i've not watched forest gump ever. like taxi driver and the godfather movies, for some reason... [shrug].
all the best with the writing! love it. i've found writing the last two years has been an incredibly powerful and surprisingly deep tool for me to integrate my own path-experiences. and to expand and grow them. recently that's expanded to include something on X to connect to my beginning a 'real' teaching practice. i might be getting close to being an appropriate teacher. that is funny, because i have also been a teacher of many things to many people over the years. your comment and my experience reminds me of how the japanese swordsman opened his later in life book of instruction called 'the book of five rings.' he comments that until he was in his forties his winning the sword fights was lucky. he didn't really know what he was doing! lol!
and note that if/when your direction changes, i won't hold that against you. hmmmm. small synchronicity with an old quotation i dug up for someone else today.
It has ... been argued that if a person is inconsistent, he will end up believing everything. But is this really so?
I have known many inconsistent people, and they don't appear to believe everything.
The inconsistent people I have known have not seemed to have a higher ration of false beliefs to true ones than those who make a superhuman effort to maintain consistency at all costs. True, people who are compulsively consistent will probably save themselves certain false beliefs, but I'm afraid that they will also miss many true ones!
Smullyan, Raymond. 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983, pp. 39-40 slightly edited
all the best with what is changing. everything changes! with peace, respect, love and exuberant joy.
I guess you have a lot of catching up to do then :P
Not sure if I get the intention of you comment right but this is my truth about consistency.
If you are moving from one focus to the next and those moves are born from fear and insecurities, it will produce more insecurity and fear and it is called desperation.
If you move your focus from a position of strength and trust then this move will create more strength and trust and it is called surrender.
It is not so much about what you do but how you do it.
hola, tom.
i've not watched forest gump ever. like taxi driver and the godfather movies, for some reason... [shrug].
all the best with the writing! love it. i've found writing the last two years has been an incredibly powerful and surprisingly deep tool for me to integrate my own path-experiences. and to expand and grow them. recently that's expanded to include something on X to connect to my beginning a 'real' teaching practice. i might be getting close to being an appropriate teacher. that is funny, because i have also been a teacher of many things to many people over the years. your comment and my experience reminds me of how the japanese swordsman opened his later in life book of instruction called 'the book of five rings.' he comments that until he was in his forties his winning the sword fights was lucky. he didn't really know what he was doing! lol!
and note that if/when your direction changes, i won't hold that against you. hmmmm. small synchronicity with an old quotation i dug up for someone else today.
It has ... been argued that if a person is inconsistent, he will end up believing everything. But is this really so?
I have known many inconsistent people, and they don't appear to believe everything.
The inconsistent people I have known have not seemed to have a higher ration of false beliefs to true ones than those who make a superhuman effort to maintain consistency at all costs. True, people who are compulsively consistent will probably save themselves certain false beliefs, but I'm afraid that they will also miss many true ones!
Smullyan, Raymond. 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983, pp. 39-40 slightly edited
all the best with what is changing. everything changes! with peace, respect, love and exuberant joy.
🙏❤️🧘♂️☯️🧘♂️❤️🙏
I guess you have a lot of catching up to do then :P
Not sure if I get the intention of you comment right but this is my truth about consistency.
If you are moving from one focus to the next and those moves are born from fear and insecurities, it will produce more insecurity and fear and it is called desperation.
If you move your focus from a position of strength and trust then this move will create more strength and trust and it is called surrender.
It is not so much about what you do but how you do it.
exactly! it is the quality of the choice, the quality of the journey. ishvara-pranidhana for sure.
likely i will die before i catch up! too funny. goodnight from my side of the ocean.
Next time 🤓😝