Thought For The Day

Today’s quotes surround the subject of the importance of always taking that difficult but necessary road that travels from the mind into the heart…

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart, for it one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.” (Osho)

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” (Roy T. Bennett)

“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” (George Michael)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Daily Reflection

“The closer one comes to truth, the further one gets from mind.” (James Pierce)

When you finally stop fighting and trying to control things in life, it really does become a lot easier to see things far more clearly, like the status of my relationship with my partner Chris, something that in all honesty is presently in shambles, solely because we both got away from what truly mattered, that being connecting to each other via the heart.

When you aren’t working through the heart to connect with someone, there’s really only one other place to operate out of, and that’s the mind, which is a deadly place to remain in and have your relationship through and the very reason why Chris and I are in the state we are now.

When things began to go downhill years ago in our relationship, it was because we both started coming at each other with extremely heady thinking. We began rationalizing our way through so many differences always believing each of us were in the right. All that did was tear us further apart again and again until eventually we found ourselves sitting in total opposite corners in life. Our hearts became heavier, sometimes even with an icy coldness exterior towards the other, none of which is conducive to having a healthy relationship. This is why I am doing everything I can now to keep my heart open and find myself working diligently to detach from any tension and potential arguments. While I’ve been successful in this new endeavor, the majority of Chris’s heart remains blocked for a number of reasons, some of which I own and some of which has nothing to do with me.

Either way, as I try to navigate my way through this broken relationship with a now open, but very sorrowful heart, I see so clearly now that nothing truly good ever can come from trying to maintain a relationship through one’s best thinking, when that only ends up stifling the very thing one needs to really connect through, and that’s the heart.

God, please help me operate in every one of my relationships through my heart and not my mind, so that I may always cultivate greater love instead of greater hate.

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Silly Joke Friday

Silly Joke #1

John asks his wife, Mary, what she wants to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
“Would you like a new mink coat?” he asks.
“Not really,” says Mary.
“Well how about a new Mercedes sports car?” says John.
“No,” she responds.
“What about a new vacation home in the country?” he suggests.
She again rejects his offer with a “No thanks.”
“Well what would you like for our 40th anniversary then?” John asks.
“I want a divorce John, that’s what I want…” answers Mary nonchalantly.
“Sorry, I wasn’t planning on spending that much…” says John.

Silly Joke #2

A very inquisitive professional detective walks into a bar and sits down next to a drunk who is closely examining something held in his fingers. The detective watches the drunk for a while till he finally gets curious enough to ask what it is. “Well,” said the drunk, “it looks like plastic and feels like rubber. Do you think you can guess what it is?” “Let me have it,” said the lawyer. Taking it, he began to roll it between his thumb and forefinger, examining it closely. “Yes,” he finally said, “it does look like plastic and feel like rubber, but honestly, I don’t know what it is. Where did you get it?” “From my nose,” the drunk replied.

Silly Joke #3

Little Johnny, who always says and does the most inappropriate of things was in the garden filling in a hole when his neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the cheeky-faced boy was up to, he politely asked, “What are you doing there, Johnny?” “My goldfish died,” replied Little Johnny without looking up, “and I’ve just buried him.” The neighbor responded, “That’s an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn’t it?” Little Johnny patted down the last heap of dirt then replied, “Well, that’s only because he was inside your fat cat.”

Bonus Silly Joke

While the bar patron savored a double martini, an attractive women sat down next to him. The bartender served her a glass of orange juice, and the man turned to her and said, “This is a special day. I’m celebrating.” “I’m celebrating, too,” she replied, clinking glasses with him. “What are you celebrating?” he asked. “For years I’ve been trying to have a child,” she answered, “Today my gynecologist told me I’m pregnant!” “Congratulations,” the man said, lifting his glass. “As it happens, I’m a chicken farmer, and for years all my hens were infertile. But today they’re finally fertile.” “How did it happen?” “I had to switch cocks.” “Huh! What a coincidence,” she said, smiling.

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson