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19 Jul 99 - 01:09 PM (#96906) Subject: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: katlaughing 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.
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19 Jul 99 - 04:13 PM (#96981) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: Peter T. 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. |
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19 Jul 99 - 05:15 PM (#97016) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: katlaughing 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." |
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19 Jul 99 - 05:28 PM (#97024) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: Peter T. 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. |
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19 Jul 99 - 05:34 PM (#97027) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: katlaughing 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 |
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19 Jul 99 - 05:43 PM (#97030) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: Peter T. 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. |
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19 Jul 99 - 05:56 PM (#97033) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: katlaughing hahahahaha!!!!! You are on a "roll" |
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19 Jul 99 - 11:33 PM (#97169) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: WyoWoman Peter-- I'm going to post your "Every day in every way," on my mirror -- right next to my "Ants never sleep" note. WW |
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20 Jul 99 - 10:39 AM (#97329) Subject: RE: Better & better everyday - Profundities From: Peter T. Wyowoman -- what is the "Ants never sleep" quote? I missed that thread, if thread it was. yours, Peter T. |