If You Like Pina Coladas

I have this constant inner battle with what to share publicly and what to keep private. I never get involved in changing my relationship status because I just don't feel like sharing that information. I do date and I have been in relationships. I'm pretty simple, very simple, but that makes me quite complicated to others. Some call it selfishness. 

Anyway, I've written pieces in the past just so I could reference them or use them in the future (that's not very "now" of me, is it?). This is my Rupert Holmes piece for any future companion. It's my own little checklist that has eliminated every potential mate for the first 42 years. 

"It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there." ~ Rumi

"Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.

You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else." ~ Michael Ende

“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can 
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple 
witness of your thought processes. 

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. 
Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you 
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. 

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great suprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, A watcher." ~ Osho

“The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.” ~ Alan Wilson Watts

“When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.” ~ Donna Quesada 

“Who we are now is all that really matters.” ~ Amy Joy

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”  ~ Shunryu Suzuki

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." ~ Buddha

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~ Nietzsche

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." ~ Gary McLain

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” ~ Ram Dass

“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.” ~ Ram Dass