--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> > You reminded me of that, when you said to always strive to live
our
> > dreams,
>
> Thats blasphemy Jim. Seeking to live your dreams is taking your
> attention out of the eternal NOW. You can't honor the
potentiality of
> what could be (=dreams), and be truly enlightened. You are
obvioulsy
> now working for Luciffer and the Illuminati with your calls to
abandon
> complacency and to dare to dream -- to envigorate and enliven the
> potentiality of what could be.
>
> > something which has been my guiding principle ever since I
> > can remember, even as a very very young child. And it is a fail-
> > proof way to live; I either achieve my dreams, or figure out why
> > not. This crazy thinking that we have to settle for less, or
that we
> > need to be content with something less than a perfect life is
just
> > mental and emotional trash. It is through the many many attempts
to
> > realize our dreams that we find out who we are, where we are and
> > what it really takes to get there.:-)
>
> My fathers favorite saying, of which he had a plaque on his desk
with
> it inscribed:
>
> "Reach for the stars. You may not reach them, but you won't come up
> with a handful of mud either."
>
> Poor man. Stuck outside of the Eternal Now. Daring to Dream.
Daring to
> envision what could be. And then Realizing his dreams. Poor
pitiful
> man. So totally unenlightened.
>
Hi, joking aside, the eternal NOW which has been spoken of does not
exclude dreams and desires, any more than an apple tree stops
growing, so that it can remain in NOW. There is a significant
difference between imagining the concept of eternal NOW, and
experiencing it, moment, by moment, by moment. Its simple, really.:-)