every moment, now

Post by **SmileGRL** » January 23rd, 2009, 4:56 pm

hi! it's been too long. i promise i will catch up next week. in the mean time, have this...

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every moment, now

if you could experience every moment of your life, from the minute you were born to the moment you blow out your last breath, all at once. right now. would that overwhelm you or make you calm? knowing that both the best and the worst thing already happened. knowing that you've loved & lost. that you've hurt & you've healed. you've wasted time. you've created something new. more than once. you've found the truth…or not. you've lived. & that in the end, it's not about whether you were good enough, but if you paid attention…knowing all that, tell me, would it overwhelm you or calm you down? would it change the way you live the rest of your life? & would you be more or less inclined to forgive yourself, love yourself, BE yourself…

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and this (Katie Melua - Belfast)

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Post by **Lightning Rod** » January 23rd, 2009, 5:03 pm

beautiful thoughts and beautiful music SG

Post by **Doreen Peri** » January 23rd, 2009, 5:05 pm

it would overwhelm me

might be interesting, though

wonder what would happen next

Post by **mtmynd** » January 23rd, 2009, 9:03 pm

explosive calm nourishing the soul for a lifetime fulfilled.

nice musical pick, mj... i enjoyed,

ty

Post by **Nazz** » January 24th, 2009, 5:02 am

It would freak me out.
I'm already freaked out,
so I'd hardly notice I suppose.

Post by **saw** » January 24th, 2009, 11:00 am

I love the power of a beautiful tune to improve your disposition...nice choice... and some good notions to consider as well...

Post by **goldenmyst** » January 24th, 2009, 9:38 pm

Wow my friend. You contemplation is so sweeping and mind boggling. Indeed what you propose certainly makes one think and assess one's life. Were I too experience what you describe, it would move me to tears and exaltation. My life encompassed, so far, the full range of agony and ecstasy. I always come away from your words, more conscious of my life and what it means to be alive. There is so much food for thought in this intriguing piece. I'm glad to be reading you again.

~hugs~
John

Post by **hester_prynne** » January 25th, 2009, 4:49 am

Heck when you get down to it, thass about whut happens.....it's all one big minute. Mine noot.
Lovely music. I danced.....and twirled in it. Thank you.
H

Post by **SmileGRL** » January 27th, 2009, 5:09 pm

hey y'all...thanks for all the replies. it was good reading them all (wow, so many! thanks!)...here's my take. i had this thought the other day...if only, right this minute, i could know everything. that would calm me down so much, even if it's a little overwhelming at first (who am i kidding...probably a lot!)...but when all is said and done, if i already know the worst and that i will heal when i hurt and that i've lived a life that mattered just because i've lived...wouldn't that be so grounding (is "grounding" a word?)...maybe i should pay more attention before it's all over, you know...we can get so wound up in the little irritations, the heartaches, the day to day dramas. but in the bigger picture...it needn't be so overwhelming...hmmm...just a thought.

thank you LR, doreen, cecil, mr. nazz, steve, john & hester

Post by **Perdida** » January 28th, 2009, 4:59 am

hi mj, having just lost my mother....reading this now, i can only say that it would be too overwhelming.... what would be the point in knowing everything now, we'd only (in my point of view) be waiting for what we knew, to happen, be it good or bad. And if i knew when my mother was going to die, there would be no way i could be prepared for the pain that i was going to feel and do feel.

was good to read yur thoughts m'lovely.

I hope yur well.

m

Post by **justwalt** » January 29th, 2009, 2:16 am

it would make you god

grounding is your spirit-connection, on earth...

...which extends to heaven, as well

way cool thoughts, actual insight

Post by **SmileGRL** » January 29th, 2009, 2:30 pm

maree...i'm sorry for your loss, my friend. deeply. this is me sending warm & healing thoughts your way. you know where you can find me if you need an ear or a shoulder...i guess it depends on each person, how we would react should we know our futures. much like the not knowing...chin up, baby. love you. mj

justwalt...we are god. we are the puzzle pieces building the picture. we just can't see it all from this angle. thank you kindly for enjoying.

Post by **justwalt** » January 30th, 2009, 12:50 am

It was once suggested to me that this is the way god sees....
all eternity in a split second. The discussion was the question why,
if god knows everything, even before it happens, why does he not do, or do this or that. I still haven't decided about a god yet, but
for the arguments' sake, it shed a little light, even if generating more questions of a god.

Post by **SmileGRL** » January 30th, 2009, 10:09 am

...the thing is...we want god to be this one entity. "the man." the puppet master. but we don't understand the dynamics. we aren't the puppets. we are the limbs, the eyes, the ears, the hearts. that's what i meant by, we are god. without us the universe cannot experience life. & we have free will. god doesn't do this or that. we do. we decide to start a war or make peace / to love or fear or abuse someone / to make or break a rule, etc. and all actions have reactions (all choices have consequences). someone once told me that we decide what we want to experience in our lifetimes before we are born and that we send ourselves the people and the messages we need through out our lives to achieve this, but we still get to choose how it plays out by the choices we make everyday. i am not saying there isn't a god and we get to run wild. i'm saying we are "parts of the machine"...god is the collective energy of the universe. obviously i don't believe the theory of heaven and hell as prize or punishment. our souls get to play out the different scenarios until it is satisfied that it has experienced all that it wanted to and in the meantime the physical world is subjected to all the consequences of our choices (war/ pollution/ natural disasters/ each generation being different than the previous/ new diseases & remedies / destruction & creation, etc)

while i'm re-reading what i just wrote here, this question pops into my mind: "are you telling me god has multiple personality disorder?" which in a way i'd have to answer "yes". not the disorder part, but the balance part...there need to be opposite poles for the universe to work. in order for you to experience failure you have to experience success and vice versa. same with happiness and sadness. love and fear...and in that case both the disorder and the balance. the universe (god) is everything...every emotion, every personality, both sides of the coin...good and bad. i don't believe there is judgment here. just consequences.

god knows and sees everything because god is everything. and time, just like space is both a point and a line. for us to experience life, the angle has to be linear. and that is why we do not see the bigger picture. and god can see the point/ the split second.

that's my take anyway. i'm sure there are holes in my arguments and that i'll upset a lot of people who read this. i'm not trying to convince anyone that i'm right. just sayin...this is what i think. maybe it opens a door in your mind that helps you decide what you believe in. & by the way, what we believe is just one more choice we make.

feel free to react to all this in anyway you choose...

Post by **justwalt** » January 30th, 2009, 10:59 am

Perfectly thought out, and conveyed well. I know that all of this....
everything there is, exists, not by accident, but by purpose. Of what
purpose doesn't matter really, but all of this we see, and all that we
will never see, (for lack of a better word), was created, in whatever
way. And call (it) god or anything else, does not take away the
innocent child for any other purpose or reason. (It) does not cause
good or evil. Yes, 100 percent, we cause our own destiny by choice
or design. We unleash hatred, love, pain, war...etc.

Why is this universe so huge that we will never reach an edge, if
there even is an edge? A wonderful story passed down through the
native american cultures is that we humans ARE "the spirit". It says
that there are perfect, impeccable "beings", angel, if you will, that
exist. Spirits of such power and glory, that imagination cannot imagine......and that these spirits were in effect, alone or seperate
in a way. They possess ALL abilities but one. And that was the
ability to TOUCH. It goes on to suggest that these spirits...
(can't recall exactly), but these spirits found that by possessing
the human body, they gained this ability of touch, which was worth
more to them than all the power and glory of their first (selves).

The belief is that these being don't just possess us, rather, they
exchange places with the human form, therefore enjoying their
new treasure of touch for a short time...and that they return to
their glory at the point when a human dies.

This could be a truth. It is part of what I believe, even if it only
serves to let me feel better about myself and others. It is this and
many other reason..."truths" as I see them, that takes away my
fear. Ultimately, I am satisfied with being any part of this huge
universe, be it human, rock, tree, or just a few scattered atoms.
I will exist in some form for as long as anything else does.

It is the consciousness of our human beings that is cool. It is a
thing that really has no mass, weight or volume. What a puzzle.
And of the human body, being only 10 billion trillion little pieces of
whatever...there is some force that animates us. We can construct
a human body, but we cannot make it get up, walk, talk or "live".

And this puzzle of existence is just something to keep me busy for
20,000-30,000 days, give or take a few. I'm happy with what I am
for the moment, because that's all I have, just a moment.

w

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