"When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love."
This one makes me wonder. What would really make others happy? You never really know till you are there. Things have slowed down a bit in the last few days here at the forum. It gives a person a moment to pause and reflect on where they find themselves. It seems like i have shuttled back and forth between Michigan and California all my life. Each place has a certain destiny or purpose. Yet whenever i am in one of the states i think about the other. Wonder what it would be like if i had lived in for instance in Minnesota.
So where could i make other people most happy? Do you ever think about that? Some people have kind of chained themselves in to living in a certain areas so it does not seem to be a subject of conversation. Many of us have a certain kind of job or we have set ourselves up to live in one place by having family ties or a home etc.
Just thoughts at this stage but perhaps you or someone could add to them. Sometimes we get so involved with
ideas that we loose the personal aspect of life. Yet i have found that often when i bring up that aspect i get criticized or censored. The message i get from this is that some people do not want a personal friendship or relationship with me. So i just set here mellow out and meditate under the pepper tree or the salt cedar in my meditation arbor. That is O.K. So i need to let them live their own life. Yet it is difficult to know when you will say something that might offend someone else. So you just throw up your arms and say O.K. i can no longer take the risk of saying something that might not fly with you. Have a nice life.
We can never know how people will react to our personal comments until we have made them. That is the risk. i have taken it and it does not always work out so well. Yet how do you break the ice and get below the surface? So i am making an effort to be more personal myself here to see where it leads and if it brings answers to our life search for answers. Nothing ventured-nothing gained.
Getonit Julian Elfuntitus tell us your cosmic rambling thoughts or someone else out there with a voice to speak..
Jitendra
