Comments on: Our life auditor http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/ journeys through the mist Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/comment-page-1/#comment-2138 Richard Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:39:29 +0000 http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/#comment-2138 Cynthia, First off, thanks for stopping by. Journals provide many different functions, one of which is to allow us to think through things. By taking the time to write or type out our feelings and such, we end up gaining a better understanding of them. It also has the effect of bridging between different levels of ourselves and ultimately gives us a much broader perspective. I've gone back and read some of my journals, and there is definitely stuff in them that no longer applies, or has been worked out and I have let them go. In some instances, dreams or journeys I've made in the past and not understood, become clear as a bell years later when I read them. When I read others, I sometimes think, wait, I had that dream or experience? It has now been years since I looked at any of my older journals, and I don't know if I will ever open them again or not, but they do provide a record of where I have been and how far I've come since those writings. Mahalo (thank you) and warm thoughts, Rich Cynthia, First off, thanks for stopping by.

Journals provide many different functions, one of which is to allow us to think through things. By taking the time to write or type out our feelings and such, we end up gaining a better understanding of them. It also has the effect of bridging between different levels of ourselves and ultimately gives us a much broader perspective.

I’ve gone back and read some of my journals, and there is definitely stuff in them that no longer applies, or has been worked out and I have let them go. In some instances, dreams or journeys I’ve made in the past and not understood, become clear as a bell years later when I read them. When I read others, I sometimes think, wait, I had that dream or experience?

It has now been years since I looked at any of my older journals, and I don’t know if I will ever open them again or not, but they do provide a record of where I have been and how far I’ve come since those writings.

Mahalo (thank you) and warm thoughts, Rich

]]> By: Cynthia http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/comment-page-1/#comment-2137 Cynthia Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:04:11 +0000 http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/#comment-2137 Came across your very helpful input to a number of questions on WordPress and clicked through thinking you must have a blog about blogging (like Timethief's). What a so much more interesting and challenging blog to find! Thank you for your writing. I'm responding to this one particularly because of a resonance - one of your it's-not-a-coincidance-as-defined-in-the-dictionary things. I have been writing since I was a child - at various watersheds in my life the journals were destroyed (deliberately) to put things behind me and out of me - once in mid 80's after the first 15 years or so, and again in 1997 when I emigrated from the USA to England. Since then, the journals have been electronic and recently I've been looking at all those files and thinking... why? I don't re-read them, in fact I cringe a bit at the prospect, because I think I'm not going to like what I read - I don't want to be reminded of those things (I hope) I've outgrown or survived. But now you've challenged me... cautious thank you! Came across your very helpful input to a number of questions on WordPress and clicked through thinking you must have a blog about blogging (like Timethief’s). What a so much more interesting and challenging blog to find! Thank you for your writing. I’m responding to this one particularly because of a resonance – one of your it’s-not-a-coincidance-as-defined-in-the-dictionary things. I have been writing since I was a child – at various watersheds in my life the journals were destroyed (deliberately) to put things behind me and out of me – once in mid 80′s after the first 15 years or so, and again in 1997 when I emigrated from the USA to England. Since then, the journals have been electronic and recently I’ve been looking at all those files and thinking… why? I don’t re-read them, in fact I cringe a bit at the prospect, because I think I’m not going to like what I read – I don’t want to be reminded of those things (I hope) I’ve outgrown or survived. But now you’ve challenged me… cautious thank you!

]]> By: Frank DeMarco http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Frank DeMarco Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:32:40 +0000 http://the-sacred-path.com/2007/04/13/our-life-auditor/#comment-32 This reminds me of your post in which you quoted the letter to yourself that you wrote at The Monroe Institute and received when they mailed it for you, at a time later enough that you were in a different mind space. That message came to you as a revelation, even though you -- a prior version of you, let's say! -- were the one who had written it. I've kept a journal for many years, and heartily second your suggestion. Probably the most surprising thing many people will find is that what seemed ordinary at the time is passing strange now. This reminds me of your post in which you quoted the letter to yourself that you wrote at The Monroe Institute and received when they mailed it for you, at a time later enough that you were in a different mind space. That message came to you as a revelation, even though you — a prior version of you, let’s say! — were the one who had written it.

I’ve kept a journal for many years, and heartily second your suggestion. Probably the most surprising thing many people will find is that what seemed ordinary at the time is passing strange now.

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