Feb 24, 2013-Reflection, Forecast and a Quotation

This week has been a meditation on Murphy's Law.

Today commences 'The Artist's Way'--I have some thoughts. . . perhaps, I can use this as a space for the thoughts that come up during this exploration.

I was excited about this book because I discovered my own "artist's way" with remembering the power of Curiosity last week. Because that was my way in and I was curious about how others found a way in, but when I think of it, to follow someone else's 'way' is daunting. It's important to find your way. But I've committed... Julia Cameron, in this book, said that there is an initial irreverence and resistance to the process. And in a way, I feel like she is setting up an inarguable argument: "all the non-believers they get to eat dirt," it's ok if you do not believe,  just try and go through the process  . . Of course there will be resistance, she says. But is that how she gets me? You are gotten if you want to be gotten . . .at least I think so. So here we go, let's get a little messy. Give yourself the permission to . . .

Everyone is waiting for permission.

'Inside you there's an artist you don't know about . . . Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe'- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

Power of Curiousity

Curiosity is inversely proportionate to judgmental thought

Curiosity empowers.

my ideal

Develop yourself, so that you are fully happy, content with yourself,
so that when you seek someone else, it is not to fill a void, to "make" you happy or to fulfill some requirement that has been set in place by society (which, you are part of the society, by the way), but the meaning is to to enhance your being, your life, your happiness with someone else. You find each other in order to make both people's life better. You are not a better half, but a doubled whole, you are there to double the fun, double the joy with the other person. You are taking what you already cultivated and are in constant process of cultivating and you increase it and share that with each other and keep cultivating new knowledge, and in-turn sharing that with the world. That is my ideal.

Empowerment and Honesty

I'm interested in empowerment. I'm interested in being empowered and empowering. It is THE value. It is THE meaning.

And a reminder: I want to live a life of soft honesty.

a quote requoted

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ― Walker Percy

AHHHH this is it! this is the stuff, this is the juice, the sense, the meat, the in, the out, the through and in between, the epiphany lost and found box. This IS IT! so well put, so tangibly esoterically clear. This is happiness. A constant continuous awareness and attempt grasping at the changing perspective-the constantly changing constant. The 'row row row your boat gently down the stream' the "No man ever steps in the same river twice"-Heraclitus
(there is so much to learn, and so the search continues)

--the quest for knowledge is the fountain of youth--( © 2013 RO, its c-circled)

Midnight Operas

Singing these homemade operas inside this house
Nobody hears them, except for a mouse
But if these walls could talk
They'd be clapping.

Best Friend

A best friend is someone who allows, enables, permits you to be your best you.