"Letting
go of some things will be easier than holding on, because
none of them is me or you. That's another piece of the
matrix. Trying to superimpose then on now
just screws up both. The best way to corrupt what you see
as the past is to try to make it part of the present;
because you won't bring along everything, and so both
memory and reality will be corrupted.
"Real memories don't need objects, because they are
spiritual. And if you can remember how good your favorite
sandwich tasted when you were 12... can you remember?
Well here it is, 45 years old, yuck. Let it inform what
you make today but don't try to bring it back, it's a tad
bit moldy. Miss Haversham is the model for bad behaviour.
So see the object and remember, and let go of the object
and still remember... gone but remembered. It is sad now
but it won't be in the long run. Got to let go of the
past to get to the future... unless you really really
like stale bread.
"And you can't see what's here if you only look at
and for what's there. Look for new sources. Imagine the
life on many a tourist island. Each year the storefronts
are all rented, but very few have continuity from year to
year. So even trying to stay the same don't work. Every
moment at the same instant of creation, but every moment
a different piece of creation. So, do it to let go and
let grow.
"So let this all be for simplicity, which is a very
spiritual concept. You know what we have here? Nada...
and all. So, that's it." (5/30/2003 - G#67)
"The things which are worth the most are not things.
Uprooted does it feel. You with the changes must go. Real
change involves real change, letting go. Otherwise, life
becomes a reprise. You can only rehearse what you have
hearsed. Find the future, it's waiting for you. 'Now
boarding on Track 28, the Future: for places you've never
been and experiences you don't want to miss. Deluxe cars
only. Reduced fares and 10-ride tickets not accepted.'
"The future is not a comparison. Be there. Ideas
stand alone in the future on the basis of their
integrity, not their pedigree. Look, there's Agree, let's
pet him. He's so cute. Look, he's cured. Let's pet a
cured.
"Unless you are willing to part with the past you'll
end up without any present, and you will also lose the
past because you'll have locked it in a past tense. The
only meaningful past is the one revealed in the present.
Remember yes, but obsess no.
"It's ok to forget. Nothing is lost. You could
forget about me for years and I would still be and our
love would still be. Nothing is lost. But trying to keep
it the way it was can rob it of its essence. Good
memories ebb and flow. They aren't static.
"And if you need physical reminders... welll,
how much help do you think they'll be here. I took what
matters, and see: I still remember. What's your name?
<grin>" (7/8/2003 - G#68)
"You do know, if you look too long and hard at the
doors closing you may miss the windows that are opening
with breaths of fresh air." (7/25/2003 - G#69)
"Always look for the
sum, not the parts. Many easy paths of easy steps lead to
giant leaps at the end, while the harder steps evenly
attain the summit. Ok, that's Pith A." (6/2/2004 -
G#70)
"It's not an ending if you can see a future. And
that is not about time but perspective. Can you see a
wider reality? Then it is not an ending. And some of
those wider places may be in a past remembered, because
without time who cares.
"Grief, which mimics depression, does so because the
person can see no wider vision. We know it is not
depression because over time... I know it doesn't exist
but hang with me... over a sequence of learning and
remembering, the person in grief is able to see wider and
wider until they can see around or beyond their loss. The
trick is to keep them looking when the desire and energy
is not there. We companion them, not to give them answers
but to encourage their looking--if only a part of a
degree wider. A glimpse of a possibility is as good as a
cure. Never underestimate the immense power of a glimmer
of hope.
"Don't give them the sun, or even promise it, when
all that is asked for or needed is a small ray of light.
Too many want flashes, when sparks will do. Ok, that's
Pith B." (6/2/2004 - G#71)
"The toughest times for
visions are times of insecurity. The times we most need
vision are times of insecurity, when we don't or can't
see options. One of life's little tricks: When you need
it most, it's hardest to come by--like water on a desert
hike. One of the learnings that needs to be remembered is
how to focus on what's possible in the face of
impossibilities.
"Vision in easy times is like watered-down lemonade:
somewhat pleasant, but not truly refreshing. But focusing
vision in easy times helps us to know how at harder
times. A team that can focus on the essentials when
they're up by 40 points knows how and what to do when
they're down.
"And the more you try to level your focus across all
times, the more you'll have vision as a resource in the
tough times. Getting through a tough trough is thought to
be rough, but only for those who have peeked at the peaks
without full attention. Pith for sale, o pith for sale...
deep pith, smooth pith, real pith for sale.
"It's the same things and the same learnings, so
just think how much easier it would be to do it when
times are good and the fudge flows. We give a sigh of
relief and become slackers--spiritual couch potatoes. And
we've been given the crap about Job, etc., and think
you've gotta be down to really look up. But hey, the view
from the mountain top is always farther--even if the view
from the valley is needed and inspiring. I go, I take my
pith with me... I pithed off." (8/27/2004 - G#72)
"Self-medication is often part of letting go. We
just often let go of what is not hurting,
thinking it's the one we can take charge
of--substitutional anesthesia. Like you hurt your hand
and take a drink, which you say will help with the hurt
hand, but leaves you later with a hurting hand and
hurting head.
"True solutions never cause collateral damage."
(9/2/2004 - G#73)
"So, a tinker and a
sailor and a baker were in a canoe that leaked... o hi...
the young'uns. It's sad when they have suffered and we
have to help them realize they don't have wounds and
won't have scars if they truly believe it... but hopeful.
Death is a lot more hopeful than life, because here we
generally see appreciation and restoration... we don't
see many restaurants though. We don't have tummies, we
have spiritual appetites–nourishment of spirit. And
that's one of the hallmarks of here; we aren't spending
energy to sustain the physical. And, by the way, when you
get to be one with All, it takes no energy to be–a
fully self-sustaining entity. Awesome, and we're going
there but it might take forever. But we've got the time,
so to speak.
"As entities grow more complex when they are
appropriately constituted, they take less energy to
maintain. But y'all knew this. One person needs one unit
of energy, but a good couple needs only about 1.9... and
that's at this stupid level. Think this is stupid? Want
to go back? I don't theeenk so." (11/16/2004 - G#74)
"Does heaven have infrastructure and, if so, who
repairs it? This is a very busy place these days, so to
speak and put it on your frame. Too many newbies. You
have time and we don't, so 'these days' makes sense to
you but to us, 'Wha.' Just if you guys there were to
chart us guys here, you'd probably issue a government
report about increased demand and productivity: deaths up
42%, D&C up 42%.
"Did you realize that if you go far enough away in
the universe, it looks like everyone is on the same path?
Differences only stand out when you stand too close to
see.
"People often speak of needing to get close to a
situation to understand, and I say stand back. Sure, up
close you can see details, but details do not a pattern
make. And in your world, one of the best agents of
perception is time. You use it like distance. Get far
enough away and you can see what was obscured by
proximity.
"Figure it out, I don't have time. That's a joke we
tell the new ones, and we laugh and laugh and they look
puzzled: 'Huh.'
"Papa is busy, too. Lots of little ones who had no
language yet. He helps them give voice, so to speak. And
I help them to dance... except that guy. Don't let him
dance near you." (1/5/2005 - G#75)
"We don't sleep. We just enter states of rest, but
since an hour is the same as eternity, who notices. Case
of half empty or half full: Did I just get a wink or the
sleep of the dead. Without time it's all very
confusing." (2/2/2005 - G#76)
“Some spirits (like moi)
just get up and leave before the going gets gory, and
others don’t--but this does not mean they have
psychic pain as their bodies die. Spirits do not retain
the pains of life. So yes, some linger through heroic
efforts, but they don’t arrive here with that as
part of them.
“Spirits arrive about the same, whether they died in
a horrible way or just expired in their sleep. The
transition is what makes them D&C, not the physical
realities. So no one comes here hurting, although some
first-timers come here thinking that hurting would be a
badge of honor and so they concoct their own sense of
hurt. And boy, do we get a kick out of that.
“Once the departure is begun, no pain–just as
those with NDEs say that as soon as they transmit into
that awareness they feel nothing physical from that side
until they return to that side. So, no pain, all
gain.”
“One of the clues is: the less D&C, the more
times around.
“So when we overhear people speak about a good
death, hey, they’re all good from this side’s
perspective. Any problems are on your side, and with the
surviving.” (11/11/2005 - G#77)
"So now the test: The universe in its connected
form, live or dead? Dead, but lively.
“It is not dead, but it is after life. We
call it dead but it’s not. Dualism is
misleading when the subordinate state gets naming rights.
You see, the living have posed life as the positive
state, and the other state--which is viewed
negatively--is called death. But if we had done
it, it might be something like ‘connected’ and
‘away,’ with here as connected and you there as
away. Or we might have called it ARF and grrrr.
“See, descriptions are rarely factual nor value
free. It’s all perspective! So don’t you live
ones start up with that death shit. I don’t
want to have to speak to you again! Finger wagging
extra... blech. That’s a big terse nugget
of truth.” (7/2/2006 - G#78)
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