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You can’t talk to a caterpillar in butterfly language: It won’t land.
I read my Rob Brezsny horoscope every Tuesday morning. I use it as guidance, I use it as a possible context for my week.
Last week my horoscope was:
Continue reading “Caterpillar, what does it take to enter butterfly state? At least temporarily…”
The best way to examine whether emotions give you a reliable internal guidance system is looking at the flip side of emotions.
In emotional terms, for example, love’s opposite is hate, disgust, being appalled, repelled. But if you look at your emotions, these opposites are right there, right behind the emotion: love… They come together like the front of your hand and the back of your hand. You are in perpetual ambivalence, yoyo-ing back and forth, ups and downs, and incoherence.
Love, the one that vibrates at 525 or so, is not an emotion. Love is a commitment to love.
Love is a commitment to accept another human exactly the way they are and exactly the way they aren’t. Whether they do the right thing, love you back, chew their food with their mouth open, lower back the lid on the toilet, or leave the top off the tooth paste.
Commitment. Not a promise, a commitment.
No ifs, no buts, no conditions.
No action necessary, just acceptance.
No show of love, no giving till it hurts, no nice talk… those are not part of love, they are societal demands.
Continue reading “Emotions are like firestorms, they cause incoherence, and are the most manipulated aspects of a human”
I shared a few bits here and there today with my chiropractor… He has 13 capacities used.
The conversation was an utter and total failure.
Capacities, abilities, is a whole new concept, and he wasn’t even getting a glimpse of what I was talking about. Very interesting.
It seems that the mistaken belief is that you can learn anything… including being an investor like Warren Buffet… that is a total illusion: you cannot learn anything that you don’t have the capacities for.
Most types of learning, like classes, coaching, etc. don’t take you to a place where the capacity missing would turn on, because you are ready for it and need it, It is not deep enough water, so the sink or swim would apply. Especially if you think you should be able to do it…
Big mistake.
Continue reading “Could you learn to be an investor like Warren Buffet? If you had the time, the teachers, the money?”
