Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, several reliable witnesses claimed that an unidentified flying object, with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. If you do not know about this, look it up on Google.
This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and the federal government.
However, what you may not know, is that during the month of March, 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day, George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove and Dan Quayle were all born.
This is apparently what happens when aliens breed with sheep.
Paradox View
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
What Goes Around Comes Around
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life
What Goes Around Comes Around Karma: The Law Of Cause And Effect
The Sanskrit word karma has entered the lexicon of the western world, and even appears in most dictionaries. But sometimes it is misunderstood to be synonymous with "fate," as if we have no control over our karma - someone's car breaks down and they think, "I have bad karma." Someone wins the lotto and we think they have "good" karma.
The word karma itself means "action" or "deed" The real philosophy of karma is, in essence, the law of cause and effect. It isn't about luck; it is about our actions, our mental habits, and the motivations that drive us. Karma is a word to describe our interaction with the properties of this world. Everything you choose to do or not do has karmic repercussions. This idea is reassuring because through practice you come to realize that you are in control, that you can change your karma.
Buddhists and Hindus both believe in karma: they believe that some karma is accumulated due to our actions in a past life. The families we are born into, our individual physical being, the relationships we have with people, are all a result of past-life karmic connections. With a consciousness that is so full of potential, we have a precious opportunity now, in this life, to refine our karma. This is what separates us from other sentient beings that cannot make choices. Approaching the world with this way of thinking is immensely empowering and can bring great benefit to yourself and others.
Every day is filled with opportunities to balance your karma. If you are trying to rectify a specific action that you committed during this lifetime, there are four steps that can help the process:
1. Believe that you can grow and mature - believe you can purify your karma
2. Regret that you have done something negative
3. Resolve not to repeat this negative activity
4. Do something to actively make retribution.
Helping others and living virtuously is favorable for your karma, but you can also aid in healing your karma simply by adjusting your intention. Making a concerted effort to rejoice in the happiness of others, even your worst nemesis, is a very powerful antidote for jealousy and anger. At the same time, do not cling to your good karma. For example, if something good happens to you, take a moment to dedicate this happiness to others.
~ DailyOM ~
Currently
listening
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The Inner Mounting Flame
By
John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra
Release date: 18 August, 1998
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When your soul gets burned it becomes a part of you the lesser part ensues Welcome me O guard of the deep Failte not strew wisp away the dew I grow weary hear not the trumpeters sound brusk off the heals portend the ramshackle parson's nose
kum-by-ya kinsthetic, a lopsided delve, a china doll fallen from an off kilter shelve, the olde bankers dozen thirteen, not twelve... pawing your pony, with nothing to do, slipped on the ring where you set your last brew, spinning your wheels from nothing to chew..... but a cows not a pony, a telltale, that cud, a bros not a brother as a crips not a blood O, why do I bother? Dis missiles a dud....
Still,
a ponies a pony not just a bird, if youre prising your mid-staff then speak not absurd, for time is of essence, and mayhemlock, the word.
hopeful
contemplative
grateful
