"Body of Light" By: Clancy Cavnar
I have expressed some frustration recently and tonight Tony left this in the comments. It was so helpful (Thanks Love) that I wanted to give it more space and light. Tony is right. There is no such thing as the next level. It is what it is and it's actually pretty great. My life that is. Today I got to hang out with a really cool person and we were talking about the BS people deem important. This person was making the point that some folks get pretty filled up on illusions and end up thinking they are a hellova lot more important than they are. Read what Tony wrote and maybe it will shed some light for you as it did for me.
Liz you can never go back to square one – don’t make me come over there and wag my finger at you! - learning is not a linier progression from here to there it is more like evolution, an organic process.
Awards, diplomas, exams are simply milestones on a path that may be for you but may not be. Most, if not all, of the great philosophers were self taught because they were driven to think not to get a degree in thinking.
Forget about the next level – it is illusion – life is about growth and nothingness ( sorry waxing Buddhist here) all the rest is static
If you can, as Kipling put it, ‘fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run’ then you are on the right level and no need to worry!
Posted by Liz at July 15, 2005 09:04 PM