Re: this is more for my benefit, than yours.helenixMay 29 2008, 01:05:56 UTC
Hmm. Much to think about.
For now, I'll respond only to the part where I feel I was not understood.
I am not speaking specifically of my self when I speak of innocence. I am speaking of the state of innocence that we are born with. Innocent awareness. Many people, my self included, reject certain ideas (experiences, ways of being, etc) when they encounter them. We 'turn a blind eye'; we ignore. I feel that this is a natural reaction to certain horrors that were not conceived of by us while in the state of innocence. To cling to innocence by denying truth is to be ignorant. I think it is a natural phase that a self-conscious being may go through as their innocence becomes knowledge, & as knowledge becomes Wisdom.
Do you see what I'm saying?
What brought this thought up for me was my contemplation of the adage "Be ye wise as serpents & innocent as doves."
Re: this is more for my benefit, than yours.helenixMay 29 2008, 01:28:42 UTC
Ahh, yes. The gender-specific pronoun was used to reflect my understanding of polarity: Yin & Yang, Dark & Light, Egg & Sperm, etc.
I consider Innocence to be on the 'feminine' or receptive end of the spectrum, whereas I view Wisdom to be on the 'masculine' or projective end.
While I'm moving from innocence (through ignorance) toward wisdom, i think it better to simply pray for others & act on changing what I can in my self, which my feelings about others' paths will bring to light for me. Instead of directing negative thoughts toward them, & wasting my own energy, I can use their 'mistakes', as I see them, as teachers. Receptivity, listening, as you suggest
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I am very close, just pressed behind the glass, found your lovely wingwords like spangled emerald eggs in my little nest the other day, but I've been inside the dreams again, trying to capture their likenesses as they spin past like the universe so quickly, and thus I have somewhat been abandoning those I call friends, I'm afraid, for the first siren calls in so many years. It's exhilerating, but in the way suns must feel burning up. Just wanted you to know your letter is precious-kept and nevernever ignored. <3
beautiful lady of firefly-wings & solar-winds...helenixMay 29 2008, 21:46:41 UTC
Your words to me are like liquid jewels secreted away in pockets of darkest-night. You have all my love, in your dreamtime image-hunting. A star, in good health, dies & is born & burns itself out, only to die & begin the cycle a-new. A star is classified as a 'never ending cycle'. Time, perhaps, for a new Name? Moon-child has served her well... & now it is your wonder-full mouth which must re.o.pen the ancient tome.
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I would really like to talk to you sometime, or someday... if you are open to it.
Truly, you do Love. Keep going and don't stop!
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I have gmail, which has chatting,
& I have msn.
do you have either?
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For now, I'll respond only to the part where I feel I was not understood.
I am not speaking specifically of my self when I speak of innocence. I am speaking of the state of innocence that we are born with. Innocent awareness. Many people, my self included, reject certain ideas (experiences, ways of being, etc) when they encounter them. We 'turn a blind eye'; we ignore. I feel that this is a natural reaction to certain horrors that were not conceived of by us while in the state of innocence. To cling to innocence by denying truth is to be ignorant. I think it is a natural phase that a self-conscious being may go through as their innocence becomes knowledge, & as knowledge becomes Wisdom.
Do you see what I'm saying?
What brought this thought up for me was my contemplation of the adage "Be ye wise as serpents & innocent as doves."
Thanks for the thought-food, Mister.
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Innocent awareness is accomplished through lack of self. "Yes and no" "good and bad" "His and hers" all lead to self, which takes away innocence.
Again, destruction of the thing in us that judges (Which we call 'self') is, to me, the answer.
Acceptance and innocence are closely knit, I think.
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I consider Innocence to be on the 'feminine' or receptive end of the spectrum, whereas I view Wisdom to be on the 'masculine' or projective end.
While I'm moving from innocence (through ignorance) toward wisdom, i think it better to simply pray for others & act on changing what I can in my self, which my feelings about others' paths will bring to light for me. Instead of directing negative thoughts toward them, & wasting my own energy, I can use their 'mistakes', as I see them, as teachers. Receptivity, listening, as you suggest ( ... )
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So very true...
I am very close, just pressed behind the glass, found your lovely wingwords like spangled emerald eggs in my little nest the other day, but I've been inside the dreams again, trying to capture their likenesses as they spin past like the universe so quickly, and thus I have somewhat been abandoning those I call friends, I'm afraid, for the first siren calls in so many years. It's exhilerating, but in the way suns must feel burning up. Just wanted you to know your letter is precious-kept and nevernever ignored. <3
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