6/12/11 Thursday - dinge....

During my traumatic experiences I found God and have returned to Christianity.

This gave me:
1. God's presence
2. faith
3. Fellowship
4. Morality

But I would like more tools. Physical practical tools to enhance my psychological side.

Thus I went on search.....

"The Power of Now" - Eckhart Tolle

Tuesday, 3am, 6 December 2011 I love quotes...so one day I saw this quote on a yellow sticky note in an art teacher's classroom. " Realize Deeply that the present moment is all you ever have" Eckhart Tolle I was rather taken with it, then having a chat with my absolute "soul-bonding-friend" I quoted this quote that got stuck in my mind a while ago, which I actually wrote onto a sticky note and stuck next to my PC at work... So during this conversation it was remarked that the book is OK but it wasn't really recommended. So I went to bed pondering what was said... I woke just before 3am and mehandering around I decided to see if I can download this ebook - and I did... I read from just after 3 until just after 5...I was taken.. during lunch at work I read some more and I was totally hooked... take in mind that some of the things he says is totally wayward and completely irrational and illogical.. this quote was fantastic... The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. What really stood out which I cannot find now, but he said something to the effect that we acctualy like being and I quote "down and depressed" we enjoy the low.. and that is such a powerful but true statement..absolutely 100% true for me anyway.. the moment you feel yourself going "down" you try fight it, then you slip...you just go with the feelings and before you can get yourself you've gone way down and you are way too deep in. What I am looking in achieving with this book is to get to a point where I can pickup life "tools of the trade" to be able to equip myself better for my life ahead. I want to live in the NOW as currently I am 100% stuck...I cannot move forward, I am in a "waiting" state, as if I'm "paused" I am waiting for something ,for life to happen... So where I am...this book so far - is working for me...

Mateo Art

http://www.google.co.za/search?q=mateo+art&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=qig&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FLXUTvy8LdS2hAf06qGCAQ&ved=0CCgQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=586

Empiricism

Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism, idealism and historicism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism

Quote "Knowledge is power"

Quote "Knowledge is power" by Sir Francis Bacon http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Francis_Bacon%2C_Viscount_St_Alban_from_NPG_%282%29.jpg/200px-Francis_Bacon%2C_Viscount_St_Alban_from_NPG_%282%29.jpg

Aphorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism

Carlos Castaneda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda Carlos (César Salvador Arana) Castaneda[1] (anglicized from Castañeda; 25 December 1925 – 27 April 1998) was a Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his training in shamanism. The books, narrated in the first person, relate his experiences under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. His 12 books have sold more than 8 million copies in 17 languages. Critics have suggested that they are works of fiction; supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which enable an increased awareness. Castaneda withdrew from public view in 1973 to work further on his inner development, living in a large house with three women ("Fellow Travellers of Awareness") who were ready to cut their ties to family and changed their names. He founded Cleargreen, an organization that promoted tensegrity, purportedly a traditional Toltec regimen of spiritually powerful exercises.[2]