Name-Vibrations

[Names] are given before the life process [e.g. material incarnation] is begun. Every letter has its own vibratory rate which coincides with the vibration and pattern on which that individual proceeds through his lifetime.

("Yan Lu Su," as channeled by Charles Roberts, and as recorded by Eugene G. Jussek, Reaching for the Oversoul.)

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Consider:

• Pythagoras, "the oracle of Apollo speaks" (a reference to his prophesied birth)
• Plato, "broad" (his wrestling nickname)
• Plutarch, "wealthy leader"
• Plotinus, maybe related to πλωτίς [plotis, "life-preserver" (e.g. a float thrown to a drowning person)]?
• Plethon, "full" (a pun on his family name, Γεμιστὸς [Gemistos, "full"])

There's gotta be something about that "P[l]—t[h]—" combination, since the meanings of their names show no particular coherency, and yet the lives of each of these men all certainly seemed to follow a particular arc...

On Trying to Learn to Forgive Oneself

Normally, I keep a very orderly and focused mind; but as my health has declined, this has become more and more difficult to do: it is as if my grip on the leash has weakened, and the dog readily slips my grasp and runs off, and I have to chase it down and catch it again. In just that way, I was out for a prayer walk, and the dog had just slipped my grasp again and, rather than praying, I found myself musing, "but Hesiod says that the angels are the firstborn of the gods, which..." Just as I caught myself pondering rather than praying, I tripped over, you guessed it, a tiny, white feather.

I suppose I should be less hard on myself and my poor mind.