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July 2009 
What inspires you most about the world?
Posted on Oct 13th, 2008
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Shameslaya
Shameslaya
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 13, 2008:
I tried to answer this question four times and all of it came out stale and false.....thing is, I don't know what inspires me to reach out for greater degrees of inclusion, vitality and transparency but I certainly am inspired to do so on a daily basis......
I don't find that the sweet picture of an unfolding lotus blossom is an accurate analogy of my awakening chakras.....I am an underside view of an octopus with flailing brailling tentacles exploring Kosmos with fiery vigour and enstaunched compassion (real not idiot)...I am actively cocreating my reality and not merely opening unto something already given....evolution is itself evolving.....and that evolvement is not possible without cocreation.....
Maybe it's the knowledge of this...which is the same thing as knowing the essential goodness of the world...which truely inspires me.....
To inspire is to breathe in, to take in the whole sheeboodle, the open sky of pure emptiness meeting the love of the octopus....the macabre puppy love of the sadist entwined with the covert sadism of the masochist....and I'd love to get into something wordy now but it's off to work.
Warmly, Jon x
I don't find that the sweet picture of an unfolding lotus blossom is an accurate analogy of my awakening chakras.....I am an underside view of an octopus with flailing brailling tentacles exploring Kosmos with fiery vigour and enstaunched compassion (real not idiot)...I am actively cocreating my reality and not merely opening unto something already given....evolution is itself evolving.....and that evolvement is not possible without cocreation.....
Maybe it's the knowledge of this...which is the same thing as knowing the essential goodness of the world...which truely inspires me.....
To inspire is to breathe in, to take in the whole sheeboodle, the open sky of pure emptiness meeting the love of the octopus....the macabre puppy love of the sadist entwined with the covert sadism of the masochist....and I'd love to get into something wordy now but it's off to work.
Warmly, Jon x
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Jon,
I stared at this question this morning, and couldn't think of anything wise or creative to say, then I realised what inspires me these days. You do!!
Dont stop
Love
Clare
“I don't find that the sweet picture of an unfolding lotus blossom is an accurate analogy of my awakening chakras…..I am an underside view of an octopus with flailing brailling tentacles exploring Kosmos with fiery vigour and enstaunched compassion (real not idiot)…I am actively cocreating my reality and not merely opening unto something already given….evolution is itself evolving…..and that evolvement is not possible without cocreation…..”
Thank you!!! I realize that for marketing purposes organizations, conferences, and books need to paint an enticing image but sometimes I think that the New Age community is unbalanced in its depiction of life.
Suffering is a part of life, I don't think that we can escape it totally. I think that we can minimize it.
The Law of Attraction and other key concepts are work, whether people want to acknowledge it or not, you can't just think it and it happens.
I love your depiction, it's real, it's honest, and just as valuable as a lotus unfolding.
jon - I clicked and thought I was going to an other blog and the words were so muchh more complex than what I am used to reading on that person's blog. I was all the way to the end of your post here and still thinking, wow, this is uncharacteristic… and then saw your signature and ah – recognition, smiling recognition.
how can I recognize you just through words typed into a computer? – no handwriting samples, no voice to give you away, no face even really, just an avatar photo now and then, but I wasn't even looking at the avatar. it was something more subtle that I recognized, more essential maybe. a certain sparkle in your eyes and a winking knowingness makes it into your blog posts.
thanks for that. I enjoy it.
Aw Clare, that's really sweet. Thank you.
Hi Willow…yep i'll go for raw spraying gouache in lieu of watercolour angel insipidity any old day…..and thanx for recognising my honesty, in particular.
O Dawn…that's a lovely thing to say, I am really touched….
What I get collectively from these three comments is that you don't feel that you have to peer beyond my words to see me but you recognise me within my words…having spent much of my life hiding behind words, it's important for me to express myself in a way which enables me to be seen without compromising either my vocabulary of conceptual hopscotch.
I feel seen here on Gaia. Thank you for accepting me.
Jon xx