Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-03

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Honoring Fully your Obligations

makes you a Mason.

Using Them to Build Masterfully

is an entirely different Level of Reality

that places Life-Threatening Demands

upon your Time, Morality and Ends.

Of course,

when you're a Master,

you already know this

from firsthand Experience.

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For Further Light:
The Lost Word Acid Test

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Some operating systems are immune to improvement.

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"The mind,

once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas,

never returns to its original size."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"...to that Undiscovered Country,

from whose Bourn no Traveler returns."

-- Wm. Shakespeare

Do the Work, get the Results!

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"Masonry.
The only place you strive
for a speculative education!"

-- Bro. Nick Adair

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"The only way you can talk about this great tide

in which you’re a participant

is as Schopenhauer did:

the universe is a dream dreamed

by a single dreamer

where all the dream characters

dream too."

-- A Joseph Campbell Companion:

Reflections on the Art of Living

This theme is brilliantly illustrated

by the children's tale: RARG (see attached video)

"We are having experiences all the time

which may on occasion render some sense of this,

a little intuition of where your bliss is.

Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth …

"The way to find out about your happiness
is to keep your mind on those moments
when you feel most happy,
when you really are happy
— not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy.

"This requires a little bit of self-analysis.
What is it that makes you happy?
Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call “following your bliss.”
-- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,
with Bill Moyers

Following your Bliss requires you to Travel.

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