The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Today I wish you love and joy, peace and happiness. Today should be no different from any other day. Today should have no greater emphasis, no deeper meaning, no sharper focus than any other day. Today is Christmas day. All around the world this day is celebrated in a wide variety of ways. Whether you attend Mass, have been furiously shopping the malls for gifts, or living somewhere between these extremes, the greatest emphasis that emerges from this particular holiday
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein. As a Pathwalker, I choose my path every day. I have a course plotted, an idea in my head for where I am, where I want to be, and even how I want to get there. As I have stated before, there are numerous twists, turns, bumps in the road, diversions and other incidentals that will occur along any given path. As much as
Along your chosen path you will encounter a wide variation of people. Some you will simply pass by. Some will be allies, some opponents. Friends, acquaintances, family, lovers, other dreamers will come into and in many instances depart from your life. As we grow and change so to do our associations. Friends become lovers or enemies or fade away or simply remain friends. Family become closer or more distant, those once close are lost and those once lost become close
Who is in control of your life? That is where choice comes in. That is what Pathwalking takes ahold of. Control. We often look at the world and see who is control of what. Some of the controls we perceive are pretty enormous, like which corporation controls your elected officials, and what organizations are controlled by the government. Some are more personal, like the spouse who seems to be in control of your friend and his or her actions and
Let’s pause a moment, the day after Thanksgiving in America, and reflect on what this means. More importantly, though, let’s reflect on what it SHOULD mean, versus what it APPEARS to. (Yes, I recognize the other issues with Thanksgiving and the mistreatment of the Native Americans and such, but that is not the topic I am addressing here). What it SHOULD mean: Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day to spend with family and friends, grateful for the things we
Perseverance is the difference between a fleeting notion and the pursuit of an idea. After one hundred weeks of posts about this concept of Pathwalking, I thought it an apropos topic. Perseverance is not simply having an idea, it is moving forward in making the intangible idea into a tangible thing. It is a part of the means to the ends. Dictionary.com defines perseverance thus: noun 1.steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. I think nothing summarizes the entire concept of Pathwalking quite like this
Don’t ever give up hope. I could spout all sorts of platitudes and ideas and clichés on this topic, but that gets old and worn fast. Hope, for its own sake, is a belief, an emotion that is sustenance for the soul. Hope is this strange, obscure tenet that is tremendously misunderstood. It is often held to simply be that intangible something to be clung to, something worth living for, something not to be let go of. But it is
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. Over the past several weeks this has been the central theme of this blog. But one thing I have not gotten into in depth is – How? How do you live in the here and now? I have been working on this for the past two years, as I have been working to walk my own path. Along the way I have encountered new discoveries and lessons which I
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. If, as I have postulated previously, I cannot live IN the past, or live FOR the future – then I am left with the present. For a lot of people, this very simple notion is hard to believe. The here and now is immediate, it is in-your-face, it is not then, not later, but right now. It is the moment. It is the ultimate reality around you. We have
The future is unwritten. The future cannot be known. It can be surmised, it can be analyzed, it can be guessed at. But it cannot be known. Living for the future can be nearly as dangerous as living in the past. Once again I am talking about the extremes. Like black and white, love and hate, up and down, past and future are the extremes of time. Last week I explained why the past is past, and living in the