Musings From The Mermaid Journal: A Reposting with Commentary

• Sometimes the test is not to find the right answer, but to find out how you react and learn when you realize that there IS no answer!
  

• Always think for yourself—you'll be thinking for all. Think about it.
  

• If you have but one life to live, then cram into it every possible bit of living you can. LIVE! LOVE! LAUGH!

• No disability can hide the brilliance of an active mind, or the joy of a caring heart.

• Q: What changes with practice? A: The universe. (my answer when asked that question online)

• Beauty comes in many and varied packages—unwrap one today.

• All the best love affairs start with friendship and grow from there.

• Fortunately, there is no time limit on growing UP.

• Go ahead—grab a moment—make it yours—you may never see that moment again—but it will always be yours!

• Q: What can you give and give and give away, and still have in abundance? A: Love (of course!)

• Dance through the spiral of life with steps both slow and fast, large and small, but above all, keep the rhythm and the time, for the cadence of life's music contains the joys and sorrows we need most.

• Wisdom ebbs and flows from us like the tide. One day it is full and flows like a fountain whenever needed. Another day it may be silent and petulant, like a grumpy child who will not come outside to play. But if we are patient and careful to listen, that which we call Wisdom will return and guide us when we need it most. Listen now...

• Death is but a transition from one stage of awareness to another. In the blink of an eye we are embraced by the energy of the great and eternal power we perceive as the universe. Yet even universes have a beginning, a middle, and an end—as do we. The spiral continues—we are but dots on the great, winding arm that encompasses galaxies and atoms. Time and space are the music of the spheres, and even quarks travel at a snail's pace if we but make it so.

• There is no battle which cannot be fought with a pen—except, of course, with a mad dog, and then only if you've left your pen at home.

• The explanation of how the universe works is to be found right between your eyes. Think about it and see.

• Open your mouth and say, "Awe!"

• Mountains and molehills all point UP.

• Objective reality may not actually exist. We may, in a very real sense, actually create our own reality. Is not then the correlation between man and God perhaps simply an attitude adjustment?

• Quantum ruminations: The closer we approach an understanding of the physical properties of the universe, the closer we come to an understanding of the spiritual nature of the universe. By quantitatively "proving" this, (through particle physics and quantum mechanics) science has begun to merge into a higher state of human understanding and consciousness. Scientists who search for the interconnectivity and finite workings of nature are finding that WE are the cogs upon which the workings of the universe depend. By simply existing and wondering "why," we are and become creators, and in effect become the sentience of the universe. Science and religion are both dances—and everyone knows how to dance—only the steps differ—but it is STILL dancing.

• The real reality of reality is that all realities are real.

• Sometimes the beginning is really the end, and nobody realizes this until it is all over. What's going on? Real life! It's very unpredictable at best, so just hang onto your ticket and enjoy the ride.

• There is a place where puppies play. It's a fine place for growing, a fine place for fun, at any age, any lifestyle. If we kneel with a pup, we are instantly dragged back through eons of time to a place where our homes were cavern walls, dirt floors seemed civilized, and growling in play with a pup first began. "Grrrr," says the puppy. "Grrrr," we say back, usually on all fours, and when a tail wags in sheer delight, we find to our astonishment that there are still cells at the base of our spine which remember that wagging joy. But our ways part when we bare our teeth, for our pup sees playful aggression, but to us it signifies a smile attached to a swelling heart.

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