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i remember – the difference between contentment and discontent is acceptance. i remember – the difference between a plan and a promise is the word ‘try’. today, i accept that this is how it is. today, i accept that there was and is no promise, only a plan to try. today, i will be content.

It occurred to me tonight that I have never actually put this in writing. I should. So I am. What follows is a regular process in my life that I call “Renewal of My Commitments” — the method by which any real progress or contentment in my life has been achieved: First, an affirmation of my gifts. Second, an acceptance of my flaws. Third, an acknowledgment of my learning. Fourth, an acknowledgment of my ignorance. Fifth, the renewal of my commitments. Sixth, a reminder of the reality that is unlimited possibility. (recording available. read on for both it and the […]

i goof off with the camera more than i should, but sometimes, i catch myself in a shot that i actually like. this is one of those. i had a very particular something on my mind… and i find it interesting how it reflects. but most of all, this is the first time in a very long while that i have looked at myself and actually been content with what i see. a very good feeling.

source from a recent cc item and a few others found elsewhere.

things aren’t always as they seem.

i found this quote while looking for something entirely different. The person that desires to have only pleasure and refuses pain expends an enormous amount of energy resisting life – and at the same time misses out enormously. He or she is on a self-defeating mission in any case, for just as we evade certain forms of suffering we inevitably fall victim to others. Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual under-nourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness . . . So blanking out, running away, burying our heads […]

woah. seriously.

an extensive listing of Theravadan Dharma talks with download available. enjoy. http://mirror1.birken.ca/dhamma_talks/indiv/Birken_Dhamma_Talk_Master_List.html

it’s like a sub-audible thing.

a reference and a remembrance, source from images collected over time that speak of lives in other places and a preference for dreams rather than reality.