Monday, October 12, 2020

We are not alone / Our pain / reborn / reality /The dream is over / "Self-Portrait with Brothers of Mercy and Night Falling from the Sky" (Mourning Meditation) / a new morning in mid-October 2020


 

God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I'll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dream weaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You just have to carry on
The dream is over

"... I'd like to live to ripe old age with Yoko only, and I'm not afraid of dying.  I don't know how it feels at the moment, but I'm prepared for death because I don't believe in it.  I believe it's just getting out of one car and getting into another ..." (John Lennon, 1980)

"... if there is a God, we're all it ..." (John Lennon)








"... I'd like to live to ripe old age with Yoko only, and I'm not afraid of dying.  I don't know how it feels at the moment, but I'm prepared for death because I don't believe in it.  I believe it's just getting out of one car and getting into another ..." (John Lennon, 1980)



































































Believe it or not, after I published this post and then turned to the tiny bundle of cards that sits next to my laptop and has quotes from around the world -- quotes that I read on most days -- the card that was uncovered for today had these words from Chief Seattle on the subject of death:

"There is no death, only a change of worlds."

Then I discovered that Chief Seattle also said in the same speech:  

"... Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see ..."

2 comments:

37paddington said...

Reminds me of a saying I love, death is but a horizon, and a horizon is just the margin of our sight. Still, when people die, we don't see them anymore, and some of them I miss sorely. It never really gets easier either, and so I choose to believe I will see them again. The alternative is too much to bear.

ellen abbott said...

"... if there is a God, we're all it ..." exactly.

I think of death as the other side of birth, the same coin, the same portal.