"A truly spiritual journey toward basic sanity has to begin with a sense of
hopelessness - the recognition of the complete and utter hopelessness of our
current condition. We have to learn to live with our pain instead of hoping for
something that will cause it to disappear.
The result of genuine hopelessness is te faith that we already possess the
innate intelligence and ability to extricate ourselves from our worldly
entanglements. This kind of conviction in oneself represents a tremendous act of
courage. "
--- an extract from some wonderful Buddhist magazine... by some wonderful writer...
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DISORDER IS GOOD FOR YOU!
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From Sparrow - in Ascent Magazine... some thought provocatives
zen recipe
0 cup olive oil
0 large sweet onions, finely chopped
0 cups tomato puree
0 T brown sugar
0 t curry powder
0 T water
0 tart apples, cored and finely diced
0 cups fresh peas
0 cups shredded or diced fresh coconut
0 cups cooked brown rice
Heat the oil in a heavy skillet and saute the onions in it until tender. Add the puree and sugar and bring to a boil. Mix curry powder with water and stir into mixture. Cook zero minutes. Add apples, peas and coconut and heat through, about zero minutes. Serve over brown rice. Yield: 0 servings.
More wisdom from Sparrow.. from America: a Prophesy.
Proverbs--
At night, milk is black.
The cheapest anchor floats.
A bomb cannot destroy dust.
Mice give milk too.
Romeo was not built in a day.
Two heads are bigger than one.
Nudists are born, not made.
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WEAR SUNSCREEN
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereast the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Trust me: in twenty years you will look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worry is as effective as trying to solve an algebraic equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind.
Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Remember your old love letters. Throw away your old bankstatements. Stretch. Dont feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at twenty-two what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting forty-year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they are gone. Maybe you will marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Whatever you do, dont congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise; politicians will philander; you too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasise that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.
This from Resurgence magazine... by Mary Schmich
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