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Name: michelle AIM:MpressinOn
Interests: Loving Jesus, music, drawing, taking pictures, reading, art, hiking, friends, playing with my friends in the park, throwing bread at the ducks.... getting chased by ducks....actually, i never go to the park, i wish i did. my back hurts. Thrift stores, more music, curly hair, the sun, flowers, sunflowers, outer space, italy, travel....
Expertise: spinning in circles
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
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AIM:  mpressinon
Member Since:
1/17/2004
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Powder
By Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith
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My favorite lines from the movie "Powder"
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Lindsey: What are people like, on the inside?
Powder: Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate, separated from everything.
Lindsey: And?
Powder: And they're not. They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
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Lindsey: It's hard to believe that, all of that.
Powder: It's
because you have this spot that you can't see past. My grams and gramps
had it, the spot where they thought they were disconnected from
everything.
Lindsey: So that's what they'd see if they could? That they're really connected?
Powder: And
how beautiful they really are. And that there's no need to hide, or
lie. And that it's possible to talk to someone without any lies, with
no sarcasms, no deceptions, no exaggerations or any of the things that
people use to confuse the truth.
Lindsey: I don't know a single person who does that.
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| I've been reading "Loving what Is" and some other books recently about thoughts and being present.
I get overwhelmed with my thoughts sometimes, living in them. I have to ask myself, "Is what I'm thinking productive, is it leading me to where I want to go? Or is it making my life small? Thoughts are actually just an illusion. They aren't even real.
Behind every uncomfortable feeling there is a thought that isn't true.
We think thoughts sometimes that argue with reality, and then we have a
stressful feeling, we act on that feeling creating even more stress for
ourselves and those around us. Question your thinking:
Ask, is this thought (worry, mindset) true? (yes.)
Can I absolutely know it's true with 100% certainty? (no, it just seems that way...)
How do I react when I think that thought? (upset..bitter..)
Who would I be without the thought, if the thought wasn't even there? (happy, free...)
So why would I want to keep thinking something that makes me upset?
And then, turn the thought around..say the complete opposite of the thought, sometimes the opposite is just as true if not truer.
If the thought is true, then you are arguing with reality, and reality wins usually about 100% of the time.
Also, what you resist, usually persists, so if it's a fearful thought or something, just sit with it. You don't let go of fear, fear lets go of you when you look at it.
Fear, worry, stress can't stay with you when you are present...everything else becomes an illusion.
Close your eyes, center yourself, open them and look around you as if you were seeing things for the first time, that is present, no judgments in the moment or thoughts about anything else other than where you are right at that moment...that is where God is, that is where peace is. It brings you out of your head, out of the nightmare.
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"Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow is a mystery,
Today is a gift....the perfect Present."
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| so, I stumbled into a poetry reading thing at this coffee shop im at right now, (where i had a delicious strawberry italian cream soda with extra whipped cream!) woah, it's getting crowed in here...i didn't know anything was going on tonight. That guy is knitting over there, interesting...and they just keep coming in the door, where are they going to put them all?
OHHH YEAH! My tax return came....i can survive another month now.
there are so many flippin hippies in this town.
-the rantings of a mad woman.
even though she's not mad. she is glad she is not mad.
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