Wednesday, February 2, 2022

 February  2,  2022

 


Thought for Today

 

“To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause suffering.”

 

Comtesse Diane

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

February 1, 2022

 


 

SELF-PORTRAIT
 
 
Don’t we all wonder at times what they think of us?
 
I know – knowing one person loves me – does an awful lot for less worry about how I am – how I come across.
 
Yet, I can be talking with 15 people at a party and one person says in a fiftienth  of a second, “You look like Spencer Tracy.  Did anyone ever tell you that?”
 
“No,” I answered.
 
Then I jokingly add, “Doctor Kevorkian yes. And the coroner of Honesdale, PA. Yes.  Spencer Tracy. No.”
 
And I meet 15 more people – and 15 days after that – and 15 more life experiences after that – and that one comment sticks about Spencer Tracy.
 
Spencer Tracy? No I don’t look like him.
 
Why?  Why does that comment stick to the inside of my eye lids and I keep looking at it?
 
I know from experience that people always go ga ga over self-tests – that help us know something about ourselves.
 
Why?
 
Is it that I’m always wondering how I’m coming across.
 
Then I read a quote by Groucho Marx, “She’s afraid that if she leaves, she’’ become the life of the party.”
 
Then I remember that’s so like the saying of Oscar Wilde I’ve used in a dozen talks, “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others cause happiness whenever they go.”
 
Uh oh!
 
I guess I’m still not sure of myself.
 
Who cares?
 
I do.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2022



February  1,  2022

 


Thought for Today

 

“I could not say, I believe. I know!  I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”

 

Carl Jung

 


Monday, January 31, 2022


January  31, 2022


Reflection



January  31,  2022


 

 Thought for Today

 

INTERESTING  THE CLASSROOM
 
Interesting the classroom where God says,
 
“Forget all that you think you know about Me”
 
That way some real knowledge might dawn.

 

 

Hafiz,
A Year With Hafiz,
translations by Daniel Ladinsky,
page 282

Sunday, January 30, 2022

 January 30,  2022


Reflection

January  30,  2022

 



Thought for Today


“Anyone who thinks there aren’t two sides to every argument is probably in one.”



The Cockle Bur