For years I wandered around drinking myself silly and feeling sorry for poor little ole me.
The world is full of victims. What we are is what we choose to be. We're our own architect. We're the sum total of our every thought, our every word, our every action, every moment we been alive.
Life has lots of followers and a few good leaders but precious few truly superlative teachers.
We’re all here to help each other. Like it or not, we’re all students and teachers. We’re here for one another as much as for ourselves.
Learning to accept others is part of the plan. We can fight it or we can allow it. It’s up to us…everything is.
At the end of the day the sun sets. But it will rise again and so will we.
We have a choice. We can choose to learn and rise above…or not.
Only time separates our knowledge of who and what we are. As time unfolds, so do we…wiser and more aware of who and what we really are.
On thing rises (exists) above all else. It’s what all life seeks in all its different ways. When everything is spent…when all is tried and failed…when we finally give up, give in and allow...there is love…waiting for us. It’s been there all the time, patient and caring, expecting us at any moment to accept who we really are. It will happen. It’s only a matter of time. Love can wait us out.
Don
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
One Act of Kindness
Among my many treasured friends are some from counties often called “under developed”. Still, the love I sense from many of them cannot be described as anything less than highly spiritually evolved.
I find it intriguing how advanced we sometimes see ourselves in our so-called “highly developed” or “technologically advanced” parts of the world, when there are so many “under developed” or “less civilized” cultures where it is considered a very serious infraction or breech of behavior to know about something good or be aware that something exists that could potentially benefit something or some one and NOT tell them about it or make them aware of it somehow.
It’s easy these days to get caught up in the act of self preservation. When times are tough, everything in life seems more difficult. All the things we think we need for survival run low or suddenly seem in short supply. We hold on firmly to “THINGS”, not sure why. Yet in many countries where self-preservation is always day-to-day, serving and protecting abounds.
To the anxious mind, the plate is full. The more we focus, the more it grows. Only fear may be gathered from the anxious mind. Nothing can be added to a plate that’s full, it simply falls away.
Many of us focus on ourselves, less and less on others…even to those closest. It’s not that we no longer care…of course we do. We just have a whole lot on our minds. It’s so much easier to give when we have more, than when we have less.
There is a old saying: “Those that share without thinking, receive without asking.”
Planning = Planning
Beginning = Beginning
Thinking About Doing = Thinking About Doing
Doing = Doing
For me, as always = It is what it is
DB
I find it intriguing how advanced we sometimes see ourselves in our so-called “highly developed” or “technologically advanced” parts of the world, when there are so many “under developed” or “less civilized” cultures where it is considered a very serious infraction or breech of behavior to know about something good or be aware that something exists that could potentially benefit something or some one and NOT tell them about it or make them aware of it somehow.
It’s easy these days to get caught up in the act of self preservation. When times are tough, everything in life seems more difficult. All the things we think we need for survival run low or suddenly seem in short supply. We hold on firmly to “THINGS”, not sure why. Yet in many countries where self-preservation is always day-to-day, serving and protecting abounds.
To the anxious mind, the plate is full. The more we focus, the more it grows. Only fear may be gathered from the anxious mind. Nothing can be added to a plate that’s full, it simply falls away.
Many of us focus on ourselves, less and less on others…even to those closest. It’s not that we no longer care…of course we do. We just have a whole lot on our minds. It’s so much easier to give when we have more, than when we have less.
There is a old saying: “Those that share without thinking, receive without asking.”
Planning = Planning
Beginning = Beginning
Thinking About Doing = Thinking About Doing
Doing = Doing
For me, as always = It is what it is
DB
Monday, May 18, 2009
Balance
There is an old saying: “As above, so below”
Everything has a reason – everything.
Everything is in balance. Nothing is where it is not suppose to be.
Every disease has a cure, every right, a wrong.
For every thing, there is an equal and opposite, including thoughts, words and actions…everything.
Without opposites for comparison, we have difficulty understanding limits or defining things. Without limits, most of us are like loose cannons, a danger to ourselves and others.
When we wander outside the realm of balance, we look at things as if they are wrong or don’t belong.
When we form an opinion for or against a thing or someone, we create a bond with it, attached to the discovery of the truth of it.
Time and space separates all things. Without (beyond) time and space there are no limits. The mind exists within time and space. The mind has great difficulty grasping existence outside of time and space. The mind naturally assumes there can be no existence outside the realm of time and space.
The answer is always in surrender. To become one with yourself is to let go and allow. Once you are free from the grip of holding on, you realize the perfection of the moment. The answer always exists in the problem. The beginning and ending co-exist with only the illusion of time separating them.
To find the truth of yourself, you need only look at yourself with the eyes of a child.
Everything has a reason – everything.
Everything is in balance. Nothing is where it is not suppose to be.
Every disease has a cure, every right, a wrong.
For every thing, there is an equal and opposite, including thoughts, words and actions…everything.
Without opposites for comparison, we have difficulty understanding limits or defining things. Without limits, most of us are like loose cannons, a danger to ourselves and others.
When we wander outside the realm of balance, we look at things as if they are wrong or don’t belong.
When we form an opinion for or against a thing or someone, we create a bond with it, attached to the discovery of the truth of it.
Time and space separates all things. Without (beyond) time and space there are no limits. The mind exists within time and space. The mind has great difficulty grasping existence outside of time and space. The mind naturally assumes there can be no existence outside the realm of time and space.
The answer is always in surrender. To become one with yourself is to let go and allow. Once you are free from the grip of holding on, you realize the perfection of the moment. The answer always exists in the problem. The beginning and ending co-exist with only the illusion of time separating them.
To find the truth of yourself, you need only look at yourself with the eyes of a child.
Friday, February 27, 2009
A Child of God Living on the Razor's Edge
More than ever now, I truly feel like a child of God living on the Razor’s Edge.
With all the economic woes going around these days, it boosts my spirits to see the compassion arising from the ever expanding hearts of so many. We’re all children of God – each and every creature. We need only look into the eyes of another living thing to see God staring back at us. Recognizing the loving spirit there that sustains us and all life everywhere, grips the humble heart at once with honest empathy.
The troubles of countless souls, just like me, created out of greed, ignorance and neglect, have come to collect in part or in full. The spiritual cleansing taking place these days is like a giant wind, refreshing and purifying the stale air we’ve all collected here. Still, what pains the heart ultimately encourages compassion, sensitivity and kindness.
Now each moment swells with loving gestures, blossoming souls fill the brave new air with welcome and engaging indulgence. It’s with a truly grateful heart that I surrender to the will of spirit allowing it to carry me where I need to be. I for one am happy in the moment living on the razor’s edge.
Don Bollinger
With all the economic woes going around these days, it boosts my spirits to see the compassion arising from the ever expanding hearts of so many. We’re all children of God – each and every creature. We need only look into the eyes of another living thing to see God staring back at us. Recognizing the loving spirit there that sustains us and all life everywhere, grips the humble heart at once with honest empathy.
The troubles of countless souls, just like me, created out of greed, ignorance and neglect, have come to collect in part or in full. The spiritual cleansing taking place these days is like a giant wind, refreshing and purifying the stale air we’ve all collected here. Still, what pains the heart ultimately encourages compassion, sensitivity and kindness.
Now each moment swells with loving gestures, blossoming souls fill the brave new air with welcome and engaging indulgence. It’s with a truly grateful heart that I surrender to the will of spirit allowing it to carry me where I need to be. I for one am happy in the moment living on the razor’s edge.
Don Bollinger
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
So, What Is Truth?
The truth is not simple, nor is it complicated.
The truth isn’t ugly or beautiful.
The truth is neither good nor bad.
It isn’t hard or easy.
The truth is not profound or weighty,
but neither is it superfluous or unnecessary
The Truth just is.
The Truth is what WE perceive it is.
The Truth is what EACH OF US perceives it to be
+*/d1 `
The truth only seems one way or another because of perception.
When we change our perception we change our viewpoint.
Truth doesn’t change.
Truth never changes -- we do.
DB
The truth isn’t ugly or beautiful.
The truth is neither good nor bad.
It isn’t hard or easy.
The truth is not profound or weighty,
but neither is it superfluous or unnecessary
The Truth just is.
The Truth is what WE perceive it is.
The Truth is what EACH OF US perceives it to be
+*/d1 `
The truth only seems one way or another because of perception.
When we change our perception we change our viewpoint.
Truth doesn’t change.
Truth never changes -- we do.
DB
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Acceptance
I’ve been remiss adding to my blog of late. Attitudes and activities have drawn my attentions elsewhere.
Wow! So much has happened in the past 9 months. Just when you think things can’t get worse – Voila!
So much has been said about tough times making you stronger…and so it is. If we learn just one important thing from periods like these, are they not worth it? We’re in this together. It’s pointless pointing to the obvious and in particular assigning blame. Some are suffering more than others, but most have taken a gut shot of one sort or another.
We can all learn from helping each other. Every time someone provides a service or helps someone else, all of us are helped somehow. No matter our relationship with our fellow beings, we need only look to find love. The act of seeking with an open heart raises our consciousness to accept the love that’s there. All life exists on love…it’s always there. Accepting is the first step to raising ones consciousness. It is said that one’s level of awareness can be measured by ones level of acceptance.
DB
Wow! So much has happened in the past 9 months. Just when you think things can’t get worse – Voila!
So much has been said about tough times making you stronger…and so it is. If we learn just one important thing from periods like these, are they not worth it? We’re in this together. It’s pointless pointing to the obvious and in particular assigning blame. Some are suffering more than others, but most have taken a gut shot of one sort or another.
We can all learn from helping each other. Every time someone provides a service or helps someone else, all of us are helped somehow. No matter our relationship with our fellow beings, we need only look to find love. The act of seeking with an open heart raises our consciousness to accept the love that’s there. All life exists on love…it’s always there. Accepting is the first step to raising ones consciousness. It is said that one’s level of awareness can be measured by ones level of acceptance.
DB
Friday, May 30, 2008
Viewpoint
The emergence or perception of good from bad can usually be traced directly to one’s viewpoint, and as it turns out, is inevitable. Each incident may be viewed innumerable ways. Each of us is different from the other.
There is symmetry to cause. Every life form is the real time product of all its experiences. The origination of a thing contains within its integral core, its ending. That which is without beginning or end can be called the architect of cause but not a thing.
To focus on a thing gives it life. Ultimately we go where we place our attention. Often we realize we’re there when we least expect it.
There are many names for soul. All life rightfully expresses itself as it sees fit.
I say our problems are love’s chrysalis.
DB
There is symmetry to cause. Every life form is the real time product of all its experiences. The origination of a thing contains within its integral core, its ending. That which is without beginning or end can be called the architect of cause but not a thing.
To focus on a thing gives it life. Ultimately we go where we place our attention. Often we realize we’re there when we least expect it.
There are many names for soul. All life rightfully expresses itself as it sees fit.
I say our problems are love’s chrysalis.
DB
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