Here and Now...What's Happening?

[donk]

Here and nows slip by quicker by the day....superfast:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G6zPvkP5uVI

All hail King Neptune and his water-breathers

[RunningDeer]

If We Lived By These 10 Great Quotes The World Would Change

[by Andrew Martin]

1.
” Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”. – Albert Einstein

2.
“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3.
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” – Lao Tzu

4.
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” – Mahatma Gandhi

5.
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha

6.
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Teresa

7.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

8.
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

9.
“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.” – Lao Tzu

10.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

+ one more not from article: From the Oracle in the 'Matrix': “You’ve not come here to make the choice. You’ve already made the choice. What you’ve come here to do is understand why you made the choice.”

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[ulli]

Poor doctors who have to wear those hazmat suits while treating Ebola patients....


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[ulli]

Being in some teenage nowhere land and listening to this music whilst playing a video game...
and recovering from disappointment in yet another failed attempt to save some person from themselves.
As of now this saviour complex will be directed inwards ONLY.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJQHjy9p_rk

[Flash]

Posted by ulli (here)
Being in some teenage nowhere land and listening to this music whilst playing a video game...
and recovering from disappointment in yet another failed attempt to save some person from themselves.
As of now this saviour complex will be directed inwards ONLY.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJQHjy9p_rk

you may not know what is the real impact on others of your savior complex. Sometimes the impact shows up years later, and probably sometimes in other lifetimes. Stretching a hand will, in my idea, always have an impact somewhere, as long as it is pretty much genuine help. Sometimes it is into another observer's eye that the impact occurs. Maybe in my eyes today, who knows.

Thanks for helping Ulli

[donk]

I’ve been reading Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, good read so far, I thought the exchange between Jill upon meeting the hedonistic Doctor Jubal was synchronistic (in light of the threads that have been popping up), and particularly this piece:

“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw."

[Violet]

Ulli, there's two of us there. Doctor Jubal has a good point when he suggests that some people don't value the help that in reality they need so much, but they are oblivious...and sometimes outright arrogant.

Then what is our task on earth as people of good intentions? How much should one try? How far do we go before we can find peace in the decision to...stop.

[ulli]

Posted by Violet (here)
Ulli, there's two of us there. Doctor Jubal has a good point when he suggests that some people don't value the help that in reality they need so much, but they are oblivious...and sometimes outright arrogant.

Then what is our task on earth as people of good intentions? How much should one try? How far do we go before we can find peace in the decision to...stop.

Thanks, Violet. There are no clear rules...sometimes it works out and at other times it doesn't.
And also, as Flash mentioned, sometimes the results don't appear until years or lifetimes later.
This, too, shall pass, right, Nora? (The sooner the better)

[eaglespirit]

...and some times or many times for that matter, as has been already shared in ways and is already known but simply wants to be brought out.
When we walk into something with good intentions solely and it is not accepted or shrugged (for whatever reasons by the party or parties) and we get 'instructed' as to what we do not know and how we are screwing up from the party(s) we are engaging with selflessness, silence becomes golden...just walking away and letting go and let the good we had intended evolve all by itself...and it will if it was meant to be for a higher purpose, always, imho!

Love, Love, Love : ) : ) : )

[araucaria]

Interesting discussion. I think the notion of service itself is problematic, both from the giving and the receiving end. I wouldn’t feel comfortable either washing your feet or having you wash mine – but I will take your coat if you come for dinner, make you comfortable in every way and ‘serve’ you a meal. So what’s the difference between service and hospitality? It’s about not standing on ceremony, and ultimately rejecting any traces of reptilian values of class, hierarchy and ritual. To serve is to accept subservience, and to that extent to say ‘I will not be served’ is to reject subservience. So the question is, what does Heinlein’s doctor do when he stops serving others? Presumably he does not start having them serve him.

Hospitality soon levels out into guests giving a helping hand and you would do the same when invited to their place; the whole situation simply melts into living together in harmony and equality, where one’s greater needs and contributions are also pooled in this manner. In other words, the atmosphere is created whereby administering to the needs of all, self included, becomes no big deal, a mere matter of course. Phrases like ‘organized charity’ or ‘aid workers’ are so many oxymorons.

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5yRgiXh2fP4

[araucaria]

Thanks Wind. And I never get used to overcast skies. It seems such a waste.

[Wind]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Thanks Wind. And I never get used to overcast skies. It seems such a waste.

My pleasure. The weather always reflects my mood... Or is it vice versa? Nothing but clear skies and hot weather during July and August in here, when most of June was unusually rainy and cold like the late autumn. It just rained, rained and rained. Better sleep then I had, but the mood was constantly... Grey. "It can't rain all the time", I thought. The weather surely seems to have a mind of it's own.

[eaglespirit]

The Truth IS Truly Taking on a Higher Life here...BIG Time Now...Our Time Now,
Here and Now Helping One Another See through the veil once and for all...

This(by Santos) has been out there for a while...but it is oh so powerful to hear it out in the open...
may each of Us find our own path, ever so strongly now, to bring the Truth 'out in the open' to All that will listen!

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post862079

[donk]

It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be so much fun.

-Talking Heads (David Byrne?)

[Robin]

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)
I'm currently sitting in the train station getting ready to board. On my way here I was speeding down rural Missouri roads and hit a wild turkey with my car. My windshield is shattered and the top of my car bent. I feel miserable for killing such a beautiful animal...all because I was rushing and not being mindful.

Just thought I'd share...mindfulness is a good thing to practice in all avenues of life. This poor turkey is now a victim of my anxiety of being late. I'm going to visit my Lady in California...being late would have been a no-no!

If anybody would like to see what hitting a 30+ pound male wild Turkey while driving 65 mph down a rural Missouri road looks like...here you go:

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The windshield is completely caved in and the roof of the car is bent! Thankfully it is a special type of glass...though there are some glass shards that hit me when it happened...

To continue my wild turkey saga, I have officially had my car towed to the nearest scrap-yard. While it has been sitting, mice have crawled in the engine and chewed up many of the wires. The cost to fix this car would be more than it is worth. Wild Turkeys, mice....what is Mother Nature trying to tell me?

Yesterday, I drove the farm's shared car to the scrap-yard to get some belongings out of my car and finalize paperwork. On my way back to the farm, I nearly hit ANOTHER TURKEY!! This fellow was on the side of the road and decided to fly right in the middle of the road in front of my car just like the previous one. This time I was driving a bit slower and wasn't in a hurry, so I swerved to the right-hand side into the ditch. I nearly hit the turkey, but thankfully, this time I missed and didn't ruin another car.

What can the universe possibly be telling me with the Wild Turkey totem? This is starting to get ridiculous.

[PurpleLama]

In my medicine deck, Turkey is Give-Away. It is about giving oneself to the greater good.

Speaking of service, IIRC Jubal Harshaw was a reformed attorney turned fiction writer, to put the quote from donk into context a little more, that book is on my read-it-multiple-times list.

[ulli]

The turkey story cheered me up. Thanks for missing this one.

Here is the first manifestation of my new cheery self:

[ulli]

time to reverse the sequence (at least)

[ulli]

Michael Lutin is so funny.
Here is how he reminds us that Mars is now in Scorpio