Comments on: Wherever you are, hang in there

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:07:06 +0000

Dorothy - Can be a black hole, but also so much goodness, right? I’m glad you found your way here. And you know, we’ll always be about the lightness here. If you can’t laugh, what the hell is the point?

Bill - Thank you! The simple truths are the best. It’s getting them down to the simple that hangs me up. Glad I was able to distill it right this time.

Karen - Haha! I’ll put you on my list :-)

By: Karen Putz

Karen Putz — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:44:30 +0000

First, Happy Birthday!

Since you’re so close to getting yourself figured out, can you come to Chicago and figure out me?

By: Bill Henderson

Bill Henderson — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:58:45 +0000

such a good essay on balance. The part on identifying your stuff, then working your way around it is profound, so simple, so true, so hard sometimes. Thanks!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:51:07 +0000

Colleen,

I try to avoid the black hole of the blogoshphere but happily stumbled onto communicatrix.com a couple months back. When I remember to stop by for a visit, I Always learn, and laugh, and feel a little less alone in this Universe.

I am a taurus, with a virgo moon.

Thank-you for asking questions, examining realities, and tackling TOPICS like Fear and Change. And, most importantly, for doing it with a sustained commitment to lightness.

I just recently spent a couple hours absorbing Joseph Campbell’s guidance (lead by example) around the quest for meaning, purpose, the groovy groove (vs. the skipping record or end of side A…)

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:22:47 +0000

Earl - Ever helpful, that’s you. Were you a boy scout or something?

By: Earl Kabong

Earl Kabong — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:20:11 +0000

To Kare Anderson, who asked, “If not now, when?”

According to my sources, the answer is July 17, 2009. Noonish.

You’re Welcome.

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:51:48 +0000

Mark - “Evolution” is exactly the word for it. It’s massive, it happens slowly and there’s no beginning or end. The trick will be in remembering this point of clarity when/if things get fuzzy again farther down the road.

Rummuser - True! I know enough about buddhism to recognize that my process borrows heavily from it. Not too worried about enlightenment–I know enough about myself to know that it would be a foolhardy thing for an overachiever like me to make my goal–but there’s clearly much goodness in walking the path marked out by the buddha.

By: rummuser

rummuser — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:22:26 +0000

Communicatrix, you can get rid of those parts of you that you want to get rid of if you want to badly enough. There are techniques that enable this process. Take for instance some of the Buddhist meditations. They achieve precisely this if one takes them seriously enough. They start off exactly the way you suggest - recognition. After that the process helps you lighten your baggage. That is why it is called enlightenment! Your frogs will start to appear fast enough!

By: Mark Silver

Mark Silver — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:04:52 +0000

Can’t wait! And, it’s fabulous to watch the evolution. Taking on something like “purpose” is such a big topic, and can be so misleading in terms of what it actually means, and can precipitate the whole “dark night of the soul” thing- that it’s wonderful to have your example that yes, it’s worth the whole terrifying, boring, crushing, distracting, exhausting ride that it is.

Can’t wait!

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:46:29 +0000

Deb - I’m just here to serve the universe’s wishes—what can I say? :-)

Jean - I always hated that quote until I wrote this post! I guess I just take things too literally, and I loathe the idea of ladies in pursuit of their Very Special Prince™. Talk about a disservice to woman- and mankind.

Bon - You’re part of the inspiration, not to mention the biz model. We should talk…

Annie - I’m just a little farther down the road, is all. And you’re farther along than you know.

Mary Ellen - It’s interesting, the shortsightedness of a lot of non-progressive thinking: we have to ERADICATE this or DECIMATE that. Get thee gone, Satan, yadda yadda yadda.

But when you relax a little and let the fear stop running things, you start to see how intertwined everything is. (Taking a few thousand acting classes and learning to see the villain in yourself doesn’t hurt, either.)

I am the Dalai Lama. I am Idi Amin. I am (insert person you revere/revile here).

We’re so attached to nationality and creed and race and all kinds of other arbitrary constructs. If I stop taking so much damned pride (or, conversely, stop reviling, depending on what day it is) my particular personhood, it’s not too far a stretch to start thinking in One-World terms.

Kare - Ooo–that’s cool, good getting in the way of great. I need to do me some research!

Donna - Haha–I look stuff up all the time. Even when I’m writing, just to make sure. Only way I know to grow a vocabulary.