Is there a "quote" thread yet???

[WILDCAT]

I see now there are several threads on the same "topics"...

"It's not what people call ya, it's what you answer to!"


--Madea!

[WILDCAT]

Writing Lessons:

There are... still... so many books I want to read.. and reread...

There are... still... so many places I want to travel.. to...

There are... still... foods I want to eat... and drinks I want to sample...

There are... blankets to lie upon or under...

There are... pillows upon which to prop my books or my head...

I definitely want to rocket to outer space... I also want to explore inner space...

I know no one ever wished they had been meaner...

Or hated more...

Or spent more hours away from people they loved...

I know that life is interesting and you can never go wrong Being interested.

If I were giving advice I would say: Sing
People who sing to themselves
People who make variations on songs they know
People who teach songs to other people
These are the people other people want to be with

and that will let you be a good writer
Because

There are... still... so many ideas to conceive

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NIKKI GIOVANNI

[Spirit Dancer]

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned
to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned
to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being
accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Don Miguel Ruiz




What another would have
done as well as you, do not
do it. What another would
have said as well as you,
do not say it; what another
would have written as well,
do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and
thus make yourself
indispensable.

Andre Gide

[Lady Pamela]

Seth on the Vibratory Nature of Existence

"Now the behavior of atoms and molecules is involved here, for again

these are only present within your universe during certain stages.

Their activity is perceived only during the range of particular

vibratory rhythms.

When your scientists examine them for example, they do not examine the

nature, say, of an atom.

They only explore the characteristics of an atom as it acts or shows

itself within your

system.

Its greater reality completely escapes them.

You understand that there are spectrums of light.

So are there spectrums of matter.

Your system of physical reality is not dense in comparison with some

others.

The dimensions that you give to physical matter barely begin to hint at

the varieties of dimensions possible.

Some systems are far heavier or lighter than your own, though this may

not involve weight in the terms with which you are familiar.

Probable actions emerge, then, into matter systems quite as valid as

your own, and quite as consistent.

You are used to thinking in single line thoughts, so you think of events

that you know as complete things or actions, not realizing that what you

perceive is but a

fraction of their entire multidimensional existence.

In greater terms, it is impossible to separate one physical event from

the probable events, for these are all dimensions of one action.

It is basically impossible to separate the "you" that you know from the

probable you's of which you are unaware, for the same reasons.

There are always inner pathways, however, leading between probable

events;

since all of them are manifestations of an act in its becoming, then the

dimensions between these are illusions.

The physical brain alone cannot pick up these connections with any great

success.

The mind, which is the inner counterpart of the brain, can at times

perceive the far greater dimensions of any given event

through a burst of sudden intuition or comprehension that cannot be

adequately described on a verbal level.

As I have said frequently, time as you think of it does not exist, yet

in your terms, time's true nature could be understood if the basic

nature of the atom was ever made known to you.

In one way, an atom could be compared to a microsecond.

It seems as if an atom "exists" steadily for a certain amount of time.

Instead it phases in and out, so to speak.

It fluctuates in a highly predictable pattern and rhythm.

It can be perceived within your system only at certain points in this

fluctuation, so it seems to scientists that the atom is steadily

present.

They are not aware of any gaps of absence as far as the atom is

concerned.

In those periods of nonphysical projection, the off periods of

fluctuation, the atoms "appear" in another system of reality.

In that system they are perceived in what are "on" points of

fluctuation, and in that system also then the atoms (seem to) appear

steadily.

There are many such points of fluctuation, but your system of course is

not aware of them, nor of the ultimate actions, universes, and systems

that exist within them.

Now the same sort of behavior occurs on a deep, basic, secret, and

unexplored psychological level.

The physically oriented consciousness, responding to one phase of the

atom's activity, comes alive and awake to its particular existence, but

in between are other fluctuations in which consciousness is focused upon

entirely different systems of reality; each of these coming awake and

responding, and each one having no sense of absence, and memory only

of those particular fluctuations to which they respond."

Seth, session 567

[Lady Pamela]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

[Lady Pamela]

~ Into YOUR Bed ~

My alarm wakes me…
As I sit in the dark, staring at the clock…
Wondering how much longer this is going to linger.
I stare at myself in the mirror…
Wondering where I went wrong.
Wondering what I can’t give you.
Wondering why you always stray.
I feel my body naked in the shower.
I feel every curve, every part of my woman hood.
Wondering why this body wasn’t good enough for you.
Wondering why you found more pleasure with a man.
I weigh myself on the scale, and sure I don’t like what I see…
But I’ve learned to love the body I am in.
But she, she’s doesn’t have an ounce of fat on her, does she?
I pull my boots on; throw my leather jacket over my shoulders…
And wrap my legs around a motorcycle.
Proud of myself and my bike…
I wonder why what I have to offer isn’t good enough.
I work long hours, straight weeks sometimes.
My paychecks are great and she loves spending them.
But that doesn’t matter to her.
I stay sober and keep my head on straight.
As I watch her, my lover, run to that man.
That man with a drink at hand.
When I come home, I hear of how great he is.
How I should give him a chance, let him into our bed.
I listen as she speaks his words, and tells me how much of an asshole I’ve become.
Little does she know what she’s done.
I choke on the tears in the back of my throat.
And I hide behind my image.
I am terrified to let it show that she killed me.
My worst nightmare came true when I saw him laying there with you.
As I lower my eyes to the end table, I saw your ring sitting there.
The ring I gave you when I gave you my heart.
Legs and arms wrapped around him, and your hands lay across his chest.
As you both sleep peacefully.
I was past the point of being angry.
I just simply walked out.
And made a vow to myself to never go back.

~JRL