DEATH and DYING

DEATHs WE FACE DAILY

2011-04-10T21:36:00.000-07:00

An Acorn DIES To Become An Oaktree
A Seed DIES To Become The Plant Inside
Imperfect Version of the Self DIES To Become More Perfect Version of the Self
GROWTH
Learning is Like A Death. NOT Knowing Becomes Knowing
Fear of Death - Becomes Less Fear of Death, To NO Fear - (It is a process like any other)

My GENERATION - ''On The OUTSIDE...LOOKING IN''

2010-01-22T20:52:00.000-08:00

---Timothy Leary's Last Trip

http://www.archive.org/details/Timothy_Leary_Archives_82
---In case you were wondering, I have never taken LSD. I have smoked some good pot. My own involvement with the LSD crowd was seeing, reading and listening to Ram Dass. As, Richard Alpert, he was fired w/Timothy Leary from the Harvard Psychology department. I read and saw ''Cuckoo's Nest,'' a number of times.

---The whole video lasts about 55 mins.

DEATH and DYING

2009-03-11T21:07:00.000-07:00

What Does That Mean?

Letting Go Of Things

Could Be Your OWN Body

ART of Letting Go

2009-03-10T21:14:00.000-07:00

Let Go Of - What You Know (The KNOWN)

Let Go Of - The EGO

Let Go Of - Running From Things and NOT Facing-up To Them

Let Go Of Things That May Halt Your Progress

Letting Go Of Things You No Longer Need (Could be your physical body)

OUT WITH THE OLD...IN WITH THE NEW

2009-03-09T21:30:00.000-07:00

Make Room For New Things

The Growth Process - Where Something New Comes Into Being

Death - Transformation of Something Old Into Something New

A Reconstruction

DEATH AS A LIFE AFFIRMING QUALITY

2009-03-06T21:47:00.000-08:00

Things DIE So Something New Can Take Its Place

LOVE is the CONQUERER of Death

One Has To REALIZE It Is ALL About LOVE

When One LOVES All - There is NO Death

When One REALIZES It Is ALL LOVE - There is NO Death

Be Loving

NOTE - Until One Has The REALIZATION That He Has The Capacity to LOVE Everybody and Everything, (Love Existence Itself) - The Statement About NO Death, Will Sound Stupid and Make NO SENSE.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

2009-03-04T22:08:00.000-08:00

Did I take 12 years to learn the guitar...or, did it take 12 years to get over the idea that I didn't know how to play the guitar?

In the field of time - it takes X amount of years to know that you already know what you are wanting to know

If ONE applies this thought to ALL things...Life Changes

DEATH as a TRANSFORMATION

2009-03-04T17:46:00.000-08:00

Everything That DIES, Really JUST Changes Form
Just Because Something Can't Be Seen, Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Exist
It Pays To Stay True
Be LOVING

INVITING DEATH

2008-09-19T23:01:00.000-07:00

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Monty Python

LOVE ''Shines'' - Like the Sun (A FACT)

2006-03-23T23:29:00.000-08:00

CONSIDER THIS...
THIS ''FACT'' DOES NOT DEPEND ON HOW YOU ''FEEL''

---Love is like the Sun that shines. It shines ''all the time.'' In Astronomical Terms, the sun will shine for billions, and billions of years. This is still finite. It has a begining and end. The Sun, like all stars, will someday fizzle out.
---On the other hand we have Love. Love is Eternal. It has NO beginning, and it has NO end. We don't have to try and fathom that, but it is True. That which we call God, is Love. It is inside You and Me. When we share with one another It is some form of this Love. When a beginning or end comes into play, it is our own beginning and end, and how we conceptualize things.
---We all LOVE one another, we are just working out the details. From the perspective of the Earth, even with the Sun shining constantly, we do not see it. Because of atmospheres, we see cloud-cover of varying degrees. At night we may see the sun reflecting off the moon. [When we ''reflect,'' we see how the Love reflects off of different aspects of what we relate to.] We may be indoors and not see the sun for days. Direct sunshine may be too hot, and we seek respite behind a ''tree.'' Very few of us ''follow'' the sunshine around and only go to where the sun in shining. This seems to be an ''unstable'' life-style, anyway.
---The point is, that the Sun shines all the time, but from our earthly perspective, we may or may not be aware of this. (It is NOT shining in the picture above...but the sun is shining. We can't always see it.) It is constant, for all-intents-and-purposes, but we may not know this.

We can't ''BLAME'' the SUN for our ''relationship'' to it, if we are ''tan'' or not. The sun shines and we ''CHOOSE'' to participate or not, a lot of times. Many cultures are based upon there location and the amount of Sun and the adjustments made to it. Granted, there are days too hot or too cold, but chances are we make the choice or have made the choice to be where we are. The sun shines always, until it fizzles.
---In the same way, Love is always shining, but eternally. LOVE shines CONSTANTLY. We cannot BLAME the state of affairs of an individual on God, on Love. If we are NOT Loving and keep LOVE out of a situation by not-knowing or whatever, how can we BLAME LOVE for its not being very present. Our planet-side trip is one of learning, learning this if you will. We learn to ''relate'' to the CONSTANCY of this Love and how to keep it in play.
One learns to make choices according to this Love. As with all learning, we may make mistakes along the way. No matter what it looks like planet-side, it is about learning LOVE. If it seems that One is going through a hardship, he is learning ''something.'' ALL the beings on our planet, including me, are learning, to and about, LOVE. Be Well.
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LIFE: ''Just a Transformation''

2006-03-22T23:14:00.000-08:00

CONSIDER THIS...
''We Change as we GO.''

---An Acorn ''dies'' to become the Oaktree, Within. A seed ''dies'' to become the Plant, Within. A caterpillar ''dies'' to become the Butterfly, Within. Call it what you will, Living is about ''Changing'' and ''Transforming.'' Remember-It isn't the ''STRONGEST'' or most ''INTELLIGENT,'' who does better. It is he that ''ADAPTS'' to CHANGE, most easily.
---Most of us are taught that We are Born-We Live-and We Die. We are taught in a way that seems''backwards'' and usually are taught this in such a scary way that the whole idea of it is too much to even look at. The thoughts behind this are so attached to our emotions and sense of loss, that to go any further makes us too uncomfortable. We have some people that even communicate with the ''other-side,'' sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. There is so much we have wrapped-up in this, thinkng that it is so ''final.''
---We would rather see it as a ''natural'' growth transformation, from one form into another. We don't take away anyones Life in this process, we are just suggesting a new way to look at things. It is very ''psychologically'' freeing, to see things this way. To the naked eye, the original situation we encountered may ''appear'' to have changed, but in reality, the ''box'' it came in is different. We have faced one of the largest of all the fears, and we are anew through facing it. A transformation of knowingness and ATTITUDE has taken place, and ''We'' REALLY have gone through a ''Death-to-Life'' process, which has an ''enhancing'' quality.
---If we see Living as a ''Death-to-Life'' proposition, ''Living'' itself comes ''Alive'' to us. We see that one moment ''dies'' or is ''transformed,'' so the next moment will live. We see that ''growth'' of any sort, goes through this same process. One form changes into another. Growth. Transformation. A ''Musical'' Progression. It gets more and more complicated and complex and less and less ''Obvious,'' the further we get from the Natural Process. It is ALL about Love, but from a distance, ''IT'''s hard to tell. It is in our favor to stay on the True Path. If you feel you are not on your true path, get back to it and watch yourself grow. It is better, SIMPLER and more fun. The Resurrection story fits in here, somewhere. Be Well.

The LOVE MOVIE

2006-02-08T22:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.thelovemovie.com/,
We feel and experience LOVE when...we are LOVING.''

How it ALL ties together, from my perspective.

http://considerthisone.blogspot.com

See ''ACCEPTANCEVILLE.'' See why self-acceptance is so important to me.

http://considerthiswell.blogspot.com

''We Are ALL Evolving Into LOVE, Just Ask My CAT''

2006-02-08T21:30:00.000-08:00

My CAT Says...

''I Agree 110%, With That Statistic'''

We all LOVE one another
We are just working out the details.
I understood this when my mind was very clear.
A ''Relationship'' can be mountainous,
Like a salty burrito,
But sometimes just playing my guitar
for my Cat or folk-rock on the radio,

'''May I Interject...?''

[Shoo]

''But, You Weren't That...''

-
Says it ALL---
Each strum tells a story
From A to Z
From red to purple.

''I'm Color-Blind.'''''

[I'm Talking, Chloe]

''At Least You're NOT Singing.''

-
We'll ALL someday get there,
But be intelligent,
We're just working it out.
Love does NOT depend on -
How YOU Feel.

''Doesn't Depend One Bit. LOVE Still Does Its Thing!''

[Be quiet, PLEASE!]

END

[Picture Contributed by Marceline R. The Part Of CHLOE, Was Played by CHLOE the CAT. She has been living with Marceline since August, 2003, because of my Stroke.]

CHLOE, NOW, HAS HER OWN SET OF BLOGS. If you care to see them, just click the LINKS.

The ''PROVERB''

2006-02-08T20:31:00.000-08:00

He Who Knows Not, and Knows Not He Knows Not,
He Is a Fool, Help Him

He Who Knows Not and Knows He Knows Not,
He Is Simple, Teach Him

He Who Knows and Knows Not He Knows,
He Is Asleep, Wake Him

He Who Knows and Knows He Knows,
He Is Wise, Follow Him

---I discovered this Poem, as a child, while looking through a book with my mother. I remember that she liked it. You can imagine how knocked-out I was when I heard Neal Donald Walsh [spelling?] reciting it on Wisdom-TV. He mentioned how the people that caused the ''most damage'' were people who think they KNOW but DON'T.
---He also mentioned that the truly wise follow the ''Light'' within their own Self and encourage others to do the same. Nobody has a corner-on-the-market and the Kingdom of LOVE is Within us ALL. This is a FACT. It is always A FACT, whether our '''FEELINGS'' reflect this, or NOT. That is what to KNOW.

EXERCISE for the ''MIND''

2006-02-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

---The only limit is your imagination, so ''dream'' BIG. No BIGGER. BIGGER than that even. Even if the REALITY turns out to be slightly different than you had pictured, it wouldn't have been possible if you first didn't let your ''daydreams'' have free rein. So just remember that no one is watching, put aside any and all self-criticism and let your mind roam far afield. The only word that is NOT allowed during this exercise is- IMPOSSIBLE. [ASTROLOGY. COM]

AFFIRMATION

2006-02-08T15:56:00.001-08:00

CONSIDER THIS...
''SUPPORT'' one another

---When we ''AFFIRM'' something, we are saying it is alright, it is okay. When we affirm someone we are also saying that the person is alright or okay. When we affirm someone and they feel it, we are actually telling them or even giving that person ''Permission'' to take his ''Next'' step.
---It is so easy to stagnate, to stay where we are without much growth in our
lives. We go through the motions of living, but don't feel very ''Alive.'' Sometimes we need help in taking that next step. Sometimes we are not even sure there is a next step to take.
---There is a light at the end of every tunnel, even if at present we can't see it. As Elizabeth Kubler-Ross [PICTURED] is accreditted for- There are 5 stages we ALL go through on the way to Accepting something. They are 1] DENIAL 2] ANGER 3] BARGAINING 4] DESPAIR and 5] ACCEPTANCE. She came upon these phases while searching for those things we have in-common when we grieve. These are the stages that bring the ''Light'' into focus.
---We ''Stagnate'' as we move along these lines. Sometimes we Deny so furtively, that we just stay ''Shallow.'' Sometimes we are just Angry, not even knowing what we are so pissed-off about, but just figure we are '''Angry'' people. In the Bargaining phase, we find ourselves even making deals with God, saying things like ''If you'll only get me through this, I'll do...[and it is usually something that we have been letting ''slide'' for awhile.]
---Despair is the last ugly step before Acceptance. It is very natural to not like this stage. We feel '' Helpless.'' We hate to feel this way. In Despair we know there is nothing we can do about our situation. We handle this the best we can. We suffer to the extent we are attached to a certain outcome. We have to let go of ALL this. We have to learn to ''Trust.'' We grieve for those parts of ''Ourselves'' that are ''Lost'' so as to make ourselves Whole again. We can than see that ''Light'' of Acceptance that has been alluding us all this time. The best way ''around'' something is to go through it.
---By ''Affirming'' each other, we allow the person to take that next step. We like to know that it is really okay to STAND where we STAND, and Affirmation brings ''OKAYNESS'' to the table. We sometimes get very scattered and are pulled in many different directions at once. Even at this spot, if we feel affimed, it gives us a place from which to take our next step. When We Are Ready. Affirm each other along the lines of the five stages above, giving others the courage to not ''Stagnate'' too long at any one spot, and watch him or her ''Walk'' into the ''Light'' of ''Acceptance or Self-Acceptance.'' Be Well.

BEGINNERS MINDSET

2006-02-07T22:38:00.000-08:00

---N0 Matter How ''GOOD'' You Become at Something, Always Remember to Keep A BEGINNERS MINDSET. Not Only Will This Allow You to Approach Every Challenge With FRESH EYES, IT Will Keep It ''FUN'' For You, Too.

DEAR WORLD,

2006-02-07T22:24:00.000-08:00

If You Don't Know It's All About Love,
I Don't Know Where You've Been.
It Begins in Love, It Ends in Love,
All The Middle is Love

BUT, This Is A FACT, Not A FEELING.
So, If You Wonder Why You FEEL Unhappy,
Maybe It Has Something to do

With Your RELATIONSHIP With Love.

You May Have Your EYES On

The FEELING, And Not The PRIZE.
Don't Let Those Who Don't Yet Know
It's About Love
Affect Your Expression of Love.
Love Them Anyway, As They Are.

Don't Make Them ''FEEL'' Uncomfortable
If You Don't Know How to Love---
Learn to Love.
It's The Only ''Job'' You'll Have To Do.
Love,
Paul

RELATIONSHIPS- ''DO UNTO OTHERS''- Revisited

2006-02-07T22:17:00.000-08:00

---RELATIONSHIPS are the KEY TO LIFE- ALL RELATIONSHIPS from the MOST CASUAL to the MOST IMPORTANT. How do you TREAT PEOPLE in your life? How do they TREAT YOU? Are you PRESENTING your BEST SELF with them? [ASTROLOGY.COM]

QUOTES - Names You May ''RECOGNIZE''

2006-02-07T20:25:00.000-08:00

QUOTES -

1. ''Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do and what not to do.''
Jonas Salk, M.D.

2. ''It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.''
Charles Kuralt - News Correspondent

3. ''It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. The ability to Triumph begins with you, always.''
Oprah Winfrey - Talk Show Host

4. ''Respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.''
Julius Erving - Basketball Star [Dr. J]

5. ''I felt really compelled to follow my own path.''
Andrew Weil, M.D.

6. ''The only thing that bothers me was that we waited so long to make this protest.''
Rosa Parks - Pioneer of Civil Rights Movement

7. ''I began to have the desire for something more. I wanted to do something to make things better.''
Michail S. Gorbachev - Nobel Prize for Peace

8. ''When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.''
Corretta Scott King

9. ''Mistakes should be taken as a training tool to help you get better.''
Herschel Walker - All American Football Player

10. ''Luck tends to come to people who are well prepared.''
Colin L. Powell - Former Secretary of State

11. ''I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.''

Joyce Carol Oates - National Book Award

12. ''The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would steal them away.''
Ronald Reagan - Former President of United States

13. ''Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.''
Neil Simon - Playwright

14. ''The thermostat of success is merely the jealousy of its malcontents.''
Salvidor Dali - Surrealist

15. ''There is no such thing as intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.''
Edgar Degas - Artist

16. ''A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenomally.''
Maya Angelou - Poet

17. ''I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.''
Mark Twain - Samuel L. Clemens

18. ''Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.'' Albert Camus - Existentialist

19. ''One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.''
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Lawyer

20. ''It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.''
Millard Fuller - Habitat for Humanity

21. ''Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.'' Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman Emperor

22. ''Life has a way of making things even.''
George Carlin - Comedian

23. ''A cynic knows the cost of everything- but the value of nothing.''
Oscar Wilde - Author

24. ''What you resist, persists.''
Werner Erhard - est

25. ''An unsinkable friendship makes floating through life that much easier.''
Paul H. - College Student

26. ''Life isn't worth living-if you have to.''
Paul H. - College Student

27. ''One seeks to be LOVED, LOVING and/or LOVABLE in ALL that one does.''

Paul H. - Personal Philosophy

28. ''We all LOVE one another. [That's a given]. We're just working out the details.''
Paul H. - Personal Philosophy

29. ''You can't separate Peace from Freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.''
Malcolm X. - Activist

30. ''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.''
Margaret Fuller

31. ''Man does not live on words alone, despite the fact that sometimes we have to eat them.''
Adlai Stevenson - Politician

32. ''Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.''
Albert Einstein - Scientist

33. ''It is well to remember that the entire Universe, with one trifling exception, is made up of other people.''
John Andrew Holmes

34. ''There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.''
Don Herold

35. ''You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for.''
Bernadette Peters - Actress

36. ''Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.''
Senaca - 5 BC to 65 AD

37. ''Certainly, travel is more than seeing the sights; It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.''
Miriam Beard

38. ''It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.''
Dr. Howard Murphy

39. ''It is sad that nowadays there is so little useless information.''
Oscar Wilde

40. ''A mind too active is no mind at all.''
Theodore Roethke

41. ''There is nothing to be feared. Only things to be understood.''
Marie Curie - Scientist

42. ''Life is simple. Man makes it complicated.''
Paul H. - Thinker

43. ''Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.''
Albert Einstein - Scientist

44. ''When you know a thing, say that you know it: When you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge.''
Confucius - Philosopher

45. ''It is better to give than recieve- especially advice.''
Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain

46. ''Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.''
Will Rogers - Humorist

47. ''Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.''
Margoret Lee Runbeck

48. ''Our enemies are sacred, because they make us strong.''
Native American Saying

49. ''No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.''
Paramahansa Yogananda

50. ''Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.''
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51. ''We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.''
Jiddu Krishnamurti

52. ''When you have Love in your Heart, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.''
Jiddu Krishnamurti

53. ''Meditation is to find if there is a field not contaminated by the known.''
Jiddu Krishnamurti

54. ''When you are content to simply be yourself and don't compare and compete, everybody will respect you.''
Lao-Tzu

55. ''The more a man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.''
Confucius - Philospher

56. ''Integrity has no need of rules.''
Albert Camus - Existentialist

57. ''Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.''
Victor Borge - Comedian

58. ''Laughter is an instant vacation.''
Milton Berle - Comedian

59. ''Laughter is part of the Human survival kit.''
David Nathan

60. ''Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side-effects.''
Arnold Glasgow

61. ''Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.''
Henry Chester

62. ''A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone thought they could.''
Zig Zigler

63. ''If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.''
Erma Bombeck

64. ''If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.''
Sam Walton

65. ''Leadership just doesn't choose sides, it brings sides together.''
Jesse Jackson

66. ''To find your own voice, tell yourself how you feel about things.''
Paul H. - Thinker

67. ''Wisdom is knowing WHAT to say, and WHEN to say it.
Paul H. - Thinker

68. ''Being yourself does not mean you do any crazy thing you want. It means that you find out who you are...and be that person. It is an eternal growth process.''

Paul H. - Thinker
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