1. Learn to enjoy the empty feeling, literally and figuratively. There is a lot of empty.
2. Don't expect incapable people to meet any of your needs. I once said to someone I loved: "Why don't you meet any of my needs?" The reply: "Because your needs are stupid."
3. Anyone who thinks total independence is synonymous with mental health and strength is living a lie. Health and happiness come from nurturing mature interdependence.
4. Our wounds occur in relationships, and our healing resides in relationships.
5. Avoid narcissism.
6. Wisdom erases Karma (but not fast enough).
7. Let thy food and thy booze be thy medicine.
8. Stay loose. Tightness is synonymous with death. Permeability is the capacity to take things in selectively.
9. Thank the Tao every day.
10. Remember that you are a spirit inhabiting a human body, not the other way around. That is a hard one for old, arthritic people to remember.
11. Whatever we can conceive, we can achieve; however, it won't happen most of the time. Learn to live with disappointment.
12. Despite all the flowery, excessive language and ego-driven bragging one sees on Facebook or other social networking sites (e.g., amazing, awesome, fantastic, marvelous, and did I mention awesome), nobody is all that and a bag of chips.
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Having read all your musings and deep insights above, what comes to me is, "How did she read my mind?" Everything you say is absolutely true. Everyone has his own reality. We can really only control our own thoughts, actions, and reactions. One has to find that "sweet" spot where we balance our hopes and aspirations with the real here and now. I truly believe you can only benefit yourself with positive thinking and always look for and expect the very best outcome. Oversimplification, perhaps, but life can be as complicated or as simple as you make it. Best wishes and positive vibes for those who seek peace in 2012.
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