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bluegreen17) wrote2003-05-18 01:21 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-05-18 01:21 pm
13 secrets
in response to a 'homework assignment' from astrologer rob brezny, asking for each person's 13 secrets of the universe, this from LITCRITTER:
At the end of last summer, my partner abandoned me in the jungle. We'd worked together for years, and this was the first time she'd ever done anything like this, but I had to trust that she was on a mission of the gravest importance. In the meantime,
I had my own mission to complete. I can't give details, but before I could get out of the castle, I had to wrestle this crocodile, and I found myself in a position to examine the inside of his mouth more closely than I would have liked. Underneath a false tooth, I found a microfilm capsule. When I got back to the States, and was able to get a look at what I'd found, this is what I found myself looking at:
1. You're in charge. This is your life, and you determine its course.
2. You're not in charge. What happens today is the result of decisions made before you were born, and completely beyond your control.
3. About the past: You did the best you could do under the circumstances, and so did everyone else. Let go and move on.
4. About the future: You can do better. Except when you can't.
5. About the present: The past is a fiction; the future is science fiction. The only thing that is real is a tiny sliver of time so infinitesimally small that it doesn't, technically speaking, exist either.
6. Life is supposed to be easy. Living is an improvisational art; you've got to let it flow.
7. Life is supposed to be hard. Sometimes there is unspeakable pain. There is grief, there is loss, there is anguish and dismay. And when these bad things land on your doorstep, you either invite them in for tea and see what they have to say for themselves, or you sit inside, afraid to go out your own door. But the sooner you invite them in, the sooner you can go out to play.
8. It is not true that 'things happen for a reason.' Actually, things just happen. Our job as humans is to find a reason, or to make one. Our brains are hard-wired to see pictures in the fire, and there is no better instrument than the human soul for stitching silver linings into thunderclouds.
9. Don't let yourself be trapped into being who you used to be if that's not who you are anymore.
10. Treat every single being you encounter with respect, kindness, and compassion. Include yourself on that list.
11. Don't make promises you can't keep. Do what you say you will do, when you say you're going to do it, and if for some reason you can't, apologize. If you don't know the answer, admit it. Follow these three rules, and you will keep more friends than you lose. And you'll do well at work, too, if that matters to you.
12. Ask people questions.
13. Paradox is merely Hegelian dialectic removed from its usual temporal context, and is therefore to be embraced rather than feared.
At the end of last summer, my partner abandoned me in the jungle. We'd worked together for years, and this was the first time she'd ever done anything like this, but I had to trust that she was on a mission of the gravest importance. In the meantime,
I had my own mission to complete. I can't give details, but before I could get out of the castle, I had to wrestle this crocodile, and I found myself in a position to examine the inside of his mouth more closely than I would have liked. Underneath a false tooth, I found a microfilm capsule. When I got back to the States, and was able to get a look at what I'd found, this is what I found myself looking at:
1. You're in charge. This is your life, and you determine its course.
2. You're not in charge. What happens today is the result of decisions made before you were born, and completely beyond your control.
3. About the past: You did the best you could do under the circumstances, and so did everyone else. Let go and move on.
4. About the future: You can do better. Except when you can't.
5. About the present: The past is a fiction; the future is science fiction. The only thing that is real is a tiny sliver of time so infinitesimally small that it doesn't, technically speaking, exist either.
6. Life is supposed to be easy. Living is an improvisational art; you've got to let it flow.
7. Life is supposed to be hard. Sometimes there is unspeakable pain. There is grief, there is loss, there is anguish and dismay. And when these bad things land on your doorstep, you either invite them in for tea and see what they have to say for themselves, or you sit inside, afraid to go out your own door. But the sooner you invite them in, the sooner you can go out to play.
8. It is not true that 'things happen for a reason.' Actually, things just happen. Our job as humans is to find a reason, or to make one. Our brains are hard-wired to see pictures in the fire, and there is no better instrument than the human soul for stitching silver linings into thunderclouds.
9. Don't let yourself be trapped into being who you used to be if that's not who you are anymore.
10. Treat every single being you encounter with respect, kindness, and compassion. Include yourself on that list.
11. Don't make promises you can't keep. Do what you say you will do, when you say you're going to do it, and if for some reason you can't, apologize. If you don't know the answer, admit it. Follow these three rules, and you will keep more friends than you lose. And you'll do well at work, too, if that matters to you.
12. Ask people questions.
13. Paradox is merely Hegelian dialectic removed from its usual temporal context, and is therefore to be embraced rather than feared.
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Im glad you posted that. I really needed to read that right now.
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something good for both of us!
: )
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