Changes….
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reflecting lately on changes and illusions and all that happens as we age (even if we don’t grow up), all that happens as we grow and change and how much of life is how we see it. In the pic above, do you see two old folks, do you see the vase, do you see the woman coming through the doorway, do you see the young people? It all changes as your viewpoint changes. So much...
Read MoreThe Mountain Remains…
I am always with all beings, I abandon no one. And however great your inner darkness, you are never separate from Me. Let your thoughts flow past you calmly. Keep Me near, at every moment. Trust Me with your life, because I Am you, more than you yourself are… ~~~Bhagavad Gita I spent the last few days with my parental units, in a little town in Southeast Missouri. This is an area I blogged about last week when I was thinking of my grandmother and my memories of smells, heaven and so on. Lest I sound too romantic, the other reality is that this area located in the buckle of the...
Read MoreObject Impermanence
Today I am thinking of Jean Piaget and his theory about object permanence. As you may remember from your college psych 101 class, Jean Piaget theorized that the role of maturation was instrumental in a child’s increasing capacity to understand their world. Put another way, we cannot undertake certain tasks until we are psychologically mature enough to do so. For those of you who didn’t make it to class that day, or had more sense than to major in psych and minor in Eastern philosophy, here’s the bottom line: Jean Piaget had a bazillion theories about the cognitive...
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