Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Beware of Cash4Gold...
http://consumerist.com/2009/09/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read.html
Beware of Cash4Gold...
http://consumerist.com/2009/09/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read.html
Beware of Cash4Gold...
http://consumerist.com/2009/09/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read.html
Beware of Cash4Gold...
http://consumerist.com/2009/09/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read.html
Friday, March 26, 2010
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
Lyndon Larouche and Post Office Kiosks
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
By Don Bradley
Every six weeks or so (there’s that number again), our local post office has an ad-hoc outdoor kiosk setup with a few LL hawkers decrying the state of affairs, and oh, please sign up ASAP and join the fight against every wrong in the world.
These folks always try to corral me and tell how bad things are when I need to go inside the post office. They setup right next to the door; there’s no escaping them.
One day, I stopped to hear the pitch. As the lady droned on, she pretty much said what I expected her to say. She and this other fellow had clipboards where people could sign up—name, address, phone, email addy.
I was told that Larouche and company were the ONLY ONES fighting the NWO and all that. This was repeated a few times, especially as I protested the facts to the contrary. I was also informed that the only way to defeat said NWO was to organize under Larouche leadership and his battle standard. No other option possible was the repeated mantra.
There’s a few problems with that attitude and perception. First and foremost, outfits like Larouche are what is known as “lightening rods.” They are put out to the public—online, in the mail, and now, post office outlets—to attract those souls who are unhappy. The purpose? To get their names. These then become created data sets which the intelligence agencies to update their databases with information as to those people who are finding the status quo not too much to their liking.
When Bush was president, the Larouche kiosks had posters of GW Bush with a Hitler mustache. Now, it’s Obama.
When I told the woman that although this country and the world had problems with the so-called NWO, but that organizing into groups that could be easily surveilled and infiltrated (think Cointelpro) was a classic mistake made far too often, as history has taught us, she got downright angry with me, closed up, and wouldn’t look me in the eye. Her tone became militant and angry.
I informed her that the true solution would come from the individual, not the group that could be taken over, used, discredited, and then setup as a patsy for some future ill yet to befall this country. At that point she literally turned her back to me and ended the conversation.
I see.
The answer is with the individual. It’s the person who sees and can act, doing what is within their power and preview to forestall the efforts of the established network of evil that has taken over this planet. The individual can do and be, saying nothing to anyone, but just doing what needs to be done as it presents itself to them on a day to day basis. If the aware souls of the world acted alone and without concert with others in any organized fashion, we really do then have a chance at winning. By organizing into easily penetrated and infiltrated groups by intelligence assets, each group then quickly becomes a nothing which ends up serving the purposes of the very system it was designed to defeat. History has taught us this lesson, if we’ve been paying attention at all.
Think about it. You too, will see that this is so.
It’s the person, rather than the group, who makes change. Each according to our own measure, skills, perceptions and aspirations to have a better world that is within our grasp.
www.uwantson.com
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Updated Green Smoothie Recipe!
Green Smoothie by Don
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
Updated Green Smoothie Recipe!
Green Smoothie by Don
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
Updated Green Smoothie Recipe!
Green Smoothie by Don
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
Updated Green Smoothie Recipe!
Green Smoothie by Don
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
1 whole bunch of Kale
1 tablespoon Acai powder
1 tablespoon shredded kelp
1 tablespoon Cacao powder
1 tablespoon Maca powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
1 tablespoon shredded Nori
1 teaspoon raw coconut oil
1 tablespoon bee pollen
1 stalk of celery
1/4 cup of Hemp Protein Powder
4 tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce of raw aloe vera gel
1 banana
1 avacado
10 ounces of organic apple juice
1 tablespoon sunflower seed powder
2 ounces of goji berries
1/2 cup of blue berries
3 ice cubes, distilled water
blend for 1 minute, medium speed
This tastes really good!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
An interesting wood cut...
An interesting wood cut...
An interesting wood cut...
An interesting wood cut...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
a crisis of disruption of life…
A very patient friend of mine is going through a crisis of disruption of life…
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
a crisis of disruption of life…
A very patient friend of mine is going through a crisis of disruption of life…
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
a crisis of disruption of life…
A very patient friend of mine is going through a crisis of disruption of life…
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
a crisis of disruption of life…
A very patient friend of mine is going through a crisis of disruption of life…
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
…as are many people these days, as the world’s economies continue to slide into the abyss. This is something I know a little about, because this has happened to me at least a dozen times, as I’ve watched everything I knew, built, planned for, and hoped for, dissolve right under my feet, regardless of any effort made to change its outcome. You can discern this occurrence in your life by the following factors.
1. Nothing you do seems to make a difference. In fact, just the opposite occurs.
2. People you trust and have made endless sacrifices for, reveal to you how little you really mean to them. Instead, they take advantage of your situation, knowing you are at the end of your rope.
3. 200% efforts to make changes in any direction are met by a thousand and one obstacles, all of them seemingly working in concert to make matters worse.
4. Opportunities appear and then vanish very quickly, before you can attain to them.
5. Friends and friendships become visible for what they really are, or have been, all along.
6. Everything and every goal you’ve strived for is erased from your life, one after another, with perfect regularity.
7. You find yourself alone, watching others move forward as your life comes to a halt on every level: financial, work, home, everything.
8. Wishing does no good.
9. Acting does no good.
10. One fine day comes with increasing clarity that you can point to a day on the calendar—very near at hand—where you will be destitute, ruined, and will have nothing, except that which you truly own free and clear and without any encumbrances. Even those things are in danger of loss, if they have no place to reside.
If you are over the age of 40, multiply all of the above by a factor of 10.
And there you are. Frustrated. Angry (some are, others not.) Without any visible hope or way out. Checkmate. You’re done.
Your days become zombie-like. You walk about numb, feeling nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing but doom, as it relentlessly creeps forward to consume all that you have, are, or ever will be.
This crisis is indeed an opportunity. A spiritual opportunity.
For whatever reasons, life has forced you into a state of being where all that is external and outside yourself is being stripped away from you, piece by piece, until all that is left is you. All the busy-busy of your life has stopped, because it no longer exists. You’ve been dropped from the busy external games of life, by force. This creates a condition where we must, at long last, face ourselves. Who we really are. Then, if we see this rightly, we can ask the questions we should have been asking all along.
Who am I?
Where am I going?
What do I really need?
What is it that I want? And why do I really want it?
If that which is outside myself is ephemeral, what then truly matters?
For these are spiritual questions, dear friends. And life is forcing you to confront yourself because quite probably you’ve spent your entire life in pursuit of illusions that in the end, mean nothing. For many of us, we only face who we truly are when we’ve been stripped of everything. EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT.
Then, we realize the only things that are still with us are things that were honestly built upon LOVE, SACRIFICE, COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, and so on. These last. These continue. Everything else? Up in smoke, like they never existed at all. Ever.
Once a person finds themselves in this situation, they can then rebuild their lives upon proper principles, which do last. Yes, you may find yourselves living in your car for 11 months, and over and over again, but you are now a person who understands, sees, knows, and truly lives. Your motives have changed. Your spirit is now led by the principles which the truly greats have always understood. To live is to love, know, see, be, and do.
Once the above has occurred, you find that wow, you are free. Possessions mean nothing. For you know them to be nothing. Friendships for you are now built upon correct foundations, rather than self-serving, egoistic, or corrupt pursuits. Your daily life consists of finding meaning and as you go along, lo and behold, you do find it, in ways that your former self would have laughed at. That self that was lost in carnal pursuits, driven by blind ambitions; fueled by greed, avarice, ego, and fear.
The above awareness may come in a few days, months or sometimes, it takes years. But it does come.
Finally, at long last, life begins to reveal to you your real reason for being. You see it everywhere, all around you. You must learn to love, understand, care, live, and learn. Any chance you can, whatever the cost. Then, for the first time, you know you are living correctly. Every day, even in abject poverty, is beautiful, filled with love, and correctly lived. You’ll never take anything for granted again: health, love, a sunrise, a great passage that gives insight, your beating heart.
Sure, you’ll still get stingers from time to time, just to remind you of the illusions of it all, but these are there so that you can make straight your once winding road. They remind you that deviation from this opportunity will only lead you back to the same place so why not keep going forward as you have learned to do.
Will you miss the old life? No.
You will look back on all those missed opportunities to be a better person, the person you have now become. That’s all the past will mean to you. All the correct actions you could have taken, but didn’t, will stand out as beacons of true failure. The stuff, the money, the positions of power, these will be seen for the dead-ends they really were. You will see those lost in these dead-ends all around you, and understand. You will be patient in the extreme, because you know what they still do not know. Their turn will come, one day, as yours has come now.
All the best to you and may your life be filled with every blessing.
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