About two weeks before she died:
I am at a family gathering when I notice that Rain is missing.  The back door is ajar - I remember yelling at my mom for letting her sneak out - and feeling sheepish myself for not watching her more closely.

After she died I was desperate to find her in the dream-world. 
She did not come to me, but a dream of her ( Read more... )

Unconditional Love
"Caring that demands no personal gratification and is not possessive.  It invites the person to be what he or she actually is, regardless of what that may be.  It is not a positive evaluation that can restrict behaviors by punishing some and rewarding others. "

Carl Rogers (Frager and Fadiman p. 337)

"You make one or the other of two possible universes true by your trust or mistrust."

William James, 
consciousness psychologist, 1896

3 LEVELS OF INSIGHT:

1) partial or vague knowledge that there is an issue presenting.

2) awareness of irrational ideas and continued adherence to them.

3) self-responsibility and integration of need for change.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons ( Read more... )

A warrior is always joyful because her love is unalterable and her beloved, the earth, embraces her and bestows upon her inconceivable gifts.

-- Don Juan, Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda

(yes, I changed the pronouns)

TOBAIRA OF THE WATERS- Emotions. Serenity. Meditation.


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I am subject to aging, I am subject to illness, I am subject to death, I will separate from loved ones and I am the owner of my actions.

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"the poignancy of life is inseparable from the knowledge of its decay."