That lyric from Joni Mitchell's "Borderline" serves as the thorn that can puncture my own hot-air-balloon of (often) egocentric stories and remind me of compassion when others also become entwined in their own tellings (or what I may perceive as "mis-tellings). I recognized----and released----the potential ridiculousness of words as that twelve-year-old animal lover who went along with my friend's joking about something we'd never consider actually doing (as I am almost-regretting trying to express in my last entry), yet we were able to laugh at the (sometimes) perversity and incongruity of language and actions.
"As if thinking makes things so" is also an example of the other side of a coin----both sides of which I "believe" (even in their opposition) or that are pertinent to me at one time or another. The other side of that coin states that intentions can be powerful (the self-fulfilling prophecy, among others).
This sense of flipping a coin, of living with the nature of paradox, of walking the tightrope of ordinary reality/nonordinary reality, is all part of "the continuum of awareness," another term I am happy to use to remember how multi-faceted our lives are, even as they can also sometimes appear quite. . . simple.
"As if thinking makes things so" is also an example of the other side of a coin----both sides of which I "believe" (even in their opposition) or that are pertinent to me at one time or another. The other side of that coin states that intentions can be powerful (the self-fulfilling prophecy, among others).
This sense of flipping a coin, of living with the nature of paradox, of walking the tightrope of ordinary reality/nonordinary reality, is all part of "the continuum of awareness," another term I am happy to use to remember how multi-faceted our lives are, even as they can also sometimes appear quite. . . simple.
