I'll take this to the max...but, very slowly? Ridiculously so. Just Excellent!
My recommendation to you is to go as slow about your day as you can get away with, to take so much time doing things that it's ridiculous, and to spend as much time doing nothing as your life permits.
Oh Pasheen, it's such a pleasure to post something useful to you! You, who gets so much done for the world inbetween tending furkids and sorting diva dresses.
And in between the hits...it's been a brutal week. I was down for the count - way beyond the ability to even have a pity party...LOL...and just surfaced yesterday. Your post was just what I needed to hear. I took my time getting out of bed this morning, thinking of you...and I'll carry that stellar recommendation with me all day. What doesn't get done, doesn't get done.
And I'm so thrilled for you and your daughter. Reminded me of better times when I was traveling back and forth to Tokyo for eight years. I used to sneak a loaded pipe with pot (disguised as a lipstick tube) onto the plane for the fourteen hour flight...never got caught and always had a buzz when I landed into the most insane of all time change zones...LOL
Congrats to you all - I'm sure she knows how lucky she is to have you as a mother. You are a gem!!! Mwah!
Your loaded lipstick story made me laugh! My new son-in-law will particularly like it. And it might help them forgive me for telling their story ... although that particular daughter is incapable of holding a grudge. An ability I've tested repeatedly. I hope this is a resurgence for you, my diva phoenix!
i appreciate this permission since it is invariably how i do life except for the news, where i let myself believe that missing a day means missing a key piece of the story. but i have begun changing that by checking into twitter only every great once in months awhile and substituting substack.
Beautiful, William! There's a sutra that starts, 'Live with skillful nonchalance' and I can't remember the 'and-' But in looking for that, I found “I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.” - Ogden Nash
I was promised armageddon and all i got was an apocalypse.
Back in the old old days i always wondered how people had time to write letters to the editor. Why weren't they busy living their lives like most of us. Then we get social media and everybody's writing and commenting. Add TV, Radio, Movies, Streaming, Sports, Gambling, Financial Engineering and all of a sudden nobody is living their lives they're just living in a manufactured unreality. All designed to preoccupy us from discussing what's really happening to humans on a grand scale.
Are we really going to get our apocalypse? The great revealing. That we've been controlled by a bunch of blood thirsty pedophile satanists trying to please some alien that created us to be slaves. Or is that just made up. Was there really a tartaria, free energy (were Ben Franklin and Nikola Tesla trying to tell us?) Are crypto currencies just to turn us away from gold so when our creators come back the chosen ones have it all for them. Somebody is trying very hard for a armageddon. And i've chosen to prepare for an apocalypse. Anybody else? (Sorry, coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
I love it that you know the real meaning of apocalypse, Specie! I don't know what that great reveal is, but the evidence of my own life keeps telling me what's beneath all the layers of deception is a meaningful and connected reality, and that something's conspiring to make sure we don't settle for less. The forces trying very hard for armageddon are actually pushing us to where our mediocre slave existence is no longer tolerable. And we can tolerate a lot!
So that's where I think the destructive forces of Kali are our friend, our very dangerous friend who should be kept at a safe distance ...
When i say i'm preparing for an apocalypse, my wife and i have been practicing very hard at growing things, cooking things, reusing things, making do without and also really appreciating all we do have knowing that they might not be there in the future.
We are looking for land where we can have what i call a compound. In reality, it may end up being more like a church camp. We want to help the young people we know (and the ones we don't) to learn how to be self sufficient. They are terribly unprepared for doing anything for themselves. Somebody is going to have to show them how to live without their phones (if they have to).
In the video, I talk about thinking I was a half-hour early to catch my plane--a rare event--and then hourly parking was closed, I got lost, and when I finally found a spot, three shuttles passed by too full to stop. By this point, it was past my check-in time and there was nothing I could do about it. And there's a freedom to that!
By the time a shuttle came, I made fast friends with a woman who heaved my heavy bag up on a platform so more people could cram in, and we were all bonding and laughing. In the TSA line we met again with her Moroccan husband and had a great convo on Palestine while her son looked up my YT. And my bags even made it!
I sometimes think spirit is laughing at me: "So you think you've got this with all your planning?" And it takes me right to the point where there's nothing I can do and then makes it all work out. So instead of congratulating myself for having it all together, I'm just grateful. I'm thinking that's the lesson I need to learn.
That makes me so happy! They're ones that make me laugh and feel at peace, I hope they rub you the right way--soothing rather than ruffled ;-) The YT playlist includes a couple more but it does go from one to the other without intervention, in case you're making a dent in some overwhelming task while listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYCBRG5K3w&list=PLS5WYJBpd75vVVAMAimnRKCoCX2p_Rie_.
I loves the entire playlist! It’s hard to hit the like button because the videos keep rolling but I went back and hit the like on each one. I loved the pity party video! And the idea of Terez-syndrome 💕 You are such an inspiration and I am so thankful that I found your Substack.
Have you narrated your book in an audio version? It interests me a lot but I have so many books and Substacks that keep piling up. I absolutely love that you narrate your articles because I can get so much done while I listen.
That is so sweet of you, Anneke, to go to the extra trouble of going back to hit the 'likes'! haha, I do want to make Terez syndrome into a thing. I'm so glad they hit for you. I haven't narrated the whole book but I have done some chapters. The intro is only in text form but it's short and from the other ones that draw you, I think you'd like it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/in-the-beginning-was-the-purpose. And I do again have a playlist. Some of them are about the book and I think four are full chapters, but if you're getting stuff done, why limit it <smiles>: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS5WYJBpd75ulyTPBaSedRh9OV9PSaIMG
How do you produce such a quantity of high quality work? Amazing. And how can you say yer doing nothing? Nothing?
"What I feel that we’re doing is biding our time while world events play out. "
Yes, that is the approach I've been taking for some time now.
I'm no Muslim, (but I have a great deal of respect of the many Muslims I've met), and how can I trust a religion started by a businessman, but some of the lessons are not only hard to dispute but enlightening.:
Allah’s Messenger said, “There will be afflictions during which a sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 7082, Vol. 9, Book 88, Hadith 203
Oh I love that quote! And just yesterday, when I was mailing your book, the universe rewarded my procrastination and lethargy. The local bookshop said they needed more copies (they're next to the post office) and I asked if they do mailing. So they're going to list my book in their online system, once I get their specs together, so I can send people their way who want an alternative to Amazon. You've already earned your keep, Geoff!
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"...the universe rewarded my procrastination and lethargy."
I love it when a person pracitces what they advise, especially since it worked out for you. (See what I did there?) I thought you and many of your audience would like that quote; and for sure, I do.
Very well expressed Tereza. This resonates with me and I'm sure millions of others. Sometimes the best strategy is to hurry up and do nothing. Regarding the nature of time, I'm wondering how your thoughts connect to what Spock said to Kirk in "The City on the Edge of Forever" as I mention in this piece as a way to counter Fukuyama's "end of history" concept: https://punditman.substack.com/p/peril-and-progress
I love that Spock quote, along with this one of yours "Not only would I have to forget about the school dance, but sure enough, on that divinely decreed day, the winds began to howl, the sky turned grey and my teenage angst quietly cranked up. It's all fun and games until you start to lose your sense of reason. As luck would have it, Monday arrived."
I've always had a soft spot for Spock since logic is my go-to. And it leads me to territories unknown. What's the Star Trek phrase for that?
I'm late getting to peruse your post Tereza. We had an internet carrier outage for 36 hours. What bliss! I got so much done and had so much time for reflection.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”.
You've been experientially living the topic of this episode! I remember a day when that happened in Santa Cruz. Everyone cut off at once--heaven! Let's remember this when we plan our fiefdoms after the apocalypse.
And thanks for the quote, which I'll use immediately. Sorry for you but not for me that you're back online.
Thank you Tereza. I've been feeling very overwhelmed by your articles on Israel/Palestine - history and lies. I feel the morphic field of "don't question anything about the Holocaust or Jews suffering" when I read your articles....Feels like a big one and a big weapon for powers that be to immediately cast aspersions on anyone who questions anything about Jews.
I appreciate in the video how you mention that ANYTHING can be used for ill when used with the wrong motive. Reminds me of Power vs Force by David Hawkins. Have you done any videos related to this?
May I share a free invitation to Playing with the Energy of Music and Creativity here? I'm starting a weekly free session - part meditation and part creative coworking time. And it's an opportunity to go slower, to listen more, to be moved more by inspiration, moved by that deeper trust that something bigger than us is running the show. Touching into music and creativity is one way I connect to that feeling of not being alone. Maybe others can relate.
Thanks for sharing the invitation, Marta, it seems like a good place to do it.
I haven't read David Hawkins, I'll check him out.
I'm glad that I can be the bellwether for you in questioning narratives about the Jews. When I first saw other people speaking out, it was such a relief. And now it seems more and more common. So that self-censoring morphic field is dissipating, I think. The world has changed in the last 10 years especially so the anti-Semitic label isn't sticking.
Thank you Tereza. I wonder if you might sometime do a brief overview (again?) of why questioning some of the narratives around Jews matters? I can certainly feel the hot button-ness of it, which makes my radar perk up. And I appreciate how you said we can divide our attention as attentive humans - we don't all need to know everything. That's relieving because there is just sooo much to question and then try to understand and then try to get to the bottom of. I lose sight of which questions are the most important.
Oh even more, what my dance teacher asked when I took the months-long teacher training a third time, "Are you enjoying the process?" I think the question backfired on her, since it's given me less incentive to actually graduate and be willing to teach. But I've applied it to everything since: preparing videos, reading articles, washing dishes. I'm losing my drive to finish anything, I'm enjoying the process so much ;-)
I'll take this to the max...but, very slowly? Ridiculously so. Just Excellent!
My recommendation to you is to go as slow about your day as you can get away with, to take so much time doing things that it's ridiculous, and to spend as much time doing nothing as your life permits.
Oh Pasheen, it's such a pleasure to post something useful to you! You, who gets so much done for the world inbetween tending furkids and sorting diva dresses.
And in between the hits...it's been a brutal week. I was down for the count - way beyond the ability to even have a pity party...LOL...and just surfaced yesterday. Your post was just what I needed to hear. I took my time getting out of bed this morning, thinking of you...and I'll carry that stellar recommendation with me all day. What doesn't get done, doesn't get done.
And I'm so thrilled for you and your daughter. Reminded me of better times when I was traveling back and forth to Tokyo for eight years. I used to sneak a loaded pipe with pot (disguised as a lipstick tube) onto the plane for the fourteen hour flight...never got caught and always had a buzz when I landed into the most insane of all time change zones...LOL
Congrats to you all - I'm sure she knows how lucky she is to have you as a mother. You are a gem!!! Mwah!
Your loaded lipstick story made me laugh! My new son-in-law will particularly like it. And it might help them forgive me for telling their story ... although that particular daughter is incapable of holding a grudge. An ability I've tested repeatedly. I hope this is a resurgence for you, my diva phoenix!
Mwah!
Needed that reminder, thank you 🙏🏾
And I loved your appreciation of How to Throw a Pity Party. That was one of my favorite tongue-in-cheeky episodes ;-)
I love JOMO! Did you make that up?
Yep. Isn't that fun? That's my other claim to coinage fame with tonic masculinity.
LOL Nice! Two good ones! I may hafta “borrow” sometime. ;)
i appreciate this permission since it is invariably how i do life except for the news, where i let myself believe that missing a day means missing a key piece of the story. but i have begun changing that by checking into twitter only every great once in months awhile and substituting substack.
I'm happy to be your permission ;-)
🤗😂
Reminds me of this gem from Mike Dooley, of Notes from the Universe fame:
If you take your time, you'll have more of it.
Wei-i-i-r-d,
The Universe
I love that!
Like is said in magical studies, make haste, slowly.
Beautiful, William! There's a sutra that starts, 'Live with skillful nonchalance' and I can't remember the 'and-' But in looking for that, I found “I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.” - Ogden Nash
I was promised armageddon and all i got was an apocalypse.
Back in the old old days i always wondered how people had time to write letters to the editor. Why weren't they busy living their lives like most of us. Then we get social media and everybody's writing and commenting. Add TV, Radio, Movies, Streaming, Sports, Gambling, Financial Engineering and all of a sudden nobody is living their lives they're just living in a manufactured unreality. All designed to preoccupy us from discussing what's really happening to humans on a grand scale.
Are we really going to get our apocalypse? The great revealing. That we've been controlled by a bunch of blood thirsty pedophile satanists trying to please some alien that created us to be slaves. Or is that just made up. Was there really a tartaria, free energy (were Ben Franklin and Nikola Tesla trying to tell us?) Are crypto currencies just to turn us away from gold so when our creators come back the chosen ones have it all for them. Somebody is trying very hard for a armageddon. And i've chosen to prepare for an apocalypse. Anybody else? (Sorry, coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
I love it that you know the real meaning of apocalypse, Specie! I don't know what that great reveal is, but the evidence of my own life keeps telling me what's beneath all the layers of deception is a meaningful and connected reality, and that something's conspiring to make sure we don't settle for less. The forces trying very hard for armageddon are actually pushing us to where our mediocre slave existence is no longer tolerable. And we can tolerate a lot!
So that's where I think the destructive forces of Kali are our friend, our very dangerous friend who should be kept at a safe distance ...
That's a very good way of looking at it.
When i say i'm preparing for an apocalypse, my wife and i have been practicing very hard at growing things, cooking things, reusing things, making do without and also really appreciating all we do have knowing that they might not be there in the future.
We are looking for land where we can have what i call a compound. In reality, it may end up being more like a church camp. We want to help the young people we know (and the ones we don't) to learn how to be self sufficient. They are terribly unprepared for doing anything for themselves. Somebody is going to have to show them how to live without their phones (if they have to).
Letting world events play out, for sure! As if we could do anything about them anyway ...
In the video, I talk about thinking I was a half-hour early to catch my plane--a rare event--and then hourly parking was closed, I got lost, and when I finally found a spot, three shuttles passed by too full to stop. By this point, it was past my check-in time and there was nothing I could do about it. And there's a freedom to that!
By the time a shuttle came, I made fast friends with a woman who heaved my heavy bag up on a platform so more people could cram in, and we were all bonding and laughing. In the TSA line we met again with her Moroccan husband and had a great convo on Palestine while her son looked up my YT. And my bags even made it!
I sometimes think spirit is laughing at me: "So you think you've got this with all your planning?" And it takes me right to the point where there's nothing I can do and then makes it all work out. So instead of congratulating myself for having it all together, I'm just grateful. I'm thinking that's the lesson I need to learn.
I needed this today! I have been feeling overwhelmed and unproductive lately... I will listen to the self-care playlist today, thank you!
That makes me so happy! They're ones that make me laugh and feel at peace, I hope they rub you the right way--soothing rather than ruffled ;-) The YT playlist includes a couple more but it does go from one to the other without intervention, in case you're making a dent in some overwhelming task while listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYCBRG5K3w&list=PLS5WYJBpd75vVVAMAimnRKCoCX2p_Rie_.
I loves the entire playlist! It’s hard to hit the like button because the videos keep rolling but I went back and hit the like on each one. I loved the pity party video! And the idea of Terez-syndrome 💕 You are such an inspiration and I am so thankful that I found your Substack.
Have you narrated your book in an audio version? It interests me a lot but I have so many books and Substacks that keep piling up. I absolutely love that you narrate your articles because I can get so much done while I listen.
That is so sweet of you, Anneke, to go to the extra trouble of going back to hit the 'likes'! haha, I do want to make Terez syndrome into a thing. I'm so glad they hit for you. I haven't narrated the whole book but I have done some chapters. The intro is only in text form but it's short and from the other ones that draw you, I think you'd like it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/in-the-beginning-was-the-purpose. And I do again have a playlist. Some of them are about the book and I think four are full chapters, but if you're getting stuff done, why limit it <smiles>: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS5WYJBpd75ulyTPBaSedRh9OV9PSaIMG
How do you produce such a quantity of high quality work? Amazing. And how can you say yer doing nothing? Nothing?
"What I feel that we’re doing is biding our time while world events play out. "
Yes, that is the approach I've been taking for some time now.
I'm no Muslim, (but I have a great deal of respect of the many Muslims I've met), and how can I trust a religion started by a businessman, but some of the lessons are not only hard to dispute but enlightening.:
Allah’s Messenger said, “There will be afflictions during which a sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 7082, Vol. 9, Book 88, Hadith 203
https://sunnah.com/bukhari/92/33#!
Oh I love that quote! And just yesterday, when I was mailing your book, the universe rewarded my procrastination and lethargy. The local bookshop said they needed more copies (they're next to the post office) and I asked if they do mailing. So they're going to list my book in their online system, once I get their specs together, so I can send people their way who want an alternative to Amazon. You've already earned your keep, Geoff!
"...the universe rewarded my procrastination and lethargy."
I love it when a person pracitces what they advise, especially since it worked out for you. (See what I did there?) I thought you and many of your audience would like that quote; and for sure, I do.
So, congrats to you!
Very well expressed Tereza. This resonates with me and I'm sure millions of others. Sometimes the best strategy is to hurry up and do nothing. Regarding the nature of time, I'm wondering how your thoughts connect to what Spock said to Kirk in "The City on the Edge of Forever" as I mention in this piece as a way to counter Fukuyama's "end of history" concept: https://punditman.substack.com/p/peril-and-progress
I love that Spock quote, along with this one of yours "Not only would I have to forget about the school dance, but sure enough, on that divinely decreed day, the winds began to howl, the sky turned grey and my teenage angst quietly cranked up. It's all fun and games until you start to lose your sense of reason. As luck would have it, Monday arrived."
I've always had a soft spot for Spock since logic is my go-to. And it leads me to territories unknown. What's the Star Trek phrase for that?
I'm late getting to peruse your post Tereza. We had an internet carrier outage for 36 hours. What bliss! I got so much done and had so much time for reflection.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sadly, I am back on line. :-)
You've been experientially living the topic of this episode! I remember a day when that happened in Santa Cruz. Everyone cut off at once--heaven! Let's remember this when we plan our fiefdoms after the apocalypse.
And thanks for the quote, which I'll use immediately. Sorry for you but not for me that you're back online.
Thank you Tereza. I've been feeling very overwhelmed by your articles on Israel/Palestine - history and lies. I feel the morphic field of "don't question anything about the Holocaust or Jews suffering" when I read your articles....Feels like a big one and a big weapon for powers that be to immediately cast aspersions on anyone who questions anything about Jews.
I appreciate in the video how you mention that ANYTHING can be used for ill when used with the wrong motive. Reminds me of Power vs Force by David Hawkins. Have you done any videos related to this?
May I share a free invitation to Playing with the Energy of Music and Creativity here? I'm starting a weekly free session - part meditation and part creative coworking time. And it's an opportunity to go slower, to listen more, to be moved more by inspiration, moved by that deeper trust that something bigger than us is running the show. Touching into music and creativity is one way I connect to that feeling of not being alone. Maybe others can relate.
Fridays at 10 am CST
https://innerartistry.space/events
Thanks for sharing the invitation, Marta, it seems like a good place to do it.
I haven't read David Hawkins, I'll check him out.
I'm glad that I can be the bellwether for you in questioning narratives about the Jews. When I first saw other people speaking out, it was such a relief. And now it seems more and more common. So that self-censoring morphic field is dissipating, I think. The world has changed in the last 10 years especially so the anti-Semitic label isn't sticking.
Thank you Tereza. I wonder if you might sometime do a brief overview (again?) of why questioning some of the narratives around Jews matters? I can certainly feel the hot button-ness of it, which makes my radar perk up. And I appreciate how you said we can divide our attention as attentive humans - we don't all need to know everything. That's relieving because there is just sooo much to question and then try to understand and then try to get to the bottom of. I lose sight of which questions are the most important.
That's a perfect suggestion! I was just working on an episode that's a great place to do that. Thank you, marta!
Aka: trust the process.
Oh even more, what my dance teacher asked when I took the months-long teacher training a third time, "Are you enjoying the process?" I think the question backfired on her, since it's given me less incentive to actually graduate and be willing to teach. But I've applied it to everything since: preparing videos, reading articles, washing dishes. I'm losing my drive to finish anything, I'm enjoying the process so much ;-)