On the Road with Connie & Glen: It's a Circular Flow

Blue Highways; A Journey Into America by William Least Heat Moon

As a man is, so he sees. -- William Blake

"You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going."

--- Abraham

" I felt for the first time at rest. Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention... any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get... a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him."

"It was cold and drizzling again. 'Weather to give a man the weary dismals,' Watt grumbled. 'Where you headed from here?'... I thought for a moment,'I don't know.'... 'Cain't get lost then.' Watt pronounced with a grin."

“the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people”

"All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare."

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau-

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to paying attention than to any other talent." -Isaac Newton

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke -

I cannot tell how the truth may be,
I tell the tale as told to me.
- A Welsh Story Teller

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and
never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
-
Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot -

Eat, Pray, Love

"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather, if you are fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You must fight for it, insist upon it and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly."

"redream your dream

do what you fear
hear what you feel
go where you care
live to be real
forget yourself
forgo your scheme
redeem the truth
redream your dream"

Patrick Anderson, Saint Simons Island

"Change and growth take place when a person risks himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life" Herbert Otto

Don't just do something... sit there!

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it."--Albert Einstein

You can't stop the river, but you can learn to float.

"Simplify, simplify, simplify..." Henry David Thoreau

"Too many people spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." Will Rogers

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." Bertrand Russell

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin

"Artists of Life"- make their own terms with society; accept the responsibility to create the life they will lead. Calvin Wilson

“The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.” Marshall McLuhan

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon

You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings

"All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you."~ Gandalf

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying

from Erin

"it is not "if" we will lose the things we love, it is "when." With some, the loss comes in a major catastrophic event. For most, love is surrendered one piece at a time... first childhood, a promising romance, the passing of a loved one, and finally a child who leaves home. but as we lose, can we not gain a deep knowledge that in the presence of grace, love is eternal."

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Thornton Wilder

Nature is saturated with deity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Work is the curse of the drinking class"
Oscar Wilde

"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankel

"Remember the story of the little creature at the beginning of Illusions? He let go of clinging to the bottom of the stream, was bashed around a bit, but then was in the flow of the current. As he floated above the other little creatures downstream, who had warned him not to let go, they looked up and said, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, comes to save us all!"

And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."

Richard Bach

"This is the time for us to not try to cling to the old, or to swim upstream, but rather to surf the waves."

Winter Robinson

"The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water."

And I say, "See who is in there with you and celebrate. . ."

"We are the ones we have been waiting for."

Hopi Elder

"Except for the point, the stillpoint,
There would be no dance,
And there is only the dance."

~ T.S. Eliot

Wislawa Symborska says: “The joy of writing./ A chance to make things stay./ A revenge of a mortal hand.”

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Take your walk-about before you end up walker bound.."
-Steve Shea

from Cousin Leslie

"It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows."

-Epictetus (A.D. 55? - 135?)

Travel is a good thing; it stimulates the imagination. Everything else is a snare and a delusion. Our own journey is entirely imaginative. Therein lies its strength.

It leads from life to death. Men, beasts, cities, everything in it is imaginary. It’s a novel , only a made-up story.

The dictionary says so and it’s never wrong. Besides, everyone can go and do likewise. Shut your eyes, that’s all that is necessary.

There you have life seen from the other side.

Louis-Ferdinand

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the fool in me...

"I must learn to love the fool in me... the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries... It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility and dignity... but for my fool.
Theodore I. Rubin, MD

"The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator."
Louis Pasteur

There seems to be no incompatibility between faith and science (say no conflict between evolution and religion): for them, He is fate –She incorporates evolution. It is the most abstract concept, allowing no possible anthropomorphic analogy.
Maimonides

Epistemological consequence: randomness is what you don’t know ما غاب عنك,
...nothing else.
Maimonides

You intended to come forth into the physical realm of contrast to define what is wanted, to connect with the Energy that creates worlds, and to flow it toward your objects of attention, not because the objects of attention are important — but because the act of flowing is essential to life.
Abraham

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides

"Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified."
Neville

Everything exists for joy. There is not one other reason for life than joy. We've got nothing to prove to anyone, because nobody other than All-That-Is is watching. In other words, we're not trying to get brownie points from some other galaxy. We're not trying to get someplace else; we're not trying to get it done, because there is no ending—we cannot get it done. Everything exists for the purpose of joy in the moment.

--- Abraham

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

-Ralph Hodgson (1871 - 1962)

"Love is indivisible. If you give any, you must give all."

An old man once said, "There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and all the people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.
-Paul Eider

On the Road with Connie & Glen

Friday, December 9, 2011

It's a Circular Flow

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