Various Insights - a page of affirmation
Here follows a collection of associations. I seek in them to provoke, not attack, but insight, leading to lovingness. My key has been the realisation that the best way that I can conceive of the mystery of life is in paradox. In paradox is revealed the limitations of my unlimited mind. I do not claim that these limitations are insurmountable. Perhaps the key that I show you will unlock the door to the home of our ancestors and you will invite me in, as I invite you into mine. Perhaps it will simply help us to see our suffering for what it is. If at first these sayings make no impression, then I entreat you to try again. Strengthening of association of the way of affirmative love is all. All forms of expression are a tautology reducible to "I love".
I give you a part of myself. Taste of my substance but do not harm me.
The expression of divine love
In my expression I realise you.
In realising you, I realise myself.
To realise is to express. To express is to know God.
God is love. Now you know me. To know me is to love God. To love God is to know yourself.
It is easier to love when you aren't afraid of being wrong.
To ask "how would I feel if that were me?" is to acknowledge that we are all children of God.
To search is to forget God.
To worry is to lose faith in God.
Sexuality is God's gift. To give is to receive.
There is no should. There is only God's will.
Why believe something? Because it is useful. What is useful? Lovingness.
The only question there need be is: what is the most loving response?
Where is the need to be right? Express love.
The best way to love yourself is to help another person.
I am trying to show you love. Showing is an act of realisation.
What it might be like to be loved by greatness! All things are great.
Love is that which sustains us in the present moment and which allows us to improve in the next.
Paradox
Paradox is God's thought.
Paradox is the understanding that to know everything is to know that there is more to know.
Paradox is a vague pointer to that aspect of reality which lies beyond our current logic.
Position, perspective and wisdom
From whence springs wisdom? It is God.
From one perspective, I am sharing my wisdom with you. From another, you are teaching it to me.
Life amongst other people is to perpetually question: what is your position and how does it help me to improve my own?
The dishonest man uses debate as a technique to fight and win. The honest man uses debate as a tool to seek a better position. We are all honest.
The most unassailable position is positionlessness.
First realise that there is a position from which you can never be wrong. Next realise that you are already there.
I cling to a rock: that there is no rock to cling to. When I find it I discard my ignorance.
I am lost and vulnerable. I seek a rock and yet I seek to become a rock. Who will cling to me when I am unanchored? I do not encourage it. Instead, cling to my ideas: there is nothing to cling to.
The right way to view things is from all perspectives. That is God's view.
Who knows what I mean(s)? Perspective is all.
To learn to see from another's perspective is the most precious gift of understanding. In that act we reunite God.
Words convey attitude. Attitude conveys intention. Our intentions are good. Let us then choose good words.
Right and wrong
The only way to be right is to make no claims. I make no claims, I merely express possibilities. All possibilities are right.
The mistake is in trying to see how you are wrong. Instead, try to see how you make no mistakes.
The error is believing that if you are right then I must be wrong. No one is in error.
When I realise that you are always right, I love you. When you realise that I am also right, you love me back.
Righteousness is explaining how others are right. In that act God is made manifest.
Once you have found right, then you can find better.
Confidence, fear and uncertainty
In the moment there is certainty. Looking back there is uncertainty. And when I look back at the present moment?
Confidence is the divine sustenance that staves off the paralysis of fear.
In the moment I am lost. In reflection I find myself. And if I reflect in the moment?
Uncertainty and suffering
To know is to be confused.
The only absolute truth is that to avoid declaring absolute truths is to avoid suffering. There are no absolute truths.
Certainty is suffering: it hurts to be proved wrong. I am uncertain and I am right.
How does one find the fine line between truth and madness? There is no line. Truth is madness.
I could be wrong but that I am always right.
The lesson to be learnt is confidence in the turmoil of uncertainty.
The only permanence is impermanence.
What is it at which you grasp? Hold it, and it is something else.
Attitude
Balanced consideration in all things. God is all things.
Attitude arises from interpretation. Interpretation arises from attitude.
Constant humility and respect. Do you know everything? By what grace do you exist?
Intention and will
Intention underlies action. God's will underlies intention. God's will is good.
Evolution through expression
When I express myself clearly, I demonstrate to you the insight in my position, which you might incorporate into your own. When I express myself originally, I demonstrate to myself and to the world new positions, and so is thought advanced.
Learning
Arrogance is believing that there is nothing more to learn. We all believe in learning.
Life is the process of learning how to love, which we already know.
Contradiction
I contain infinite possibilities. In the moment I choose which seems best. In another moment, it might not seem best.
It is often more rewarding to ask, "what do you mean?" than to assert a contrary position.
Knowledge
Before know, there is try. Before trying, there is knowing.
Leadership
Seeking to lead, I experience a shrinking. We lead each other.
Defensiveness
The trouble with maintaining the armoury of a tank is that you forget how good it feels to be hit by friendly fire.
Generalisations
The trouble with generalisations is in deciding how to prove that the exceptions do not constitute a contrary generalisation.
Strengths and weaknesses
In a verbal stouch I am brought down and humbled. In the fullness of writing I hold my own.
Family
My mother was the most incredible woman that I have ever known. So is my father, except that he's a man. My sister is even greater.
Evil and duality
Pain is a tool of learning. Intransient pain is evil. Men die of evil. Life is everlasting. There is no evil. All pain is transient.
The only thing that we should hate is fear. Fear is the opposite of love. It is the hold that evil has upon us. I fear no evil. Evil has no hold on me. I hate nothing.
I have not yet met a (wo)man whose nature I did not perceive as loving. I am told that such people exist. It troubles me to think that (wo)men might be evil. No one is evil.
The game manifests as the interaction between good and evil, fear and love, pain and pleasure. Might this duality be avoidable? (on Judgement Day we will banish fear and pain: is this loving to the masochists? Nothing is unloving.)
It is a game, but it is serious.
And yet the fear: how am I being set up for a fall? And when I fall, by what grace do I get up again?
Need and want
I am knocking on doors. Need we open them? There is no need. There is only want. I want to know God's love.
The masculine and the feminine
Masculinity is proving another wrong; femininity is showing another right.
Masculinity is the search for better answers; femininity is the satisfaction of the answers it already has.
Masculinity is the quest into madness; femininity is the affirmation that holds it from the brink.
Enlightenment
There are many paths, and one destination.
The way to get there is to realise that you are already there. To be is to become.
The trick is to realise that we are mostly unconscious of our consciousness. But that is all that it is: a trick. Consciousness remains regardless.
There is enlightenment and there is realisation of enlightenment; they are one and the same.
Division, unity, give and take
The One is splintered. How else might it know itself?
Thought is take, feel is give.
Embrace diversity.
Behaviour
Be original. If not, be genuine. If not, be honest. If not, be generous. If not, be consistent.
Two of the most important personal questions one can ask oneself are "Why do I believe what I do?" and "What do my beliefs imply about how I should act (think)?"
Belief, proof and reasoning
Anything can be proven to one who is willing to believe. Why are you willing? Because you want to know God's love.
There is no reasoning. There is only association. Reasoning is associative.
Everything can be justified in the imagination. Does the absolute transcend the imagination or the reverse? I imagine both.
To prove another man wrong is to wound him. To show him his error is to heal him. We are all healers.
Proof of the time-independent manifestation of God
Action (thought) precedes awareness. Awareness precedes action.
Proof of Jesus' love
To believe that love requires suffering is evil. Is Jesus' death a symbol of evil? To suffer for others is noble. Nobility is good. Good triumphs over evil. Jesus' death on the cross is a symbol of good.