I have an inquiry to engage in, a puzzle to solve, so instead of doing it in my head, I’ll do it in this article…
The puzzle is resistance. Resistance to guidance, resistance to changing your mind, changing your attitude, changing your behavior, changing where you look from. CHANGE.
To adapt. To using your intelligence. After all, the measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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Why so many of my subscribers are full of crap
In an elementary school in California the administration was warned several times that a 6-year old brought a gun to school and was threatening the other children with it.
The administration did nothing. They didn’t call the police, they didn’t lock the school down… They did nothing.
The child, finally, shot his teacher.
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You can make-believe it happens, or pretend that something’s true.
You can wish or hope or contemplate a thing you’d like to do,
But until you start to do it, you will never see it through
‘Cause the make-believe pretending just won’t do it for you. ~ Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Children get it that make-believe is not satisfying, so maybe you can too.
It is about reality vs unreality. Unreality: imagination, make-believe, and should that is as unsatisfying as eating broth with a fork.
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When I do the health measurements for people, the last step is to see what causes or will likely cause big troubles if nothing changes.
The first of such causes (thinking/emotional errors, attitude) is what I want to talk about in this article… because I am just going through, or have just gone through something that even I didn’t expect, despite all my experience to the opposite.
I have been waiting to die.
I felt it inevitable. My mother died at my age… so I will too.
Yesterday was the day I was exactly, to the day as old as my mom was when she died. And I didn’t die.
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Desire is a mental energy. And it is impossible to desire something, something you have not first imagined or seen.
So desire is comparing an image of something and the way it is in reality. That gap is what is called desire.
Now, desire has this imagination element, that shows the object of desire, the finished ‘product’ as if it were already reality. And in that mistake, in that mirage lies the mischief.
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One of the emails I never fail to read, and never fail to benefit from in some way is the Monday Morning Memo.
What I like about it, and you probably would hate, judging from many YOUR choices which of my emails to read… What I like most about the Monday Morning Memo, is that it is a sideways view. Sideways from my view.
And as every sideways view the Memo shows the world different from ordinary. Just differently enough so it enriches. Enriches my world, allows me to be happier, more productive with more ease. So it delights me.
I really really love that. My insides purr.
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How Self-Awareness is the Key to Happiness, Effectiveness, Intelligent Decisions… The Sideways View
I thought I was going to have a domestic day. you know laundry, dishes, stuff. and watch myself, my emotions, and have a good old time.
The weather is gorgeous. My neighborhood is even prettier in the fall than in the summer. you can see far. and the contrast of the blue sky and the rusty color of the leaves and branches is really beautiful.
The thought: ‘I could actually be happy’. The though of being cured. These thoughts were very present there for a few minutes. I made myself a nice cup of tea, and checked my email.
There was a note there from Youtube that I have a comment on my ‘Why are Jews smart?’ video, so I went to check it out.
Reality can only be seen from the sideways view…
And therein lies the reason why humans, the species hasn’t evolved for tens of thousands of years.
The inability for humans, for homo sapiens to grow, evolve, is a fact because 98% of all humans can’t or won’t even attempt to look from the sideways view.
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Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Reality.
Love is accepting the other exactly the way they are and exactly the way they aren’t.
If you pay attention, deeply, both statements talk about what is and what isn’t.
Love mention what isn’t… Isn’t in reality, because it only exists in the mind, as an expectation.
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Prison Break or the Art of Questions…
What could someone do when the world, your health, your body, your relationships are not going the way they should… do anything other than be complacent, resigned, live in quiet desperation?
I always had this question, but reading the Fatemarks series the question is getting louder in my head.
On the internet
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