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Hmmm. I want to see your book manifest into the wider world LiSe...I'm quite sure that's part of your destiny!
Hmmm. I want to see your book manifest into the wider world LiSe...I'm quite sure that's part of your destiny!
I think destiny is naturally linked to enjoyment which in turn, has a thread to the soul. It is of one's true essence which is why the activity is so enjoyable - it's a vocation not one's job.
When you're living out your true nature, there's a quality of joy to it, even if it's tough going.
Yes. I think they go together, tough going and living true nature. With no resistance, we literally wither away. Even when there is no resistance, we have to sometimes create it, if only to be strong and supple enough to continue on.
http://www.tomgraves.org/weirdisaThe common factor in all those descriptions is that sense of weirdness: that there's something strange that is outside of our control - something which we can describe only in hints, suggestions or feelings. There's a specific feeling that we'd call weird, too: it's often described in terms such as "it sent shivers up my spine". Weird...
But like the word 'weird' itself, we can use that feeling to tell us when we're in the presence of the wyrd - when there's a momentary sense of 'everything, everywhere, everyone, everywhen' all coinciding together. It's a choice-point, when quite literally anything could happen: that's the feeling, of course, but that also is the reality - if we choose to make it so. It seems weird, perhaps, but we do already know what wyrd is: one of the most powerful ways to come to understand the nature of the wyrd - and the choices it offers us at such times - is simply to notice how and when we (and others) use the word 'weird' - and remember that 'weird' is a noun, not an adjective. The more we learn to notice that, the more chance we have of seeing the choices hidden within these weird moments.
Often the only real choice with wyrd is simply to notice it - notice that there's something happening that's wider than our habitual understanding of the world. That in itself is empowering: we grow, in knowledge, in empathy with others, and - we'd hope! - in wisdom. Yet at times there's far more at stake than that: in a brief moment of weirdness, our entire life can change - though sometimes it's very difficult to tell whether it was really for better or for worse...
That's the other key characteristic of 'real live weirdness': there's always a choice, but there's also always a twist - a sense that nothing is quite what it seems. It's what makes 'control' an impossible myth; it's what makes Murphy's Law the real law that it is. But it's also what creates new options, new possibilities, where before - with our 'normal' way of seeing the world - there seemed to be none.
So is 'weird' a noun - or simply an adjective? Your choice - but remember there's always that weird twist...!
Topal, if you have any images of your father's horn walking stick, I'd love to see one.
It gives a new twist, or perhaps a very old one, to 43.4, both from LiSe's "Speaking Staff" and being assisted by an animal that is far better equipped to climb around rough terrain than a human would naturally be. The staff carries strength, instinct and balance of a wild sheep or goat.
Oh, by the way, the building of a body of light was the goal of all martial artists in Japan and China, and they used the concept of Chi to reach that stage. The taoist version of the I Ching is also based on this. The story of Jesus esoterically is the story of the building of a body of light. That was the esoteric meaning of Jesus' saying, "touch me not for I have not yet ascended to my Father." He had not yet finished the process. I touch upon that subject in my book in Amazon kindle but don't go into it in depth. I understand your not wanting to believe in it. That is your choice. I support whatever choice people make.
Gene
That summarizes my own view on destiny. Destiny as the result of your choices. And choices as the result of who and what you really are. Not what you decide, that is just a tiny part of your choices. The big mass of your choices is the total of what you are and add to yourself."Whatever choice you make, that is your destiny."
Gene
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