Reality and fact are really quite subjective to the beholder. I dressed really simple to the mall yesterday and met a beloved friend there for a while. She shared with me this morning that eventhough I was dressed pretty shabby the day before, she noticed that people still looked at me because I am pretty […]
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It is interesting that after many years of arriving late at a loved one’s place for the festive season, being married; I was early at the loved one’s place this year, being single – and yet what impacted me was the loved one’s constant comments on how badly I had brought up the little one. […]
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In simplicity, there is complexity; yet when complexity is seen, simplicity is restored. ~ GG ~
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Posted in Ideas on Jan 22nd, 2012
Lunar is to mean Moon, as opposed to Chinese. To celebrate the Lunar New Year must mean a New Moon. Yet, is there a new Moon or even the birth of a Full Moon, but a new Moon ‘born’ visually in sight, in the context of the human mind, or more truthfully, the seeing of […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Music/Video on Dec 28th, 2011
a little belated, but merry christmas to all… 🙂 may this christmas list, also be yours [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTz7HXPmMFs] performed by Michael Buble’
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What drives one to continuously try to change what is outside, is hope. And what stops one from trying to change what is outside, is the realisation of hopelessness. Paradoxically, in that hopelessness is hope found, save that this time, it is hope for the inner world. And in the realisation of abundance in the […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Dec 6th, 2011
This whole darn world is driven by needs. When one is fulfilled, another comes to play… as if one can never be contented just being in the moment – each moment driven by one need and another and another… even when one is fulfilled and then consumed by a sense of satisfaction or a victorious […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Nov 25th, 2011
*published in The New York Times, July 31, 2009* LET’S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage. You’re still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together. The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other’s eyes in candlelit city bistros […]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjEcrrf7r0] performed by U2 (Anton Corbjin Version) Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame You say One love One life When it’s one need In the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you […]
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Posted in Being the Master, Unreasonable on Nov 14th, 2011
Mommi said to the daughter, “Precious, I am going to a play.” The daughter asked, “Mommi, are you going to be in the play?” Mommi said, “No, precious… Do you wish for Mommi to be in a play?” Then the daughter said, “Mommi, I was just asking if you are going to be in the […]
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