I have to tell you Priya, this post of yours gave me such a heart liftπ₯° I just awoke from a nap (I'm still jet lagged from a visit 'down under') and today it's so grizzly outside here in Southern NH with grey skies and an ice storm making the branches on each tree bend down low with buds of little icicles (the spelling of icicle looks wβ¦
I have to tell you Priya, this post of yours gave me such a heart liftπ₯° I just awoke from a nap (I'm still jet lagged from a visit 'down under') and today it's so grizzly outside here in Southern NH with grey skies and an ice storm making the branches on each tree bend down low with buds of little icicles (the spelling of icicle looks wrong, but I checked and it says that's it.) And I love reading your writing and I love the idea of your post and I love the quotes you shared too!
And my favorite instructions for living a life come from Mary Oliver:
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.β¨πππποΈ
P.s. in response to this that you write: "Iβm going to write essays about these three topics - dreams (what do they mean, where do they come from), ***the self (can we trust ourselves?)*** and living in the heart of a paradox- over the next three weeks."
In another lovely moment of synchronicity, Jamie and I had a Buddhist sutta study Zoom gathering today with a Buddhist monk friend, and he was talking a lot about the *self* and how "self" is just a construct that often creates suffering. (I think what the Buddhists call "self" Eckhart Tolle calls "ego" - i.e. that sense of self we identify with as being superior or inferior.)
We discussed the difference between:
What is it that gives rise to joy?
vs.
How can I feel joy?
And how the latter often brings grasping/clinging. The sense of *self* is embedded in the quest. What the sense of self is and how it keeps slipping into the picture.
Camilla, thank you! I love the perspectives you share. As I wrote that I was going to write about trusting self, I thought of how a teacher from long ago talked about attachment to the self as the problem! I almost talked myself out of writing that essay right there π. Or, should I write from the Jungian perspective of the archetype of the Self? I guess I will have to think about it!
I'm so enjoying Beth Kempton's writing class at the moment called, INK & FLAME and am a bit obsessed with the metaphor of fire and fuel and volcanos representing what wants to come into our conscious awareness from our unconsciousness. Perhaps you have lots percolating in your unconsciousness about what is the "self" and what do we trust. I can't wait to read what comes through you Priyaπβ₯οΈπποΈ
I have to tell you Priya, this post of yours gave me such a heart liftπ₯° I just awoke from a nap (I'm still jet lagged from a visit 'down under') and today it's so grizzly outside here in Southern NH with grey skies and an ice storm making the branches on each tree bend down low with buds of little icicles (the spelling of icicle looks wrong, but I checked and it says that's it.) And I love reading your writing and I love the idea of your post and I love the quotes you shared too!
And my favorite instructions for living a life come from Mary Oliver:
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.β¨πππποΈ
P.s. in response to this that you write: "Iβm going to write essays about these three topics - dreams (what do they mean, where do they come from), ***the self (can we trust ourselves?)*** and living in the heart of a paradox- over the next three weeks."
In another lovely moment of synchronicity, Jamie and I had a Buddhist sutta study Zoom gathering today with a Buddhist monk friend, and he was talking a lot about the *self* and how "self" is just a construct that often creates suffering. (I think what the Buddhists call "self" Eckhart Tolle calls "ego" - i.e. that sense of self we identify with as being superior or inferior.)
We discussed the difference between:
What is it that gives rise to joy?
vs.
How can I feel joy?
And how the latter often brings grasping/clinging. The sense of *self* is embedded in the quest. What the sense of self is and how it keeps slipping into the picture.
β₯οΈπποΈ
Love this, Camilla. It makes me think of that teaching that happiness is not a goal. Happiness is an outcome of making soul-centered choices.
ooh, I love that too Julie!π₯°β₯οΈπποΈ
Julie, Iβm reminded of this quote from the Dalai Lama.
βHappiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.β
β Dalai Lama XIV
YES!!
Camilla, thank you! I love the perspectives you share. As I wrote that I was going to write about trusting self, I thought of how a teacher from long ago talked about attachment to the self as the problem! I almost talked myself out of writing that essay right there π. Or, should I write from the Jungian perspective of the archetype of the Self? I guess I will have to think about it!
Yes, more fuel for the Fireπ₯
I'm so enjoying Beth Kempton's writing class at the moment called, INK & FLAME and am a bit obsessed with the metaphor of fire and fuel and volcanos representing what wants to come into our conscious awareness from our unconsciousness. Perhaps you have lots percolating in your unconsciousness about what is the "self" and what do we trust. I can't wait to read what comes through you Priyaπβ₯οΈπποΈ
Thank you, Camilla!