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803 days ago
An aside to my previous entry: In the movie 'Waking Life' one of the discussions is about whether laziness or fear is the greatest hinderence to development of human consciousness. I've always wondered about this statement and I suspect that laziness itself is not seperate from fear, but a symptom of it. I think that laziness & inaction come from the act of not caring, which in turn comes from the act of not wanting to open yourself up, which is really the fear of allowing your consciousness into a situation. If one is tired, one may be lazy because they don't feel they have the strength to enforce the mental walls they are used to upholding when going about the world. Choosing to enter a situation without those walls in the first place frees up more energy to experience the situation when you may have turned away previously.
803 days ago
If I am ever feeling anxious, weak, or simply lost, I want to remember these things: The essence that is truly me as an individual craves peace. Peace and understanding allow me to thrive and feel happy & content. I must recognize that acting any way contrary to this truth will bring me all the ills I fear. As soon as I divide myself and tell myself that an egoic aspect of myself is more important than this truth, happiness will dissolve and fear, discontentment, stress and apathy will grow. It is a simple concept but one difficult to keep in constant action & motion. Yet I beleive it to be the one best for achieving great happiness.
890 days ago
I have a couple new blog entries on my tribe.net blog at http://people.tribe.net/trevorj I'm trying to keep that one based on educational material I seek out. -trevor
903 days ago
I'm laying on my bed passing in and out of consciousness, half-napping and half listening to my roomate and his buddy conversate over some beers in front of the game. They just finished the local college's applied plumbing course and are sharing stories about tools, work, employers and careers. For my roomate this new direction he's taken is one of many options he's got as a young adult. For his friend, the story is a little more interesting. Norm is a 40-something year old NewFoundLander living on the West Coast for the first time. He's found a like-hearted group of friends in my roomate and myself and several others. He's been raised from humble, if not troubled beginnings and has been searching for that leg-up to get him: "what i rightfully deserves'!" And all he said was "That was a good day's work here today." He's so excited to be working. So excited to have a trade, to have a profession, a title, a job and a purpose. So excited to be able to focus on making ...
917 days ago
there is a person who stands directly between idealism and ignorance; i want to be him
