Saturday, October 31, 2009
How's Your Inner Beggar?
This being the weekend I am reflecting on the timeless question of human happiness. What do people want?
Simple creatures, we want to feel good.
If you make other people feel good, they'll love you. But how many of us bother? We are too busy trying to make them make us feel good.
We are feel good addicts, hoping to wring our happiness from the world. Food, drink, drugs, sex, money, power, love.
In The Power of Now, Eckhard Tolle has a story about a beggar who asks a stranger for money. The stranger tells the beggar to look under his seat. Turns out there was gold there all along.'
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Both my brother and l got lumbered with more questions rather than an answer to the experiences we underwent, its hard to even put it into words sometimes verbally, you can get tongue tied and twisted...ha.
ReplyDeleteThere is no explanation other than this is what happened when we started reading altenative information from late 1993 onwards which lead to the early books of Ikce.
l BEG for inner answers instead of feeling perplexed as to what all that was about that we went through, l'm sure if it was someone else they'd be asking the same questions, why me? what for? and where the heck have you gone to? this force that made its appearance as a ball of light, a flash, laser beams and such.
l'm happy l got through the years in House of Attitudes with bloodline Huw as l don't know what could of happened if l didn't, see no answer there too just assuming or guessing.
ls there an answer in the pot at the end of the rainbow...l don't want friggin' gold.