17 Feb '09 18:28>
Originally posted by black beetleI like this. having trouble myself with despair at times.
I visualise Life in my hand as a sword. The Art of Living, as I see it, is to try not to "win". I feel not the need to test my power. I feel not the need to move one step beyond or to move backwards. The Art of Living as I see it, it has to do with my awareness that Myself and the Object are not separated.
So I live my life in order to serve the people ...[text shortened]... that" but I am aware of the nature of "this" and of "that".
Despair
is nothing
😵
Awareness of what is seems to me to be key.
I must be able to distinguish that which is the case outside of myself from what I think ought to be the case, what I wish were the case, or what I even, unawares, inaccurately believe to be the case.
I must not believe everything I think.
Instead, I must become ever more conscious of that which is the case so that I am better able to serve the people I love.
But I think you expressed it with better style.