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That Make for Healthy Living
1. Sharing your emotions freely without fear
2. Letting your spirituality speak through actions instead of opinions
1 Thing We Know for Sure
We Are Not in Charge
The more we insist we are, the less power we possess.
The more we respect our surroundings, the greater our potential.
For you see, we came to Earth—Earth did not come to us.
Looking around at our times, we are suddenly struck with the realization that we are all the same.
There are no culture barriers.
This is something we manufactured because we had too much time on our hands.
Women are not inferior and men superior.
This was the makings for sassy TV—but an uncomfortable lifestyle.
Oh, by the way—we can survive with less, though more seems to be our favorite word.
Hugging is heavenly.
We are learning to mask our faces but unmask our hearts.
And once and for all, we’ve demonstrated, without exception, that worry is no damn good.
Guessing can be dangerous.
Thinking is like a prayer with knowledge.
Turns out that bitching, complaining and opinions are pretty much all the same.
Humor has become the gold that will actually bring back our money.
The virus is not impressed with our two-party system.
It mocks our checks and balances.
It humiliates our Declaration of Independence and Constitution—reaching every home, even our Gettysburg Address.
Since we’re not in charge, the only thing we can do is work on us.
Scrambles … April 21st, 2020
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1 Thing You Can Do to Maintain the Power of Your Own Reasoning
Don’t Hold Town Meetings
I don’t know how the practice got started.
I suppose someone thought it was really civic minded for a candidate to sit in front of a bunch of townsfolk and take questions about his or her choices made while governing.
But here is the break-down of what happens when you try to appeal to the masses.
It is a three-step process:
1. Masses
2. Misses
3. Messes
There you go. That’s the way it works.
When you talk to the masses in America, you are not speaking to individual people who formulated their own thinking on a particular subject. You end up addressing the multi-media machines—the ones with the most money—which target those Masses to try to implant the ideas of their Misses, which they want to push forward—creating Messes.
If I were to sum up our present climate, I would call it A. I. U.
Yes, America is A. I. U.—which stands for An Internet Understanding.
On innumerable subjects, Americans can give you their take, which they have derived by being peppered, through the Internet, with Tweets, posts and memes. There’s not enough time to participate in reading or viewing these opinions and also finding out if they’re correct. Therefore, what you think about America is solely based upon what Internet cites you choose for gathering your information.
Now, if you slam all those people together in a Town Meeting, what they will shout at you is what they are positive is the truth—because they read it on the Internet.
In A. I. U. environments, it is absolutely impossible, if not dangerous, to open up the room to questions.
Likewise, nowadays, I’m even careful about asking people’s opinion on the latest shirt I bought. Because what I often get back is A. I. U.
Or, “What do you think I should do about selling my house?” More A. I. U.
My son is thinking about going to college. A. I. U. begins to speak.
Once you get in a Town Meeting, you can’t stop listening or run out the door in horror.
If you planned a Town Meeting, you can’t cancel it without looking like you have something to hide.
So our 1 Thing for today is simple:
Don’t you dare hold a Town Meeting.
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Sit Down Comedy … April 5th, 2019
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Yes, let my opinions begin
I, for one, think the grocer should know what a plum is.
The plumber should be acquainted with his or her way around a toilet.
A toilet should certainly flush.
We should be flushed with excitement just over living.
Living should be easy.
Easy should be like Sunday morning.
And I contend that Sunday morning should be like heaven.
Yet we are observing life as if it is something that happens to us instead of something we control.
Do Not Accept
Even though I, like you, received DNA at birth, the three initials, in my mind, stand for Do Not Accept.
I do not accept that I am the sob-total of all of my molecules, colliding and fussing with one another.
I do not accept that I have to be white just because my skin has a tone, or a dominant male because of how I urinate, and some red-or-blue-state-philosophy due to my politics.
I do not accept that my life is pre-determined by birth, but instead, insist on daily being born again.
For I feel that if mankind can stop making the classic four mistakes, we could become humankind and start assisting one another to break out of the goo of procreation and start generating lives.
What are the classic four mistakes?
- We choose things by how attractive they are.
- We foolishly follow the crowd, thinking popularity means shit.
- Rather than being creative, we are defensive.
- We lie because lying is lying around, lying.
So, encrusted with these stale, day-old-bread mannerisms, we struggle to interact with each other in fresh ways and end up with burnt toast.
I think it begins with misconceptions about our “personal space.”
I was thinking about this just yesterday…
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week to Make a Practical Step Forward
Save Critique for Yourself (and Yourself Only, May I Add)
Even though there’s a theory blowing in the wind that constructive criticism actually exists, most critique that leaves one’s lips and floats in the direction of another soul generally manifests some sort of destruction.
There’s only one person who can handle your critique—you
Why?
Because you know when to give it, how to present it and when to drop it before you start crying.
It is not a courtesy you can promise to someone else, who might fall victim to your burst of opinions.
Critique has value when it is offered in the mind of one human, heard in the heart of the same being and set in motion within the soul of the identical person.
After all, three things are for sure:
- You can hear it.
- You will recover from the experience.
- You can change.
Now, this makes for great critique.
All other attempts are hidden forms of malice, jealousy, confusion, ignorance and selfishness.
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week To Address An Unruly World
MAKE EVERYTHING A SMALL DEAL
We spend way too much time isolating off the things we think are important, and then build a concrete wall around our minds and emotions, to make sure no one ever infringes on these sacred concepts.
It takes away our flexibility.
It causes us to appear opinionated instead of just blessed with an opinion, and it terminates many relationships which could have bloomed through the seeds of discussion, even if there was disagreement.
What really is a big deal?
If you find you have a list, you can take the number of things you have compiled and subtract them from your potential.
Abrasively showing up to every human encounter with a personal agenda of what you deem to be “the most holy of holies of ideas” is to leave yourself without the ability to learn, and often places you in the role of a fool, when time and knowledge press on, exposing your error.
“It’s no big deal,” because I decided to make it a small deal.
“It’s no big deal,” because ultimately, the way I treat other human beings is the sole criterion for my worth.
Take this week and chop away at all the things you think are big deals and put them to the side as kindling wood—by declaring, “Oh, don’t worry. That’s just a small deal.”
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