This week, the meditations are two short passages from Hugh Prather's "The Quiet Answer." I highly reccomend this book, or andything else that he has written.
WISDOM
"This is the lesson. This is all that is being learned. Forgiveness truly is the key to happiness, to simple liking, to heartfelt contentment, and to the certainty we will exist forever in freedom. Just forgive, merely let go of dislike and "justified" resentments, simply forget grievances and bleak anticipations, set all things free of memories and cruel expectations, let loose, let go, let be, and the earth cannot help but sing and your heart dance with it. FORGIVE AND BE HAPPY. That is the ancient secret, the inner teaching, the hidden answer, the lost knowledge, the only message of the still, quiet voice, the only wisdom ever to be attained."
THE ONE REMINDER
"There is one reminder we cannot make too often: I AM NOT ALONE. There is Someone with us even now. In THIS place and time and situation. That is why we never need to do something else first. Not even one thought must be first correct by ourselves. In fact, we can do nothing by ourselves. And our ego is merely our belief that we can."
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And now, a poem by Andy Kaufman:
The Cage
December 26, 1963
As I look out into the street
I see all the people:
I see the intelligent,
I see the ignorant.
They laugh at me,
because I am in a cage.
And as I look upon the street
I see the cars,
rushing to get to their destination.
There is a cage between us.
To separate the chosen from the rest.
There are bars between us.
To separate the laughable from the laughed.
And I laugh.
for ~they~ are in a cage.