A few years ago I posted a disclaimer regarding the content of my Dufisms and that still holds true today. While flying all over the world in a very restricted environment getting from point a to point b did take several hours at a time. During this time I had a lot of thoughts pass through my aging mind. Going back I realized that I was not focusing on the actual smoking quit process with my Dufisms but rather on the things that might give us all an insight to who we really are.
As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide ourselves with the many gifts of being airborne. Flying high in the sky, we look down on the earth that is our home and see things from an entirely different perspective. We can see more, and we can see farther than we can when we're on the ground. As if all this weren't enough, the out-of-this-world feeling of freedom that comes with groundlessness inspires us to want to take flight again and again.
Metaphorically, we take flight whenever we break free of the gravity that holds us to a particular way of thinking or feeling or being. We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights. This is what it means to open our minds. Emotionally, we take flight when the strength of our passion exceeds the strength of our blockages; the floodgates open and we are free to feel fully. Spiritually we take flight when we locate that part of ourselves that is beyond the constraint of linear time and the world of form. It is in this place that we experience the essential boundlessness that defines the experience of flight.
Taking flight is always about freeing ourselves from form, if only temporarily. When we literally fly, in a plane or on a hang glider, we free ourselves from the strength of gravity's pull. As we open our minds and our hearts, we free ourselves from habitual patterns of thought and emotional blockages. As we remember our true nature, we free ourselves from identification with the temporary state of our physical forms. The more we stretch our wings, the clearer it becomes that taking flight is a state of grace that simply reminds us of who we really are.
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Duffis
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/13/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 825
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 24,750
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,475.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 178 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 4 [B]Seconds:[/B] 2
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Quit Meter
$285,450.00
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 6850
Hours: 21
Minutes: 52
Seconds: 50
Life Gained
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Quit Meter
45672
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
1,141,800
Cigarettes Not Smoked
