I am re-reading a book I read years ago. Happiness is a Serious Issue
It has a truth value of 10%. Relative to other books, it’s high truth value.
Sometimes truth value is low because the author propagates deliberate lies, or personal misunderstanding.
Read the original article: The gap between reality and your personal reality
Thoughtless means that you don’t or didn’t give it a thought.
It is a certain form of unawareness… you live as if there were nothing and no one else whose position, interest, preferences, ideas, needs mattered.
The Nazi war criminals were thoughtless. They only thought of their own agenda, and everything else didn’t matter.
Which means thoughtless can be translated as “others don’t matter”
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Real Royals… Like Muhammad Ali…
Real Royals take it on the chin… If you were really a princ(ess), you would too.
Disappointments, slights… yeah, those are what I am talking about.
I read every book some writers write. Or have ever written.
One of these is Neal Stephenson.
Read the original article: Royals take it on the chin. Are you really a prince?
The healthiest behavior is simply for you to be authentic. Yet often we avoid our own authentic behaviors thinking they are unhealthy ones. Your own mind and body know what you need. And if you need a reminder why it is important to follow your authentic self, look at these common behaviors which are often considered negative which can actually be healthy.
Anger is something many of us avoid expressing and yet it can often be very liberating. Being angry and expressing it in a healthy way can create powerful and positive change in our lives. Anger is simply a type of emotional energy that rises up in us when we have been wronged and a personal boundary has been crossed. T
The symbol of the ego is a triangle sitting on its side. It takes tremendous force to flip it over, or to make it move.
The ego’s job is to make you safe by making you do the same things you have done, that obviously didn’t kill you.
The Ego has a lot of energy, and the art is to convince the ego to use the energy to move you forward instead of holding you back.
Read the original article: The ego
There is no secret, no secret ingredient to raising your vibration, to become an expanding human being.
For those of you who have been making ever tightening circles around the secret, you may call it the Truth, this article will be first a big let-down. A disappointment.
But when you look again, it gives you your life back, puts your ship under your command…
…you can become a finder instead of a seeker of the secret.
Rewarding means that you can see the fruits of your labor, and they a
Poetry, poetic, poetic mind… not part of the fabric of culture in our times.
JFK was inspiring, Trump, Biden? coarse or boring.
At the same time there is a quirk to human nature: A result that is not poetic, a result that is not uplifting, a result that is not inspiring doesn’t register as a result. So people are left with a sense of nothing important got done. No happiness, no fulfillment. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to be inspired by.
And then the second quirk: that the skill people have for poetic language is completely undeveloped.
Read the original article: Poetry? What does poetry have to do with happiness?
Did you know that every revolution has been, historically, just a re-shuffling of who is going to have power over who?
When I first read Osho’s book, Rebellion, Revolution and Religiousness, I actively worked on understanding.
In Hungary we learned a lot more history than American students do, and I personally have seen revolution, and reform and all that never changed anything on the long run.
It’s like making a dish, turning it on a plate… and thinking that now it’s different. No. it is the same dish… just what was on the bottom is now on the top.
Read the original article: Activism, reforms, revolution… a timely inquiry
Choosing
Choice is: selecting freely, AFTER consideration.
Matsa asks: hmm, it’s puzzling – if you never choose X, didn’t you, in fact, chose Y?
My answer: are you referring to choosing sexual preference? Most people have the choice made for them, societally and biologically…
99.99% of people never actually choose consciously, instead allow something else to choose for them: how they feel, their urges, society, the other, etc.
The best example for choiceless choice is: choosing your mother… choosing your life to be the way your life is. It is weird for people. They resist how it is… but there is no other choice.
Read the original article: Choice is: selecting freely, AFTER consideration.
I was interviewed by my friend Laser show artist and entrepreneur Tim Bennett of Argon Management last week. I just listened to the interview and I think it’s good, he puts me on the spot a few times and makes me talk about things I didn’t think of talking about… it is definitely worth a listen.
Go to Tim’s site to listen
Tim lives in Manila, in the Philippines. In addition to doing laser shows, he has an animation company, and a training company for aspiring entrepreneurs in the Philippines.
He is one of the most likable people I know… you’ll love him, and hopefully you’ll love me.
Go, listen. Go to Tim’s site to listen
Read the original article: My first interview on this topic on Awesome FM… wanna hear it?