Line Tricksters and the long and short of things

[Guest guest]

Morning,

Find this interesting. I've a sister (I've three sisters) but one is very

attached to her own physical beauty and always dates guys who are at least

6'3' and doctors. She is very attached to the physical, material,

egotistical level of life. She's alot of fun, very beautiful, white blonde

hair, green eyes and elfin dimples, but she's also, in my book, very

superficial. She candidly admits this (thank God) so, at least it's

liveable, and she makes laughter of it with her Leo Moon, but she also

recognizes that her mind needs a bit of work and she does attempt to read and

become more rounded.

Bottom line is we're not all in the same place or evolving the same, or

equal, those who are still scaling the material mountain of glitz and glamour

are there and that's okay, I think for those of us who found the material

mountain empty, and found other mountains to climb, we're just there, on a

different path.

Is it better? Well, I guess the only way to look is to see how much

satisfaction is derived from one's life, how much serenity is there. Another

example, is my brother, who is also physically very beautiful, brilliant

engineer, blew his physics professors' minds, modeled, and now worth several

million as the owner of his own high tech company. Questions are: Is it

enough? Is he happy? Is he serene? If I were asked to trade my life for

his, I wouldn't do it for my life, I know my inner life is a tapestry that

isn't worth all the oil paintings and sculptures he may have...

I love him dearly and he did fulfill my father's goals, and that was to

reattain to what my father left behind in Europe. But, I will say this for

my wise young brother, Jim, he cannot wait to retire (he's 34) and go hike in

the Amazon, and talk to the Indians there, and hike the Andes and hike the

Himalayas, he's very aware of the fact that the superficialities, even though

he does huge work with inner city kids, cannot replace what he's missing on

the inside, and that this work he's done will allow him to begin the quest

that he thinks will take the rest of his life, and that's too find his own

spiritual path.

We all take our own path, and the paths differ like the variances of

harmonies of music, and there are infinite variations, like some colors which

are beyond the range of my limited human eyes and sounds which are beyond the

range of my limited human ears ... but I know there are things beyond my ken,

and that is exactly what makes the infinite mystery so fascinating, it's a

journey, <g> not a destination :-).

Love

bo

[Guest guest]

Wile on this subject, I use Eudora Light and Iname which no longer seems to

like to send messages to AOL (to the extent that I've had to create a

second account just for AOL friends)... No problem when I mail through the

list, but I can't mail them direct... Bi-zarre!...

Being 5'6 " in my socks, I spoke to Vera about this question of tall guys

(she's a good 1 " or so taller than I am). She reckons tall guys are

attractive on the immediate caveman level, but tend to be arrogant as far

as women go because of it. She finds beauty in kindness, long hairedness,

open-heartedness, and points out to this end that even very ugly guys are

easily utterly loveable because of who andf not what they are.

I find much the same with women. I find it very difficult, generally, to

speak to women who are considered to be - or consider themselves to be -

very beautiful because they expect me to react to them in a certain way and

will either project it onto anything I am saying or doing, or be very

confused if they can't. Beauty, for me, really lies in the honesty and

down-to-earthness of the person - in their ability to laugh at themselves

and allow and even aid others to grow around them...

There are, of course, bodies I find more or less 'beautiful' aesthetically,

faces also, but not necessarily the ones Hollywood tells me I should, and

as to eighteen-year-olds, I tend to find them dumb - numbed, perhaps, by

everything that's happening to them and trapped in a static vision of what

love, freedom, pleasure and release might mean...

The beautiful ones - i. e., the ones that escape this channelling - the

one's I call 'faries' and 'dakinis' are objects (subjects) of delight

rather than concupiscence.

Just my world view from down here (at least my legs are long enough to

reach the ground when I'm standing - It's not that I'm small, my eldest son

tells me: just that I'm speaking to you all from very far away)

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