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Dealing with Negativity
Dissonance, as in different notes or tones conflicting, is the concept. Spirituality is often compared to music metaphorically, but in many ways it’s not strictly metaphor. Many people speak of spiritual presence as being like a voice or sound, and we each of us contribute to this. We each make more of an impact on…
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Being Out of Place
That sense of dissonance, of being out of place, is important now more than ever. It can serve as a motivator for change. This system we now have, how is it ok? Why should it be allowed to exist without disturbance? Maybe those of us who are out of synch, owe it to the people…
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What can we do?
We have become very lazy expecting everything to be explained and researched for us. Science claims to have avoided metaphysical speculation and this is one of the major lies of science. It isn’t malicious, but it also isn’t true. They have put forth an irresponsible view that we can ignore the ‘why’ and focus only…
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Prosody
Today, we are continuing the topic of dissonance. I will cover in more detail the place of dissonance in our lives and how it relates to our perception of even simple day to day things. What is dissonance? Dissonance is the clash of sound with each other, but it is also any seeming contradiction or…
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Harmony and Dissonance in Play
At any given time in your life, no matter how peaceful your life might seem to be, you have both harmony and dissonance in play. And the effort to totally eliminate either would disrupt the one you have decided in favour of. What would it take for you to remove all disagreement between you and…
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Forced Correction
I find I get angry at the things I didn’t say rather than what I had the guts to say. Indeed. It’s easier to accept facts of existence than it is to accept self-negation brought about by the confusion society has handed us in the process of so called proper socialization. If you wrong someone, at…
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Accept Your Failings
Anyone familiar with Zen sand gardens? To use the Zen sand garden metaphor, the rocks could be said to represent those upsetting weaknesses in our personal character. They are rough, heavy and virtually immovable, and though the sand between is more spacious, even and peaceful, there is no escaping the imprint the rocks make in…
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Mirror of Your Own Treasures
I will offer one of my own rocks for consideration. No matter what I say and do, I never feel like I have really connected with other people. I always feel like I say something wrong or something boring or stupid, and usually feel like I should just avoid saying things at all. It’s terrifying to…
Category: Dissonance
When you see how life fails, you see its success more clearly. This is why I follow a left handed path spiritually. That and natural disposition.
I paraphrase a famous quote, ‘nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ But it is also how we see it. I dwell now. Here in the now.
“If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy