Meditation
Though it’s been on my reading list for a couple years, I am just now getting around to reading My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Really a fascinating story! The brain aneurism she experienced in her mid-thirties disabled the language and analytical functions of her brain, providing […]
Here is a bit of philosophical thought play… If God is Love and God is Light then Is Light equivalent to Love? —— This is related to yesterday’s post entitled “We Are Made of Light“. If indeed we are made of light, then are we God?
Here is something I have been thinking about for many many years (according to my own notebooks, as long ago as the late 1970s), but I credit the writer, artist and inventor Doug Yerchey with publishing the idea in a 2002 article on the World Mysteries web site. He begins by discussing the peculiar duality […]
Notice — are you happy? If not, are you working towards becoming happy? If you are happy, have you examined the how and the why of it? On this subject, The Bear concludes: The purpose of life is to be happy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; let’s not make it any more complicated […]
Continue reading about Happiness: State of Mind or State of Being?
Be. Be still. Be still and know. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know that I am God. In the stillness, in the moment-by-moment of HERE and NOW, in the only place and time that ever really exists, this instant of being that is always just as it is, without memory […]
I am greatly indebted to Alan Watts for introducing me to many new ideas in Oriental Philosophy — eastern religious and spiritual thought. Through listening to the “Alan Watts Podcast” I’ve learned a great deal about Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, and Taoism; and I am arriving at a new understanding about concepts such as the ego, […]
