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- If we react to praise or pleasantries, that is developing an ego. If we’re depressed over criticism, that is ego. When we are our Self, there is no reacting.
- Growth is letting go of what you are not.
- Love is effortless whereas hate reqires much effort.
- Your success is determined by your desire for it. If you get discouraged you are not really interested.
- When we go within we discover that all hapiness in there.
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“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast? said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.____________________
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
Winnie the Pooh____________________
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Winnie the Pooh____________________
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
Winnie the Pooh
Always lick after meals!
Learn the difference between idleness and repose - one wastes time the other luxuriates in it.
The three great lies of Life are:
1. The cheque is in the post.
2. All I want is one kiss.
3. It’ll be alright, just get in the travelling basket.
Long naps never go out of fashion.
Just say no to catnip!
Let sleeping dogs lie - literally!
Get your booster shots every year.
Get to know every view from every window in your home.
Begin each day with a long hard stretch.
Treat yourself to a nap in the sock drawer once in a while.
Own nothing and be owned by no one.
Never be discouraged by the words No, Stop That or Bad Cat.
Never purr half-heartedly.
Don’t worry about little things.
Don’t worry about big things.
See how long that toilet paper around the roll really is.
Miaow and the world Miaows with you, hiss and you hiss alone.
Keep everybody’s secrets.
Make friends with the milkman.
Play and sleep in cardboard boxes.
Help with making the bed.
Help with making dinner.
Regard all neatly stacked piles of paper as provocation.
Don’t cry over spilt milk - lap it up instead.
Make the world your scratching post.
Never sleep alone!
and finally…
Become someone’s friend for life.
You know how they say that cats are selfish self-centered creatures that only know how to receive and not to give? Well, first of all - people who say that do not have cats and don’t know cats very well, so I don’t blame them. Poor souls. And secondarily - I found this beautiful piece about the importance of knowing how to receive love. So sit up and learn -
I’m a novice when it comes to receiving.
Giving has become my expertise.
But giving alone without getting
Becomes soon a fatal disease.
If the intake valve is not opened
There’s no way to maintain a supply.
There comes a point in the cycle of life
When the out-going stream runs dry.
Straining out love from a vacuum
Is like drinking from the heart of a stone.
Try as we may, at the end of the day,
We’re exhausted, frustrated, alone.
“Better to give than to receive” we are taught,
Yet another truth I’ve learned just by living:
Only the soul with the grace to receive,
Excels in the fine art of giving.
(The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.)
Here is some beautiful wisdom for you humans!
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with NOW is the end of suffering.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Unhappiness needs a mind made “me” with a story. It needs time - past and future. When you remove time from your unhappiness, what is is that remains? the “suchness” of this moment remains.
Suffering begins when you mentally name or label a situation as undesireable or bad. You resent a situation and that resentment personalizes it and brings in a reactive “me”.
Watch what happens when you don’t name an experience “bad” and instead bring an inner acceptance, an inner “yes” to it, and let it be as it is.
From Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle
Hey you know they say that in order to get what you want - you need to be grateful for what you already have. I get it! Being grateful for what I have keeps me in abundance instead of in lack. And when I am in abundance - I attract abundance. Law of Attraction. You know - The Secret and all that.
So lets start a grateful list. I’ll start - you all can join in any time:
- I am grateful for the perfect weather we had today
- I am grateful for being a cat
- I am grateful for my family who loves me
- I am grateful for every meal I get
- I am grateful for trees
- I am grateful for the internet
- I am grateful for my friends - and cats everywhere
- I am grateful for grilled fish