Swim as far as you can in your dream. Away from:
your home
your mate
your children
your pets
your belongings
your work place
your colleagues
See if you drown or survive.
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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- When I count what's wrong with my life, I get totally depressed. When I count the good things, I feel like smiling and I do. Then I think, "well, it's not all that bad." Life is just a bowl of cherries. But when I see myself smiling in the mirror, I like myself more. Well, life is a roller-coaster. That's what I now think. Recently, I got a message that I was a king, and I should stop the battle, and appreciate my victory. Well, I should listen to this one. And you, too, my friend. We are all kings. The battle is the battle of goodness winning WORLD PEACE. At all times, find something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best workout! Chimpanzees are wise to it. Are you?
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Survive
I'd surely drown...
when you swim with yourself, you survive!!!!!! yourself: your heart and spirit will save you even in the hardest storms!!!
As I get farther away from things that help me feel secure, things familiar, I start feeling weaker. If I can focus soley on myself, my own strength, it helps (but only if I'm in a confident mood at the time). If I remember my creativity, like writing poems, stories, etc., this helps a great deal to gain strength from a source inside me instead of one outside of me. I can better control what happens within me than what happens outside of me. Things such as people, your house, possessions, etc. can all leave, die, be destroyed by fire, etc. We have no control over things external to us. It seems best to rely mainly, but not completely, on ourselves for our well-being. Life is better if we're not alone, so it's good to have other people and material things to enrich our lives but develop the ability to survive the loss of these things.
I will survive because I'm never alone.
Day-um! I had a dream much like that within the last 48 hours or so.
That's connection.
I'm a lousy swimmer, but have no problems in my dreams with water -- very secure.
I don´t know if i would like to survive if there is no chance to swim back
Why swim away from things that are important to you?
Why know if you swim or drown?
Sometimes i go for a walk not thinking i'll go back but i go back.
Sometimes i go for a drive not thinking that i'll go back but i go back.
What i want is not out there.
What i want is inside.
Its inside me, at home, at work.
Its what i do.
Its who i am.
I took a long time getting here.
I knew that i would.
Even when it felt as if i might be drowning i was surviving, waiting for the impetus to stroke again.
Sometimes though i guess i might not have known the direction i was swinning in.
But its a good story. A story of many hellos and few goodbyes. I can see the narrative.
Narratives hold me up when going under. I remember something important and that keeps me floating.
Float. Swim.
Its what you do well
Don't drown.
You'd do it badly
Definitely, I drown. And if I dont, no matter how beautiful the underwater world can be I cant enjoy it properly without my beloved ones.
Last year my dad passed away. I didnt drown, I survive. More than this: I accepted his departure naturally since I know he is around. The only difference is that I cant see his material body.
But if it is about leaving behind all the alive people I love, I feel sad. Specially if I lose contact with a couple of them.
I would survive...although I easily see myself drowning.
But I survive, always will, I'm sure of it.
Simply because I hold the thought that I am never alone..
It's what makes me strong.
You're accompanied even when you're not.
Physical being means nothing.
It's the spirit that never dies..
I survive, I am free.
somehow
water
currents
catch
me
flowing
every
direction
synchronized
without
swimming
i've bean through the tidal wave
and have the shit to show it
I would survive, because those are the things that are currently pushing me under the current, and drowning me. They are the clothes wrapped around my body after I have been dropped in the middle of the ocean. They try to weigh me down, yet they do save me from being naked.
Good thing to think.
What we have is all so temporary, all these states we have, to adjust to, and if you're fortunate, ruminate on. I love my self, and would fight to survive to the last breath.
I never swim in my dreams
and when I watch underwater scenes on TV
I catch my breath so
that I have to force myself to breathe.
I would not just swim away,
there needs to be the hope of an island,
and a 'floating way' with the blessings of
some driving wind.
Otherwise such a swimming
has no purpose
and would be
just suicide.
So ...
survive :)
I would slip below the water,
for why would I bother to swim
if I had no one to swim home to?
Oh I missed this one.:(
I believe I would survive but what good would it be to live with out anyone or anything to make me happy?
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