tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post4257052496265650321..comments2018-08-04T10:58:59.347-04:00Comments on Heart of Being: Life is NowJoel D Zeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post-10366134759427185662010-02-17T14:34:19.489-05:002010-02-17T14:34:19.489-05:00Always I am more motivated and psyched to do somet...Always I am more motivated and psyched to do something (i.e. a domestic project) when I have the least amount of time (today) to do it. It is having more time that breeds laziness and lack of initiative. To do and accomplish everything on my agenda as though I have no time to do it and still I must do it.... immediately!!!!Joel D Zeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post-21265769733110534192010-02-17T13:51:49.324-05:002010-02-17T13:51:49.324-05:00More important than evolution and the desire to gr...More important than evolution and the desire to grow (or accumulate spiritual/personal merit) is the will to live immediately, this moment, without any sense of being or becoming anything more nor of wanting anything more.Joel D Zeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post-88532980104882831862010-02-17T13:51:25.381-05:002010-02-17T13:51:25.381-05:00All things, people and events in life really happe...All things, people and events in life really happen only ONCE. Nothing ever repeats, only the comparative mind which categorizes and labels, sees and feels the same experiences repeatedly. Pleasure is simply the tendency of the mind to recollect and want to repeat indefinitely those experiences associated with joy and abundance. With this compulsion to repeat pleasurable experience, from the fondest memories of days past, comes the inevitable pain and disillusionment/disenchantment that is inseparable from this pursuit of pleasure.Joel D Zeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post-19325338239540759052010-02-17T12:19:21.003-05:002010-02-17T12:19:21.003-05:00As Americans especially we are so accustomed to as...As Americans especially we are so accustomed to asking "How much I am gonna get and how long will it last me... am I getting my money's worth??". This whole fixation on quantity, especially regarding "my time and money" and how this is measured as a determinant value of my personal existence must go. Quality is what counts most, this quality cannot be accumulated like objects, only lived right here and now.Joel D Zeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552586506974947829.post-34236682556159362792010-02-17T12:07:20.151-05:002010-02-17T12:07:20.151-05:00Many, including myself, have found comfort and ass...Many, including myself, have found comfort and assurance in believing that "I have all the time in the world". Looking for an insurance policy in the afterlife, or the belief that "if I don't get it right this lifetime, I will do so in the next". This in my experience has breeded a kind of complacency. If truly I believe that I have all the time in... See More the world then boy how I take life for granted! Why get started living today if I have a whole eternity? To believe in anything other than the urgency to live now is to devalue the very process of living. To die this moment to all such beliefs and speculations about an afterlife, and look to TODAY for all that is good and worth being present for, is valuing and loving life as it IS...Joel D Zeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722320579695770813noreply@blogger.com