The word for the day is generosity; it came up in thought and conversation multiple times. Then the metaphor du jour was the musical generosity of the 8-piece Irish band playing from the corner of Great Lakes Brewery tonight. Generosity of spirit through ballads and reels.
Living fully is living expressed … not timidly, not hesitatingly, not stingily, but generously. A toast to the generous and the good karma they bring.
You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul … when you can feel that Life — you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbirds fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are life.
The Mastery Of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz
The outcome of this week’s Socrates Cafe dialogue on the difference between honesty and truth was that honesty is accuracy of personal experience and truth is the whole story of a fact or event that can often transcend the scope of any individual’s experience.
In either case, honesty and truth set us free.
It’s the empty space within a vessel
that gives it its value.
Tao te Ching
Being not worthy doesn’t end by trying to become worthy;
Being not worthy ends when trying to become worthy ends.
Life is a gift of unknown length.
What are we doing with it?
Had breakfast with G (George Nemeth) this morning and he later thanked me for my time. It was a very sincere expression of gratitude, and led me to thinking about the many people in my personal ecosystem I am grateful for.
There is an old expression of a friend as someone you’d die for in order to save their life, if it was a choice between yours and theirs. I am especially grateful for those with whom I share this deep sense of friendship.
To study the self is to lose the self;
to lose the self is to lose the grasping
at the root of all suffering.
