Thanks, Mike, I appreciate your words. I agree agree with you. It’s easy to understand intellectually that happiness is not a destination, but it’s altogether another matter in practice. I still believe someday I’ll arrive. Impermanence is a pixie.
I’m grateful for your comment and the level of thought you put into it based on your wisdom. You spoke to something that I left out of the article.
Meditation, for example, is a simple solution to a complex problem. But it is only simple in concept. Once you get into it, there’s no end to the depth.
I hear you. Happiness is lovely when it happens, but I like the plane of awareness for its durability. Thanks, Teri.
Thank you Ryan. The strongest point for me here was to focus on one aspect for a good few months, looking for depth rather than breadth. It’s the antithesis of a quick fix.
I’m so glad you said this, Adam. I never understood this when I was younger, and it’s such a vital understanding. I used to jump from one idea to the next without any depth. No wonder nothing ever worked.
As Thoreau once warned, "Beware the person offering simple solutions to complex problems."
I did not know this quote of Thoreau (and I thought I had thoroughly read all his works - no pun intended). Thank you for this one.
I love the paradox of this concept...that there is not a simple solution for a complex problem, and the concept of Occam's Razor, that the simplest solution is often the best one.
I believe the key is that the Truth is simplicity and complexity can co-exist. A simple solution, explored in DEPTH (as you say) an provide results to a very complex problem.
One of my favorite quotes is Einstein, if you can't explain it to a kindergartner, you don't understand it well enough yourself. When one can explore the complex and make it simple, that is when mastery is achieved...and that isn't happiness (which is fleeting) but it is awareness. A whole different plane.
Hey Ryan, this is great stuff as usual. I particularly liked this: "Happiness is not a final destination but a product of our intention and attention and living a meaningful and purposeful life." Speaking for myself, how often have I chased and chased because I thought getting to someplace would equate to happiness? We know that's not true, and the way you put it was really good. Thank you!
Keywords that stood out to me today are surrender, and life is complex. When I heard quick fixes, I thought of sprints, for example our Crew racing 2,000 meters (or less on Sagatagan Lake at Saint John’s University MN), compared to the head races on river.
I like the keywords you picked out and love your analogy of rowing, a clear visual. Thank you for taking the time to share with us what came up for you. :)
This is where my war against mainstream astrology lies. As I recently wrote in a deleted essay titled "I am a starving astrologer," in which I describe myself as the old-fashioned, small-town doctor-style astrologer who wants to know and delve into the history and feelings of my clients, to explore images and archetypes with them, to come to a deep understanding of the cycles in their lives and the possibilities they still suggest. My consultations often last several hours.
This left me marginalized from the astrological community, starving, with no followers, no community. Because I like to dig deeper, ask questions, lots of questions! I am extremely selective in the literature I consume, and I don't get stuck on ideas, I am always busy discovering something new in my own sky or that of others.
And here I leave it. I will continue to look at your content.
It sounds like you are living true to yourself, which is different from and unappreciated by the larger astrology community. Maybe someday they will catch up to you and appreciate what you’re about and what you’ve been doing. I hope your clients already do. I’m glad you’re here on Substack helping people.
Thanks, Mike, I appreciate your words. I agree agree with you. It’s easy to understand intellectually that happiness is not a destination, but it’s altogether another matter in practice. I still believe someday I’ll arrive. Impermanence is a pixie.
I’m grateful for your comment and the level of thought you put into it based on your wisdom. You spoke to something that I left out of the article.
Meditation, for example, is a simple solution to a complex problem. But it is only simple in concept. Once you get into it, there’s no end to the depth.
I hear you. Happiness is lovely when it happens, but I like the plane of awareness for its durability. Thanks, Teri.
Thank you Ryan. The strongest point for me here was to focus on one aspect for a good few months, looking for depth rather than breadth. It’s the antithesis of a quick fix.
I’m so glad you said this, Adam. I never understood this when I was younger, and it’s such a vital understanding. I used to jump from one idea to the next without any depth. No wonder nothing ever worked.
As Thoreau once warned, "Beware the person offering simple solutions to complex problems."
I did not know this quote of Thoreau (and I thought I had thoroughly read all his works - no pun intended). Thank you for this one.
I love the paradox of this concept...that there is not a simple solution for a complex problem, and the concept of Occam's Razor, that the simplest solution is often the best one.
I believe the key is that the Truth is simplicity and complexity can co-exist. A simple solution, explored in DEPTH (as you say) an provide results to a very complex problem.
One of my favorite quotes is Einstein, if you can't explain it to a kindergartner, you don't understand it well enough yourself. When one can explore the complex and make it simple, that is when mastery is achieved...and that isn't happiness (which is fleeting) but it is awareness. A whole different plane.
Hey Ryan, this is great stuff as usual. I particularly liked this: "Happiness is not a final destination but a product of our intention and attention and living a meaningful and purposeful life." Speaking for myself, how often have I chased and chased because I thought getting to someplace would equate to happiness? We know that's not true, and the way you put it was really good. Thank you!
Keywords that stood out to me today are surrender, and life is complex. When I heard quick fixes, I thought of sprints, for example our Crew racing 2,000 meters (or less on Sagatagan Lake at Saint John’s University MN), compared to the head races on river.
I like the keywords you picked out and love your analogy of rowing, a clear visual. Thank you for taking the time to share with us what came up for you. :)
This is where my war against mainstream astrology lies. As I recently wrote in a deleted essay titled "I am a starving astrologer," in which I describe myself as the old-fashioned, small-town doctor-style astrologer who wants to know and delve into the history and feelings of my clients, to explore images and archetypes with them, to come to a deep understanding of the cycles in their lives and the possibilities they still suggest. My consultations often last several hours.
This left me marginalized from the astrological community, starving, with no followers, no community. Because I like to dig deeper, ask questions, lots of questions! I am extremely selective in the literature I consume, and I don't get stuck on ideas, I am always busy discovering something new in my own sky or that of others.
And here I leave it. I will continue to look at your content.
It sounds like you are living true to yourself, which is different from and unappreciated by the larger astrology community. Maybe someday they will catch up to you and appreciate what you’re about and what you’ve been doing. I hope your clients already do. I’m glad you’re here on Substack helping people.