Tenses of Being

October 6, 2009 · Posted in Personal · Comment 
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Knowledge represents the past.

Anything you can know has already happened.  What you  know is based on perceptions of the past: taught to you by others or memories from your own experiences.

Imagination represents the future.

We imagine things that could be:  maybe things we want to be,  maybe things that will be.  They are possibilities.  The future is a cloud of possibilities.

Awareness is now.

Now is neither knowledge nor imagination.  Awareness is the bridge between what has been and what will be.



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Can We See Without Desire?

September 3, 2009 · Posted in Personal · Comment 
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Today I heard a man repeat the old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.  It caused me to pause and think about just how extensive the effects of desire are upon our “eye”.

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