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(10am) Quotes:
Gail Sheehy-"How do I stop trying so hard to
please others and begin to validate myself?"
Henri Bergson-"To exist is to change; to change
is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly."
Rene Descartes-"...desire awakens only to things
that are thought possible."
Notes from the ozone:
1. Isn't part of the reason that our culture has placed control of the if and when of sex with women that it forces each man to reenact the symbolic act of domination over women? (Isn't that why some men react negatively to aggressive women? (i.e., it wilts their manhood.))
2. Tis interesting how the methods for healing the body are often clues to the healing of the mind. (e.g., to heal a cut it must be exposed to the air; and for a cut to the psyche to heal that wound must also be brought out in the open.)
3. We can't find happiness with another until we find happiness within ourselves.
4. When we seek to open the doors of perception, aren't we really trying to access the right side of the brain?
5. The aspects of astrology, as with all mysticism, that are accurate are the general rather than the minute, in my opinion. (Isn't astrology, where the astrologer is quite perceptive and accurate in prediction, really just a tool? (A system of symbology used by the astrologer to unlock the doors of perception.))
6. Women's lib: Isn’t it worth the loss of power to gain someone who we can talk with instead of to?
7. Isn't one of the central things taught to us by nature that life is round? (So why then do we keep trying to force square and rectangular objects (e.g., buildings and furniture) into a round world?)
8. Laughter and sex can both be beautiful; but the laughter, and the sex it’s meant to achieve, that is associated with the single scene seems a bit mercenary to me.
9. Food is the core reason for most, if not all wars.
10. The last elections tended to stress how concerned people are with having. (I wonder if another war is coming?)
11. I wonder how much the phrase "The oil business gets in your blood," relates to its strong phallic and having associations?
12. War is the ultimate pentacle of patriarchy and of masturbation.
13. I think we should scrap all organizations that don't place women and men upon an equal footing.
14. Doesn't part of the pain of divorce have to do with a having orientation? (i.e., you owned that other person, and now you don't. (You allowed part of your identity, values, ego, ..., be tied to having that person; and now that they are gone you are less than you were.))
15. I have to learn to take risks.
16. I have spent a lot of my life, so far, denying myself and simply filling out a role. (I have to shift my focus from the shoulds to the coulds.)
17. There are no teachers, just fellow students.
18. By tying ourselves to one religion, we limit ourselves to that ritual and group of people. By tying ourselves to the universe instead, we could tie ourselves to all others. (In seeking an individual unity with the universe, we bind ourselves to all others more completely than does the unity to a church group. (The communal unity of the church isolates its members from those outside of the community.))