Reality, neither good nor bad
It just is
Don’t like the suit it’s wearing this morning?
Learn to care less about suits
Sounds harsh, I know
But it’s true
Like you, my wants are the lens
through which I see the world
I want this, don’t want that
I want to feel this, not that
Don’t like the hand reality dealt you?
Don’t play cards
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Author: Don Iannone, D.Div.
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Photographer, poet, teacher, complementary medicine provider, interfaith minister, and former economic developer. Holds a Doctorate in Divinity, Master of Divinity, Master of Mind-Body Medicine, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. Clinical certifications in Reiki, guided meditation, life purpose coaching, and spiritual counseling. Author of 12 books, including two new books in the contemporary spirituality field. Learn more here.
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Poetic Alchemist 
Kai: Doing well, just very busy with work. Thanks.
i am well . how abt you?
Kai: Thanks. Hope you are well.
indeed
Floots: Thanks. Yes always sit with your face to the door. LOL
Dan: Thanks for the insight. I agree, but it is hard because we do care, want, dream, and otherwise reality to be as we like it. So…we suffer.
Polona: Thanks. I hear ya, and it isn’t easy. I struggle as much as anyone with this stuff…though in my head I can articulate the ideal. Funny how life is.
the problem is, once you find yourself at the table, you’ve got to play along…
Right on, Don.
This prompted me to open the Yogavasistha at random. This is what my finger pointed at:
“When you perceive the truth, you will become totally free from desire or hope. One who is endowed with supreme dispassion drives away the goblin of illusion. He is not pleased by pleasure, he is not troubled by troubles. The twin-forces of attraction and aversion do not even touch him. He looks upon all with equal vision.
“Free from the least attachment he enjoys whatever comes to him unsought, even as the eyes perceive their objects without desire or hate. Such experiences do not therefore produce either joy or sorrow in him. Even though he appears to be engaged in the performance of appropriate actions in this world, his consciousness is not disturbed in the least. Whatever may befall him in accordance with the laws of time, space and causation, whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, he remains inwardly undisturbed.”
And so on.
nice way of putting it don
thank you
(i never play cards – but i still don’t sit with my back to the door
guess those western movies taught me something) 🙂