Use What You Have

 

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
— Auguste Rodin

 

Each experience that comes our way is all grist for the mill of soul. If we live uncountable lives than its all an act anyway so we might as well experience everything we can. We can adapt viewpoints and create whatever we wish and each experience makes us wiser. The pieces all go back in the box at the end and it all balances. Our soul on its journey may encompass everything and nothing gets missed. Both everything and nothing matters in the (very) long run tho love and other strong emotions empower us. At least that is my working theory of the moment.
Blessings, G

 

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The Butterfly EffectThe Butterfly Effect by G A Rosenberg

 

Weaving Complex UniversesWeaving Complex Universes by G A Rosenberg

 

Giving Them L — Like Living Laughter

 

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
— Albert Camus

 

Live Life Longing Like
Lillies lacking lift
Love Languishing looks
Laugh long lively
Lift Laughter loftily
Light Loving Lanterns
Label Language Lazily
Lead Learners least
lest letters leave.
Let Liberal License lie
like liquid limits.
Load little loneliness
Lose loaded loyalty.
Lower luggage lustily
Locate lost lightning.
Leverage likely links.
Lacerate lamented landings
Learn Lethal Legalese.
Limber leather lovingly
Lace likelier limbs
Lionize loadstars laughingly
Lifetimes lived Loquaciously

 

Blessings, G

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Drawing Fire UpwardsDrawing Fire Upwards by G A Rosenberg

 

Sky GlowSky Glow by G A Rosenberg

 

Sharing Tales and Chapters

 

“There are no happy endings… There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories – perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years – and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.”
― Charles de Lint

 

Sharing tales by the fire
and knowing that for awhile
we’ll travel together
Lovers, friends, strangers
exchanging gifts, words, experiences
sharing a bed, an adventure, a lifetime
or several.
We may part one day for awhile
yet in parting we leave the gift
of chapters in each other’s tales
on the unending road ahead.
Blessings, G

 

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Invoking HerInvoking Her by G A Rosenberg

 

Field TheoryField Theory by G A Rosenberg

 

What We Know, Who We Are

 

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky

 

What would you trade for knowledge? Would you be willing to give up what you think you know? Are you able to admit that everything you believe is at best partially right and is in all probability mainly wrong? Are you what you know? Many people seem to believe they are and when challenged they fight for their assumptions as if their very identity itself is being challenged. It is only by surrendering ignorance that we can attain knowledge. What we have learned up until now has to continually be smashed on the rocks of life’s experience in order for us to learn more. This can be devastating if we believe we are what we know. Most times I tend to believe I am more defined by my ignorance than my knowledge.
Blessings, G

 

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<h5 style="text-align:center;"Energized2Energized by G A Rosenberg

 
<h5 style="text-align:center;"Spatial AnomalysSpatial Anomalies by G A Rosenberg

 

In Love With Life

 

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.
— Jack Kerouac

 

I love life even the rough parts. If anything, it is at the times when things are roughest that I tend to appreciate my life the most. As far as we know and can know its the only game in town. We can change it. We can evolve it yet still we will have rough times. People won’t do what we want them to do. We may not have money. We may be starving and yet we’re alive to experience it all. Either things will get better or they will stay rough yet at this moment, no matter how badly we may be suffering, the fact that we are able to suffer to me is a cause for celebration. If we are a reflection of an eternal being and each life is merely a schoolroom or drama that we put on to experience than we have nothing to fear from death and every hardship is somewhat irrelevant. If this is the only life we have and this is the only expression of my being that will ever exist than I may as well live it to the fullest with the highest highs and lowest lows possible. Either way I’m here and this is what is happening now. This moment will never come again. For well or not, we might as well celebrate it.
Blessings, G

 

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Arachne at the CentreArachne at the Centre by G A Rosenberg

 

Scarlet RaysScarlet Rays by G A Rosenberg

 

Drawing in the Experience

 

“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience may be a person or it may be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time, but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space.”
— Melvin Burgess

 

I needed joy in my life
and so I met you
I drew you in beautiful colours.
Hours of laughter and love ensued
Who needed drugs when we had each other.

 

I needed stress in my life
and so the bills came
We found careers with much success.
Hours of work to make ends meet
We needed each other but had no time

 

I needed to know sorrow
and so you were gone
Too much time apart and too tired.
Hours of loneliness ensued
What’s needed now I don’t have a clue

— G A Rosenberg

 

Amazing how no matter what emotional or spiritual button we need pushed, we find a way to draw it to us. Perhaps our understanding grows and we grow wiser with each experience as we come to understand each nuance of emotion. Sometimes we just need to let them rain.
Blessings, G

 

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Projection of ConsciousnessProjection of Consciousness by G A Rosenberg

 

Warrior of ShadowsWarrior of Shadows by G A Rosenberg

 

Keep Your Arms and Legs Inside the Car at all Times

 

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

 

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a situation (whether it be friendship, job or romantic entanglement) that you knew was not going to work and that you did not want to be there no matter what and you just wished that you could back out of it gracefully? Unfortunately in those types of situations (life lessons from the universe) it is impossible to leave without entangling oneself deeper. This has happened to me many times. Each time I saw it as a ride, an attraction that I bought the ticket for and paid the only coin we really have for life experience, my attention and so I might as well enjoy it. Like any amusement park ride I knew that it would be of limited duration and that eventually it would come to an end and I could go on knowing that having experienced it once, I need never do so again. At least I wouldn’t have to experience that particular ride. Life tho is a series of overlapping rides some of which we enjoy, some of which make us nauseous. We see them through. We just have to remember to hold on tight and wait for them to end.
Blessings, G

 

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Quetzalcoatl StudyQuetzalcoatl Study by G A Rosenberg

 

Rising TOgether in Twilight's HallRising Together in Twilight’s Hall by G A Rosenberg

 

Learning Critical Thought

 

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
— Vladimir Nabokov

 

Don’t speak unless you know what you are talking about would seem to make a lot of sense. I know I’ve thought it enough times when my fifteen year old son who knows as only a fifteen year old can with total certainty what life’s about starts displaying loudly his opinions on things like marriage, jobs, relationships, politics etc. Yet if we don’t present our thoughts for inspection and dialectic than how can we test them? Is it not also experience to say what we’re thinking and have it challenged so that we can think critically about it? Critical thinking seems as I advance in years to be becoming more and more important and yet fewer and fewer people seem to practice it. Without critical thought about our experiences how do we put them into context. It is only by constantly challenging our own ideas by either discussion or experience that we can truly grow.
Blessings, G

 

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Setian EchoesSetian Echoes by G A Rosenberg

 

FireBrand (Aim)Firebrand (Aim) by G A Rosenberg
Exploding Into a New FrameExploding Into a New Frame by G A Rosenberg

 

Representing Our Species

 

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
― Terence McKenna

 

When is the last time you explored your world? By that I mean when is the last time you woke up and looked at your every day existence as a stranger, someone who had never seen it before and questioned what you saw and experienced? Does it all make sense? What wonders did you see that you might have missed experiencing it in the same old way? What new insights did the stranger in your life reveal to you and what were you able to do with it? We live so much of our lives accepting that what we experience is normal and forgetting that there is no such thing. How good a representative of our species are we? Isn’t that a great question to ask ourselves perhaps each day?
Blessings, G

 

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Seeing Into A Dark WorldSeeing Into A Dark World by G A Rosenberg

 

Rough PassageRough Passage by G A Rosenberg

Representing Our Species

 

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
― Terence McKenna

 

When is the last time you explored your world? By that I mean when is the last time you woke up and looked at your every day existence as a stranger, someone who had never seen it before and questioned what you saw and experienced? Does it all make sense? What wonders did you see that you might have missed experiencing it in the same old way? What new insights did the stranger in your life reveal to you and what were you able to do with it? We live so much of our lives accepting that what we experience is normal and forgetting that there is no such thing. How good a representative of our species are we? Isn’t that a great question to ask ourselves perhaps each day?
Blessings, G

 

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Seeing Into A Dark WorldSeeing Into A Dark World by G A Rosenberg

 

Rough PassageRough Passage by G A Rosenberg