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Dreamed last night about writing a report--get this--based on work done in a previous dream! My dreams are doubling up on me! In the previous dream (which I don't think I remembered), I was gathering materials for the report. I had collected the material, but had never pulled it all together into a report. Last night, I was reviewing the material and organizing it into a report. There was someone working with me to review the notes and organize an outline. We were working quickly and the outline was coming together. Strange dreaming!

Quiet day! Complex was nearly empty most of the day. I felt good this morning (arose earlier again). Did nap a couple of times, but overall symptoms were moderate. Things got noisy when kids came home from school, but I napped through some of that. Feeling peaceful--letting things be. Have a session over in SC on Thursday. Looking forward to that.

Had lunch at DeeDee's today. That food seems so healthy--wish I could eat more, but I get enough. Did get sleepy after eating.

Got a quote today from LL about the point of stillness. Here's part of it--

The way you overcome attraction and aversions is by going to another condition which has little to do with both, which is wakefulness. In that wakefulness, you see beyond attraction and aversion. You can see that they're just operative forces in the universe that you can sidestep.

The best way to deal with desire and aversion is to push them away. To cut to the chase, if I may here, we all know what we should be - I believe that - we just don't listen. But we know we should be terribly humble, completely consistent, and that we should strive to enter the light.

What's necessary is a very integrated humility, wherein we just are who we are and we do what we do and there's a sense of peace to it, a stillness. It's not necessary to impress others or to impress ourselves. Rather, what's most important is to integrate ourselves with the light, to lead a type of life that does that. And some people may understand it or not, it really doesn't matter. It's not an audience participation situation. Rather, what we're doing is just seeking to find the still point in the middle of all the turning worlds, simply because we like that, we know that that's where we belong.

- Tantric Buddhism, Buddhism