a search for sanity or..........
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of "hopefully not lost in translation"
Posted: May 24, 2008, 5:47 pm by gal africana
I just read a poem by Yoko Ono (from "voices from the heart") that shouts volumes to me...but I read it in danish...so I'm translating it as best as I can, in order to get the message, which I think is fabulous (I know, I should use full stops!)...across...
Here goes:
Accept your anger with gratitude
Because it is a sign that energy is being released
Do not direct it towards your family
Do not waste it on an enemy
Translate it
So it becomes life infusing
And it will be a source of immense growth
I was discussing this with a friend who didn't quite understand how anger can be turned into something good...and we came to the conclusion...that by asking "what is this anger telling me about myself and this situation that is making angry" one turns the situation into an opportunity for growth instead of a manifestation of negativity. Experiencing negative feeling is not a bad thing....IF we ask the right questions...This applies to all the other emotions....
Accept your fear with gratitude
Because it is a sign of being awake
Do not hold onto the fear
Translate it
So it becomes flexibility
And you will be free
Of the ropes that bind you to what you fear.Accept your hurt with gratitude
As it is a sign that you are vulnerable
Do not always try to make your family to share it
Do not blame yourself for it
Translate it
So it becomes compassion
And it will bring you loveAccept with gratitude
Your search for direction
As it is a sign of aspiration
Translate the energy
So it becomes openness
And direction will come to you.Accept with gratitude
People! Have a lovely Sunday!
The times when you don’t feel love
Allow, regardless, your heart to open to life
And soon enough
You will find love in yourself!
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of a simple "or"
Posted: May 24, 2008, 8:12 am by gal africana
Your life is either
an example
or
a warning.
(from Anthony Robbins, Get the edge) -
Believe it or not
Posted: May 23, 2008, 6:04 am by gal africana
Consumed in the last 48 hours:
200 g of M&M's
300g Chocolate cake
1 Chocolate Muffin
1 Strawberry tart cake
100g Ritter sport Butter biscuit
85g Twix
150g Sweet Almond bread
In possession of 2 danish pastries: will be consumed in 2 hours.
ETA of dreaded periods: approx. 10 hours
BUGGER BUGGER! -
what's what?
Posted: May 20, 2008, 5:12 pm by gal africana
Another wise man said...
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Chuang Tzu, in the third century B.C., put it in an amusing way; having dreamed that he was a butterfly flitting from flower to flower, he stated that he was now wondering whether he was then a man dreaming he was a butterfly or whether he was now a butterfly dreaming he was a man. - Wei Wu Wei "Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon"
Er...what? I hope all those words just mean that everything is down to perception, because then, I'm with...otherwise all I can say is "er what?"
On to other things...
I've been having a sequence serendipitous events that are making me click my heels from side to side a bit like Mary Poppins.
It started with my post on "The silly fish unfish ego thing". My question as to why (for blimeys sake) we have silly egos is slowly being answered by Oprahs book club choice : A New Earth (I really do recommend it to anyone seeking to understand themselves and their place in this world). I happened to find the online book classes by chance, a day after posting my question...I think I was initially looking to see what she had on her fashion pages in this months O mag...having exhausted all other fashion sites (it's terrible really)
After moaning about not being able to go out and dance salsa for ages due to the ex-connection, I met some really nice acquaintances who also dance, really well...and I think we have a tentative plan to head off for cubamemucho together! Yay!
Another acquaintance just rung me up and we ended going for a coffee, only to talk for 4 hours and find out we have very similar backgrounds and have LOTS in common...feels like the beginning of yet another lovely friendship...and I'm getting really good at recognizing those now...and not taking them for granted.
A project I was working on at work just worked out...seemingly effortlessly...
It goes on and on...small things...but perfectly wonderful things
This is not the first time I've experienced things working out as such (this is not to say that some stuff just hasn't fallen off the roof...but in the spirit of focusing on the good....).
This is however, the first time I'm NOT FREAKING OUT AND EXPECTING ALL HELL TO BREAK LOOSE! Because I think that I could NOT possibly deserve all this good. And In the end...all hell DOES break loose...*shiver*
This, this is a first for me....
This sitting back and taking it all in
And being so so so so so grateful! -
of findings
Posted: May 13, 2008, 7:03 pm by gal africana
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tete tete tererere tete terere
Posted: May 8, 2008, 7:50 am by gal africana
I was trying to hum the intro tune for Fraggle rock to a friend and she was looking at me with this wide eyed look that says "honey, are you okay?"
So I tried even harder, tried to explain that it was the show with the talking heap of leaves, and her wide eyed look got even worse like she was saying "STOP! you are scaring me"
It didn't help matters that I was mixing muppet show stuff into the picture...and was in the end scaring myself...by imitating Miss piggy's scream of frustration...
But imagine my joy when I find clips of fraggle rock on Youtube! I love the internet!!!! And You tube!!!
I'm sure there's someone out there who'll be smiling and enjoying this as well
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now barking up the RIGHT tree...or trying to
Posted: May 6, 2008, 6:27 am by gal africana
When I called this blog "a search for sanity", I had no idea what I was talking about....I had no idea where it'd all go. I had something to say that I thought was too quirky to say to people in person, and thus......
...but as it is, it really does seem like I'm searching for my sanity with every single post. (Now you're warned ;-))
Last night I attended the last of Oprah Winfreys webcast classes based on Eckhart Tolles book "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose". Great spiritual enlightenment, if ever there was any...for me anyway...for as with everything else, the "different strokes for different folks" mantra applies here as well.
This class in particular, was one of those things that was life changing, but also powerful in another way...I've been asking some questions about "what my purpose is, how to achieve it, what to do and how to do it well", and the universe (freaky huh? but there you go...I believe in the magnificent universal force that is God, and is not to be mistaken with the religious "God") has been giving me the same answers, again and again, in different ways. Last night, the mediums and conveyors of some of the answers were Oprah and Eckhart.
Eckhart is a spiritual teacher whose teachings are designed to help people achieve an awakened state of consciousness, an acceptance of the now, a transcendence of our ego-based state of consciousness and a realization of our infinite spiritual beings.
Makes sense donnit? I especially like the state of accepting the now for what it is. Difficult to do but by golly! it makes life that much damn easier....all those situations: "barking mad drivers in the traffic, moronic bosses, crazy lazy service people, life important challenges that just seem to bite ass, badass cyclones killing innocent people, badass politicians making decisions that end up killing innocent people, badass me being lazy/a bitch/loud, debilitating sicknesses that pop out of bloody nowhere and stick around for freaking ever, badass everything really, but also all the good stuff that we nervously are afraid of accepting because we don't think we deserve it"...Just accepting....to start with...silently accepting that, that it is what it is. Powerful!
This is what Eckhart says:
"Acceptance of the present moment is essential as it brings clarity. Acceptance of the present removes inner resistance and brings a different energy to our every day actions. Just accepting, and not wanting this moment to be different from what it is."
Can almost feel the peace emanating from that :-)
Have a peaceful, serene but fun day!
Blah blah blah
Fish cakes
Alas a fish cake.
Yet more fish cakes
Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.
The end of the fish cakes
