Random Notes

THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS

1994 shall forever be remembered as the Year of the Wounded Healers.

Wounded Healers know:

1.about loving in the midst of apparent abandonment - abandonment by a parent — apparent (a parent) abandonment, and about how the inner parent abandons the child within;

2.how money isn't everything until there isn't enough, then it becomes everything, and how if you don't pay attention to money it will take over your life;

3.why letting go of the good stuff is just as important as letting go of the bad;

4.that the Ideal determines consciousness;

5.why a radio with all its many channels is a metaphor for the many voices within us;

6.how it is necessary that organized institutions must fall;

7.why it is necessary to stop trying to make ourselves feel better;

8.why it is good to get beyond form, labels and belief systems;

9.why there are so many ways of saying the same thing;

10.why there are so many people saying the same thing;

11.why "this too shall pass" is both comforting and terrifying;

12.to accept pain and joy in the same spirit;

13.the meaning of what on the planet needs doing that no one else is doing and that I care about;

14.why Buckminster Fuller and Descartes both spent a year in silence, discovering what they already knew without anymore input.

JUST FOR THE HEAVEN OF IT

1.Choose one person (surely you know of many) who is having a hard time financially and tithe to them for a time.

2.When someone is sick or injured, instead of saying, "If there's anything you need, let me know,'' look around you. Whatever you would need if you were in their shoes is what they need. Do what is at hand to do.

3.When someone is recuperating, instead of saying, "I'll be praying for you,'' go to their house and, if nothing else, water their plants.

4.When someone is terminal, do not say, "I took a course in pie-in-the-sky healing. Is it all right if I practice on you?'' Instead, say "I am here for you." Then be there, knowing they might outlive you.

5.When someone is sick or injured, do not try to explain it away with platitudes about how they must have needed to rest.

6.When someone is sick or injured, do not ask THEM to explain it away with nosy questions about whether or not they've examined why this has happened. You can bet they have and don't like the answers, and are not about to discuss them with you just so you can feel superior.

7.When someone is down on their luck, do not feel superior because you are healthy or walking around. Paybacks are hell.