a search for sanity or..........

• Same same

  Posted: June 10, 2008, 3:31 pm by gal africana

  I just finished "Eat pray love" by Elizabeth Gilbert and in true gal style, I'm raving about it. I've written about the book before, but at the time I was having a hard time picking out an excerpt that I really really liked and was loving the whole book equally.
  
  However, in the book I have encountered things/ideas that I will take away with me and hold closely to my heart...like little gold trinket gifts. I personally enjoy the idea of having a favorite word, in any language one prefers.
  
  Mine is "beautiful/beauty" and not only in the physical sense but on metaphysical, spiritual level as well and with the full acceptance that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder...and appreciating that by being curious about others perception of beauty...so that i not only enjoy that which I, in my limited knowledge, deem as beautiful, but that I can see beauty through the eyes of others.
  
  My favorite character in the book is Ketut Leyir, the medicine man from Bali. I love the idea of this ageless, toothless gentle wise man, and loved what he had to say...reading about him was like having my very own wise medicine man in my room...
  
  My favorite excerpt:
  
  Ketut on meditating into several planes of consciousness and ending up in heaven.
  
  "Liz: Have you ever been to heaven , Ketut?
  
  He smiled. Of course he has been there.
  
  Liz: what was it like?
  
  Ketut: Beautiful. Everything beautiful is there. Every person beautiful is there. Everything beautiful to eat is there. Everything is love there. Heaven is love.
  ........
  Liz: Have you ever been to hell?
  
  He smiled. Of course he has been there.
  
  Liz: what was it like?
  
  Ketut: Same like heaven. Universe is a circle Liss. To up, to down...all same, at end.
  
  Liz: Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?
  
  Ketut: Because of how you go. Heaven you go up, through seven happy places. Hell you go down through seven sad places. This is why it is better for you to go up Liss.
  
  Liz: You mean you might as well spend your life going upward through the happy places, since heaven and hell, the destinations, are the same?
  
  Ketut: Same-same. Same in end, so better to be happy on journey."
  
  Better to be happy on the journey folks.
  
  Oh there is so much more, so little space....if you do decide to read the book...come back and tell me about it :-)

• The beep line

  Posted: June 10, 2008, 5:13 am by gal africana

  closing in
  and then for a while, not
  the resistance
  increasing in ohmic strength
  gradually
  now the shrill screams
  impossible to hear
  excruciatingly loud
  tearing bloody
  I don't know
  I really want to know
  quietly, violently, I cant
  beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
  .
  ...beep...beep...beep
  Rebirth?

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