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Izzie has a question - she is too scared to visit google in case she gets sucked into an unending spiral of strange links - so can some one here tell me all I ever needed to know about Gnostics but were too afraid to ask - oh and in less than 10 lines?
Izzie is especially intrigued since discovering in a most interesting book "Tolkien's Rings" by David Day that the symbol of these strange and esoteric creatures is a snake swallowing it's tail.
As for God. For me God isn't some sort of personal saviour or father figure in constant search of eternal ego gratification but more like ... not really interested in what each individual person does but rather is always there waiting to help if anyone should ever get the idea to ask for it.
This help is not so much 'I'll do everything for you because I love you so much" but rather - "I can show you how to find your own source of power - a bit like with a radio station - you can always change the channel to something more appropriate for you . I will make you aware that this possibility exists and that you can choose to tune into my station. It will always be there for you, whatever you do - but you have to make the decision to try it. But if you don't want to, then that is your loss but your decision. "
Izzie also has crazier ways of trying to say the same thing.... another squiggle resurrected from the vaults
Due to circumstances beyond my control,
I am master of my fate and captain of my soul"
Until 5 months ago, I was (Make that now 12)
The Hostess with the Mostess
The Princess of Pity Parties
and the Moaniest of Myrtles.
But that was before I met Harry and finally seen THE GREEN LIGHT!
Life itself hasn't changed, but I have. It now takes much more than a sneeze or a breeze to knock me off my broomstick.
I have now learned to tune out those dreadful droning siren voices of discontent and despair, who would love nothing more than to see me drown in a sea of sorrows.
But it wasn't always so. For 11 dark and dreary Durlseyish years I tried and tried to ignore them. And the more i struggled to stay afloat, the faster I felt myself sinking.
But help is always available at Hogwarts to those who ask and in desperation, that's just what I did. And it worked. I felt so silly. It was like climbing up on a roof and sneaking down the chimney only to discover that the front door had been wide open the whole time!
"We've been calling out to you all those years and you never even listened." But I was too logical, boring and rational and dismissed my poor Patrona as a mere figment of imagination as only a Dursley could do. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC!
But Professor Lupin showed me otherwise. Now I realize just how useful such a generous guardian can be if only you have the wisdom to listen (And much more fun than those asinine affirmation spouted by those Success Gurus)
So be careful what you think about, you just might get it. As the saying goes. DON"T THINK OF PINK ELEPHANTS! Personally I prefer to ponder on luminous pink avaricious anacondas with purple polka dot socks
Izzie is especially intrigued since discovering in a most interesting book "Tolkien's Rings" by David Day that the symbol of these strange and esoteric creatures is a snake swallowing it's tail.
As for God. For me God isn't some sort of personal saviour or father figure in constant search of eternal ego gratification but more like ... not really interested in what each individual person does but rather is always there waiting to help if anyone should ever get the idea to ask for it.
This help is not so much 'I'll do everything for you because I love you so much" but rather - "I can show you how to find your own source of power - a bit like with a radio station - you can always change the channel to something more appropriate for you . I will make you aware that this possibility exists and that you can choose to tune into my station. It will always be there for you, whatever you do - but you have to make the decision to try it. But if you don't want to, then that is your loss but your decision. "
Izzie also has crazier ways of trying to say the same thing.... another squiggle resurrected from the vaults
Due to circumstances beyond my control,
I am master of my fate and captain of my soul"
Until 5 months ago, I was (Make that now 12)
The Hostess with the Mostess
The Princess of Pity Parties
and the Moaniest of Myrtles.
But that was before I met Harry and finally seen THE GREEN LIGHT!
Life itself hasn't changed, but I have. It now takes much more than a sneeze or a breeze to knock me off my broomstick.
I have now learned to tune out those dreadful droning siren voices of discontent and despair, who would love nothing more than to see me drown in a sea of sorrows.
But it wasn't always so. For 11 dark and dreary Durlseyish years I tried and tried to ignore them. And the more i struggled to stay afloat, the faster I felt myself sinking.
But help is always available at Hogwarts to those who ask and in desperation, that's just what I did. And it worked. I felt so silly. It was like climbing up on a roof and sneaking down the chimney only to discover that the front door had been wide open the whole time!
"We've been calling out to you all those years and you never even listened." But I was too logical, boring and rational and dismissed my poor Patrona as a mere figment of imagination as only a Dursley could do. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAGIC!
But Professor Lupin showed me otherwise. Now I realize just how useful such a generous guardian can be if only you have the wisdom to listen (And much more fun than those asinine affirmation spouted by those Success Gurus)
So be careful what you think about, you just might get it. As the saying goes. DON"T THINK OF PINK ELEPHANTS! Personally I prefer to ponder on luminous pink avaricious anacondas with purple polka dot socks
