From The Study...the mind

"The past is the set of events that can send light signals to an entity and the future is the set of events to which an entity can send light signals."

Stopped To Ponder...

 

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 "So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,
Is all this sad world needs."~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A funny thing happened on the way to therapy...

"Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality,
but of attempting to make reality fit your emotions".

Stopped To Ponder

“Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts"?

                       
 

I see this common quote on many boards, but very few
acknowledge the author...

What is the Soul?

- What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?

- Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good.

- Oh son, for that you sold your everlasting soul?

- Well, I wasn't usin' it

What is the Soul

  

                       We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own...

From the Study...a conversation of possibilities

As I am sitting at my desk on the eve of a new year, I am reminded of a quote from
a young writer in Melbourne, Australia by the name of Beau Tarplin...Beau, please
forgive me if I do not get it exact...it goes something like this...

"Don't stress so much about settling on a path for 2016.
The division of time into years is a human invention,
And the fact is, every moment of every day is an opportunity for resolution and growth.
So, when the fireworks fly, relax and enjoy the moment.
The rest will come to you."

So...as we honor the passing of 2015, I leave you with my prayer...

For those I may have wronged, I ask for your forgiveness.
For those I may have helped, I wish I could have done more.
For those I could have helped, I ask for understanding.
For those who have helped me, I am grateful.

Resolved to sense more beauty, express more forgiveness, and experience more
forgiveness...Ego, my friends call me Doc.

From Inside The Sane Asylum

Looking forward to seeing you in the new year...walk in peace
Doc

From Inside The Sane Asylum

To all the citizens of The Sane Asylum...
May your holidays be filled with the meaning of living...

May you walk in peace.
See you in 2016

Doc

Find meaning again and again and again

From The Sea

From The Sea...

I could see her approaching from a distance. I could tell she had grace to adorn her beauty. She was a proud site against the morning sun. She gave all that wanted to see a proud prance as she entered the foam of the sea... Children approached as she paraded along the shore. Her master gentle on the reigns to let her explore. What a site to behold as she came closer and her beauty to unfold.

She approached like a warrior and nodded as if to say, good day my admirers are you enjoying your day. I asked her master if I my approach. "She would love your attention, she is just spoiled that way", her master had to say...stood about sixteen hands tall I would guess. It did not matter, for she stood above all the rest. I stroked her mane that special day. I heard her breath, the sound of her teeth on her bits, and her smell brought back fond memories of a younger day...I saw her ears point to the air, I saw her dark eyes like a maiden fair.

In that brief moment I smelled her essence and sensed her grace and goodness to a master for keep. I thanked her master that let me approach and I bowed to the beauty as she pranced into the sea...

Her name was Stormy...
Ego...my friends call me Doc

Don't forget to S-E-E today...

Sense Beauty-Express gratitude-Experience forgiveness

A funny thing happened on the way to therapy

Despair is a haven with its own temporary form of beauty and of self compassion, it is the invitation we accept when we want to remove ourselves from hurt. Despair, is a last protection. To disappear through despair, is to seek a temporary but necessary illusion, a place where we hope nothing can ever find us in the same way again.