STALKING WOLF aka GRANDFATHER AND TOM BROWN:
To run away to and hide in the wilderness is to run from our Vision, our love, and our responsibility to the spirit that-moves-in-all-things - one person, one idea, one thought can turn the flock of society away from the destructive path of modern times. It is not a question as to whether we make a difference, for we all make a difference, each of us in our own way, it's the difference we make that is important. - 'we must walk in society and share our Vision or our Vision dies. a man not living his Vision is living death'- 'to think only of oneself and not have love and compassion for all of man is to deny part of self. man is part of the spirit-that-moves-in-all-things and when one part of the spirit is scik, then all are sick and when one part of the spirit dies then part of oneself dies' -
DAN MILLMAN AND SOCRATES:
There's no higher purpose than SERVICE - People want to tell you what to do and what's good for you instead of letting
you find your own answers inside your own being where you'll find what you really need - People are not their thoughts.
They think they are and that brings them saddness - Life is about applying the right LEVERAGE at the right place at the
right time - TAKE OUT THE TRASH = get rid of everything in your head that keeps you from being in the moment ! -
Find MEDITATION in every action even washing the dishes - Let go of all attachments even TALKING - Pay attention to the
SCARY MOMENTS - THERE ARE NO ORDINARY MOMENTS (every second is extraordinary) - You'll never be more than everybody else
just like you'll never be less - A warrior isn't about perfection or victory or invulnerability, it's about ABSOLUTE
VULNERABILITY this is the only true courage - The CRAP that's happened in our lives is the TRAINING -
You can embrace being a victim or you can embrace being a warrior IT'S YOUR CHOICE - A WARRIOR ACTS A FOOL REACTS -
The JOURNEY BRINGS US HAPPINESS NOT THE DESTINATION - LIFES 3 RULES: 1) PARADOX- life is a mystery don't waste time trying
to figure it out. 2)HUMOR: keep a sense of humor especially about yourself it is a strength beyond measure 3) CHANGE-
know that nothing stays the same - FEAR not money is the root of all evil - The hardest people to love are the ones who
need it the most - Sometimes focusing on your training may require giving up meat, intoxicants, and sex.
PEACE PILGRIM:
During spiritual growth the self-centered nature is the formidable enemy. It struggles fiercely to retain
its identity - steps toward inner peace are not taken in any specific order one persons's frist step may be another one's
last step, so just take whatever step is easiest for you and as you take a few steps it will become easier for you to take
a few more - no problem comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life. It is through solving these problems in
accordance with the highest light that inner growth is attained - Those who do unloving things hurt themselves. -
. . .if i was doing something that i knew i shouldn't be doing I stopped doing it and always made a quick relingquishment.
That's the easy way. Tapering off is long and hard! And if i was not doing something that I knew I should be doing, I got
busy on that. It took the living quite a while to catch up with the believing, but of course it can, and now if I believe
something, I LIVE IT - I was filled with runaway enthusiasm to help others . . .when I solved so many problems for others I
was depriving them of the spiritual growth problem-solving brings. If you do not know where you fit walk among the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent and wonderful insights will come to you - When love fills your life all limitations are gone. - Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept MORE than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens. - I realized white flour and sugar are bad . . .meat is a living creature and shouldn't be eaten. . . all processed foods are bad . . .even most water out of the tap is a chemical cocktail. i suggest bottled or DISTILLED water. - (more to come)
ALAN WATTS:
The reason angels can fly is that they take life lightly - Instead of seeking God allow yourself to
be sought - Inner emptiness is not a void to be filled with comforts; it is a window to be looked through for the revelation
of preventing us from clinging to ourselves and letting go and finding God - Hermits come to realize they're connected to everything - reality is a Rorschach ink-blot - faith is a state of openness or trust - How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god - So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another - The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention - The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance - Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth - You and i are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean - (more to come)
GANDHI:
Be and practice the change you want to see in the world - First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind - The weak can't forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - i suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people - i believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers - a small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history - We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought word and deed, but we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong . . . - Anger and intolerence are the enemies of correct understanding - Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony - an ounce of practice is worth a ton of preaching - A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the perogative of the brave -Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants - The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small vocie of conscience - Peace is it's own reward - Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will - If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children - Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to error - It is easy to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true . . . - OBJECT TO VIOLENCE because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent - The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others - Nearly everything we do is of no importance but it is important that we do it - We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books - (more to come)
BOB INTERPRETATIONs:
Any SERVICE is good even an unnecessary one ! be inventive make-up your own - If you can't say something nice, disappear - DEATH = SWEET RELIEF ! - VISION QUEST from a park bench - Recycle Everything Even Your Broken Heart - Making a piece of art from an artistic vision is just a process of problem solving - Fight the urge to self discourage - The more i do the more i have to undo - Keeping my place looking like the aftermath of Katrina keeps me empathetic - I may be a failure at this point in my life, giving up validates it, makes it so - Trios do better triage - ENVIRONMENTALISM IS THE RELIGION - i'M A QUINQUagenerian quinessential hystarian - Bobfenger= not stumped just a little short handed - When you get really sick in America it's a good time to take a trip Abroad - We're all going GREEN; soylent green - Call religions what they are: a family specialty club like Karate, kwanis, boy and girl scouts etc etc - Have you ever noticed how the same endorfins are aroused in the brain when talking good or gossiping bad. my heart ultimatly tells me what's right but it's a foot in the mouth away from my brain.