Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00077)

> 
> Dear Clint--
> 
> Sure we're hopeless, we're all hopeless if you grab
> us by our
> "Achilles Heel"!
> 
> But just as you can't make away with the horrors of
> the planet,
> it is likewise true that you can't make away with
> the immortal,
> the creative, the beautiful.
> 
> Handsome is who handsome does,  and adventures are
> always waiting
> for the "adventurous" whether they take the upward
> way or that of
> the "Dread Dugpa Clan."
> 
Who is this Dread Dugpa Clan?

> Lower subject & verb thinking can prove nothing in
> the long run.
> It can only put to use the inner life of the person
> who, becomes
> and reflects what he thinks.  But he can choose
> those things he
> will ATTEND TO---  Will and attention  are kissing
> cousins, the
> latter being the handmaid and ACCOMPLISHER  that
> drives into
> reality that which is attended to.  Love is the key.
>  Nobody
> escapes having a love affair on this planet, for in
> the end it is
> our LOVE that rivets the attention and makes the
> show go.
> 
> The BIG problem for you and I and all of us is: 
> "How do we fall
> in love with our ideals rather than our appetites?" 
> It can be
> done, history proves it.  Human heroes leave
> indelible footprints
> on this planet.  If 95% of the people manage to
> stretch out their
> days in the lap of the insipid and the mediocre,
> that says
> NOTHING about the other 5%!  Join the show and give
> the gods a
> "run for their money"!
> 
Firstly, what are these appetites you speak of?  Secondly, please
explain what you mean by give the gods a run for their money?  I
understand the reference, not necessarily the definition of gods.

> Just as the "horrors of the forest movie" had its
> effect on your
> life, so too the hero in man might wake up your
> "heart," and once
> that happens, who's knows where the limit is???
> 
> bye,
> Jerome
> 
We shall see what we shall see.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Dallas
> dalval@nwc.net 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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