Clothier’s world. I look very much forward to his “Persist” and having his blog on my must-read list.
Sharing now, a couple of Meister Eckhard’s quotes (presumably):
The first is a thought that at times sings to me, and the second–which I found just now, while looking for the first– is one that I will cling to in the days to come.
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”"
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“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.” (wow, that’s enough to change someone’s life, right there.)
All things good,
Jan J