Better & better everyday - Profundities

Subject: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 01:09 PM

Well, I was going to post some pollyanna affirmation about things getting better and better, everyday, in everyway, BUT I think we are way beyond that!**BG**

Really just wanted to share this. I believe it to be quite profound and also a good example of the illusion of aloneness; for that we never really are.

The conditions of a solitary bird are five
The first, that it flies to the highest point
The second, that is does not suffer for company
not even its own kind
The third, that it aims its beak to the skies
The fourth, that it does not have a definite color
The fifth, that it sings very softly.
- St. John of the Cross -

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 04:13 PM

kat, are you sure that is an anti-solitariness poem? St. John's writings are almost always about the glories of the solitary pushing upwards towards the face of God. Or are you being ironic in a subtle way (obtuseness is a Monday disease)? It would sure be nice to have a discussion about St. John of the Cross for a change!
I have a Coue parody I always use about betterment:
"Every morning I get up, and the first thing I do is go and look in the mirror, and say : --'Every day in every way, I am beginning to repeat myself!"
yours, Peter t.

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:15 PM

Well, PeterT, I guess you could say I was being obtuse, in a way. I got it from a discussion group of a metaphysical org. I belong to. It was posted as an example, on an esoteric level, of the illusion of aloneness, i.e. (from the poster) one was never truly alone, as one's God was ever present.

Also, in view of some of the discussions on here, I like the irony of it. Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been in my original posting.

I like the one you posted, too. It made me smile. Of course, I don't believe it! Ya know we're on that darn spiral of consciousness, we might get stuck, but eventually we get to go to the next level. (I hope!:-)

Here's another:"No thing comes from nothing."

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:28 PM

For those who remember "The Sound of Music", the joke was:
"Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could, and this was proved for once and ever, by Chris Plummer as a block of wood."
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:34 PM

Ah, well, I never knew about that part coming from the musical. I used to think on the "No thing, etc." while contemplating my navel.**BG** To carry it further: "Nothing comes from nothing and all other things, too!"

To paraphrase Einstein (I hope I have this right): Spacetime guides matter and matter forms spacetime; every atom influences the whole spacetime and is influenced by the whole spacetime.

So, no thing can be put outside the universe, because the universe is one.

kat

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:43 PM

Who can resist the old joke? ("What does the Dalai Lama order at a hot dog stand: "Make me one with everything.")
(Why I have gone into bad jokes here, when I was really interested in St. John of the Cross who had no sense of humour, I don't know. His pal St. Teresa, was completely different.
Her best joke ever -- stop me if you have heard it -- She was toiling away on the road somewhere in a pelting rainstorm, and her carriage fell into a ditch. A voice from heaven said,"Even such trials and hardships do I place upon those who are my truly beloved friends."
And she replied: "That explains, Lord, why you have so few of them."
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:56 PM

hahahahaha!!!!! You are on a "roll"

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: WyoWoman
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 11:33 PM

Peter-- I'm going to post your "Every day in every way," on my mirror -- right next to my "Ants never sleep" note.

WW

Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 10:39 AM

Wyowoman -- what is the "Ants never sleep" quote? I missed that thread, if thread it was.
yours, Peter T.