Today's thoughts

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation” ~Oscar Wilde~

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.” ~Oscar Wilde~

“Uh! Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied (with the life you’re living)? Uh!” ~Bob Marley~

A book I started reading the beginnings of January, 2004 contained two basic precepts by which to live your life. 1) Help others 2) Do no harm to others this second necessary only if you couldn’t complete the first. What a great way to live life. This is what I ought to do!!!

“Need to listen to the music in my life. Go with the flow, feel the rhythm, move to the beat.” ~Me~

Forms of prayer are defined as follows:

1. Blessing


2. Petition


3. Intercession


4. Thanksgiving


5. Praise

Part four: Christian Prayer Article 3 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

What prayer is is defined as follows:

1. God’s gift


2. Covenant


3. Communion

Part four: Cristian Prayer Section 1 Prayer in the Christian life

These are my musts:

1. Reorient my thoughts and feelings


2. Be kind and compassionate


3. Not hate


4. Be slow to anger


5. Be patient


6. More understanding

“Our mundane concerns. Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.” His Holiness The Dalai Lama

I watched two movies tonight, Platoon and Philadelphia, both Great flicks. I’d like to share the one moment that really struck home. After Tom Hank’s has his party in celebration of him, he and Denzel are sitting down attempting to discuss Tom’s testimony. Well Tom isn’t into it; instead, he is riveted by a particular operetta playing in the background. This is my favorite part of the movie. The color, the slanting of the camera angles, the wide eyed expression of Denzel and the closed eyed contemplation of Tom as he describes the operetta piece. It would seem that he has a clear and present understanding of how life presents itself in all of its subtle and magnificent, mundane and tragic, happenstances of existence while traversing birth, life, and death. Everyone facing uncertainty and indecision should watch this well acted performance to gain perhaps a little deeper insight into their own presence.