Comments on: Horizon at dawn

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:27 +0000

You need to post more often.
Get busy!

By: Daz Cox

Daz Cox — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:45:17 +0000

what a great post! so glad I found my way here!

The best thing about a search for enlightenment is that there are always answers to be found. I could list some great things that have helped me but once you start to seek the answers manfest anyway!

now to read more of your things!

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:49:23 +0000

Perfection does not need to be a goal. The seeds of divinity reside in all of us, so we are by definition already perfect from birth. To be one with our Universe might be a worthy goal because it requires life experience to achieve. Learning how we are influenced by and can influence the flow of Universal energy and intelligence is part of our purpose in this manifestation.

The Universe has conspired to create the canvas. You, the artist, have free will to paint your divine inspiration. Like all great artists, you develop your talent over time. To use a double negative, you cannot not paint. It is more about learning when to move from one work of art to the next, or adding another brush stroke to the painting you are currently working on.

Love, Dad

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:12:48 +0000

You mentioned that “Half the world is living in poverty”. That may be in your eyes from your perspective. If you can remember your time in the Philippines, most people in the third world don’t know they are living in poverty. Their world is natural and normal to them, hard though it may be, compared to ours. Poverty is more about expectations, a conscious awareness of lack, of something missing. I am sure to some our existence might be considered poverty. To some, living without TV would be considered poverty.

Don’t get me wrong. There are conditions that are extreme, with a lot of suffering, war, violence, injustice and abuse. I would guess that true poverty might be what people stuck in the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy might experience. This group is probably far less than half the human population.

I believe poverty is a state of mind, lacking hope, filled with despair. From this perspective, you may be right. One does not have to be poor to experience poverty or vice versa. It may be that Affluenza is caused by a sort of poverty consciousness or disease of keeping up with the Jones. Half the world may psychologically be living in a poverty of their own creation.

Love, Dad

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:50:01 +0000

My first sentence should have read “I read your post with some interest ‘today’.” Sorry for the tortured syntax.

By: twoblueday

twoblueday — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:49:05 +0000

I read your post with some interest lately because I’ve been very introspective lately about what’s important, both in some cosmic sense and just personally to me. I think about people born into existences on this earth in which they struggle daily (as you mentioned) just to have food, water, and a safe place to take what little rest they get. Why are they born in that milieu, and why was I born a lucky US person? As poor as my family was when I was little (working class at best, then my mother was widowed with 6 kids), we were living like nobility compared to the really unluckily born.

However, thinking about these issues, and making some connection with them part of my life are not the same thing.

Example: We were at loose ends today, and went looking for coffee mugs. We probably have close to a score of them (not coffee cups in dish sets, just stray mugs). There is one of them I particularly like to drink coffee from because of its shape. It is cylindrical, tallish, and, well, I just like it. So we went into three or four stores on this search, unsuccessfully. Because we wash dishes often (mechanically, of course) my favorite mug is available to me every other day, or so. If I made the effort to wash it by hand, I could use it at any time.

I don’t see a lot of oneness with the universe in that tale. Do you?

By: Organic Mama

Organic Mama — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:38:34 +0000

Alliterate on, baby!

Part of what makes you such a force of nature is your honesty and clarity. And yeah, Chili and I are VERY different (but alike in important ways) people. We both love you, though.

By: mrschili

mrschili — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:14:06 +0000

I’ll second the “one funny bitch” assessment; I think you’re smart and hysterical. All your shit is funny because it’s TRUE.

Do try to figure out the difference between me (Chili) and O’Mama. Really - we’ve VERY different people; it shouldn’t be that hard to tell us apart…