Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to
one's courage." Anais Nin

Courage is not only physical courage,
moral courage, even spiritual courage
all have their place in the statement of
who you choose to be in this life's walk.
.
Thankfully, we are not required to be
like any other person....simply our
unique self.
Just like a snowflake,huh?

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try to help another without
(at the same time) helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

There is no action in life we can do for/to another
(or refuse to do) which does not have an interaction
with our deepest self.
Giving of our best to others.....simply ensures that
we are fulfilling our own highest standard of self...
for how else could we define 'best' if not by our
own standard?

It descends from the heavens, is gentle, delicate and
has the colour of innocence. When standing upon this
reality we call earth, it interlocks, joins together and
forms a magnificence of beauty.
It's snow!
Interesting to think if we humans could just 'join
together' more what kind of magnificence we could
create,huh?

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make
friends of them? "
Abraham Lincoln

manifestations of the amygdala-based fight or flight response? 

The problem with the tradition-based 'religions' is that
they are stuck in reverse gear in a car park full of
sectarianism and bigotry. Few,if any, of the 'qualified
drivers' seem to understand how to find first gear and
move forward.
Those few that do cause chaos in an area where everyone
else seems determined to blindly drive backwards following
previous examples.
Just like a 'dodgem track' at the fairground where the
'fair ground' is the earth and the track is life.
So much energy and good intentions wasted in
unnecessary collisions,huh?

"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too,
unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration
is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation
is like adulterated cement which does not bind". M.K.Gandhi

Sometimes,just hanging around is exactly the most rewarding thing to do...huh? 

I believe this is a WAXWING, I've never seen one before it appeared a few days ago at the 'winter food kitchen' 

Wow! Food!!! It makes me feel like dancing :) 

I think the most beautiful 'flower forms' I have ever seen in the winter here in Dalsland,Sweden 

The heavy frost created 'flowers' on the trees 

view 1 across the frozen lake 

view 2 across the frozen lake 

Woodpecker_DSCF7688

DSCF7688
Originally uploaded by In The Oneness.

I believe this is a woodpecker, it's amazing when it wants to hide,it just stays dead stil in the tree so in winter it's not easy to see

"what's on the menu today?" says Grey Jay 

The attraction of opposites

I was recently asked 'do you really think that our spirit chooses to
undergo some of the life experiences we have had - even the
bad ones?'

Now this may take a couple of blogs to answer...so lets start here:
If we are indeed eternal spirits and choose to enter again into
this 'metaphor of relativity' we call life, then it follows that since
unconditional love can deny us nothing...we also choose to enter
into that environment, that conjunction of circumstances, which is
most likely to permit us to experience that aspect,or aspects,of our
divine nature which we wish to feel...as distinct from know.

Now, as previously stated within this blog, experiencing a 'thing' is
not always the only way to 'understand our knowingness',Sometimes
it is the absence of 'a thing' that highlights our knowingness.

In the process of the pathway we may experience our knowingness by
meeting with either the manifestation of it, or the absence of manifestation
of it - or the opposite of it.

For example, we may focus on the innocence of childhood:the experience
of innocence as a spiritual truth could be known by 'experiencing childhood
innocence', or experiencing the opposite. Our spirit knows the difference, but
often a 'thing' is higlighted, emphasised in our consciousness when it meets it's
opposite.
The 'meeting of opposites' serves the purpose of allowing our spirit to manifest
in our consciousness our knowledgeof a higher understanding. Once we have
confirmed in our consciousness this awareness, we might ask ourselves in what
way our spirit wishes us to use this awareness 'for the benefit of the tribe'.

Does it benefit the tribe if our meeting with the opposite 'destroys us?. You see,
the question is absurd.Remember how we started this....if we are indeed eternal
spirits......"

However, if a life circumstance has emptied you...then rejoice in this blessing,
for soon you shall be filled to overflowing and that which scarred you shall also
be for your healing.

Yeha Noha

Well, here we go again with the blogging :) Another

year I hope you will find this New Year of 2006 to

be the most exciting, fulfilling and satisfying year of

your life so far.

Yeha Noha, greetings of joy and prosperity

(this blog has been retrospectively edited

using the Qumana programme...just to test it)

Ingrained humility

Insight is a question of perception: the willingness
to see.

Take, for example, the humble rice plant on which
over 50% of the world's population is dependant for
food.

The journal Nature has recently published the results
of a project, involving the cooperation of 10 countries,
called The Rice Genome Sequencing Project.
As amazingly complex as we believe the human body
to be, it may come as something of a surprise to
learn that the humble rice plant has 37,544 genes
positioned along 12 chromosomes.

Thats about 7,500 more genes than the human
genome!!

So, next time our ego is getting the better of
us and we lose track of our willingness to be
humble, may I respectfully suggest that we
think of the humble rice plant.

For even the smallest of us, like the rice plant,
have a uniqueness, a vital contribution to make
to this world of One-ness experiencing.