the world..

As Henry Miller said, "The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."

Life is a daring adventure

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."--Anais Nin

Learning..

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read or write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler

Dreams- Jung & Freud

Carl Jung: Dreams: channels through which unconscious enters consciousness. Message from the unconscious-aims at our well-being & wholeness, contain secret of life meaning. Dream symbols: expressive & impressive..expression of what's going on at an unconscious level of psyche; & make an impression, leave imprint , influencing direction of dreamer's personal development from that moment on. Active imagination to associate; individuation process, religion is therapeutic.

Jung:

Psychological types:

(1) attitudinal (2 types extrovert & introvert)

(2) functional (4 types: Thinking, intuitive, feeling,sensational)

Persona;

The unconscious : reasons cannot reveal the truth about yourself. it imagines & speculates. Pure consciousness perceives reality directly, knows things themselves, experientially. Consciousness & unconscious to come together as equal partners. Personal unconscious & collective unconscious

Individuation: self realization stages:

(1) The shadow

(2) anima animus :soul image (anima- male/feminine aspect of male psyche; animus- female/masculine aspect)

(3) mana

(4) the self

Freud: Dreams are expression of the gratification of sexual desire, free association, religion is neuroses

Subconscious: Id (instinct) & SuperEgo (moral)

Conscious: Ego

Ego defences

(1) Repression

(2) Regression

(3) Projection

(4) Rationalisation

(5) Compensation

(6) Sublimation

(7) Displacement

(8) Identification

(9) Reaction - Formation : Life instinct (Eros) and Death instinct (Thanatos)

(10) Symptoms

(11) Neuroses and psychoses

Tao Te ching

"Knowing others is intelligence,
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength,
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich."
Tao te Ching

Dreaming is a form of planning

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau

"When the faculties of the mind are understood, it will be found that every form and shape originated in the imagination. It is through the imagination
that the formless takes form."
Charles Fillmore

New Paradigm

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.” David Bohm

"Nothing's either good or bad but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare

"When we take a person as they are, we make them worse, but when we take a person as if they were already what they should be, we support them in becoming what they can be." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yin & Yang

Archetype, not gender

Mother Earth - Yin - Soul
Father God - Yang - Sprit

Spirit impregnate the Soul

Sri Nisargadatta

Satyam, shivam, sundaram

Metaphors

Giving & Receiving
Life is such that we will receive more from those who have more to give. Our role is to learn to receive and pass that on to those who has less to give.

Just like the water from a bigger reservoir will flow to a small pool. It's pointless to fight the flow. Allow the flow and enjoy the gift of receiving. Pass on the good deed and the energy will continue its flow to the rest of humanity.

Let nature takes its course as nature's awareness will put the world in balance


Change

Change for better may take time before the good manifest. Allow the space & transition time for positive change to happen. Nature is patient. Therefore, impatient is not natural. Again, what is time and space other than illusions in our mind?

Just like a smoker who is giving up smoking for a healthier pair of lungs. What he experiences immediately may be suffering. Pain is over but he suffers due to past addiction. That doesnt mean that what he is undergoing for the change is not good. It means that the body is trying to find balance with the shift of energy amidst the chaos. Once the storm is over, calmness prevails.

Hope

Hope looks at what is possible and builds on that. As former television executive and author SQuire Rushnell (yes, that's the way he spells his name) puts it, "Take the 'imp' out of impossible!" Instead, he says, read it as "I'm possible."

British anthropologist Jane Goodall has spent more than 50 years conducting landmark research on wild chimpanzees and great apes and observing the tremendous power of nature to restore itself. She shares these thoughts:

"I carry a few symbols with me... to remind me of the hope that there is in the world: the human brain, with the technology that we are now working to try and live in greater harmony with the environment; the resilience of nature -- give nature a chance and it's amazing how places that we've destroyed can bloom again; the tremendous energy, commitment, excitement, and dedication of young people once they know what the problems are and we empower them to act to do something about it. And finally, the indomitable human spirit, those people who tackle impossible tasks and won't give in... that are shining inspiration to those around them."

True to own nature

Abraham Maslow says:

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization… It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfilment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.”

Wise up..

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit" : Elbert Hubbard

Idea of Causality -Aristotle

4 kinds of causes

Example: Statue

Material : Stone

Form: the shape

Efficient: The sculptor

Final : For the sake of which work was done

What will I get?

What u get is what u create

What u create is what u think

What u think is what you envision

What u envision is what u believe

What u believe is what u perceive

What u perceive is what u experience

What u experience is what u feel

What u feel is what u sense

What u sense makes up your world