rumorsofme: PHILOSOPHY

They Say

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:31:42 GMT

They say..........

...how it's always darkest before the dawn -- but hey, you ever see what your town looks like at dawn after a Hurricane has blown through it?

..I don't care what they say about tough times and tough people....this is a tough cookie and I don't like it!

Robert Frost said that "home is where when you have to go there they have to take you in" --- he never met my family!

DO YOU EVER STOP TO THINK...

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:46:38 GMT

Do you ever stop to think...

...that the tv news is on reruns

...that you have to wake up to dream

...how deep do still waters run

...the unthinkable today will be the unimagined tomorrow

...that where you're going is where you've been

...what's more important, the Gift or the Giver; OR, is it that the gift is

giver

...how good it feels to see a familiar face in a totally unfamiliar place

...the beliefs you accept today are what you will have to live with

tomorrow

...how unimportant it is to understand; afterall who can

Do You Ever Notice....

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:23:55 GMT

Enough is never enough...

How much is enough money, enough pretty clothes, enough status symbols, enough education, enough love, enough kindness, enough body-beautiful, enough mind-power, enough phyical stamina, enough giving, enough material wealth, enough automobiles, enough pets, enough travelling, enough religion, enough awards, enough tears, enough drugs, enough noise, enough quiet, enough babies & children lost, enough pain, enough poor people hungyy & starving, enough fighting, enough dying, enough killing, enough suffering ? It can all end right here and now, with you. In fact in order for it to end...it must begin with YOU.

You need to be more than a pretty face.

...that you can change the ending of your "personal" home movie (your life) -- simply by changing the ending, by charting a new course, by altering the scenario, choosing a different cast and/or another road, updating the Script to a newer, happier version. SEE your life as you would most desire to have it & all that comes with those choces.

An hour is too long and a lifetime is not enough.

Time moves in direct relationship to the mulling of your mind or the activity of your energies.

Sweetness is brief while the Bitter is an agony of seeming forever.

Your excitment and Joy in a unique moment in time is quelched by a friend's "uh oh ---- look at this, you missed this, this isn right! This is not good..." Your new discovery and happiness lost in the tiny prick of a negative thought ---- and you are shattered, the delight is buried back among your tentative dreamscapes.

To spend all day cooking a Holiday Dinner..too much food everyone sighs; cannot eat all that...the leftover recipents being a favored pet or the garbage disposal...and quietly the younger ones slip out to the nearest hamburger shack!

We are the wandering of Humanity; wanting, striving, yearning, in however flawed our ways, to lift the darkness for one, even ourself.

To lift ourself is often the greatest weight...Far easier to lift the Burdens of another faltering Soul.

No matter how prepared you are, you are never ready.

How great it is that someone likes, or at least doesn't mind, doing the jobs you so dislike, such as...

That the blind are not those whose eyes do not see but those whose hearts do not feel

How deeply ingrained our old habits are...turning a proposed relaxing hobby into an exhaustive work process

It isn't someone else's permission we need to be who we truly are; it is ours

OLD CHINESE PROVERB

To Try and Please and Please Not.

To Try and Sleep and Sleep Not.

To Wait for one who comes Not.

~~think on these things~~

Say you, Say me

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:02:02 GMT

What comes to us as "a Savior" today; is revealed tomorrow as "a Dictator" .

Most of us are ever ready to devour whatever substance, lifestyle or belief, to dispel the pain (physical/emotional/mental/spiritual) that is sucking the life from our physical body or the collective consciousness. We are so intent on propagating (what already is crumbling ) our patented image of what the vaulted "American way of life" holds forth. On the one hand -- we want to share if not cram down the "needy throat" of some other culture... our "better way", "the American Democracy experiment" -- We will send our sons & daughters to play fearful , dangerous, deadly games; & in some cases, just plain old deceitful roles ( "on demand performances" ) that entangle all manner of someone elses cobbled web. We are ever ready to jump to our self-righteous platform on just 'who' -- "where" -- "when" -- and 'how' that Democratic process is displayed & afforded.

We elect our "sacrificial lambs" to shuttle off to some decaying laws that, with increasing notice, do not endorse nor keep pace with hallowing humanitarian accords. Would you like to run that course with all its attendent exposure, demand for right decisions, the perils of expectation & human faults?

Despite what we may want to believe, AMERICA is not Master of the Universe -- just look back through History & let it reveal to you all the pock-marked strategies, well-intentioned goals, and Missionary zeal that served, so temporarily, humankind....for a time.

For a time, it always seems......the ruling Ideology might prevail. whether for Good or apparent evil; yet, they always fall, always are slipping into the unconscious busyness of the newer, younger minds & wills. Few remember, fewer still listen, and, thus, more ever suffer. How long? Why wait? How many convergent threads are required to satisfy the designer?

...think on these things....