smart blonde joke

A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. She says she's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce. The car is parked on the street in front of the bank, she has the title and everything checks out. The bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the blonde for using a $250,000 Rolls as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then proceeds to drive the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the blonde returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41. The loan officer says, "Miss, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

The blonde replies, "where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return?"

three good morsels from today's Nondual Highlights

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not in just some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

From President Nelson Mandela's Inaugural
Speech, 1994.

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whatever perceived
in the neural network soap
life is but a dream
on a never ending cruise
with nobody at the wheel

--Jan Barendrecht, NDS

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In the heart of life, if we pause long enough, go deep enough to listen, we may hear the beating, the rhythmic pounding of life's very essence, of our fears, joys, longings, hopes, dreams, nightmares... In the heart of life lies a steady pulse, a never ceasing rhythm of all that exists - has ever existed - of all that we have created out of our collective imaginings in this obscure bubble of time and space. We move through it, finding our way, making our choices, at times simply giving in to the rhythm itself, allowing it to cradle us, allowing us - if only for one brief moment - to just be... to feel the timelessness of our very existence.

Siraca, NDS