i feel like i should write more context
but just this thought:
i’ve gathered so much mysticsm in my travels and imaginings
that i have put myself out of people’s touch
or
my high standards of dreaming
makes it hard for me to be held by those with simpler dreams…
this is the way it’s always been?
where are my peers?
Hello?
0 thoughts on “out of league”
arkanjil
We are all your peers
but that which we share varies; in full context, it’s kin to a field trip with many small children and few parentel gaurdians- they are kept very busy kieeping up with their charges
winstonthriller
where are my peers?
Sometimes right in front of you, sometimes people with “lower standards of dreaming”. Often those that make you feel impatient and those who you feel ahead of. They’re like a rake in a grassy field. One misstep with them and it’s mind under matter, the rake handle in the face. I believe some call that enlightenment.
dominicvine in reply to winstonthriller
in conversation
less than an hour ago
i was trying to say something
[like this]
and it all came out jumbled:
these sketches, these notes are ways to understand things
attempts: that’s what my journal is for
i was saying something like:
” i have a hard time learning from people who play the role of teachers… i learn much better from people that are crazy un-conscious humans who are just living… yet i don’t like being that way myself… to respect myself i like to be full of intention and awareness… i want my conscoiusness to be as big as the sky…”
as opposed to
“i want a bmw”
little dreams fall to the side quickly
no matter how much work goes into them
old buddhist shit, ya know
satisfy a million desires or just one.
but you’re right…
enlightenment is awareness of the total situation
and
as humans
we
just
Aren’t.
it’s about being limited here.
ok
we’re all peers
razing everything to simplicity like that doesn’t help either
coz that’s not real either.
i dunno
i’m just bopping along
maybe it’ll all come clear in my last breath.
shamantraveler
Cozy wrappings? aren’t they?
Namaste.
dominicvine in reply to shamantraveler
Yeah, of course
it’s a slew of distance-creating mechanisms…
but now that they are in place…
or have they always been?
that’s the trick
if they are part of my Ego…
they have some use for my expression here, yes?
i think the story, the awareness
just wants me to find different ways to be in public
re-working boundaries.
dennisatl
once an English teacher……
Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
Till down the fiery distance he was gone,
….
If he go on too far to find a grave,
Mostly alone he goes.
Edwin Arlington Robinson “The Man Against the Sky”
laura_collins
I’d like to think my standards of dreaming are fairly high as well…
but then, I have nothing to base that on.
dominicvine in reply to laura_collins
what do you mean
“i have nothing to base that on”
there isn’t a national average or anything
what makes you say they are “high”
if you feel you have no awareness of them?
what people say of you?
i dunno.
i THINK you do
but i’ve never met you
and i’ve only seen you slightly
but you reach out
and you reach up
i respect that.
bitterlawngnome
If I have understood what you mean – my experience is that at a certain point you feel this, but eventually you come around to a place where it’s OK. You can have fellow-travellers but you don’t have peers, but that’s alright. Everyone has a unique point of view and really that’s as it should be.
leviadamz
maybe you don’t always need more context? this post is easy to touch.