A reading from the 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams
My new book arrived today. Here’s the first chapter, if you’re interested.
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This is the 72-year-old Mohamed Aziz, the most photographed bookseller in the world, town of Rabat, Morocco !!
Selling books in a country, in which 26% of the population still cannot read, is an act of love towards his city and literature. Being an orphan since he was 6, Aziz had a difficult life; he was not even able to finish High School because the textbooks were too expensive for him. At the age of 15 in 1963, he started his career as a bookseller with only a carpet caved under a tree with 9 books.
Now his bookshop sells thousands of books and he spends his days trapped in books and devouring the stories that emerge from them. He spends between 6 and 8 hours a day reading and only stops to eat, pray, smoke, and help customers. The rest of his time he walks around the neighborhoods in search of books that he later puts up for sale in his shop.
He says that this is his revenge against his childhood, and poverty : “I have read over 4000 books in Arabic, French, English, or Spanish, so it means I have lived more than 4000 lives. Everyone should have that chance ! I only need two pillows and a book to enjoy my day.”
After more than 43 years in the same place, he is the longest-serving bookseller in Rabat.
PS : When asked why he leaves his books unattended outside where they could be stolen, he replied that those who can’t read don’t steal books, and those who can aren’t thieves…
The term logos, the root word of “logic,” refers to the sum total of our rational understanding of the world. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding. —
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is. —
There is only one kind of person, Phædrus said, who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phædrus said, is “insane.” To go outside the mythos is to become insane. —
Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine “virtue.” But areté. Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric. He has been doing it right all along. —
And the bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of declining Athens through its fall and Macedonia through its decline and fall. Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states…buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done. —
In The Four Agreements, Ruiz writes about the domestication of the human by means of punishment and reward. “The domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our lives we no longer need anyone to domesticate us”, Ruiz explains and lays out how we create a comfort zone of lies to uphold this domestication. We rather go in denial, he suggests, than giving up the lie which would mean death. The solution? According to Ruiz, we agreed to the domestication and lies. Hence, the way out is new agreements.
The first agreement: Be impeccable with your word. Speak from love, integrity, joy, harmony. No self rejection. No self judgement.
Who birthed it?
Where does it come from?
Here’s a clue.
Before it was manipulated ….
… and it’s danger.
Anything and everything we experience in connection with the paranormal has both minor and major impact on our philosophic or theological belief. It therefore changes our very nature. It alters the way we respond to crises, changes the very foundation of our understanding or belief in how conscientiousness operates, the way we relate to others, how we think about right and wrong, and it most definitely causes us to rethink the basic tenets surrounding cause and effect.
Self-delusion is seriously threatening to mental stability, especially when it begins to modify behavior.
~ Remote Viewing Secrets, Joseph McMoneagle
https://www.pdfdrive.com/joseph-mcmoneagle-remote-viewing-secretspdf-e53455874.html
Have you read The Four Agreements?
It’s a quick, and honestly life-changing read. One of the agreements is essentially that nothing someone else does or says is about you.
It just isn’t.
Someone trying to cut down your dreams? Most likely, they’re projecting their fear of pursuing their own dreams onto you. Remember this the next time someone tries to talk you out of what your heart desires.
It’s not about you … ever.
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