Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Real You - Alan Watts
“When
you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not
ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little
me.’ And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and
listening to this sort of lecture, I assume you’re all in the process of
waking up. Or else you’re teasing yourselves with some kind of
flirtation with waking up which you’re not serious about. But I assume
that maybe you are not serious, but sincere – that you are ready to wake
up.
So
then, when you’re in the way of waking up, and finding out who you
really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place
you call here and now. You are something that the whole universe is
doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is
doing… The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real,
deep down you is the whole universe.”
– Alan Watts
Symptoms of Inner Peace
by Saskia Davis
©1984
Be on
the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have
already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere
could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious
threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in
the world.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
· A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
· An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
· A loss of interest in judging other people.
· A loss of interest in judging self.
· A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
· A loss of interest in conflict.
· A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)
· Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
· A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
· An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
· A loss of interest in judging other people.
· A loss of interest in judging self.
· A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
· A loss of interest in conflict.
· A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)
· Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
· Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
· Frequent attacks of smiling.
· An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than (try to) make them happen.
· An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
WARNING:
If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.
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