Reading this article is, for me anyway, a humbling experience of an altogether different kind [that brings to mind this humbling thought -- "There but for the grace of God . . ."].
My awareness has been both enhanced and enriched. I have an opportunity to become more compassionate and forgiving . . . . I was initially devastated reading about Hoffman's premature death, but realized my grieving for him had shifted when I learned he was the father of three children [very young children].
I then became angry about what seemed to me Hoffman's thoughtless behavior and began to distance myself from my grief. This article is most amazing in how it has helped me bridge the growing chasm within my heart.
I once again sit with my grief, albeit from a different, broadened perspective. . . . and so it is.
Stephanie Doty Weary of Wonderland February 6, 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
For TOO LONG you have allowed the past to affect you! For TOO LONG you have taken personally what others say about you! For TOO LONG you have stood on the sidelines watching others thrive! For TOO MANY NIGHTS you have gone to bed worrying about what may be. For TOO LONG you have held a fear in your heart. For TOO LONG you have settled for second best!! NOW is the time to awaken! NOW is the time to shine! NOW is the time to ACCEPT that you are DIVINE!!
I doff my chapeau and share my heart filled with gratitude to Lee-Anne for kicking off a new week with this message I read on Facebook
This is my message for you - allow it to touch the deepest parts of
your being - to help you awaken to the truth - that you do deserve to
live a GREAT life - and whatever that means for you! ~ Lee-Anne Peters ~ Temple of Balance
Stephanie Doty Weary of Wonderland February 3, 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master."
“The Master,”Paul Thomas Anderson’s imposing, confounding and altogether amazing new film, is partly concerned with the life and work of one Lancaster Dodd, leader of a therapeutic, quasi-religious cult known as the Cause. Dodd’s “process,” a stew of Freud, hypnosis and carnival sideshow mumbo-jumbo, is based on a kind of mental time travel. The subject is led, by a series of pointed, painful questions, on a search for past trauma — earlier in life, before birth, in a previous existence — that can be identified as the source of negative emotion and destructive behavior in the present.
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"Our minds sometimes play tricks on us, substituting invention for memory. Movies turn this lapse into a principle, manufacturing collective fantasies that are often more vivid, more real, than what actually happened. “The Master,” unfolding in the anxious, movie-saturated years just after World War II, is not a work of history in the literal or even the conventionally literary sense. The strange and complicated story it has to tell exists beyond the reach of doubt or verification. The cumulative artifice on display is beautiful — camera movements that elicit an involuntary gasp, passages in Jonny Greenwood’s score that raise the hair on the back of your neck, feats of acting that defy comprehension — but all of it has been marshaled in the pursuit of a new kind of cinematic truth. This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief. "
Stephanie Doty Weary of Wonderland February 3, 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
