ing. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I

“A painting by Van Gogh. A pair of rough peasant shoes, nothing else. Actually the painting represents nothing. But as to what is in that picture, you are immediately alone with it as though you yourself were making your way wearily homeward with your hoe on an evening in late fall after the last potato fires have died down. What is Here? The canvas? The brush strokes? The spots of color?

Martin Heidegger was born in 1889 in Germany. He is considered one of the great philosophers of the 20th century. Many of the minds before him wrote about being, but never really defined being itself. His quest was to define being and his work "Being and Time," sought to answer that question. He tried to define being in human terms and his work influenced many thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre.

I look at his quote above and realize that the world is much like the Van Gogh painting. I see and feel what I perceive it to be. I can see a blank canvas, with nothing there for me to experience. I can see an old pair of shoes and believe they are someone else's shoes, not mine. Or I can see the shoes and the canvas and make up my own story about them, just as Heidegger did. All of this is up to me, through my thoughts. Through my being. The interesting thing is my world consists of so many paintings like this one, many probabilities for me to choose from. What shall I be today? The shoes or the canvas or the brush?

Co-creation is not a new term. I do it daily in my work and leisure activities. I rarely think about me co-creating my world and everything in it. I have been trained to think about separation. Something or someone is manifesting this world, I am just living in the process. I have no say in how my life evolves, God or fate or chance or genes have control of my journey. They paint the canvas of my life not me. I see the results and wonder why it looks a certain way, and blame someone or something else if I don't like the end result. Creation is a term used in defining God, the creator of all things. I am part of his creation, but show few signs of my creator. I can see why Heidegger was so hell bent on defining being. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I

m wrote about being, but never really defined being itself. His quest was to define being and his work "Being and Time," sought to answer that question. He tried to define being in human terms and his work influenced many thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre.

I look at his quote above and realize that the world is much like the Van Gogh painting. I see and feel what I perceive it to be. I can see a blank canvas, with nothing there for me to experience. I can see an old pair of shoes and believe they are someone else's shoes, not mine. Or I can see the shoes and the canvas and make up my own story about them, just as Heidegger did. All of this is up to me, through my thoughts. Through my being. The interesting thing is my world consists of so many paintings like this one, many probabilities for me to choose from. What shall I be today? The shoes or the canvas or the brush?

Co-creation is not a new term. I do it daily in my work and leisure activities. I rarely think about me co-creating my world and everything in it. I have been trained to think about separation. Something or someone is manifesting this world, I am just living in the process. I have no say in how my life evolves, God or fate or chance or genes have control of my journey. They paint the canvas of my life not me. I see the results and wonder why it looks a certain way, and blame someone or something else if I don't like the end result. Creation is a term used in defining God, the creator of all things. I am part of his creation, but show few signs of my creator. I can see why Heidegger was so hell bent on defining being. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I

mine. Or I can see the shoes and the canvas and make up my own story about them, just as Heidegger did. All of this is up to me, through my thoughts. Through my being. The interesting thing is my world consists of so many paintings like this one, many probabilities for me to choose from. What shall I be today? The shoes or the canvas or the brush?

Co-creation is not a new term. I do it daily in my work and leisure activities. I rarely think about me co-creating my world and everything in it. I have been trained to think about separation. Something or someone is manifesting this world, I am just living in the process. I have no say in how my life evolves, God or fate or chance or genes have control of my journey. They paint the canvas of my life not me. I see the results and wonder why it looks a certain way, and blame someone or something else if I don't like the end result. Creation is a term used in defining God, the creator of all things. I am part of his creation, but show few signs of my creator. I can see why Heidegger was so hell bent on defining being. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I

separation. Something or someone is manifesting this world, I am just living in the process. I have no say in how my life evolves, God or fate or chance or genes have control of my journey. They paint the canvas of my life not me. I see the results and wonder why it looks a certain way, and blame someone or something else if I don't like the end result. Creation is a term used in defining God, the creator of all things. I am part of his creation, but show few signs of my creator. I can see why Heidegger was so hell bent on defining being. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I

ing. What is the point of being if I have no control over the process?

"Being is," has been a phrase used to describe the art of living. "Being without being," is another way of describing the experience. There are many more ways to label it. But to me being is connection. It is awareness. It is understanding myself not just in human terms but in spiritual terms as well.

There is so much more to being than I am aware of. I have many aspects of consciousness that exist outside of this focused consciousness, I call being. I can not define them all, for I have forgotten them. I am being now to remember, to expand and grow. In order to remember I have freedom, free will and the ability to think. Thoughts create matter. They create my world. If I believe that, I am a co-creator of my being. I am able to use my canvas and create a being that is what I believe. If I remember I am a spirit having an human experience, I am able to redefine and change my being. Being human is one brush stroke of my consciousness, not the complete work of art. Each thought adds another stroke to the canvas. The canvas is unending, the paint is ever flowing and the work is never finished. Perfection is changing, as I change. As Heidegger said in his book, being is always intended towards something or about something. My being is intended towards knowing myself in more than human terms. My being is heading towards remembering who I am, and I get to pick what colors to use on my canvas.