Me and You and the Sound of
Children Laughing
"The more I attempted to be ‘me’ the more ‘me’s I found there
were." (Hugh Prather)
Larry didn't know which "me" he was or if he was coming or going, so
consequently didn't know which direction to go. The Merry-Go-Round he
is on is going in circles, and left him wondering who oh who am I and
is this all there is to this life.
To remedy this condition he decided to leave town to find the "me"
that was missing. He wanted to find a purpose for living and the
answer to the question-Where is love? Now he was doing everything for
the gimmi gimmi "me", who was never satisfied with brand new shoes and
a trip to Disneyland.
Larry thought if he found happiness then he would have everything
but happiness does not happen without love and it is not found it is
created.
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the
wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful.
What you’ll discover will be yourself."(Alan Alda) Intuition: the
ability to understand something immediately, without the need for
conscious reasoning."
Larry was a homeless waif. He had a house but not a home; and a
house is not a home without someone being there to love you. So Larry
went somewhere to learn to fly and sing, to become somebody, to find
his intuition, love,and a purposed for living.
He wanted to discover a new "me". But to find your wonderful self
you had to be in service to others. You must give to receive. This
service would require Larry to throw the selfish ego out and examined
his intentions and motives and remembering that you have to find out
who you are before you become loved and you must love to become
beloved.
"Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is
not something one finds; it is something one creates." (Thomas Szasz)
Larry had to create the"new me" because when he died he didn't want
to be in the pack of hysterical people running to catch Promised Land
Train that was leaving them forlornly on the platform as it went off
carrying the sound children laughing and the scent of spring.
The train conductor cried from the rear platform of the Promised
Land Train.(It was this or endless death.) Why are you late? Where
have you been? You missed the ride of your life! Did you give enough?
Did you forgive? Did you?
Why ask me? I didn't do nothing!
, Larry cried back and the conductor hollered back, that's what I'm
talking about.
"Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride, before you truly
see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world." (Jean
Anouilh)
On Jul 22, 7:29 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are we in control of ourselves, our lives, our families, our worlds?
> Or are we just aware and knowing what one can do if something
> unpredictable happens?
> There are many explanations for why we do what we do. For example,
> Thomas Metzinger's new Book, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind
> and the Myth of the Self, seriously questions whether there is even an
> "I", let alone a "we." And Douglas Hofstadter's book, I Am a Strange
> Loop, contends that the "self" is a recursively self-referencing
> memory loop.
>
> Hundreds of experiments by Benjamin Libet and others tend to
> conclusively confirm that our brain prepares to execute our decisions
> before we are even aware that anything is being decided. It alerts us
> to our decisions only in time (a split second) for us to veto them.
>
> Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet, as well as Benjamin
> Libet's book, Mind Time, and Walter J. Freeman's book, How Brains Make
> Up Their Minds.
>
> It is quite likely that we have no so-called "free will" other than
> veto power over our specific actions. Our free will may consist
> instead of 1) being mindful about any ill-serving subliminal
> intentions and tendencies that inform our actions so that we are
> accordingly prepared to veto any action that they correspondingly
> inform, and of 2) programming (or reprogramming) our subliminal
> intentions to be more productive of the experiencing that we most
> desire.
>
> Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control?
> What do YOU think?
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