Well, it’s either all or nothing…I’ve got to warn you: long entry here with few philosophical quirks, so either get your pillow or click fast on any other link and find something else to be amused while I'll be doing my blah blah blah thing...
Trivial.
My in-laws now left and I’m back into possession of my own house, my own time and my own mind. (Which can only means – more “I’ve been thinking” moments)
I’ve been dismissed from office for this week. Apparently, I forgot (?! Sounds crazy, yes?) to take 5 days of my annual leave allowance for last academic year (we do count years by university terms here, so my “year” starts in October) anyway, they said I can’t carry days over and that I should take them now or lose them…well, I don’t fancy loosing holidays, so I’m gonna sit at home for the whole week, doing all sorts of nothings, that I’ve been postponing doing for a long time…
First of all I’ve got to move all my stuff back to where it used to be, including all my wardrobe, and my toys and the rest of me.
Then I’m going to take care of my computer that suffered heavy usage shock during last two months. I’ve got to clean it up, uninstall few programs etc. etc…I like my baby clean and happy…
I’ll dedicate a day to …skirt…yes, I’ve got that sudden idea that I wish an autumn skirt. Not the one to wear in autumn, but the one that proclaims “I’m an autumn skirt”…not sure what kind of skirt it would be, but I have that faith that when I see it, I’ll know this is the one…
And finally, the biggest challenge that I’m facing this week – to finish my Egyptian Tales translation…I’ve almost have it all done, except from last chapter, conclusion, an assortment of the little things, that didn’t fit into any of the previous…(and in case you wondering what I’m talking about – after my lifetime travel to the land of Pharaohs, I’ve written my travel logs in English first, and I’m now on the homestretch of completing Russian translation of them for my family and Russian friends) So yes, if I’ll achieve that, I will be more then happy…coz that would also means that I can finally pay some attention to updating my personal website with pictures and stories of historical period from March till now…I’m that much behind my life!...oh well, should’ve cut on surfing DDLand long ago and do useful things instead…
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Now few thoughts, that “I’ve been thinking” of in the recent days.
A Beauty.
Do you think, you are beautiful? Do you often look in the mirror and pleased with what you see there? Do you believe that not-so-beautiful girls can be more then a friends to their male-friends? When you say with a strained smile, that you don’t care if you are beautiful or not, do you really believe in it yourself?..Some time ago while browsing diaries, I’ve read in one of them: “I’m beautiful in Wayne’s eyes”…I couldn't forget that, as to me this offers the only definition of a beauty, I can accept.
We only really beautiful, when we are beautiful in someone’s eyes.
Mistakes We Make…
Frank Herbert said: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
Sometimes we think we are making same mistake over and over again…but what if that is not a mistake, but exactly what needs to be done? We just don’t grasp the true meaning, the nature of a lesson…another beautiful tale to go with this thought:
Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up in his hand and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion once again and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."
Hmmmm…can you tell what is YOUR nature?
A Labyrinth.
I came across this site Basically it says: “We are all on the path... exactly where we need to be. The labyrinth is a model of that path. A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path. The Labyrinth represents a journey to our own center and back again out into the world..”
Now, I’m not that much spiritual, but the concept of spiralling while walking my path in live somehow appeal to me. Every so often I found myself in situation, when I can say “I’ve been here already”, but the same time I perceive the situation differently…as if with new experience I would try different approach to the same…walking the same distance, but in different alley…and the best about labyrinths - you can’t get lost in a labyrinth. There are no wrong turns.
A wonderful lesson about walking labyrinths with …map here :
"We try to solve the labyrinth of life. We seek the experience of life in our minds through our thinking. We want to understand the journey in advance. We want to be prepared and not be surprised. We want the security of a map,..analytical assurance that we are going in the right direction. In reality the right or correct direction is always right before us, if we will just give up the distraction of the map. If we … drop the illusion of the map, then we can clearly see the path and recognize that we are already on it. It was there all the time. It is there all the time. ..There is no Labyrinth Map, nor is one needed. ..We already have what we need. We are where we are supposed to be. This is it, if we drop the illusion that it is not…”
how neat is that?!
Trivial.
My in-laws now left and I’m back into possession of my own house, my own time and my own mind. (Which can only means – more “I’ve been thinking” moments)
I’ve been dismissed from office for this week. Apparently, I forgot (?! Sounds crazy, yes?) to take 5 days of my annual leave allowance for last academic year (we do count years by university terms here, so my “year” starts in October) anyway, they said I can’t carry days over and that I should take them now or lose them…well, I don’t fancy loosing holidays, so I’m gonna sit at home for the whole week, doing all sorts of nothings, that I’ve been postponing doing for a long time…
First of all I’ve got to move all my stuff back to where it used to be, including all my wardrobe, and my toys and the rest of me.
Then I’m going to take care of my computer that suffered heavy usage shock during last two months. I’ve got to clean it up, uninstall few programs etc. etc…I like my baby clean and happy…
I’ll dedicate a day to …skirt…yes, I’ve got that sudden idea that I wish an autumn skirt. Not the one to wear in autumn, but the one that proclaims “I’m an autumn skirt”…not sure what kind of skirt it would be, but I have that faith that when I see it, I’ll know this is the one…
And finally, the biggest challenge that I’m facing this week – to finish my Egyptian Tales translation…I’ve almost have it all done, except from last chapter, conclusion, an assortment of the little things, that didn’t fit into any of the previous…(and in case you wondering what I’m talking about – after my lifetime travel to the land of Pharaohs, I’ve written my travel logs in English first, and I’m now on the homestretch of completing Russian translation of them for my family and Russian friends) So yes, if I’ll achieve that, I will be more then happy…coz that would also means that I can finally pay some attention to updating my personal website with pictures and stories of historical period from March till now…I’m that much behind my life!...oh well, should’ve cut on surfing DDLand long ago and do useful things instead…
.
Now few thoughts, that “I’ve been thinking” of in the recent days.
A Beauty.
Do you think, you are beautiful? Do you often look in the mirror and pleased with what you see there? Do you believe that not-so-beautiful girls can be more then a friends to their male-friends? When you say with a strained smile, that you don’t care if you are beautiful or not, do you really believe in it yourself?..Some time ago while browsing diaries, I’ve read in one of them: “I’m beautiful in Wayne’s eyes”…I couldn't forget that, as to me this offers the only definition of a beauty, I can accept.
We only really beautiful, when we are beautiful in someone’s eyes.
Mistakes We Make…
Frank Herbert said: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
Sometimes we think we are making same mistake over and over again…but what if that is not a mistake, but exactly what needs to be done? We just don’t grasp the true meaning, the nature of a lesson…another beautiful tale to go with this thought:
Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up in his hand and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion once again and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."
Hmmmm…can you tell what is YOUR nature?
A Labyrinth.
I came across this site Basically it says: “We are all on the path... exactly where we need to be. The labyrinth is a model of that path. A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path. The Labyrinth represents a journey to our own center and back again out into the world..”
Now, I’m not that much spiritual, but the concept of spiralling while walking my path in live somehow appeal to me. Every so often I found myself in situation, when I can say “I’ve been here already”, but the same time I perceive the situation differently…as if with new experience I would try different approach to the same…walking the same distance, but in different alley…and the best about labyrinths - you can’t get lost in a labyrinth. There are no wrong turns.
A wonderful lesson about walking labyrinths with …map here :
"We try to solve the labyrinth of life. We seek the experience of life in our minds through our thinking. We want to understand the journey in advance. We want to be prepared and not be surprised. We want the security of a map,..analytical assurance that we are going in the right direction. In reality the right or correct direction is always right before us, if we will just give up the distraction of the map. If we … drop the illusion of the map, then we can clearly see the path and recognize that we are already on it. It was there all the time. It is there all the time. ..There is no Labyrinth Map, nor is one needed. ..We already have what we need. We are where we are supposed to be. This is it, if we drop the illusion that it is not…”
how neat is that?!