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Adult Confusion
Those threads I mentioned? Well, every painting is at first defined by lines, and we all have lines in our perception. Our brains perceive everything around us first as patterns of contrast, as lines, before it fills in any finer detail. We bear at the core of our being a thumbnail sketch of self. This…
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Pleasure Denied
If I just followed my pleasure drive, I would play games all day and get nothing done. Nope. You would get hungry, and you would get tired, and you would get bored. You would get curious and your mind would wander, but you do have a very valid point. Why does any single pleasure have…
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Alien Limbic Syndrome
Has everyone heard of alien limb syndrome? Due to some sort of brain abnormality, a person can come to feel one of their body parts does not belong to them. They experience it as an invasive presence, even going so far as having no emotional or even physical quality of life until it’s physically removed…
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Life is Your Body
Have you ever been genuinely happy? Yes. Was it because of yourself? No. Have you ever been self made happy? Home made happy is great stuff. Know how to make it? Emotions like memory are mutable. They are the very energies of reality. We make an idol of any fixed state of being and ignore…
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A Shadow Play
How do I get rid of the scorpions in my life? What do you feel about the scorpions? And is that the only way you can feel about them? They frighten me or I feel frightened. The apparent world around us is a shadow play. Guess what is making the shadow puppets? Us. Not your…
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Move Your Heart
So how to change that. Do you feel your relationship to the scorpions? What does it feel like for them to be with you? I get different feelings from them. Do tell? I think they are just looking for food and probably scared of me. Thinking, accurate thinking, but not the same as feeling. But…
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Painting the Self-image
Painting the self image is discovering the spirit. Throughout your life your experiences have had a common theme. You likely ignored it because it just didn’t seem to make sense, and then ignored it because it began to make you feel uncomfortable, even threatened. The theme is actually the mirror image of your self image.…
Category: Self
Self awareness is the first spirit. The first sphere or plane of existence. Signs of self are always two, one dream, one nightmare. Those two facets, the vivid and the darkened, are on the same level. Self awareness is returning to the middle way. Continuing to recognize despite the vastness of it all that you are still present and able to choose.
Self is life. It’s why we are concerned with life, but how do we lose self awareness? How do we become creatures of our experience only? How do we fall asleep? If you seek truth, if you desire wisdom above all else, this is life. Heed your beating heart, listen to the whispers of your breath, and remember that you stand upon the earth.
Open chapter on Self Development | Self Esteem.
“We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.” Sarah McLachlan (Canadian Singer and Songwriter, b.1968)
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.” Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control – these three alone lead to power” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, 1809-1892)