The only uncommon sexual expression is none at all.

Love is elusive.

What you want may not be what you're looking for. What you're looking for is always out of reach.

Worship what you have?

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary, Sunday, 12/18/05.

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?
Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.

If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my! throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the world we knew went to.

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Glare

I tell you how I feel but you don't care
I say tell me the truth but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bare
and I say give me mine back and then go there,
for all I care

for example: a degree

When does something become more than the sum of its parts?

Special

Do people feel they are really loved or treasured when someone thinks they are special?

What about special for the same reasons that they think they are special themselves? Or maybe even thinking something special about them that they never even knew? Or that they disliked!?
.....she doesn't like her legs. He loves them. But her legs aren't "attractive"...but he still likes them.
Well then he's not liking her legs.

Do people like the way others think about themselves?
....she likes his modesty? his confidence? his curiosity?

Who determines the "specialness" that people seek in a relationship that makes them feel worthy?

Existentialism

When philosophy paints its grey in grey then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood.

Existentialism says that human beings can be understood only from the inside, in terms of their lived and experienced reality and dilemmas, not from the outside, in terms of a biological, psychological, or other scientific theory of human nature. Existentialism emphasizes action, freedom and decision as fundamental to human existence and is fundamentally opposed to the rationalist tradition and to positivism. That is, it argues against definitions of human beings either as primarily rational, knowing beings who relate to reality primarily as an object of knowledge or whose action can or ought to be regulated by rational principles, or as beings who can be defined in terms of their behavior as it looks to or is studied by others.

What is most important to an existing being are questions dealing with an individual's inner relationship to existence. Objective truths (e.g. mathematical truths) are important, but detached or observational modes of thought can never truly comprehend human experience. Great individuals invent their own values and create the very terms under which they excel.
--well, this is what Wikipedia says anyway..

Encouraged Force

The desire for something is great: it allows devotion, inspiration, motivation. But if the desire is too strong, then it can cause a backwards effect. For example, wanting to find a special someone...if you're searching too hard, you give off the 'searching' vibes, and that in itself makes it harder to find. Worse, as this desperation increases, the chances of a positive encounter decrease. So the more you push for something, the more it pulls from you.
This is a common example I think. A lot of people can relate to it. I'm trying to think of another example....

I'm picturing myself on a little row boat or something in a body of water. And I drop something overboard, but luckily it floats. So then I use my paddle to either try to reach it or to paddle myself closer to it.
The efforts of putting hte paddle in the water create ripples on the surface, pushing the desired object further away. So there, the more I reach for it and paddle, the more its getting pushed away from me by my own efforts.

Sitting on a swing and trying to reach for a pole next to me (like on a swingset or something). As I extend my arm out to grab the pole, my body posture somehow pushes the swing farther away.

I feel like the last two are probably some sort of physics law and maybe the swing one is a kinesiology concept of pushing posture backwards to reach for something forwards. But anyway, just from my own childhood experiences on swings, I realized that if you want to go in one direction, you have to first give a slight nudge in the other direction. Don't strive the other way, but just gently lean backwards and then when the energy is going forwards, follow it. and eventually, I think, the swing will go towards the pole.

so just cruise through life swaying and when you feel the breeze pulling you in the direction you desire, go with it and know that just as easily, you can sway the other way too.
don't force things, just encourage them.

Visions

Artists create lies to tell the truth

What is done to you has created you