by Michael Mamas | Aug 29, 2016 | Personal Growth |
Years ago I was told a story about a child that asked his parents if he could be alone with his newly born sibling. The parents overheard via the baby monitor the child say to the baby, “I want you to remind me about God, I am starting to forget.”
Deep inside, that innocence remains within us all. It is only buried under our conditioning, our programming, our indoctrinations. Innocence is neither ignorance nor oblivion. It is spontaneously living in harmony with our own true nature, with Mother Nature, with all of Nature, with our inner Divinity. It is still there within us all, even as adults, yet we tend to bury it beneath our adaptation to the world as we have come to know it.
Another nice quote from Dr. Matt’s office wall:
“The face of a child says it all. Especially the mouth part of the face.” – Jack Handy
I would only add that it is also there in the faces of adults. We need only look a bit more carefully.
by Michael Mamas | Aug 28, 2016 | Personal Growth, Spirituality
We see it everywhere, from the Rocky movie series to Shakespeare: the Greek play formula that makes movies work. But the reason it works so well is remarkable, reaching to the depth of our very existence.
The rain falls on the mountain peak, tumbles down the stream, and eventually into the ocean to evaporate once again into rain, and then returns to the mountain peak, continuing the cycle. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That principle is everywhere, permeating all aspects of life. The sun rises and sets. The pendulum swings one way and back the other. The electron moves as a wave…
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by Michael Mamas | Aug 27, 2016 | Personal Growth |
As I am fond of saying, “Evolution is not founded upon new thoughts but rather on a whole new way, a whole new level, of thinking.” The following quote from Dr. Matt’s office wall relates to this nicely.
“The level of thinking that got you to where you are
is not the same thinking required to get you to where you need to go.”
– Einstein
by Michael Mamas | Aug 25, 2016 | Personal Growth |
I have spoken and blogged on this topic many times in the past, but when visiting Dr. Matt’s chiropractic office in San Rafael recently, I saw this quote on the wall that relates nicely:
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.
The rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
And has forgotten the gift.”
– Albert Einstein
The transcendental level of our being (the level of unity with everything) is the foundation of the most refined feeling level. The fine feeling level is the foundation of reason. Reason is the foundation of the rational mind. The intuitive mind (that Einstein speaks of) is the composite of the Transcendental, fine feeling, and reason.
So thoughts are ideally servants of our deepest inner Being, fully integrated and in harmony with that place where we are one with all of nature.
When thoughts are not integrated with the transcendental level they can be justified with the intellect but their foundation is weak and unstable. The intellect is a great servant, but a poor master.
You may also be interested in my related LinkedIn article:
“Reason, Will, or Emotion? A Tool for Understanding How People Function”
by Michael Mamas | Aug 19, 2016 | Humanity's Future |
During our stay in San Francisco, I learned more from taxi cab drivers than one might imagine. They offer grassroot views of humanity that seem to slice through every possible perspective on the planet. To whatever extent they could or could not be documented as factual, the perspectives give a snapshot insight into a worldwide set of modern mentalities that would probably not be readily available any other way.
One cabbie told me of his escape from a newly formed militant country in Africa. In a ten-day harrowing ordeal, he was smuggled through the jungle and across the border to safety in Ethiopia.
Another told me of his life in Honduras and his new life here in the U.S. His children now are aspiring to very bright futures, worlds away from the childhood he knew. His daughter plans to become a civil rights attorney. His son loves soccer and plans to enter college soon. His childhood world seemed to be as unknown to them as it is to me. As he drove us to the Golden Gate Bridge where we would hike across and on to Sausalito, he gave a verbal tour of San Francisco that surpassed anything I could find online.
Still another told us of how in 1972, he hitchhiked to San Francisco from Baltimore to join the hippie movement. He told of the days when he rented a studio apartment for $100 per month that now rents for $3500! Back then he said you could, on a Saturday afternoon, lie in the middle of a downtown city street with no fear of any traffic. Those streets now, on any given Saturday, are packed with cars. Many of his successful friends from those days, he said, are now homeless, unable to afford the high rents and costs driven up by the tech economy that took over the city.
I had a great conversation with a Russian who, when I asked, “What do you think of Putin?” responded with, “What do you think of Al Capone?” He said that Putin would be in prison if he had not become President.
Then there was a Mongolian, an Iranian, and a Filipino, each with his own compelling life story. After telling one of them that I felt they should charge over and above the fare for their fascinating stories, he responded by saying that he felt he should pay his passengers for their fascinating stories as well. The taxi drivers of San Francisco gave me far more than just transportation from one part of the city to another. They have given me a heartfelt education and have re-enlivened my love of humanity.
