Thought: 2x
Thoughts: Payin’ it forward, with pizza
It’s great when folks set it up to make it easier for us to do our job of sharing & healing each other…Mason (a friend of us all) has a deal at his pizza place where you can buy a piece of pizza for a homeless friend (if you have the dough) or you can get a piece of pizza (if you don’t), and it’s an easy & direct & effective way to get the food to people who are hungry.
I like effective stuff. This looks like something that is. Hope my brothers at pizza places near me start doing this….
Love you, with pepperoni & Canadian bacon,
Brother Ian
Everyone needs a hand…
Thoughts: Dream on, dream off
“To die before you die is not just a quaint saying. It speaks to a very real experience that directly relates to one’s spiritual awakening. The important thing to realize is that you are grieving over a self that never was. It is the grieving over shadows and dreams. And yet, to let go of the dream of who we thought we were and what we thought reality was, is something we will all be called to do sooner or later. And it often comes as a surprise to discover our ambiguity over relinquishing our hold on the dream state.
“But let me emphasize again that the dream state is a dream; it never really was or is. And yet we take it to be true, and then grieve its loss. Perhaps getting very close on the illusory nature of what you are letting go of will help in allowing it to die.
“As Jesus said, ‘Let the dead bury the dead.’ As if to say, ‘Let’s get on with it.’”
~ Adyashanti, End of Your World
About Brother Ian
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.