Amusing Era

Excited to help lead retreat this weekend :]

to put it simply

Your heart will unfold you until it is open and radiating.

Peculiar arrangement of words; something you’d find in a fortune cookie that got stuffed with notes from Jr. High and High School, when you were closer to the truth or realizing you are nothing and will forever have nothing to lose accept your illusions of pride, control, self, perfectionism.

Hearing these words from someone you thought you left on the other side of the world at first makes you think: ‘how nice,’ or ‘Gosh I hope this doesn’t mean they’re on this level of emotion while I’ve already hiked back down to the summit base-camp.’ As if human honesty, emotion, and connection are physical mappings with empirical laws of reciprocation, normalcy, and understanding. 

Fuck that, if someone says they think about you all the time you can always, hands down, think at least of 2 or 3 other people that you ’think of all the time’ (and perhaps unlike this individual haven’t had the courage and simple motivating realization that you’re alive required to tell them).

Volunteer Park, Seattle. 9/28/11

If I saw one of these in every local park on any given day of the week I’d be convinced I lived in a utopia. 

Anahata Sadhana/I-Thou Relationship/Social Interest/Do Unto Others,
whatever you want to call it.