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How Do We Have Empowering Thoughts in Spite of Circumstances?

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IF THOUGHTS DETERMINE HOW WE FEEL, WHAT ROLE DO CIRCUMSTANCES PLAY?
Circumstances challenge our thinking. Our thinking is an attempt to know circumstance better – in fact, thinking is an attempt to predict future circumstance. And the illusory nature of thinking is that most of what we know about real physical laws such as gravity or [...]

Living a Good Life

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What is the Key to Living a Good Life?
It’s not in achievement – which means honor and praise or self congratulations. A good life is measured in terms of how well aligned you are with aiding the universe in its evolution (value). Change is essential and you are essential part of that change. Where you [...]

Own Your Life Philosophy

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The trials and tribulations of life are testing grounds for your philosophy. Your behaviors are testaments to its value. If you do not find the principles of your life philosophy valuable enough to apply – how is it that someone else will find value in watering a seed you cast aside? Simple enough – you [...]

Elevating Goodness

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Elevating goodness and value is the primary driver of all great humans.
Refinement of character, self mastery, self discipline – these are the foundations upon which great souls become great lives.

A Worthy Cause

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I found myself watching the movie Avatar yesterday rooting for the natives of the planet Pandora – against the humans. I wondered how this rooting against humanity could be possible and discovered that the cause of the natives (in this movie) were more noble than the humans: the natives wanted to protect their mother and [...]

Passion, Letting Go and Choosing Your Vehicle of Self Expression

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All people share a common value. The value for freedom of expressing who they truly are. This is what a passion is: a vehicle for full a complete self expression. Anything less than this is unacceptable to the Soul.
We all have a book to write, a picture to paint, a dance to perform or a [...]

Financial Unrest Makes for a Worthy Voyage

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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the [...]

Helen Keller – A Glimpse into Nothingness

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“Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious time of nothingness… Since I had no power of thought, I did not compare one mental state with another.” -Helen Keller

It is What It Is..

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It is What It Is.. And All I Can Do Is the Best I Can Do.
Whatever challenges you might be going through – remember that without friction there is no polishing. In other words, the refinement of your soul is in direct proportion to the friction in your life. The more you’re going through – [...]

Improving Capitalism

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Until the current financial system is revamped, it’s not possible for everyone to be financially independent. For every million of surplus that’s generated economists estimate there is roughly 7 million in debt. For every millionaire, thousands of people are in debt. For every billionaire, millions are in debt. This will forever create a cycle of [...]