Wine O'clock.
I finally watched the movie version of "Eat Pray Love" and it was disappointing as I new it would be, except for two things. A song by Eddie Vedder at the end credits and an idea she(the author) calls Quest Physics. It's at the very end of the movie. I don't remember it in the book, but I really like it. I wanted to share it with "all of you".
A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of quest physics goes something like this:
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comfortable which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments and set out on a truth seeking journey either externally or internally and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, the truth will not be withheld from you
Also, because music is often a "thin place" for me, here are the lyrics to "Better Days" by Eddie Vedder. It's the first song on my playlist.
I feel part of the universe open up to meet me
My emotion so submerged broken down to kneel in
Once listening the voices they came
Had to somehow greet myself read myself
Heard vibrations within my cells in my cells
Singing "Ah-la-ah-ah ah-la-ah-ah"
My love is safe for the universe
See me now I'm bursting
On one planet so many turns
Different worlds
Singing "Ah-la-ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah ah"
(Spanish guitar solo)
Fill my heart with discipline
Put there for the teaching
In my head see clouds of stairs
Help me as I'm reaching
The future's paved with better days
Not running from something
I'm running towards the day
Wide awake
A whisper once quiet
Now rising to a scream
Right in me
I'm falling free falling
Words calling me
Up off my knees
I'm soaring and darling
You'll be the one that I can need
Still be free
Our future's paved with better days
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Trouble
The Thanksgiving Post was so lovely and fluffy wasn't it?. Ya right.
It's easy when things are going the way you want? All that "unconditional love. the end" stuff of mine. "How much wine is she drinking anyway! you may think. " Well, not enough I say! because I've been in my "monkey mind" repeatedly since then. Remember the Buddhist monkey from my post from 5-3-10. The Buddhists called it the "monkey mind" "the thoughts that swing form limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl." Well I've being swinging with the howling monkey. I thought I had made a narrow escape once. All it took was a day and a half(which I'll never get back), a run, and of course a glass or two of wine. I thought PHEW I escaped. That was going to be my post title "A Narrow Escape" But no, He (the monkey-my buddy) came back again for another ride and I hopped on. I've been on several rides in fact since then.
I thought I was getting wiser, stronger, better at this. Dealing with life and it's adversity. Well, I need to take some of my own medicine. -Oh it's a jagged little pill.-
Today I was really fighting the monkey when I got a nice little kick in the ass from a facebook comment that reminded me:
I control my response to any situation. (the space between)
Don't take things personal
Trust myself.
What a tri-fecta!
It's all pretty tough and it's too early to drink! so I'll just do what Yahweh told me to one day while running on the canal-
"Practice Robin"
Trouble
Don't you see
That in your bed
I find no sleep
I confess you came because of me
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Cold wet stone
Deep river bed
Once so clean and clear now runs red
You know to well
Was me that called you here
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Oh sweet day
Leave me behind
I will never call on you
Until the day I die
Pray your mercy shine on me
Pray your mercy shine
Here I stand
Head bowed for thee
My empty heart begs you
Leave me be
But I confess
You know too well
That I have fallen
Pray your mercy give to me
Pray your mercy shine
Trouble
Trouble thee
Let your mercy shine
Cold wet stone
River deep and red
Your cold heart beats inside my head
You know too well
It was me that brought you here
Ohhh trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
I pray your mercy shine on me
Trouble let me be
Dave Matthews Band
It's easy when things are going the way you want? All that "unconditional love. the end" stuff of mine. "How much wine is she drinking anyway! you may think. " Well, not enough I say! because I've been in my "monkey mind" repeatedly since then. Remember the Buddhist monkey from my post from 5-3-10. The Buddhists called it the "monkey mind" "the thoughts that swing form limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl." Well I've being swinging with the howling monkey. I thought I had made a narrow escape once. All it took was a day and a half(which I'll never get back), a run, and of course a glass or two of wine. I thought PHEW I escaped. That was going to be my post title "A Narrow Escape" But no, He (the monkey-my buddy) came back again for another ride and I hopped on. I've been on several rides in fact since then.
I thought I was getting wiser, stronger, better at this. Dealing with life and it's adversity. Well, I need to take some of my own medicine. -Oh it's a jagged little pill.-
Today I was really fighting the monkey when I got a nice little kick in the ass from a facebook comment that reminded me:
I control my response to any situation. (the space between)
Don't take things personal
Trust myself.
What a tri-fecta!
It's all pretty tough and it's too early to drink! so I'll just do what Yahweh told me to one day while running on the canal-
"Practice Robin"
Trouble
Don't you see
That in your bed
I find no sleep
I confess you came because of me
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Cold wet stone
Deep river bed
Once so clean and clear now runs red
You know to well
Was me that called you here
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Oh sweet day
Leave me behind
I will never call on you
Until the day I die
Pray your mercy shine on me
Pray your mercy shine
Here I stand
Head bowed for thee
My empty heart begs you
Leave me be
But I confess
You know too well
That I have fallen
Pray your mercy give to me
Pray your mercy shine
Trouble
Trouble thee
Let your mercy shine
Cold wet stone
River deep and red
Your cold heart beats inside my head
You know too well
It was me that brought you here
Ohhh trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
I pray your mercy shine on me
Trouble let me be
Dave Matthews Band
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