Symptoms of Inner Peace

Words of wisdom that I found on the page: Symptoms of Inner Peace by Saskia Davis. She is the former director of the "Northwest Center for Attitudinal Healing".

Symptoms of Inner Peace

by Saskia Davis

Nothing like a little humor to add insight into the traits we seek to emulate...

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

• A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.

• An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

• A loss of interest in judging other people.

• A loss of interest in judging self.

• A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

• A loss of interest in conflict.

• A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)

• Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

• Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.

• Frequent attacks of smiling.

• An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than (try to) make them happen.

• An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

WARNING:
If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.

Secrets

Paisley's new blog 'secret… secret… i’ve got a secret….' reminds me of a movie I saw, a long time back. A 1972 Jacqueline Bisset movie named 'Secrets'.....

Jacqueline Bisset (left) plays a housewife who has some problems with her husband. The movie takes place in the course of one day. In the late afternoon while her husband is being interviewed for a job, Jacqueline is approached by a man who says that she resembles his dead wife.

As she gets to know him, an affair develops. Her husband meanwhile has a relationship with the female interviewer. Finally, both the affairs only help to strengthen the marriage. Great movie.

Paisley's new blog's concept: Anyone who wants their secrets revealed through her new blog can leave an anonymous message there.

Here is the link: http://fragmented-paisley.blogspot.com/2007/08/secretsecretive-got-secret.html

Like Paisley writes.....
"all comments will be emailed to me [first],, not posted on the blog [directly]... that way no one will ever know who you are.. or what sordid,, sacred,, secrets you've got hiding in your closet!!!!.....c'mon....you know you want to!!!!!"

Hypocrisy Part 2

The case of Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman (left) is an Indian film actress, now 57 years old, who seduced an entire generation of Indians, with a career spanning well over a decade.

She was also Miss Asia-Pacific in the year 1970, is blessed with a very high IQ, and studied fashion and journalism at Los Angeles. I have seen many of her interviews and movies, and she has a fantastic personality. She is a woman to be admired, and was greatly admired by hundreds of millions of Indians for over a decade. More or less a cult following.

Her rough treatment by the world is human nature manifesting, which looks for excuses to haul others down.

She overdid her seductive roles by Indian standards, and they can't handle it.

She does not act in movies anymore, has not done so in a long time, apart from two tiny appearances in the last 15 years.

The amazing thing is that the Indian masses still enjoy her old movies, but criticize her anyway for being a sexually expressive woman.

Zeenat Aman's personal life has been tragic too. Lost her father when she was 13, gave up everything for a TV actor she fell in love with, when she was in her early 30s (at the peak of her career). The marriage was unsuccessful.

The many TV interviews I have seen of her, she comes across as a remarkably decent, intelligent, strong, dignified woman who has led a very difficult life and carries her pain very gracefully. A graceful lady who seems to be as beautiful on the inside, as she is on the outside.

Further Reading: I've Forgiven Men Who Ill Treated Me

Welcome to the NOW

I am convinced life is divine...because I see beauty as an attribute that comes from the deepest level of life. The level that is beyond matter.

Beauty cannot be of biological origin. A matrix of atoms, protons and electrochemical impulses cannot be 'beautiful', at least not in the sexual sense.

Ones who look at sexuality only in terms of biology and biochemical, electrical responses are subconsciously reducing life to a mechanical, electro-chemical reality.

Pause and look carefully at the following photos.

What *feeling* do they generate in you?

"Thoughts and feelings" that only generate references to anatomy do not qualify as real feelings.

Thoughts that try to apply some kind of 'facial symmetry thumbrule/formula/database' to judge these faces as beautiful or ugly --- such thoughts do not know what beauty is. Or its opposite, for that matter.

Once again...do they look like photos of a bunch of proportionate or disproportionate facial anatomy?

Or is there anything 'whole' emanating, exuding, flowing out towards you?

Do you see an "emanation of the indwelling life" like Bryant would ask?

If you can see this radiance, this something that is exuding...welcome to the NOW!

Photos: Brooke Shields, Preity Zinta & Gillian Anderson.