On Wednesday, it dawned on Dawn:
those who claim to know do not know. just a thought.
On Wednesday, Al allocated:
I really like the unintended depth of Dawn's statement.
... those who claim to know do not know, its just thoughts.
I also came to the conclusion a few years after breaking free of the ML dogma that those things that I KNEW, were those things that I really wasn't sure of.
In Morningland, we were taught that since its the age of Aquarius, that we should KNOW stuff, like that Donato was who he was (according to Sri's marketing, etc.) and the whole world view of Morningland.
We all KNEW it and we could stand up in front of a crowd and KNOW stuff. However all that KNOWING was really just belief with volume.
Knowing stuff that requires a stand is generally a good sign of something that you're really not sure of, otherwise, there is no need to make a stand. People only have to defend opinions that aren't self-evident.
"I'm male." I don't have to say it loud and proclaim it because it is physiologically self-evident. "THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING AND WE'RE GOING ON TO THE END" is something that we simply can't know, so it must be firmly stated, defended and reinforced on a daily basis.
Welcome to Morningland.
On Thursday, Thom Thought...
Lately (like last night mowing the lawn), it's occurred to me what I was at ML to find out: what it meant to trust yourself. The real and important lesson of which was to leave ML.
And it also occurred to me that I have Patricia's spiritual dictatorialism to thank for it. Her demands that people trust her and her alone forced the issue -- eventually creating and putting me in a do-or-die situation. Do I trust my sense of what's right -- trust myself -- and walk away from ML? Or not and lose myself. I chose to walk. Take other paths. And got a good feeling for my inner sense of things and the value of following it. It was scary at first -- kind of like going places you've never been relying only on sense of direction -- but it's gotten easier over the years. And gotten me to a pretty good place.
Amazing what cutting the grass can do, besides a good-looking lawn...