Friends | tstarr8481: Great post ! ..... 5 years ago • Report 0 Wild Cloud: “We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.” ― Alan Wilson Watts Wild Cloud: Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. Yehuda Berg auspicious_soup: Not questioning the fact that word contain much power. But would you say they are more powerful than thoughts which are what all of our experiences, actions, reactions, plans, dreams and hopes are born from, including our thoughts which are basically our thoughts anyway merely communicating out loud? Besides surely all this falls well short of the power of LOVE. Doesn’t even feel right attempting to try! Wild Cloud: You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith. Alan Watts Wild Cloud: Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes. – Paramahansa Yogananda Wild Cloud: “There are, then, two ways of understanding an experience. The first is to compare it with the memories of other experiences, and so to name and define it. This is to interpret it in accordance with the dead and the past. The second is to be aware of it as it is, as when, in the intensity of joy, we forget past and future, let the present be all, and thus do not even stop to think, “I am happy.” ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity Wild Cloud: “What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.” ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety Wild Cloud: “Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.” ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are View all 9 posts Source_: Both of the videos were so simplistic and directly gave visuals with little explanation. That was a wonder all on its own! I love how it only let the spiral go to 144, i work often with that number and many concepts which revolve around it, which is 9 when you add the numbers (sure the spiral does surpass 144, but its still a symbol in this video that screams "This is a good sign" Thanks Tstar! View all 5 posts conklingdavid6: The tree of Life In the Norse religion it was knowed As the Yggdrasil tree. But also Knowed in Africa as the Baobab tree, which is a form of Ash tree. 😇 Wild Cloud: If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! Wild Cloud: Invictus BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. View all 5 posts BalanceOfTruths: I can not belive i found this, again , i had this pic years ago and made it with a few changes as a tattoo across my back x |