Past Lives - Past Life

ALOHA ! 

“ Don’t grieve. 

Anything you lose 

comes round

 in another form. ”

  Rumi

“ If you're really 

a mean person 

you're going to

 come back as

 a fly

 and eat poop. ”
  

Kurt Cobain

“ For the first forty days

 a child
is given dreams

 of previous lives.

 Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred

 small lessons
and then the past

 is erased. ”

Michael Ondaatje

“ This life

 is but a brief

 tenure,

 one of many

 perspectives

 a spirit must 

experience

 in the quest for 

eternity. ”

Brian Rathbone

“ As a man, casting off 

worn out garments

 taketh new ones, 

so the dweller

 in the body,

 entereth into

 ones that are

 new. ”

  Epictetus

" You, I,

 we reincarnate over 

and over. 

We live many lives,

 and store up much

 experience. 

Some are

 older souls

 than others 

and so they 

know more.

 It seems to be

 an intuitive "gift."

 It is really

 hard-won experience."

 

HENRY FORD, 

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

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Do you believe

that we live

 more than once? 

Christian mystic

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said

" We are not human beings

 having a spiritual experience. 

We are spiritual beings

 having a

 human experience.  "

One night in Kona

on Hawaii's Big Island

over 20 years ago

I had a spontaneous experience

of a past life.

Suddenly,

 I was an old woman

a long time ago.

For her too, it was night;

but she / I

was on a voyaging canoe

such as the Hawaiians of old

used in their oceanic

journeys and migrations.

Forgotten for centuries,

resumed only in recent years,

voyaging and way-finding

are the very heart

of the Hawaiian Soul.

Rhythms of wave,

wind,

and the 

starry night sky

live on in the Koko,

the blood,

and in Hula.

What I remember

is confidence.

And belonging.

Confidence

in the voyaging kahunas

those young men

with the knowledge

who guided the canoe

nearby to me
and the others

across the churning

deck.

I felt a great

belonging,

so deep 

we moderns have

forgotten it.

I was part of the others,

the island we left

and the one 

we voyaged towards

together.

More a

"We"

than an

"I"

But I was there,

for that few moments:

a feeling,

a knowing,

a memory,

a truth.

No wonder then
that I look on

Hawaii
and her children

with the love of

a mother.

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Another time,

hospitalized in 1997,

with very serious

pneumonia,

I learned

how precious

and indispensible

Each Breath is.

The whole experience

was a learning one,

I saw many things,

kept company with

Others.

One night

I knew I was

leaving;

Just the second before

I began to rise.

I understood

that I was accompanied

and would momentarily see

(just before I did)

myself,

the room, 
hospital floor,

the night hillside,

Honolulu town,

our beloved island. . . 
It all poured out
below me;
and I loved it all
very much.

Then
it was the whole
Earth I knew:

I knew all those

dying,

laughing,

being born,

crying

- Right Then -
 

all the struggle

and triumph

tiny and big

all the tumult of

LIFE-

I tasted it all

kissing it goodbye

because suddenly

I knew:

"Not your job anymore."

And oh the freedom!

Earth and her fate

meant nothing to me.

I was Myself again!

I  felt and knew
and understood

that restriction was 
over.

I knew absoulute joy

and confidence,
a ruler returning
to a world of my peers.

All we chase here:

 sex and friendship,

confidence, possessions

security and wealth,
all we could lack
is SURPASSED
home at the Source!
Don;t need those
substitutes
anymore.
Our friends
and loved ones,
our fellow players,
THEY are there
more truly themselves
as we laughing
share
our earned rewards.

I knew my work

was not done.

So I came back.
Was gently SENT
back.
 

But how, I wondered

 could I ever play Earth game,
resuming my position
on the field
among the other
players?
 

now that I know

how it all ends.

But fortunately,
my knowing grew dimmer,
becoming memory.

Again it is simple
to believe in
"what if" at 3 a.m. 

So I remain eligible
to learn,
and to earn
more
 Spirit Virtue Points.

My life DID change;

I know that:
Love,

and Sharing love,

are the entire

POINT of the game.
(I'm cheating :-)

Everything else:

stage dressing.

So do Y O U
 think

that YOU have lived
 before?

Do you think

we will be

with our ancestors

again?

Glad you took the time
to stop by here first!


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Waikiki Ramble

A   L   O   H   A   !

" Praise

 is like sunlight

 to the human spirit:
 we cannot 

flower and grow

 without it. "

 Jess Lair

Never

put off till

tomorrow

what you can

enjoy today!

with apologies to the

Earl of Chesterfield

 

" The Sun is satisfied with days. "

Robert Frost

Can't Pay

A    L    O    H    A   ! 

    You cannot pay
a flower
to smile

 The clouds 

cannot be bribed

to part.

 Sunlight is freely

healing all hearts

 

 Golden moments

 cannot be saved

in a bank

 Final moment of

 glory?

No charge.

 “As the valley 
gives height to
 the mountain,
so can sorrow
 give meaning to 
pleasure;
as the well 
is the source 
of the fountain,
deep adversity 
can be a 
treasure.”

 William Arthur Ward

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Autumnus Autompne

Archaic words for a season young each year-

A   L   O   H   A  !

 

" Nature gives to every

 time and season 

some beauties

 of its own. . . 

 it is but a succession of

 changes 

so gentle and easy

 that we can scarcely

 mark their progress.  "

Charles Dickens

“A kind heart
 is a fountain of gladness,
making everything
in its vicinity
 freshen into
smiles.”

 Washington Irving

" Live

 in rooms

 full of

 light. "

Cornelius Celsus

" To be interested

 in the changing seasons

 is a happier state 

of mind

 than to be

 hopelessly

 in love with

 spring.  "

George Santayana

 Spring = Youth?

 Yes, I feel Autumn;

Smell it too.

Here on Oahu

it is

Bright,

with some 

wind & rain

that cleanses,

passes.

Seasons of the year,

seasons of life

always sing

of seasons passed-

- Of other streets

we have walked

in other seasons,

other climes,

other times. . .

" It is always in season

 for old ones

to learn.  "

Aeschylus 


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Enemies are People

A  L  O  H  A ! 

“ Enemies are

 people
 who's story
 you haven't heard,
or who's face
you haven't
 seen. ”

Irene Butter

I like the discreet little grey cloud just above the yellow triangle

“ Age should not
 have its face
 lifted,
 but it should
 rather teach
 the world to
 admire wrinkles
as the etchings of
experience
and the firm line
of character. ”

 Clarence Day

“ If wishes come true...

Grant me a cloud ”

Unknown

" Democracy

 is the art and science 

of running the 

circus

 from the 

monkey cage.  "

H. L. Mencken

Tiny cloud,

tiny plane,

tiny mountains

tiny rain-

" Damn everything

 but the circus.  "

Corita Kent

“ The child-soul 

is an

 ever-bubbling

 fountain

 in the world 

of humanity ”

 Friedrich Froebel

“ Some people

 drink from the

 fountain of knowledge, 

others just 

gargle. ” 

 Dr. Robert Anthony

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