• nospace said on Jul 20, 2006....

  I like this analogy... And have been noticing many blogs about hope on Soulcast lately, so maybe we are trying to help each other "clean our glasses"...

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on Jul 20, 2006....

  lidstrom I like the analogy. I have a tendency to readjust my set of expectations when they do not jive with what I experience (clean or recolor my glasses). Sometimes I overcompensate and fix my glasses when I should have left them alone. Through these blogs with you and Maggie I am beginning to see that doors I shut long ago might have been meant to stay cracked. I dont think there is a major recleaning or recolor in the works but then again I'm really not smart enough to know which is appropriate every time.

• ALIENated said on Jul 20, 2006....

  Write on brother. I can think of nothing to add, but I am listening. Sounds like you have hbc rethinking some things.

• lidstrom82 said on Jul 21, 2006....

  Hey hunter, you rock man. I've learned a great deal from you and that's a big reason for me to keep on bloggin'. All this time, I've been trying to be a brother to those 'hard to love' folks, and I'm here to report that it's challenging, but rewarding, and after breaking past their crusty, hostile shells, they're just as real and engaging as anyone. I know this because of my new boss :)

• silverwhisper said on Jul 21, 2006....

  lidstrom, i think that's a wonderful analogy! ed

• puriz said on Jul 21, 2006....

  I am hearing you. Could you be so kind to explain what hunter the rock man meant. It escaped me. Maybe because my English is just made from the dictionary. Your own language is as clear as a stream of water, I can understand it, but not see the depth of it. I guess it may have something to do with my glasses also. I had them since I was 12 years old. just a note to introduce myself. I live by editing English texts since a few months back. sincerely Puriz

• Zayda said on Jul 21, 2006....

  I've read something similar to this analogy in Don Miguel Ruiz's [i]The Four Agreements[/i]. The book is based on Toltec philosophy but also draws heavily from Christianity. Basically, the concept that Ruiz uses is that of a mirror (not glasses) and that we are all smokey mirrors. The concept of the smokey mirror comes from the fact that people and everything, for that matter, are mirrors because we are reflections of light (God) and that the real us is pure love, pure light, and a clear mirror with which that light is reflected. However, we have all become smokey mirrors over the years because society, friends, family, and other people have imposed dreams on us and burdened us with "agreements" that we have come to accept, thus clouding our mirrors so that we can no longer see our true selves and can no longer reflect that light. Ruiz' concept is that every time someone says something to us they are making an agreement with us if we choose to believe the agreement, and that too often we accept the negative agreements such as "you are stupid; you're fat; you'll never amount to anything". When we accept such agreements we lose the ability to see ourselves clearly and to hear our own voices. I am probably not doing the best job of explaining the book but it's a very interesting read whether you are a Christian or not.

• hotaka said on Jul 22, 2006....

  was the name of an album by the Christian heavy metal band Tourniquet. I think they may have been refering to a similar thing. I was just going to say that I don't need glasses but this is too deep for a smart-ass remark like the ones I have been leaving all night so far. I have been teaching myself to think that if someone behaves like a jerk to you then it's probably because something troubling has happened to him. Instead of hating him or wanting to eradicate his ass, you just have to pity him and figure his problems must be worse than yours if he is going to try to pass some of his frustrations on to you. I think if I wore glasses they would have to be pretty thick. I'd be ticked off if someone scratched them but I think I would still be able to see okay.

• puriz said on Jul 23, 2006....

  I start to get the point. I think we have choosen our own glasses, both frames and optics. With the [i]frames[/i] it is pretty clear; we have choosen them ourselves. The [i]optics[/i] we have choosen by our previous activities, our karma. That is in fact the reality of every mundane aspect of life. Some part of it we can seemingly [i]freely influence[/i], and one part is [i]already set[/i] (by our own karma). If the optics get dirty, the way to clean them is to [i]forgive[/i]. I agree with you. The key to forgiveness is love. And that love we have to receive from someone who have it. That forgiving love should also be applied to ourselves. We should consider to forgive ourself, when we regret our stupid things. sincerely Puriz

• monozuki said on Jul 26, 2006....

  What a nice analogy!! Honestly I "clean other glasses" but my glasses well not... I don't know why but I felt rather help others than myself. Ever since childhood til now I treat my "hurt" like part of me...

• puriz said on Aug 14, 2006....

  ||{1}|| You got it. It is not part of you. It is your karma bank.

• Bordy said on Aug 21, 2006....

  Awesome analogy bud... mind if I borrow from you for a separate blog of mine, on blogger? Will give credit where it is due, of course.
  

• monozuki said on Aug 22, 2006....

  nice Puriz..
  But hurt is part of me that made me who I am now
  

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