Most folks pay little if any attention to their viewpoints about things. It’s more common to believe that our viewpoints are created by the words or actions of others rather than our viewpoints being at the root of cause.
We are each our own architect. We are for whom the bell tolls. By attaching blame, we play a game of flim flam with ourselves…a cruel, ageless and pitifully painful process that must be continuously overcome if we are to extract ourselves from the eternal turning of the wheel.
To change our viewpoint, it would be well to understand more of its meaning.
Our viewpoints can expound to all those around us, our family, friends, co-workers and acquaintances, who and what we are. Our viewpoints can direct our thoughts, our words and our actions. To the skillful controller, our viewpoints can be turned against us. They can be used to encourage us to think, say or act in a certain manner supportive of or in opposition to an opponent’s position.
Many believe their “views” say a lot about them. I say, having views about things, says a lot about them. The stronger their views, the more it says.
Having a viewpoint is similar to taking a snapshot. We take a picture of ourselves, another person or a thing or of a set of circumstances as we perceive them. It’s not unlike pulling over at a mountain road lookout and stopping to take a look at what’s beyond. We evaluate who, what and where we are by perceiving what surrounds us. This gives us perspective, some measure of where we’ve been and where we might go. Most of all, it affords us some perception of where we are on our path through life.
Perception is a variation of viewpoint. By changing our perception, our viewpoint changes with it. An open perception accommodates an uncluttered or clearer viewpoint. Messages move like emails with few or no attachments.
Most must perceive something before being able to form a viewpoint about it. To form a viewpoint about something which we cannot perceive tends to baffle the mind.
And so it is with Soul Travel. We can look out and beyond, but without perception, we can usually form very little understanding of it. Soul Travel, like our dreams, means little until we can establish ourselves there consciously. Learning to become aware of ourselves in our dreams can help us learn to Soul Travel. By becoming more conscious of consciousness, we can know ourselves better in our dreams and in our Soul Travels.
If you would like a snapshot of who and what you are…look to your viewpoints.
Caution should be exercised as constantly measuring and analyzing ourselves as some do, can be extremely counterproductive. Insightfulness is one thing but studying ourselves and constantly challenging our shortcomings in attempts toward improving who and what we are, is quite another.
We’re all here as indispensible and entirely unique aspects of our creator. What we have to offer each other and to God is wholly our own and unique throughout all the worlds of God or the entire macrocosm. Our essence is without measure, an unconditional spark of the infinite and all mighty.
We can learn who and what we are, by direct experience, traveling throughout the ethers and beyond. By direct first hand experience we know, not just imagine. Still, imagination is a great starting point. But first, we must choose. We must choose to know and choose to go. We can choose by taking that first step…then another…and another. Eventually we become fluid in all the worlds of God.
The biggest hurdle for many is fear. Like it or not, most of us fear the unknown. Indeed, to all but a few, the unknown is synonymous with fear. Is it any wonder we are so shy of change? When we embrace change, when we accept it as inevitable and an affirmative outcome of all our decisions, our very spirit changes and we begin the process of acceptance becoming one with ourselves.
DB
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Recall
The subject of responsibility came up recently in an email communiqué with an old soul mate. You know, one of those long time partners of life’s adventures that spans epochs of existence. Soul is ageless, beyond the reach of mind and memory – corporeal memory that is. Soul has its own unique form of remembrance. Mostly unaffected by time except through association with other life forms, Soul is free to create, to be. Sometimes we forget that. Just like we occasionally forget who we are and what we’re doing here.
My old friend’s words conjured up recollections of a lifetime long past where we shared a mutual respect for each other in another form. We watched each other’s backs in an age of greater necessity. Our mutual respect and responsibility for one another helped pull us both through on more than one difficult occasion. To quote my friend, “someone you’d choose to help you get down the river.”
Life’s adventures with a clear unfettered mind and an open heart fluently translate challenges into excitement and can fashion wholesale seasons of fun. It makes mundane magical and freeform. Everything comes more effortlessly as life evolves in meaningful expressions.
Becoming the best at who you are takes hard work, diligent thorough attentive and honest puissance, ever mindful of your goal – improving each day in every way. If you truly seek that which you love, you’ll feel no real toil in what you do. Every effort is from the heart. There’s exquisite artistry for all to see in all you do.
Don Bollinger
My old friend’s words conjured up recollections of a lifetime long past where we shared a mutual respect for each other in another form. We watched each other’s backs in an age of greater necessity. Our mutual respect and responsibility for one another helped pull us both through on more than one difficult occasion. To quote my friend, “someone you’d choose to help you get down the river.”
Life’s adventures with a clear unfettered mind and an open heart fluently translate challenges into excitement and can fashion wholesale seasons of fun. It makes mundane magical and freeform. Everything comes more effortlessly as life evolves in meaningful expressions.
Becoming the best at who you are takes hard work, diligent thorough attentive and honest puissance, ever mindful of your goal – improving each day in every way. If you truly seek that which you love, you’ll feel no real toil in what you do. Every effort is from the heart. There’s exquisite artistry for all to see in all you do.
Don Bollinger
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The World Is Full of Victims
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
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
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 an 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 an 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
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