Scotty Reed's Philosophies

2011-06-24T10:27:00.000-07:00

"If you want to see something, open your eyes. If you want to know something, close your eyes." _Ramtha

2011-06-24T10:26:00.000-07:00

2011-06-24T10:14:00.000-07:00

The Teacher will come when the Student is ready.

2011-06-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

2011-05-19T23:56:00.000-07:00

so true... and so easy to forget. i often wonder how I could ever stop doing something that feels so good, so right but then am reminded (re-minded) that I wouldn't even recognize it if I didn't know it's opposite. so i once again try to love all that is. _scotty reed 5/19/2011

2010-11-09T19:54:00.000-08:00

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas H. Huxley

2010-11-09T19:50:00.000-08:00

2010-10-02T05:03:00.000-07:00

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
__Sydney J. Harris

2010-10-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

2009-08-03T11:05:00.000-07:00

Diversion: An activity without thoughful purpose.

__Scotty Reed 2009.08.03

2009-08-03T11:02:00.000-07:00

2009-07-25T12:30:00.000-07:00

Consuming more than one produces brings forth disharmony.

Being the spectator all the time leaves one feeling unfulfilled, in need.

Yet if I am only the Participant then I'm likely to miss your contribution.

I am reminded (re-minded) once again; Well-Being is all about balance.

__Scotty Reed 2009.07.25

2009-07-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

2009-03-29T10:20:00.000-07:00

A Pilgrim is a Wanderer with Purpose.
__Peace Pilgrim

2009-03-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

2009-03-29T10:13:00.000-07:00

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
__Anatole France

2008-09-17T07:02:00.000-07:00

Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent.

__Buddha

2008-08-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
__Pema Chodron

2008-07-30T08:15:00.000-07:00

Often... when it's dark (and you become the observer) you can see the Stars.
__Scotty Reed 07.30.2008

2008-07-30T08:11:00.000-07:00

2008-07-11T07:23:00.000-07:00

Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Neo: The Matrix. Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?

Neo: Yes. Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Neo: What truth? Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.

''Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.''
__Morpheus: The Matrix

2008-07-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

I just completed the book The Moses Code. I highly recommend it for a more spiritual take on the Law of Attraction.

Sometimes you are working on mastering the Law of Attraction, and you reach a roadblock of sorts. (It’s not really, though, more like an opportunity for healing a limited belief.)

You work on this by asking yourself questions to determine the root of the blockage. But then it doesn’t feel like it’s enough, or you feel you need to approach it from a different direction.

That is your soul talking to you.

You see, learning how to manifest a vacation or a new car is wonderful, but its not life fulfilling. You all know the stories of the unhappy little rich girl…

What is fulfilling is aligning yourself with your highest vibration - and that highest vibration is your piece of God that is within you.

Your Piece!

Your Peace.

So the journey is ever continuing, and it never ends.

“You can never get it wrong,

You can never get it all done.”

__from Rebecca Brigg's FaceBook notes (Came home from my morning workout routine feeling unilluminated and had questioned the Universe why; then this appeared. It was just so inspiring to me and for all I am grateful again :: ))

2008-07-10T08:17:00.000-07:00

2008-07-08T19:04:00.000-07:00

Question:

"What Is Reality"

Answer:

"Whatever you 'Think' it is"

__Scotty Reed 20080704 as the concept of the "Ultimate Observer" surfaces while photographing the Balloon Festival

2008-07-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

2008-06-27T09:07:00.000-07:00

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
__Kurt Vonnegut

2008-06-27T09:04:00.000-07:00

2008-06-23T09:56:00.000-07:00

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
__Eckhart Tolle

2008-06-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

2008-06-13T09:43:00.000-07:00

You'll see it, when you believe it!
__Wayne Dyer

2008-06-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

2008-06-12T10:18:00.000-07:00

Ego: Edging God Out
__Unknown

2008-06-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

2008-06-10T15:50:00.000-07:00

"Pretentiousness is being cheap with your ego""I used to be the kind of person who disliked stupid people.. then I progressed to only disliking those who were stupid but who wouldn't admit to it.. now I realize it is I who am stupid for disliking anyone at all.. .and stupidity can be a great virtue.""All lies are true... all truths are lies""There is no bad or good... only stuff and circumstance""The more I think.. the less I know.. and the corrillary is true as well... the more I know.. the less I think""If it is truth you seek you should comprehend everything as an illusion""A sad but common plieght: If you want to make someone like you... concentrate on making them like themselves.... your own self-improvement, on the other hand, will ultimately make them dislike you, since it will make them feel less good about themselves" "Why do things have to be material to really matter?.. (because it's even built into our language.. "matter" is the only thing that "matters" to us...matter is material... material is matter)"

__Moi

2008-06-10T15:46:00.000-07:00

2008-03-25T05:12:00.000-07:00

tonight
i danced with you
running my fingertips
upon your face
down your eyes
and to your lace
i touched you softly
without a tear
whispering love
into your ear
tonight
i danced with you
my dear

__Scotty Reed 2008.3.25

2008-03-25T05:10:00.000-07:00

2008-03-05T15:44:00.001-08:00

Some say I shouldn’t cry
But I don’t care anymore
I’ll cry for the many times I’ve missed
Telling you how much I loved your kiss
Today I’ll cry
For tomorrow may never come

__Scott Reed 2008.03.05

2008-03-05T15:43:00.000-08:00

2008-03-04T20:21:00.000-08:00

What does it mean
When the wind reminds me of you
Blowing past me
I can feel it
But I cannot hold it
What does it mean
When the clouds remind me of you
High above in the sky
Beyond my reach
What does it mean
When the evening stars shine bright
And yet darkness prevails
What does it mean
When the rain reminds me of you
falling upon the dust of the earth
to quench its ever lasting thirst

__Scotty Reed 2008.03.04

2008-03-04T20:20:00.000-08:00

2008-02-12T05:42:00.000-08:00

Like tears
on broken faces
You are real
Without the facades
With all the sorrow
And the pain
Without tomorrow
You are real
No layers to peel
No hidden agendas
Just pure
You are real
For Once
What I see is what I see
I know your intention
For it is Love

__Scotty Reed 2008.2.11

2008-02-12T05:40:00.000-08:00

2008-02-06T05:55:00.000-08:00

Dust Me Off Tavish

Dust the thoughts that life is sane
Dust me off

Dust the reason that makes it plain
Dust me off

Dust the doubts of love remain

__Scotty Reed 2008.02.06

2008-02-06T05:53:00.000-08:00

2008-01-30T07:16:00.000-08:00

In this moment
I couldn’t love you more
I couldn’t touch your face
Or feel your hair upon my fingers
Any more

In this moment
Your eyes run deep into my soul
The wind has calmed
The leaves have fallen

All I see is you
Or are you me
Has time stopped upon this water of age
Or lifted high our greatest love

In this moment
I long to hold your hand forever
Run the river of life’s longing
Taste the passion of only you

In This Moment

__Scotty Reed 2008.01.30

2008-01-30T07:12:00.000-08:00

2008-01-23T07:17:00.000-08:00

My Catalyst of Change

There is a reason we have met
And connected
It’s true there are always reasons
But some reasons have greater purpose
A more powerful meaning
More than others at time
You recognize these… by how they make you feel
“Feel” being the key word here
Feelings are your gates to God
Your highest thought
Your truest meaning
Words are usually from man
But feelings are from God
There are many ways, which God speaks to you
In words
In music
In thoughts
But the one she speaks to you the most through is feeling
Feelings are the door to your soul
I am not sure my angel what this all means right now
But I do know this is a rare moment
So for now, I will hold you dear
Until my heart is paused
This time I am listening
I am not running anymore
Against my worldly reason
Because my love my feelings are out of this world
Out of my mind

You have become my highest thought; the one which contains Joy
My clearest words; those which contain truth
And my grandest feeling; that feeling which I call love.

2008-01-23T07:11:00.000-08:00

2008-01-14T08:56:00.000-08:00

This time... it's not about me. I wish to be your mirror, your eyes to your soul and the beauty of it all.
__Scotty Reed 12.24.2007

2008-01-14T08:53:00.000-08:00

2008-01-08T08:56:00.000-08:00

I believe all things have purpose.

Even what we sometimes refer to as tragic (especially these) carry with them a great gift (often times our greatest).

So give me tragic; give me pain! It's just going to make me write better and I know that love lays beyond it.

I've heard it said before that when we can get the courage to look those who have harmed us in the face and thank them for the lesson and the beautiful thoughts and writings they have given us (and mean it) then and only then are we able to move on. That's another word for forgiveness. Forgiveness is not for them... it's for us!

I wish to learn to bless my enemies, to become indifferent to any outcome. Outcomes dont matter; this moment right here, right now does.Yes time is moving on and we couldn't be so fortunate. So cry my angel cry and give the world your beautiful words and celebrate!

_Scotty Reed 1.7.2008

2008-01-08T08:52:00.000-08:00

2007-12-04T05:11:00.000-08:00

I understand wanting to be different and unique; I respect eccentricity as well but I swear most critics of the status quo are being so just for their own self gratification and therefore no different than those they critique.
_Scotty Reed 2007.12.04

2007-11-26T09:53:00.000-08:00

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
__Dave Barry

2007-11-26T09:49:00.000-08:00

2007-11-24T13:36:00.000-08:00

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
__Samual Johnson

2007-11-21T12:42:00.000-08:00

When it's all gone it's only God
__Oprah Show Guest Comment 5.1.2007 (talking about meditation and quieting your mind)

2007-11-21T12:32:00.000-08:00

2007-11-12T06:46:00.000-08:00

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
__Pablo Picasso

2007-11-12T06:42:00.000-08:00

2007-11-09T06:53:00.000-08:00

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
__Lin Yutang

2007-11-08T14:41:00.000-08:00

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
__Stephen Roberts

2007-11-08T13:49:00.000-08:00

God talks to everyone. The question is not "whom does god talk to but "who is listening"
__Neale D. Walsch Conversations With God Book I

2007-11-08T13:44:00.000-08:00

2007-11-08T05:06:00.000-08:00

I like to think of God as a direction rather than an object.
__Unknown

2007-11-08T04:47:00.000-08:00

2007-11-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

Nothing ends, without a new beginning. Life becomes death as well as death becomes life, and by losing something we often find ourselves.
__Scotty Reed 3.14.2000

2007-11-05T08:46:00.000-08:00

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
__Mother Teresa

2007-11-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

When you change the way you look at things… the things you look at change.
__Wayne Dyer

2007-11-04T09:03:00.000-08:00

You're not a Human Being having a spiritual experience you are a Spiritual Being having a Human Experience.
__Wayne Dyer

2007-11-04T08:18:00.000-08:00

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
__Henry David Thoreau

2007-11-03T21:12:00.000-07:00

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
__Buddha

2007-11-03T20:35:00.000-07:00

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves." "One is evil -- he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. " "The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. " "This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
__Unknown

2007-11-03T20:21:00.000-07:00

If you are not part of the solution; you are part of the problem
__unknown

2007-11-03T18:52:00.000-07:00

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
__Mahatma Gandhi

2007-11-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

Do you want to play? You'll have to put your stuff down if you want to play. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
__What The Bleep Do We Know (Movie)

2007-11-02T09:38:00.000-07:00

Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth.
__Father George Schoener (1864 -1941),The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding

2007-11-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

Everything you can imagine is real
__Pablo Picasso

2007-11-02T08:33:00.000-07:00

I'd like to live like a poor man with lot's of money
__Pablo Picasso

2007-11-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

Everything you can imagine is real. If there is something to steal, I steal it. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. We always have a lot of reasons but only one real one. I alway do what I cannot do so I can learn how to do it. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot and there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
__Pablo Picasso

2007-10-31T07:59:00.000-07:00

We always condemn most in others, that which we most fear in ourselves
__Robert M. Pirsig Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2007-10-31T07:57:00.000-07:00

When faced with conflict always ask "What Would Love Do"
__Neale D. Walsch

2007-10-30T16:17:00.000-07:00

Dancing Leaves

The snow came early this year, burying the leaves beneath as if there was a different message to be given another time. I was partially sadden, for I felt I had missed my favorite season… and it continued for days after, covering the earth and it’s un-raked leaves.

Yet today the sun shown bright, and through the clouds the leaves rose to the sky… lifted by the wind, filling the blue air with heavenly beauty. Leaves everywhere… dancing with joy, the sun glistening on each of them. I had never seen anything like it and I wanted it to last forever.

Tears filled my eyes, music played and as I gazed at this magnificent beauty a voice whispered that I might die soon. I sat still, humbled and afraid, taking in what I thought could be my last breath of beauty.

And then suddenly… I was overwhelmingly filled with joy as I sat in amazement of the sky filled with dancing leaves, blue sky and bright light. For at this moment I realized that I was not to die, perhaps I had already had and too, as the leaves, arose to be reborn to dance in Gods beauty.

___Scotty Reed Emberton 11.20.2000

2007-10-28T05:01:00.000-07:00

Tears of strangers are only water
_Indian Proverb

2007-10-23T18:20:00.000-07:00

It's often necessary to Breakdown in order to Breakout
__Oprah Show October

2007-08-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

Be careful of Destination Addiction (thinking you'll be happier when you get someplace other than you are now)

2007-08-23T10:46:00.000-07:00

'Shame' is the most damaging emotion to your spirit. It darkens your soul.

_Scotty Reed 8.23.2007

2007-08-18T15:40:00.000-07:00

'Desire' is at the root of all suffering