Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity: Otherishness

Showing posts with label Otherishness. Show all posts

2.26.2022

$$$. When my starting assumption about every human action, small, large, individual, Collective... Is not selfish interest, please slap me. Please?

8.05.2021

My mission since May has been dead wrong. Except....

7.18.2021

Me, me, me... Has to bring hate, hate, hate.... If you are not living Otherishness you are sowing the seeds of hate.

10.23.2018

Hear me. The conservatives have no opposition party. Democrats just another party of selfishness. Fundamental otherishness would be the opposition. It has never been tried or seriously considered. Not since Jesus proposed it, and was killed for it.

Hear me. The conservatives have no opposition party. Democrats just another party of selfishness. Fundamental otherishness would be the opposition. It has never been tried or seriously considered. Not since Jesus proposed it, and was killed for it.

6.26.2016

### Yes, I am usually so scathing , so critical , so pessimistic about the future. Yes. But I think I am seeing a level of Citizen work that I certainly have not seen in fifty years or more. Millions.......

### Yes, I am usually so scathing , so critical , so pessimistic about the future. Yes. But I think I am seeing a level of Citizen work that I certainly have not seen in fifty years or more. Millions of citizens here and abroad turning attention away from selfish short-term pleasures to matters of Greater importance to the collective. This is important at least for themselves and for those around them. Joy is in the attempt to reduce the world's suffering. The individuals devoting more of their lives to this task become a demonstration of the path to those around them.

5.29.2015

***** Those who believe in Heaven after this life never knew they could make this Life Heaven... (more)

***** Those who believe in Heaven after this life never knew they could make this Life Heaven, Personally, thru Radically Selflessly Totally Absolutely Serving Our Neediest; thereby missing the only Heaven that has ever existed, and depriving... leading everyone they care for away from It too, toward the Hell that is self-centeredness, instead. Double tragedy. Triple, really, because their diverted energies might have made Earth Heaven for us all.

2.02.2015

***** FB friend: "James, Good to see someone so devoted." My reply: "I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been, that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue."

I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been, that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue.

8.20.2013

nd Henceforward, the lucky child is the unborn child.

Henceforward, the lucky child is the unborn child.

posted from Bloggeroid

4.02.2013

Tolstoy: "True faith comes into your heart out of silence and solitude." Wise Thoughts for Every Day (see Tabs)

Tolstoy: "True faith comes into your heart out of silence and solitude."

Wise Thoughts for Every Day (see Tabs)

I've been in pretty massive psychological distress in recent days - if not severe depression, pretty near thereto. Quite the Agony.

I'd be embarrassed, I'd feel a 'failure,' cept, I'm doing the best I know how, in the moment. There are reasons that few, not one in a million, find, walk, or stay on the Path of Joy, Peace of Heart, Loving, Passion... that Jesus died to lead us to! Goodness, am I being reminded of that!

I'm making progress back to that Heavenly Path:

1. I'm devoting Hours in Prayer, Guided Meditation, to refocus from my Fleshly Spirit gone wild, to why I'm here, and why you are here - our Tortured, and soon to-be-Tortured children - the next 200 billion, that have been, Joyfully, the totality of my Spirit, but that I've unwittingly allowed to be stripped OUT of the center of my being, displaced by pitiful "personal" concerns, worries, pain, and the doings of others, even though promising!

2. The Euphoric prospect of Pr. Obama now moving into position to directly fight for our children's future, against Ecocide by Green House Gasses, understandably was, well Euphoric, for me. The problem with that? NOT MY BUSINESS. It is NOT MY BUSINESS what Pr. Obama does. The only thing that EVER is MY business is what I ATTEMPT! And I've been rock solid in that, until recent days.

It is not my business:

A. What Pr. Obama does or does not do, except as that informs how I best attempt to help our 204 billion kids;

B. Whether, where, how, when... I receive chemo, and how severely that destroys my ability to serve during the regimen, except the degree to which I personally can shape that path, which appears to be very little. NOT MY BUSINESS. THE CREATOR'S BUSINESS.

"Full effort is full success!" Gandhi. "We are not called to be successful. We are called to be Faithful." Teresa of Calcutta. "We are not here to survive. We are here to Serve." Loving. :-) All three correct. Maslow spoke of this in terms of "intrinsic motivation." 'Whosoever would hold onto their life shall lose it; and whosoever would Lose their life for the sake of Our Family, shall Gain their Life.' Jesus. In this sickest of all cultures, where Affloholism is our Religion, how hard to remember; how hard to practice; how easy to Fall....

Minding the Father's, the Creator's business is Always a Deadly mistake, regardless of how unintended, and Hell for those that live in Error (Sin, from the Greek) on this point.

I have close to 150 elements I cycle through every week, 100 or so here, like the two points in the prior paragraph, that I've learned, that tho they are almost all restatements of the same truth, any one of which overlooked, forgotten, at the wrong time, can lead to falling off the Path, out of Heaven on Earth... into the Agonies, the Hell of the Fleshly Spirit, with the possibility of never finding the way back (like I couldn't for 30 or more years!) Argh. "The gate is narrow, and few will enter in." Jesus. He wasn't kidding.

But with A and B I feel myself returning to the Kingdom. I suspect I'll be back In, soon. I Pray.

10.25.2011

D85+40H 'YOU, BY THE 6B NON-AFFLOHOLICS, SHOULD BE VIEWED HOW?' SL

9:30

D85 40 'YOU, BY THE 6B NON-AFFLOHOLICS, SHOULD BE VIEWED HOW?' SL

9.04.2011

D50 21 'It doesn't matter what happens to me.' SL youtube

5:11

D50 21 'It doesn't matter what happens to me.' SL