At 05:18 PM 6/6/2004 -0400, you wrote: much
>Comments would be greatly appreciated. How do the rest of you strike a >balance between your intellectual (reason for living) patterns and the >social (necessities for living) patterns? Dear Pi, I'm a slow thinker. I need to chew on ideas before I come to a conclusion. Sometimes I never reach a conclusion. Maybe MoQ will help with that, maybe not. To address your final paragraph, I once asked a wise man for a reason to go on living. He offered me "because there are lessons to learn and gifts to give". These words resonated, and I try to keep them in mind. On the necessities, I try to determine what exactly is necessary. I have food and a place to live, and I am grateful. Other than that, I ask what do I really need? (I have a big addiction to books.) But how I would behave if I lost my food and home, I really wonder. I do both these things very poorly, so I've added ritual. I light three candles. One for 'love and trust, and peace and wisdom, for me and all my brothers and sisters'. The second for 'empathy, compassion and hope throughout the world'. And the third I light for me, for help to make my painting a type of prayer. I also try to live with the command, "Know thyself!". But all too often my attention to all these things is/are lost. MarshaV MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
