2013.08.30 01:00 - Intention is Direct - Implementation is Wobbly

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[01:03] Wol Euler: good morning, cat
[01:03] Catrinamonblue Resident: Morning Wol :)
[01:04] Wol Euler: how's the world?
[01:04] Catrinamonblue Resident: dark and misty :)
[01:04] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:04] Wol Euler: sounds autumny
[01:04] Catrinamonblue Resident: smiles
[01:04] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes

[01:05] Wol Euler: all seasons are my favourite season, but autumn is the favouritest
[01:06] Catrinamonblue Resident: autumn and spring are my favs but I love them all really
[01:07] Wol Euler nods.
[01:07] Catrinamonblue Resident: there is a personality with each season just as there is a personality with each person we meet, there is much to love in all
[01:07] Wol Euler: it's starting to turn here. There was condensation on the car roofs as I walked home last night, and I definitely needed my jacket
[01:07] Wol Euler: yes
[01:08] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes, the mornings have gotten very chilly and some leaves are showing colour :)

[01:08] Wol Euler: the key to happiness in seasons as in people is not to expect them to be the same
[01:08] Catrinamonblue Resident: nods
[01:10] Catrinamonblue Resident: I have been awake for awhile thinking about choices. The tiny almost not noticed choices each day that turn our lives through each season as it were
[01:10] Wol Euler listens.
[01:11] Catrinamonblue Resident: how we are almost driven to make some choices over and over because we have made that same choice before
[01:12] Wol Euler nods.
[01:12] Catrinamonblue Resident: to choose something different is like trying to get a car out of a snow bank :) it's hard work
[01:12] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:12] Wol Euler: a very Canadian metaphor :)
[01:13] Catrinamonblue Resident: lol showing my roots :)
[01:13] Wol Euler nods.
[01:13] Catrinamonblue Resident: but I think it's a very apt metaphor
[01:13] Wol Euler: indeed
[01:14] Wol Euler: habit is the mind's way of being lazy
[01:14] Wol Euler: "why should I decide that again?"
[01:14] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes
[01:14] Wol Euler: related perhaps to confirmation bias
[01:14] Wol Euler: "I know that this is true, so I won't reconsider it"

[01:17] Catrinamonblue Resident: intentions, choices, the minute shifts in the mind that move us along.
[01:17] Wol Euler nods.
[01:18] Wol Euler: if you add in the effects of random chance and of interaction with other people, one might conclude that the "big ticket" decisions have a much smaller role in our lives than we think
[01:19] Wol Euler: and that we therefore might well obsess a little bit less about them :)
[01:19] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes
[01:19] Catrinamonblue Resident: I think that is what I have been coming to find:) ty
[01:19] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:19] Wol Euler: my pleasure.

[01:21] Catrinamonblue Resident: also I have been finding that sometimes the choice not to act is a harder one that to act, we have I thin an instinct to jump in and try to make things better for others and yet it's sometimes better not to act
[01:21] Wol Euler nods.
[01:22] Catrinamonblue Resident: to let life play out in it's own way
[01:22] Wol Euler: some wheels do need to be re-invented, one by one
[01:22] Wol Euler: *each for themselves
[01:22] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes

[01:23] Catrinamonblue Resident: maybe to see ourselves as ourselves reflect by ourselves rather than by others
[01:23] Catrinamonblue Resident: though that could become a distorted view
[01:24] Wol Euler nods.
[01:24] Wol Euler: hence the need for constant vigilance, constant re-examination
[01:24] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes
[01:28] Wol Euler: including re-examining our intentions :)
[01:28] Catrinamonblue Resident: smiles
[01:28] Wol Euler skillfully returns to the topic de jour.
[01:29] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

[01:31] Catrinamonblue Resident: I haven't had time this week to be here for the discussions but I have been thinking about it a bit. An intention to think about intentions :)
[01:32] Wol Euler: that counts.
[01:32] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
[01:32] Wol Euler: hello stevie
[01:33] Wol Euler hums the tune of "Gypsy"
[01:33] Catrinamonblue Resident: Good morning Stevie
[01:33] stevenaia Michinaga: hello Wol and Cat :)
[01:33] stevenaia Michinaga: hello Yak
[01:33] Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning everyone
[01:33] Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Yaku
[01:33] Wol Euler: hello yaku
[01:34] stevenaia Michinaga: Nice to see you all
[01:34] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

[01:34] Wol Euler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L85WLhjQ84
[01:36] Catrinamonblue Resident: lovely song ty :)
[01:37] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:37] Yakuzza Lethecus: i agree, nice dancing steve :)
[01:37] Wol Euler: that voice ... she could sing the telephone book and it would make me teary
[01:37] Catrinamonblue Resident: yes

[01:38] Yakuzza Lethecus: could be an interesting practice ,,sing the phonebook as nicely as possible"
[01:38] Wol Euler chuckles.
[01:38] Catrinamonblue Resident: laughs :)
[01:39] Catrinamonblue Resident: what a wonderful start to the day
[01:39] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:40] stevenaia Michinaga: working up to breakfast
[01:40] Wol Euler: build that appetite!
[01:41] stevenaia Michinaga: now, where were we :)
[01:41] Wol Euler: having intentions about intentions
[01:41] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

[01:44] Catrinamonblue Resident: conscious and unconscious, do we choose our intentions or do they choose us
[01:44] stevenaia Michinaga: Wol chooses
[01:46] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
[01:46] Wol Euler: heheheh
[01:47] Wol Euler: Zeitgeist, and all that
[01:47] Wol Euler: thoughts flowing through the world-void looking for a mind to land in
[01:49] Wol Euler grins at Cat. I saw what you did there.
[01:49] Catrinamonblue Resident: lol

[01:50] Wol Euler: (we are having a FB encounter behind our avatars' backs.)
[01:51] Catrinamonblue Resident: just found on facebook "Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem" kinda fits to what I was saying earlier
[01:51] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
[01:51] Wol Euler nods.
[01:51] Wol Euler: good advice!

[01:52] stevenaia Michinaga: ... sorry I was away...... my cat just lead my intentions (breakfast)
[01:52] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
[01:52] Wol Euler: heheheh
[01:53] Wol Euler: one can intend to fulfill all one's obligations :)
[01:53] stevenaia Michinaga: ofcourse, and then get very easilly distracted by reality
[01:54] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

[01:54] Catrinamonblue Resident: Hello Carl :)
[01:54] Wol Euler: hello again, carl
[01:54] carlicann Resident: Hi Hi!
[01:54] Yakuzza Lethecus: morning carl
[01:54] Wol Euler: I'm afraid I am going to have to leave at the bell, work calls
[01:54] Wol Euler: but please continue to sit and chat about intentions or whatever :)
[01:55] stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy your friday Wol
[01:55] Catrinamonblue Resident: Me too must get started on the day :)
[01:55] stevenaia Michinaga: I intend to but breakfast will keep me here for a bit :)
[01:55] Wol Euler smiles.

[01:56] stevenaia Michinaga: seems that the path of intentions is never direct
[01:56] Wol Euler nods.
[01:57] stevenaia Michinaga: full of cats and food and distractions
[01:57] Wol Euler: heheheh
[01:57] Catrinamonblue Resident: :)

[01:57] Wol Euler: intention is like a jet crossing the sky, how we act on that is like the contrail it leaves behind, getting twisted and blown away by the winds
[01:58] Catrinamonblue Resident: smiles
[01:58] Wol Euler: intention is direct, but our implementation is wobbly
[01:58] stevenaia Michinaga: I intended to be sleeping now, but reality always sneaks in, usually enriching life
[01:58] Wol Euler nods.
[01:58] Catrinamonblue Resident: nods
[01:58] Catrinamonblue Resident: and with that I'm off to get moving on a long day :)
[01:59] Catrinamonblue Resident: thanks all for the lovely conversation :)
[01:59] Yakuzza Lethecus: bye cat, have a good day everyone
[01:59] Wol Euler: bye cat
[01:59] Wol Euler: and bye yaku, stevie, carl
[01:59] stevenaia Michinaga: bye Wol
[01:59] Wol Euler: enjoy the day
[01:59] stevenaia Michinaga: and Yak
[01:59] Wol Euler: be firm in your intentions, but not *too* firm :)
[02:00] stevenaia Michinaga: :)

[02:02] carlicann Resident: I'm looking into the Forest of Eyeblinks... Peace and Love Stevenaia!
[02:02] stevenaia Michinaga: bye Carl
[02:02] stevenaia Michinaga: good to see you again
[02:02] stevenaia Michinaga: this is not my usual time, yet we keep meeting,