tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post7653979270714141848..comments2024-03-01T23:41:02.240-05:00Comments on louie, louie: destinybeth cioffolettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09300116274007165612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-40309137079678661922017-03-29T08:31:02.721-05:002017-03-29T08:31:02.721-05:00What a lovely thought. What a lovely thought. Ryan M. Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13136407162215478579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-3561731798435446612017-03-05T21:16:42.816-05:002017-03-05T21:16:42.816-05:00Mark, to be this or that. I was struggling with my...Mark, to be this or that. I was struggling with my guitar practice today, part of it my body wasn't working the way it had in past weeks, part of it my mind telling me I should be here or there with the practice. I associate this discomfort with TM's words about humility, not accepting where I'm at, who I am. In my better moments, in a "meeting...encounter" I understand and feel my enjoyment of the guitar, not needing to see myself as a performer or progressing as others do, moving along with the slowness that seems to be my path, not putting myself in a catagory. Perhaps accepting myself in this way gives back to God "something which God can never receive from anyone else". JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-79438504766406061992017-03-05T20:38:49.345-05:002017-03-05T20:38:49.345-05:00James,
How so categorizing?James,<br /><br />How so categorizing?Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-79517192042601457142017-02-21T10:05:58.173-05:002017-02-21T10:05:58.173-05:00I think of contemplation/meditation, more specific...I think of contemplation/meditation, more specifically, centering prayer (I read a bit about Cynthia Bourgeault's newest book on this prayer, looking forward to reading it and resuming my practice in a better way) helps in moving beyond the categorization TM writes about. And I think of Lax's "waiting". How remarkable it is, or can be, to dispense, at least for several minutes a day, an identity produced by our ego work. I recall that Bourgeault wrote that it's not only the immediate process of the centering but the after-effects, back in ego-life,of being centered and, I'd think, responding to grace. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com