Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, "More of this, please. More of this, please." You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float -- all good things would flow to you.
-- Abraham
Some timely, wonderful, inspiring words by John Welwood:
Hearing this man and Abraham speak together would be an amazing experience, don't you think?
What a blessed opportunity to change your life is before you!
-- Alan Cohen
You will never reach the place where you will not need to be diligent about your choice of thought. Because you live in a world that is determined to show you every pocket of despair. So you must diligently choose. But it gets easier and easier and easier to do so. Right now, it may feel to you like those moments of Connection are the rare ones. There will be a time when those moments of Connection will feel so normal that it will shock you when you get into a place of disconnection.
-- Abraham
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Shocking, indeed.
Jarring.
Eye-opening.
Then easily dropped as a story that doesn't serve.
Let's get back to the good stuff, shall we?
Yes.
Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent. You cannot take enough action to compensate for the Energy that you're flowing.
-- Abraham
As you are pushing against wrongdoers, even though they might be really doing wrong, your pushing against them disconnects you from any real power.
You think the strongest one wins. But your pushing against them is disempowering you, and their pushing against you is disempowering them.
So if your opponent wins, it is actually because you pushed against hardest. When you are pushing against someone, you are weakening yourself. “My adversary won because I did a better job of disallowing my well-being. I pushed harder against him.”
--Abraham
There are always resources that are there to assist you, and when you start accepting how blessed you are, how cared for you are, how well it is always supposed to turn out for you, then you stop fussin’ around and trying to bang things into place.
You just accept that well-being is yours.
There is a big piece of this that is stuck in so many craws, relative to this, and that is, "But if I don’t micromanage my own experience, then who will get the credit for my success? Don’t I need to suffer? Don’t I need to work hard? Don’t I need to make everybody aware of all the things I’m doing? Don’t others need to know how much I’m doing in order to justify the well-being that is coming to me?" and we say, "That’ll get you every time. You’ve gotta stop that, you’ve just gotta start saying to anybody that asks, I’m blessed, deal with it.
"Good things just come to me. I don’t justify my well-being anymore. I don’t work hard. I don’t suffer. I don’t struggle. I don’t do any of those things. I am a Prince[or a Princess]. I am blessed. Good things just come to me. It is the way it is supposed to be. You are too," say to them, "you are too. Took me a while to figure it out, but now I’ve got it figured out. I don’t struggle. I don’t work hard. I allow the well-being that is natural to flow to me. And, everytime I get a good idea, I let everybody know what I am wanting; in other words, I’m makin’ plenty of plans. I’m just not in the trenches anymore."
--Abraham
Here's a link to my interview ride on Homeless Dave's teeter totter, where you can find out about backyard chickens and parking spots as temporary open public spaces.
We say you don’t have to deal with the issue.
Don’t activate the issue.
Start looking for things that feel good. Start with something easy. Turn your attention toward things that feel good. And you say, “Well, that’s easier under some conditions than others. What if I find myself in a situation where I’m looking right at something that makes me feel bad, and I can’t get away from it, no matter how hard I try, it’s so in my face?”
And we say, there’s where your real work begins.
That’s where you say, “I’m going to take some baby steps. I might not be able to get myself completely away from this resistance, but I sure can pick a path of less resistance.”
And so, you just start.
Just try to find something that feels better. Try to change the subject if you can, (that’s the fastest, easiest way) but if it keeps coming up, then you may want to find the Path of Least Resistance. And you get so good at it.
You get so good at it that after you’ve got a few things conquered, so to speak, or deactivated, then you can just say, “Oh, well, I can do to you just what I did to those other things. I just don’t have to think about you any more. You’re a non-issue to me.”
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There's always that first step that feels like walking-over-a-canyon impossible.
But just start.
From where you are.
And keep going.
A canyon wasn't carved in one day.
The Universe has understood the things you have been asking for and is answering perfectly. And if you won’t work to orchestrate the how and where and when, and who, but instead work to be in the receiving mode–as you practice rampages of appreciation, and as you collect fun things and beautiful things and use them to become an Ambassador of Well-Being — the things you have been asking for will unfold in a continuum of extraordinary life experience. Those who don’t yet know what you now know will stand flabbergasted as they see the stunning unfolding of your life experience. You’ve just got to get happy–that’s all it takes.
--Abraham
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Get over the juice of conflict.
Get hooked on groovin' on life and all that it has to offer you.
Get over the juice of despair.
Get hooked on joy.
Get over the juice of I-can't-do-that.
Get hooked on just-watch-me.
Sugar is sugar is sugar.
The instant you have a new dream, Debra, the masses are notified.
And every single one of the 7 billion people alive today who have complimentary visions, whether to be your future customer, reader, mentor, fan, lover, partner, agent, golf caddy, or tanning salon operator, all add their power to yours.
After all, you just might be their "lucky break."
Move boldly,
The Universe
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And you thought MySpace was big, Debra?
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 27
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their fifth album *Blood Sugar Sex Magick* in 1991, it blasted them into rock stardom. They stopped performing at intimate nightclubs and appeared exclusively at large arenas. They won a Grammy, had a hit song at the top of the charts, and sold millions of records. Guitarist John Frusciante freaked out at the success. As an indie artist intensely loyal to the underground sensibility, he was embarrassed to be in a band that had mainstream popularity. In the middle of the Chili Peppers' tour, he quit.
You may very well have to deal with a comparable development in 2008, Aries. Will you opt to remain low-profile, as Frusciante did, or will you answer the invitation to get more professional?
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I'd like to think there's another option - to do things your way, that may involve professionalism/celebrity/fame, but because you are holding to your authenticity, it doesn't alter how your life is very much. Sort of like Jeff Daniels living in Michigan and still getting work in film. There are airplanes in Michigan, he said.
I'm balancing on my father's tennis shoes, age eight. Some neighbor is talking--grown-up talk about gutters or football--but then he stops and looks down at me. "Third grade," he says cheerily. "So, what's your favorite subject?" I don't hesitate: "Recess." I flash a self-conscious smile.
Recess, I'm thinking, really is better than math and history--it's what I've just learned, still swirling in my head, plus the freedom to digest it, plus the Jungle Gym, plus some rare emptiness. But I smile because at eight years old, I already know what's expected. Although no one has ever sat down to explain it to me, I understand the requirements of a culture driven by a work ethic, the need to keep structured time in its place. So, I go on to say to the nice man that spelling's pretty good too.
I regret it to this day.
--Chris Colin
Life must be cheaper here, she said & I said I don't think life is cheap anywhere, but there are some places people haven't added it up yet because they're too busy making stuff for America.
Story People
I am so happy and very grateful for:
1) One of the most pleasant holiday seasons in a very long time, connecting with friends in ways that made it special;
2) Being invited to share a holiday meal by my ex's wife. She rocks the house, and it was an interesting dynamic at the table with former in-laws and present extended family;
3) Venus with Peter O'Toole, Buena Vista Social Club with some fabulous musicians and setters of example on how to enjoy life, and Enchanted April with an Italian setting and the transformational powers it possesses;
4) Anticipation and savoring, that gets the chi moving;
5) Clarification of what I want, peeling away the layers, identifying new things on the horizon;
6) The purely psycholigical line in the sand of a new year upon us, such a sweet drawing near.
I double secret dare you to not get up out of your chair and shake your wild thang when you listen to this.
This may be making the rounds in cyberspace, and I don't often read much less enjoy this chain mail type stuff, BUT this is so hilarious I had to post it here. If it's real, that 's cool - if it's not, I love the sense of humor of the person who put it together. Either way it made my morning.
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Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly routinely in our jobs.
After every flight UPS pilots fill out a form called a “gripe sheet,” which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS pilots (marked with a P) solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.
By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.
P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to: straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
And the best one for last………………
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.
If it's not yet obvious to you, the real reason for this season is you, Debra. A more perfect child of the Universe has never lived. Until now, only a celebration cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at your sublime heritage and divine destiny. You are life's prayer of becoming, and its answer. The first light at the dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that the Universe might know its depths, discover its heights, and frolic in endless seas of blessed emotion.
A pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a lifter of veils. Courageous, heroic and exalted by billions in the unseen.
To give beyond reason. To care beyond hope. To love without limit. To reach, stretch, and dream, in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of honor. Wear them with a pride as great as the unspeakable pride we feel for you.
Your light has illuminated darkened paths, your gaze has lifted broken spirits, and already your life has changed the destiny of all who will ever follow.
This is the time of year we celebrate Debra Schanilec.
Bowing before Greatness,
The Universe
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True, Debra, we party here at the drop of a hat... whenever your name comes up.
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A girl likes to be shown some appreciation.
Let life and love show you how big they can be.
-- Alan Cohen
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Oh my.
Ginormous to infinity.
At least.
This is the teeter totter I rode yesterday.
It was a lot of fun, and I'd highly recommend the experience.
The transcript of the interview that took place during said ride will be posted at some point in the near future, and I will link to it here.
In the meantime, if you'd like to take a gander at who has had the honor of sitting before me, take a look here.
Aargh.
It's Saturday night. There are several dvds stacked up next to the tv for the holiday duration that would be delicious to watch.
But it's already 7:44 as I type this.
Here's where self-sabatage might mess with my self-care efforts in the past.
Is there a movie that's worth watching that's worth foiling my intention?
If I'm going to bed at 9:00 like I say I want to, then I can choose to watch part of something tonight and continue on at another time, or I can postpone it altogether to a more conducive sitting.
Simple enough, but what is it that I think I'm missing out on if I go to bed earlier? What am I driven to be vigilant about in the late night hours? Granted, there's a certain seduction in late night-ness that just isn't there in any other time of day, or am I embuing late night with some vague attractive quality that doesn't really exist to justify hanging out there?
Maybe I'm on to something here.
There are times I think I'm doing things on principle, but mostly I just do what feels good. But that's a principle, too.
Story People
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Hmmmmmm...seems to be going around.....
Your words are powerful, life-giving, and creative. What would you create today with your words?
-- Alan Cohen
Yeah, I know that my presence on the earth leaves a footprint, and it's up to me as to how deep and everlasting it is.
But making a social impact is more what's on my mind today.
All this week evidence has been cascaded my way, totally unbidden by me, of how the circles that I run in are affected by my being in them.
The overriding theme is me being authentically who I am in the world that causes things to happen, right there in front of me.
And it's sort of freaking me out a little bit.
But in a good way.
Very much an incentive to keep up this wacky stuff I do/be/am. Not that I'd be able to do anything else anyway.
This dance with the universe is a strange and wild one, and requires vigilance ad stamina.
But damn, is it fun.
It's not just that when one door closes, another door opens.
When one door closes, Deb, choirs burst into chorus, orchestras orchestrate, bugles bugle, marching bands march, dogs catch Frisbees, cats 'chow, chow, chow,' pigs fly, and 10,000 new doors open.
Kind of makes you want a door to close, huh?
The Universe
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Another door opens, Deb... "good grief."
It's not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it, and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That's the promise of Law of Attraction.
-- Abraham
Meditate until you find inner peace. What happens after that is not your business.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Is this pill really an effective pill? Is this process really an effective process?" Anything that causes you to allow what you desire is the process of coming into alignment. And so, we're not, in any way, validating or invalidating anything. Many offer their "dog and pony show" as being the one that works. And good for all of them. We applaud anything that assists someone in allowing the Well-being, that they so much want and deserve, to flow.
-- Abraham
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Dark chocolate included.
Everything changed the day he figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in his life.
Story People
Funny, isn't it, Debra, how those who don't believe that thought unfailingly creates matter and is the bridge between spirit and physical, desire and manifestation, yin and yang--basing their denials on science, religion, or whatever--nevertheless rush around to share their thoughts with others on the subject. Huh?
Things that make you go, "Hmmmm...."
The Universe
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Some might even need proof they think, Debra, if they thought about it enough.
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I'm reading a book right now that fits this concept perfectly.
It's chock full of basing denials on science, religion, or whatever - and pushes against, rather than just merely presenting a point of view. I'm sticking with reading it as long as I can stand it, just to say I did, just to say that I can wade through vitriol to get the (I hope) good stuff, if there is any. I'm not sure anymore that I would find value if it's just pushing against.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning December 20
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Ambition is a bad excuse for not having enough good sense to be lazy," my ex-girlfriend Arlene used to say. She claimed to be a Zen master whose duty it was to deprogram me out of my absurd striving to make something of myself. She believed the key to enlightenment was to do nothing as much as possible. "You're egotistically attached to your identity as a poet," she'd yell into my room as I toiled over my writing. "Come out here and show me you have the spiritual guts to sit in front of the TV and lose your grandiose self in a meaningless game show." While I did eventually emerge from our relationship with an appreciation for the value of emptiness, it was not ultimately my destiny to downplay ambition. On the contrary! Which is why I'm here to exhort you, Aries, to treat your desires as sacred rocket fuel -- in 2008, more than ever. In the coming months, in accordance with your astrological omens, I will intensify my efforts to supercharge your ambition.
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Alrighty then.
by Jack Gilbert
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
-Jack Gilbert
The ones who love you will understand, Debra, before you even ask.
This is how you'll know it's "us."
The Universe
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Go ahead, Debra, ask me...
People will say, "Well, I have to work on my goals," or, "I have to work on my visualization." And we want you to think more about holding the vision because it is pleasurable to hold the vision, not because you're trying to make the vision work in order to get to some place that you're not now standing. "How much should I work?" We would say, work in the sense of joyously moving forward.
-- Abraham
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I feel so much better today.
I had diminished the effect that eating a cucumber slice that had been sitting out all afternoon after a holiday gathering at work might have on my system, and it really knocked me for a loop the last few days. One more piece of evidence for the mind-body connection--duh.
I am part of a group that will be focusing on an intention for 30 days starting January 2, and I love the quote above for that reason. I am more psyched about what will happen with the process than whether or not my goal is met. It is indeed pleasurable for me to hold the vision.
Which is, to be in bed by 9:00 every night.
This is a goal, an intention, a "wouldn't-it-be-nice-if" I’ve had in the back of my mind for ever, but when partners who were night owls, or the magnetism of a computer screen, or the draw of a riveting book or even not much at all presents itself as a distraction, I’ve succumbed to it and stayed up later than I really wanted to.
An additional incentive to try this lifestyle on for size is the fact that I’ve been waking up early, on cue it seems, around 5:00 am for quite awhile now. This hour resonates with me on certain levels, but certainly not when I’m running on only five or six hours of sleep, and certainly not in the dead of winter.
Reading accounts from people who have incorporated this regimen into their lives, the phenomenon that invariably gets described is of time expanding to fit the task at hand, and it taking much less time and effort to accomplish greater rewards, some of which were not anticipated at all in the person’s wildest dreams.
I want some of that.
Osho Zen Tarot
The Master
The Master in Zen is not a master over others, but a master of himself. His every gesture and his every word reflect his enlightened state. He has no private goals, no desire that anything should be other than the wya it is. His disciples gather around him not to follow him, but to soak up his presence and be inspired by his example. In his eyes they find their own truth reflected, and in his silence they fall more easily into the silence of their own beings. The master welcomes the disciples not because he wants to lead them, but because he has so much to share. Together, they create an energy field that supports each unique individual in finding his or her own light. If you can find such a master you are blessed. If you cannot, keep on searching. Learn from the teachers, and the would-be masters, and move on. Chiaraiveti, charaiveti, said Gautam Buddha. Keep on moving.
Q: I was going to ask about this whole idea of enlightenment, but I don’t know if I’m really that interested. I’m more interested in…. (Laughter.) I’m having so much fun, more and more fun all the time, I couldn't care less about enlightenment now, so…. (Further laughter.)
Abe: Well, that is the most enlightened remark we have ever heard. (Laughter.) That’s where it’s at. We’re not kidding you about that.
Enlightenment means, literally, ‘aligning to the energy of my Source.’ And genius is only about focusing — Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described, but true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire.
Ooh, that was so good — did you hear that?
Enlightenment is allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality.’ That’s as good as it gets, you see.
--Abraham
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Today, I'm just not quite feelin' this.
My brain remembers that I get jazzed about this kind of thinking, but today, I'm just not quite feelin' it.
That unfulfilled desire stuff that I was thinking recently that I'm supposed to be groovin' on, well, I think today is part of that.
Doesn't feel so groovy.
But I know that there's some good stuff on the other side of this funk.
It just has to be sat with. Felt through. Acknowledged.
And then maybe it will let me breathe easier again.
Or, we'll move to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to my desire, my enlightenment and me.
I like that.
Just not today.
Forks in the road seem like choices, but really when you're lined up, choices are forkless. What's calling you is hands down where you want to be, so there's no choice to be made. You can't withdraw your desire, or be less than what you've been coming to, so don't cloud the issue with what you should be doing.
Never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Source unknown
The answer will come.
Direction will come.
You will know.
-- Alan Cohen
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Seriously. I'm sayin'.
The universe is not trying to hurt you. It's trying to set you free.
-- Source unknown.
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But since we tend to project, well, that's how it seems.
Do you ever wonder, Debra, that if every "job" was seen as an adventure in creativity, an opportunity to change the world, and a means through which to discover one's power... and if every task was seen as a present to unwrap containing unknown rewards, who would have time to work?
Every job.
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Or, Debra, if every Monday was seen as yet another day in paradise, shouldn't the "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" song be played on Sundays, too?
Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship. What holds bad things in your life is always your attention to those bad things, always.
-- Abraham
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I get it now.
Epiphanies come in the throes of things that aren’t very glamorous.
You might say, I would not have chosen this family, this body.
But you did choose it, anticipating value from it.
Often dawn breaks more beautifully after adversity.
You are always able to benefit from where you are.
But you need to be in a place of connection to discover it.
--Abraham
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Oh, can I attest to that, especially the throes of unglamorousness.
But hey, I think it just leaves more room for the lesson to finally sink in, you know?
Like too much beauty at the time would only float.
The surface needs to be cracked in order for change to take place.
In stubborn human heads, especially
If someone can take you to heaven, they can take you to hell. Take back the power you gave them, and take yourself where you choose.
-- Alan Cohen
Osho Tarot Card
Maturity
The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise.
Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals, have come to completion...Certainly, to be full of spring yourself is far more beautiful that the autumn dews falling on the lotus leaves. That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dews fall on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises, the autumn dews start evaporating...
This temporary beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being. Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to shower on you. This is spiritual spring.
Which feels better, to praise or to criticize?
“Oh, but you don’t understand, there’s nothing to praise and there’s lots to criticize.”
That’s not our question.
Which feels better? Which feels better?
“But Abraham, you don’t understand. You didn’t see what happened.”
No, we didn’t. We’re not vibrating there with you.
But our question to you is, which feels better, which feels better?
“But, but, but, but Abraham, you need to be here where we are so that you understand what we’re trying to tell you.”
Which feels better? — is the only thing that your Guidance System is asking you.
So which feels better: to pronounce to the world or to myself, I’m not free?
Or to pronounce to the world, I can make more decisions?
– Abraham
Interesting discussion about how Aspies view NTs (the rest of us that are "neurotypical", which chemically seems to be an arrogant kind of claim to make, but I digress) and the whole dating/relationships thing.
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