January 12, 2010
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December 24, 2008
I don’t really like Christmas
I think one things my wife hates about me is that fact that I hate Christmas.
I have to admit I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, so I don’t have the sentimental attachment to it as many of you seem to have. In Turkey we celebrate New Year. ( with population of 99.8% Muslims, fake birthday of Christ is not a big deal) In New Year much like here we get together and exchange gifts.. Some even decorate pine trees.
I think the main reason I don’t like this time of year is originally started because I never got the gifts I wanted. So, the New Year’s day for me was hiding my disappointment by faking to love the gifts I didn’t care to receive.
When I moved to US. I almost always volunteered to work on Christmas (x-mas) so people with families could spend it with their families.
To me X-mas today is a well organized syncronized shopping craze for the people who are conditioned to buy junk and have no idea why.
If I see something I’d like to give to my wife or someone I care for, I buy it, and give it without delay. If I think about a friend in August I send him a card in August, I donate throughout the year to the organizations I like to support.
I think If only time you give gift to someone is during Holidays, you don’t really care for’em, and you’re simply buying something out of obligation, and that’s just waste. Not to mention the person who only receives gifts from you during holidays knows it too, and likely to not appreciate it.
Call me crazy, but to me better than nothing is not a good enough, and I find it offensive to my intelligence when someone thinks because they send me a card during x-mas (and only in x-mas), I think they like me. I know I’m a check mark in their x-mas card list, and will eventually drop off. And I am find with that. Seriously.
My friends who would be x-mas gifts people know last thing I would want them to do is try to find a parking space during this time of the year. I care too much for their qi for that. I’d rather have calm/healthy friends than gifts.
I should probably stop here, before I start calling Santa fat man in red suit.
The irony of the whole thing is St.Nick who is suppose to be Santa is actually lived in a few hours from my town in Turkey.
Happy Hoh Hoh Holidays.
October 14, 2008
August 27, 2008
April 27, 2008
I’ve been out of town for a week, and not feeling up to writing anything.
I thought it may be a good idea to at least make this post to inform you.
See you soon with exciting new stuff.
Seriously.
New and Exciting
April 3, 2008
March 27, 2008
Lessons from my dog
My favorite thing to do is to take my dog Djembe for a hike in the mornings. We’re normally the first ones at the park and pretty much have the trails to ourselves. This allows both of us to enjoy Mother Nature off leash.
What I’ve learned during these walks is that my dog does not care what day it is, all he cares about is that we are at the park.
He doesn’t care which trail we take, he’s just excited to be taking the trail. He absolutely never thinks something terrible could be waiting for us around the corner (like a mugger or a big bad dog.) All he knows is we are at the park and he is happy to be there. One day we had to return back home right after we arrived at the park. He didn’t complain once. He just sat there smiling in the back of the car…. Meanwhile, I was complaining and fussing about it all the way back to the house and pretty much the rest of the day.
The moral of the story?
Just because you are “holding” the leash doesn’t make you the wiser one.
February 26, 2008
There are no “bad” or “evil” people.
You must learn not to look upon the world as a lost and decaying thing but as a something perfect and glorious which is going on to a most beautiful completeness; and you must learn to see men and women not as lost and accursed things, but as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
There are no “bad” or “evil” people.
A locomotive, which is on the rails pulling a heavy train, is perfect after its kind, and it is good. The power of steam, which drives it, is good. If a broken rail throw the engine into the ditch, and it does not become bad or evil by being so displaced; it is a perfectly good engine, but off the track. The power of steam that drives it into the ditch and wrecks it is not evil, but a perfectly good power. So that which is misplaced or applied in an incomplete or partial way is not evil.
There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are off the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.
Because of the way we have trained ourselves to think that which is undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as evil. The root of a bulb that produces a white lily is an unsightly thing; one might look upon it with disgust. But how foolish would that be to condemn the bulb for its appearance when we know the lily is within it. The root is perfect after its kind; it is a perfect but incomplete lily, and so we must learn to look upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely in outward manifestation; they are perfect in their stage of being and they are becoming complete.
Behold, it is all very good.
Once we come into a comprehension of this fact and arrive at this point of view, we lose all desire to find fault with people, to judge them, criticize them, or condemn them.
We no longer work as those who are saving lost souls, but as those who are among the angels, working out the completion of a glorious heaven. We no longer see men as trees walking, but our vision is complete. We have nothing but good words to say. It is all good; a great and glorious humanity coming to completeness. And in our association with others this puts us into an expansive and enlarging attitude of mind; we see them as great beings and we begin to deal with them and their affairs in a great way.
But if we fall to the other point of view and see a lost and degenerate race we shrink into the contracting mind; and our dealings with others and their affairs will be in a small and contracted way.
Remember to hold steadily to this point of view; if you do you cannot fail to begin at once to deal with your acquaintances and neighbors and with your own family as a great personality deals with people. This same viewpoint must be the one from which you regard yourself. You must always see yourself as a great advancing soul. Learn to say:
“There is THAT in me of which I am made, which knows no imperfection, weakness, or sickness. The world is incomplete, but The Source (God) in my own consciousness is both perfect and complete. Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and my own personal attitude can be wrong only when I disobey THAT which is within. I am a perfect manifestation of God so far as I have gone, and I will press on to be complete. I will trust and not be afraid.”
When you are able to say this understandingly you will have lost all fear and you will be far advanced upon the road to the development of a great and powerful personality.
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