When you act from a place of genuine abundance…abundance of happiness, success, and gratitude…even when all you see is darkness and all you hear negativity, magic happens. This is not to be confused with wishful thinking or “fake it till you make it”…it is action from a sincere knowing that one could not exist without the other; opposites co-define each other and so coexist. In fact, if it’s dark, that’s great…that means you’re very close to the light…
Declaring your intentions and announcing your plans is like uprooting a seedling before it’s had a chance to sink its roots. Let the dream stay a dream until its reality is seen by all.
Everything needs its opposite to define itself. Hot defines cold, high defines low. All singularity exists in a binary state. Polarity gives way to motion; conflict…to resolution. Nothing can escape this paradox, even paradox itself… This truth…is also false.
The future and the past are virtual; they have no weight to them other than what we allocate by way of attention. This debt can feel so high, this weight so great, that it steals us away from this moment, the only moment. It can make us absent in the present, and paralyze us. Most animals don’t seem to share this affliction with humans…it’s always NOW to them…
Anger is a heated response to feeling totally out of control to the present moment. It is a lashing out; in a sort of bunker-buster, last ditch attempt to return life to the way you think it should be. It is total non-acceptance, and as such, a sign of weakness. It is closer to the antithesis of ferocity, which has nothing to do with ego at all… or even self preservation…
Irreverent in voice and delivery and lacking the āpious pomposityā of most spiritual self-help methods and guides, āOut of My Mindā shoots straight at the heart of the human condition to provide effective strategies to combat the tragedies and hardships that befall most of us at one time or anotherā¦ with mathematical precision. āOut of My Mindā, born out of the wisdom of the ancient Martial Arts traditions and fused with global philosophical teachings and scientific principles, reveals a strategy…
“Out of My Mind…and Intending to Stay There…A Battle Plan for Life” Coming soon to Amazon! A Martial Approach to life, conflict resolution, and reaching personal potential and happiness. Stay “tuned”…
What do we really have control over? We try to control our finances, our neighbors, our pets. We rail against the government, the IRS, and mainstream media. When we realize that we are wasting all of our energy trying to control that which is out of our control, we may start to realize that the only thing that is ours to control is our reaction to the present moment…and maybe not even that. After all, when was the last time…
We are nearsighted looking ahead, farsighted looking back…and often blind in the moment…
We so often want things to change…people to be kinder, our work to be more appreciated, our wait to be shorter. Alan Watts once commented that Blood behaves differently in a test tube than in your veins, showing that “it” and its “environment” are connected, are one. If you want to change to happen, YOU change. It starts and ends with you. If you have any control in this life, it’s over your own reaction to your environment. Being mutually…