Posted by cav on March 20, 2005 at 02:56:24:
In Reply to: Re: living authentically posted by PS on March 19, 2005 at 23:03:06:
Wow, sometimes you can write (and also speak) on a par with the best orators in history. It is the most excellent rhetoric, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. It evokes images that burn to life and last durably in people's minds. It's a great gift. You are often quoted. And lest you get a big head, it's all in spite of yourself really ;)
As for the different uses of reflection, I agree with you. I think there is a time to meditate on happenings and allow them to slowly seep into our consciousness, and there is a time when we are caught in the midst of something and we mentally try to check out of it in order to be able to realize what is happening. Both can be called reflection, so it's a tough call. Anyone got a way to distinguish? I think it really just has to do with the time for things. Anything out of place can become a perversion, and thus to reflect or apprehend in the wrong time can devastate the instant, whereas to not do so at the right time could be equally as bad.
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Dear God.... I just spent more than an hour typing a heart felt and personal response to the rest of your post, and then as I tried to clear some of the clutter below it, I accidentally erased the whole of it below this point... it is in an instant evaporated into cyberspace with no way to recall it... what a testament to the futility of our own thinking...
I think I have to go meditate on this in silence for a few minutes...that or beat a hole in the wall with my head...I'll let you know how it goes.