essential you
the essential self –
the one beneath the surface
is all that matters
rule of thumb #21
holiday spirit
I’ve never been good at sending Christmas cards to my friends, no matter how many of my friends think to send me holiday greetings. That hasn’t changed this year, but since I know a few of those friends visit this site on occasion, I’ve decided to post a sort of online Christmas wish. This one goes out to my friends, family and anyone else who happens to view it.
By the way, if the meaning of this haiku is too muted, click here to see a different angle on the same sentiment.
coincidental dreams
bookstore philosophy
show, don’t tell
please believe in love,
but have the respect to not
speak of it lightly
undying (hallowe’en haiku)
where darkness gives way
to her luminescent shape,
energy remains
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I was listening to that George Noory fellow on the radio one night last week while driving home. He was talking to someone who suggested that perhaps things we perceive as ghostly visions could well be leftover energy. Energy doesn’t begin or end in the classic sense; it merely transfers from one form to another. So the idea of ghosts being the energy leftovers of what they were before made sense to me.
While I’ve never seen anything I’d refer to as a ghost, I do believe, as Teilhard de Chardin suggested, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience and not the other way around. From that paradigm, energy as an element of spirit doesn’t seem far-fetched at all.
image: koke
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