04-04-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Watergaze,
"It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself," he said. "Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal
power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don't have enough personal power,
the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference." (…) "
"Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you so desire?" (…)
Great choice of Don Juan quotes. One of my favorite.
It brings to mind the whole feeling of the Gospel of Thomas, one of the scrolls found in Nag Hammadi. The whole tenor of the book is one of the Kingdom of
Heaven being right here, available right now, yet invisible. As opposed to the erroneous idea of most religious people that look at it as something that comes
after death if you are good enough.
But if you have the personal power or Faith in that one concept, it can open the way to an entirely different view of existence. If a person's idea of
Eternity as Don Juan puts it or Jesus' Kingdom of Heaven remains what it has always been they are stuck where they have always been.
The idea that it is always off in some future time means it never gets here.
"Yet if you did have enough power, my words alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of yourself, and get the crucial part of it
out of the boundaries in which it is contained."
He came to my side and poked my chest with his fingers. It was a very light tap.
"These are the boundaries I'm talking about," he said. "One can get out of them. We are a feeling; an awareness encased here."
"It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself," he said. "Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal
power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don't have enough personal power,
the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference." (…) "
"Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you so desire?" (…)
Great choice of Don Juan quotes. One of my favorite.
It brings to mind the whole feeling of the Gospel of Thomas, one of the scrolls found in Nag Hammadi. The whole tenor of the book is one of the Kingdom of
Heaven being right here, available right now, yet invisible. As opposed to the erroneous idea of most religious people that look at it as something that comes
after death if you are good enough.
But if you have the personal power or Faith in that one concept, it can open the way to an entirely different view of existence. If a person's idea of
Eternity as Don Juan puts it or Jesus' Kingdom of Heaven remains what it has always been they are stuck where they have always been.
The idea that it is always off in some future time means it never gets here.
"Yet if you did have enough power, my words alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of yourself, and get the crucial part of it
out of the boundaries in which it is contained."
He came to my side and poked my chest with his fingers. It was a very light tap.
"These are the boundaries I'm talking about," he said. "One can get out of them. We are a feeling; an awareness encased here."