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Nadia
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“If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that at the root of all things that are negative in this world is the physical fact that we are all nothing but the victims of victims. Remove yourself even farther than that, and you will see that there is no such thing as a victim. Victimhood is just a prison of illusion restricted to physical life—and forgiveness is the way out of it.”
― The Sculptor In The Sky
― The Sculptor In The Sky
“Worth is defined as the quality that renders something desirable, useful, or of quality. But the question is, to whom is something desirable, useful, or of quality?”
― The Sculptor In The Sky
― The Sculptor In The Sky
“It never settles on anything for more than an instant," said Horace. "The effect is dizzying."
"No wonder normals rarely notice peculiars out in the world anymore," said Enoch. "Their brains have melted!"
It occured to me, as we lingered on an episode of The Bachelor, how little I understood the world I'd grown up in. All my life, normsl people had mostly baffled me- the ridiculous ways they strove to impress one another, the mediocre goals that seemed to drive them, the banality of their dreams. The way prople rejected anything that didn't fit their narrow pradigm of acceptability, as if those who thought or acted or dressed or dreamed differently from them were a threat to their very existence.”
― A Map of Days
"No wonder normals rarely notice peculiars out in the world anymore," said Enoch. "Their brains have melted!"
It occured to me, as we lingered on an episode of The Bachelor, how little I understood the world I'd grown up in. All my life, normsl people had mostly baffled me- the ridiculous ways they strove to impress one another, the mediocre goals that seemed to drive them, the banality of their dreams. The way prople rejected anything that didn't fit their narrow pradigm of acceptability, as if those who thought or acted or dressed or dreamed differently from them were a threat to their very existence.”
― A Map of Days
“It is hard to do nothing, especially in this physical world that is addicted to the drug of action. You think that when you are not doing something, you are wasting your time. But your time exists for the sole reason for you to be, not for you to do. The fertile ground for inspired action is to first be.”
― The Sculptor In The Sky
― The Sculptor In The Sky
“to show us the way—the easier life is to handle.
'So, to begin, we have to put a sticky note on the bathroom mirror, or tell a friend to call us first thing in the morning, anything to remind ourselves to set up an expectation for Synchronicity first thing each day. Eventually, it becomes a habit.
And once all the mysterious coincidences are happening and our destiny seems to be unfolding, all that is left is to stay in that flow.”
He paused dramatically.
“And to do that,” he went on, “we have to learn to communicate what’s going on with us to others.”
“What?”
“Think about what happens when we lose the Flow,” he explained.
“Doesn’t it occur because we hit some situation where we have to interact with others who aren’t in a flow, and who can’t readily see the meanings we are seeing? The effect is to knock us out of it altogether.”
I thought about what happened to me with the skeptic. It was certainly true in that case.
“When I’m in the flow,” I said, “I usually try to get away from most people, so they can’t knock me out of it.”
“I know,” Wil said in a mock accusatory tone.
“Are you saying' 'I asked, “that I should have taken the time to talk with that skeptic, even though that’s not what I wanted to do?”
“No, I’m suggesting that you should have been open and truthful with him, maybe asking him to wait a minute while you talked to the people at the table. He was needling you, but you didn’t lose your flow because of him.
You lost it because you didn’t find a way to honestly communicate who you were and what you were doing.”
“I don’t think he was interested in hearing anything from me.”
“You’re missing the point. I’m not telling you to defend yourself or to convince him of anything. You just have to give him the truth of the situation as you see it, with the main purpose being to keep yourself centered in the flow.”
― The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision
'So, to begin, we have to put a sticky note on the bathroom mirror, or tell a friend to call us first thing in the morning, anything to remind ourselves to set up an expectation for Synchronicity first thing each day. Eventually, it becomes a habit.
And once all the mysterious coincidences are happening and our destiny seems to be unfolding, all that is left is to stay in that flow.”
He paused dramatically.
“And to do that,” he went on, “we have to learn to communicate what’s going on with us to others.”
“What?”
“Think about what happens when we lose the Flow,” he explained.
“Doesn’t it occur because we hit some situation where we have to interact with others who aren’t in a flow, and who can’t readily see the meanings we are seeing? The effect is to knock us out of it altogether.”
I thought about what happened to me with the skeptic. It was certainly true in that case.
“When I’m in the flow,” I said, “I usually try to get away from most people, so they can’t knock me out of it.”
“I know,” Wil said in a mock accusatory tone.
“Are you saying' 'I asked, “that I should have taken the time to talk with that skeptic, even though that’s not what I wanted to do?”
“No, I’m suggesting that you should have been open and truthful with him, maybe asking him to wait a minute while you talked to the people at the table. He was needling you, but you didn’t lose your flow because of him.
You lost it because you didn’t find a way to honestly communicate who you were and what you were doing.”
“I don’t think he was interested in hearing anything from me.”
“You’re missing the point. I’m not telling you to defend yourself or to convince him of anything. You just have to give him the truth of the situation as you see it, with the main purpose being to keep yourself centered in the flow.”
― The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision
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