“The opposite of patriarchy isn’t matriarchy-it’s fraternity.”
-Germaine Greer
Just Awesome
The Best Thing I Heard This Weekend
came from the season premiere of “Bones”. (And let us all do a happy dance of joy in celebration of new episodes of TV!)
Booth and Bones are in the U.K. to present at various conferences. While there, they become involved in solving a couple of murders, and are working with Inspector Pritchard of Scotland Yard.
Booth and the Inspector are questioning the manager of the Highgate Gentlemen’s Club, and have just informed him of the murder of one of its members.
Club Manager: My God. Two nights ago Dr. Wexler was buying drinks for all of his friends, and playing the tables as if he hadn’t a care in the world.
Booth: “Was he with a woman?”
Inspector Pritchard: “No, this is a gentleman’s club, Agent Booth.”
Booth: “I didn’t see a stage, or a pole, or dancers, or anything.””
Inspector Pritchard: No, an English gentleman’s club is for actual, English gentlemen.”
Good Words For The Weekend
“God divided beauty and gave it to the ten:
Henna, soap, and silk-these are the first three.
The plough, the livestock, and the hives of bees-
That makes six.
The sun when it rises over the mountains-
That makes seven.
The crescent moon, as thin as a Christian’s blade-
That makes eight.
With horses and with books we come to ten.”
-from The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
Never Alone
Yes!
“The woman who takes the time to grow herself in the darkness becomes familiar-perhaps for the first time-with the real source and containment of her psychic strength. No longer is her strength dissipated in obeying an idealized father figure, in pleasing a lover, in trying to satisfy a perpetually unsatisfied mother figure, in accommodating to a patriarchal organization or culture, in appeasing the inner witch who tells her she is worthless. No longer is her strength lost to obeying compulsions, drives, and obsessions that can slip in during the dark night of the soul and substitute for the real thing.
And what is the real thing, the thing for which she longs? The love affair with her own spirit, the inner marriage that commits her to her destiny, the rituals of soul that feed her deepest hunger, and the sense of being pregnant with her Self, her creative essence.”
Jill Mellick, Coming Home To Myself
Ain’t That The Truth
I’m Thinking Of Adopting This As My New Motto
The Best Thing I Heard This Weekend
Al Giordino:” Hey, you know how it is when you see someone that you haven’t seen since high school, and they got some dead-end job, and they’re married to some woman that hates them, they got, like, three kids who think he’s a joke? Wasn’t there some point where he stood back and said, “Bob, don’t take that job! Bob, don’t marry that harpy!” You know?”
Dirk Pitt: “Your point?”
Al Giordino: “Well, we’re in the desert, looking for the source of a river pollutant, using as our map a cave drawing of a Civil War gunship, which is also in the desert. So I was just wondering when we’re gonna have to sit down and re-evaluate our decision-making paradigm?”
-from the movie “Sahara”
How Cool Is This?!
The Frequency Holders
The outward movement into form does not express itself with equal intensity in all people. Some feel a strong urge to build, create, become involved, achieve, make an impact upon the world….Others, after the natural expansion that comes with growing up has run its course, lead an outwardly unremarkable, seemingly more passive and relatively uneventful existence.
They are more inward looking by nature, and for them the outward movement into form is minimal. They would rather return home than go out. They have no desire to get strongly involved in or change the world. If they have any ambitions, they usually don’t go beyond finding something to do that gives them a degree of independence. Some of them find it hard to fit into this world. Some are lucky enough to find a protective niche where they can lead a relatively sheltered life, a job that provides them with a regular income or a small business of their own.
…In past ages, they would probably have been called contemplatives. There is no place for them, it seems, in our contemporary civilization. On the arising new earth, however, their role is just as vital as that of the creators, the doers, the reformers. Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through “just being”.
In this way, they endow the seemingly insignificant with profound meaning. Their task is to bring spacious stillness into this world by being absolutely present in whatever they do. There is consciousness and therefore quality in what they do, even the simplest task. Their purpose is to do everything in a sacred manner. As each human is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.
-Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
YES!!
