Surviving the dream

On the days when it’s hard to live my dream,
I survive by the words of others who are ‘alone’ and living their dreams.

Diana Nyad, says to me:

"Just remember, remember if the body’s hurting and the mind is weak, that you want to do this."

"This 90 minutes, how do I get through it?"

Ke$ha said to me just this morning:

"I came to realize a long time ago that the only constant is gonna be me & at first it was kinda heart-breaking, but this is my life. Making music & sharing it with my fans is what I love more than anything else in the world. I know it’s not gonna be easy to have any kind of personal life, but I’m lucky enough to be living my dream so the least I can do is dive in all the way."

Glenn Villeneuve from Nat Geo’s Life Below Zero told me:

"This is the best way of life for me to live & I’m gonna do it as long as I can."

Sue Aikens from Nat Geo’s Life Below Zero comforted me with:

"Happiness is a very brief bust of emotion, but to be content is to be comfortable in a style of life."

A song from Night of the Comet shared:

"Now that you got everything that you wanted, you’re gonna have to learn to deal with the dream."

And Zoe from American Horror Story - Coven put me under a spell:

"Be in your nature."

Iyanla Vanzant reminds me:

"Your vision has to be self-sustaining."

And Daniel Esquivel from Project Runway All Stars assures me:

"You can do anything with silk organza."

Thank God I have some.

~magick~
Meliss

Ps:  TAN CATS ARE WORTH A THOUSAND BACKSTABBERS AND/OR PIGS, as The Hubby calls them.  "Oink, Oink, my good man."  We're so glad we got the better end of the deal.  :)

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? 2

 

“The universe is mostly empty.” 

“We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid.  But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever.  It’s completely insubstantial.  Take a look at an atom.  We think of it as a kind of hard ball.  Then we say, “Oh, well, not really.  It’s this little tiny point of really dense matter right at the center, surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud of electrons popping in and out of existence.”  But then it turns out that that’s not even right.  Even the nucleus, which we think of as so dense pops in and out of existence just as readily as the electrons do.  The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter is that it’s more like a thought - it’s like a concentrated bit of information.”

“Within all the atoms and molecules, all the space within them, the particles take up an insignificant amount of the volume of an atom or molecule. The rest of it is vacuum.”

**quotes all from the movie What the Bleep do We Know**

So, all of the stuff we see around us that appears solidly created of atoms and molecules, which contain smaller parts inside of them, do, in actuality, contain mostly empty space.
In other words, nothing.
They contain mostly nothing.
?
So, I’m sitting on a bunch of empty space strung together that somehow looks like a couch and holds me up off the floor, comfortably, because I think it does?
because I believe it does?
What they’re telling me is that what makes up this couch is something less comparable to what we would call ‘A Thing’
and MORE comparable to what we know as ‘Thought.’
Wow.
Furthermore, given this information, my mind has said,
“Well, then, there are no ‘Things’,
there is only forms of ‘Thought’ and ‘Consciousness.’”
Is that right, I ask myself?

They said, “a vacuum”.......what I know in association with the word vacuum is that it sucks everything around it, to it.
I wonder, is that why it’s so easy to get ‘sucked into’ materialism??
And away from consciousness?
The solidness of the couch is easier to believe and ‘buy into’ (so to speak) than the other.
I wonder if it’s because,
IF the other was true,
that would mean.........

~magick~
Meliss

Of Dark Nights of the Soul and One-Eyed, Polka-Dot Bellied Cats

"Many people think that the point in life is to solve their problems and be happy.  But happiness is usually a fleeting sensation, and you never get rid of problems.  Your purpose in life may be to become more who you are and more engaged with the people and the life around you, to really live your life.  That may sound obvious, yet many people spend their time avoiding life.  They are afraid to let it flow through them, and so their vitality gets channeled into ambitions, addictions, and preoccupations that don’t give them anything worth having.  A dark night may appear, paradoxically, as a way to return to living.  It pares life down to its essentials and helps you get a new start.”

a quote from Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals by Thomas Moore.

I really like how he calls them life's ordeals.  Ordeals, yeah that's a good word for them.

swimming champion, Diana Nyad taught me today:


"It wasn't so much what did I want to do, it was who I want to be."

"Am I living the life that I can admire?"

"and never giving up, and finding a way through your obstacles, and finding your grit and your will."


~magick~
Meliss

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? 1

“Quantum Physics is, essentially speaking, is the physics of possibility.”

“How can a system or an object be in two or more states at the same time?  It’s very easy.  Instead of thinking of things as things.  We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice.  You have to banish that kind of thinking.  Instead you really have to recognize that even the material world around us” “all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness.  And I’m choosing moment to moment out of those movements to bring my actual experience into manifestation.  This is the only radical thinking that you need to do.  But it is so radical - it’s so difficult because our tendency is that the world is already out there, independent of my experience.  It is not.  Quantum physics has been so clear about it.  Heisenberg himself, co-discoverer of quantum physics said “Atoms are not things, they’re only tendencies.”  So, instead of thinking of things, you have to think of possibilities.  They’re all possibilities of consciousness.”

-from What the Bleep do We Know-

~magick~
Meliss

Ps:  It is possible that a video could show up in our lives next Friday.......but it's not a thing, it is only a possibility.

2nd guessing

~magick~
Meliss

I always knew it was true

“God will give you glimpses” “to let you know that you’re not normal.  You’re not ordinary.  You don’t fit in with them.  You can’t be one of them.  (So) Stop trying to act like the rest of your 'friends'.  You are different.  My hand is upon your life.  I call you out from among them.  Be ye separated and I will be your God and ye shall be my people.” Bishop T. D. Jakes

Just because the parade has different taste in music than you and they keep telling you there's something wrong with your taste, doesn't mean they're right.  Their opinion isn't right for you.  They're opinion can be right for them, about them, in their life.

And sometimes, you'll find that you have to separate yourself from the parade so you can finally hear the music you're supposed to be marching to instead of their voices telling you you're not normal or ordinary and meaning it to hurt you.

Remind me to tell you about snide comments one day.

Grab onto those Godly Glimpses and ride it like a rocket.  It's your life dear, sweet one....make something wondrous out of it - start today!!

~magick~
Meliss