Thought of the Day

January 2, 2013

There seems to have been quite a lot of worry, fear and even pride and disdain in the world today.

May all beings be well and happy.

Jonathan Harnisch

Animal Abuse: Please Don't Beat Me Again

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Jonathan Harnisch

Porcelain Utopia

Three Types of Friends

Three Types of Friends

There are three types of friends in life:

1.)          Friends for a reason.

2.)          Friends for a season.

3.)          Friends for a lifetime.

Jonathan Harnisch

Surfing the Reality of Life

On Lifetracks

In my dream, I was watching a play.

I went back to the theater the next day and watched the same exact play. But the play was performed with different decorations. The two plays I’d seen seemed to have been lifetracks (as opposed to soundtracks for a motion picture, perhaps). These lifetracks were quite close in space to each other and with similar variations.

The next theater season, I went to watch yet another play and with the same actors. This time, the script to the play had been rewritten dramatically. So as another lifetrack, this particular one was even further away from the original play I’d seen last season, in my dream.

I went on even further and saw the same play in a different theater—quite an unusual experience with an entirely new interpretation. So, this lifetrack was indeed quite far away from the original lifetrack.

To quote the Russian mystic Vadim Zeland in his Space of Variations—

“Reality manifests itself in all its multiplicity precisely because of the number of variations is infinite.”

I suppose with these lifetracks, I have free choice, and all possibilities already exist, as quantum physics suggests, so its seems about time to make some choices, and to begin with one choice. I suppose the first question is, “how?”

Dedicated to awakening souls throughout the world.

Jonathan Harnisch

Doing Nothing

To do nothing is to “do” a great deal.

Jonathan Harnisch

To Something Better

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Steve Maraboli

Seize the New Year's Day in 2013!

January 1, 2013

Happy New Year's Day!

Carpe Diem!

The first day of the year gives us the opportunity of a fresh start.

2013 is a new beginning.

On this New Year's Day, and every once in a while, let's give ourselves the opportunity to take a break in our own quests and pursuits of happiness to just actually be happy and <a class="StrictlyAutoTagAnchor" title="View all articles about OK here" href="http://www.jharnisch.com/tag/ok">OK, plain and simple—with gratitude and <a class="StrictlyAutoTagAnchor" title="View all articles about forgiveness here" href="http://www.jharnisch.com/tag/forgiveness">forgiveness, just as we are, right here and right now—just for today.

No one can hold us hostage to the past other than, well, ourselves. So let's embrace the day. Let's seize it!

Carpe Diem!

We can choose to make this New Years's Day—and any day—divine, with experience, meaning, purpose and peace—love.

Let's start anew in some way or another—letting go of the years past, the best we can.

Just prior to the turn of the first millennium, came Horace's The Odes, and its phrase, Carpe diem, actually part of the expanded Latin, "Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero," translated as, "Seize the day, putting as little trust as possible in the next [day]."

The ode says that the future is unforeseen—that instead, one should scale back our hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine!

And so let's seize the day in 2013!

Jonathan Harnisch