Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
American Crow — Bass Lake, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Ken Burns says "All we do is argue." Jim Dollar says "Because we talk out of our heads all of the time. Talking out of our hearts-- out of our intuition-- disappears argument 'like that.'"
Talking out of our heads is talking about what we want and don't want, what we like and what we don't like, what we think about everything.
Opinions are all we have to talk about. Humans are the most opinionated species in existence. In my opinion. Because we are the only species that lives out of its head and not in accord with its intuition. Its heart. Its soul.
All we know is what we think we know-- and all we need to know is what we know.
Why don't we know what we know? Because what we know is the enemy to what we want.
We want, want, want all of the time. Take our wants away and there is nothing to us. What would we think about? What would we talk about? What would we do with our time? It would be soooooo boringgggggg!
And boring is the last thing anybody who aspires to be somebody would allow themselves to be.
Sitting in the right kind of emptiness, stillness, silence? BORINGGGGGGGG...
And how are we going to know what we know without sitting in the right kind of emptiness, stillness silence?
Intuition doesn't have a chance with wanting in the room.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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People (parents, friends, family etc.) always asked me, how I do not get bored when I am simply sitting, doing nothing (I was doing THIS a lot since childhood). So, I have given quite some thought to what is ‘boring’. I have been telling people around me from a very early age, that I never ever get bored, perhaps annoyed and irritated when I am in a place surrounded by a crowd or people that I may feel like escaping (but that is not boredom?). I could sit in my room all alone for days, with nothing at all to occupy me, and I am the happiest, not bored that way! Boring is I think, for the ‘mind’ only which always likes to run outward and tries to keep busy…when our focus shifts from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ there is nothing that can bore us.
I am always reflecting on something, but not distracted by anything, focused on this here, this now and what’s what in this time and place. and what catches my eye, my attention, and invites inquiry, examination, exploration…The pursuit of intuition is a captivating use of quietude, in a feeling way more than in a thinking way.
People (parents, friends, family etc.) always asked me, how I do not get bored when I am simply sitting, doing nothing (I was doing THIS a lot since childhood). So, I have given quite some thought to what is ‘boring’. I have been telling people around me from a very early age, that I never ever get bored, perhaps annoyed and irritated when I am in a place surrounded by a crowd or people that I may feel like escaping (but that is not boredom?). I could sit in my room all alone for days, with nothing at all to occupy me, and I am the happiest, not bored that way! Boring is I think, for the ‘mind’ only which always likes to run outward and tries to keep busy…when our focus shifts from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ there is nothing that can bore us.
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I am always reflecting on something, but not distracted by anything, focused on this here, this now and what’s what in this time and place. and what catches my eye, my attention, and invites inquiry, examination, exploration…The pursuit of intuition is a captivating use of quietude, in a feeling way more than in a thinking way.
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