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Don’t go against the flow.  Instead, break where the river breaks and takes you were you wanna go. If you miss the river banks you think you’ve missed, thank the ocean of opportunity ahead.

Beacon

It seems there may be no real responsibility besides that of exemplifying love.

Defending Our Unhappiness

Have you ever run into someone whom you've shared the thought "don't worry", or "have faith", or "it'll be alright"?  And in return you receive a blistering look of anger for your inconceivable idea that the world is not crumbling.  How dare you think that everything will work out or that being happy is a possibility in the perception of their discontent.  My question to you now is why do you think this is so?  Why do we defend our unhappiness so vigorously?  Why do we sometimes choose, with all of our heart, to cling so dearly to what is making us so unhappy? Why do we identify with it and how do we seem to find some sort of comfort from it?

If all of us that say we believe in God but then cling so dearly to the opposite of faith and joy, and love, is it obvious then that something very opposite is drawing our attention and inspiration?  I choose Love, Joy and Faith in my life instead of the opposite every chance I get.  Can it really be that simple? Yep.

Thought of the Day - Oct 21, 2012 - Attack!

Recently I made one of the dumbest mistakes on the road that you can believe!  I had stopped at a traffic light, while it was green.  For whatever reason I needed to find my phone that fell and had perceived the light as red (i guess) so that I would have the opportunity to find my phone.  In retrospect I recall that the light was green but I was not paying attention, I was only paying attention that it was a light and a place to stop.  This immediately stopped traffic that morning while everyone was hurried into work, making the 30 seconds or so seem like a lifetime to those behind me.  I was waiting for the inevitable dirty look and speed passes as soon as I had gotten my head from under the passenger seat and back on the road.  Oddly, those that I had slowed down that morning had any gestures or looks to give.  They all went about their business. "Wow," I thought.  Is this world becoming tolerant of dork drivers during morning rush hour? =]

For the past 4-5 years I've made it a point not to get angry at anyone for their driving mistakes because I know that even as good a track record that I may have, someday I may make a mistake.  The mistake I see in others' driving is simply "that day" for them.  I choose not to attack every time.   

If you could understand that by making an attack on someone, you forget love, and by forgetting love you make him a stranger.  By making someone a stranger you separate yourself from him and then do not truly know what love is, nor know yourself.  To know thyself is to know that we are all intimately related and bound inseparable.  Thus, to make an attack on someone is to make an attack on yourself.

Anyway, there seems to be some sort of karma working here as well.  I felt pretty good that morning after I was not attacked for my mistake.

Thought of the Day October 19 - On the Verge!

I woke up this morning as positive as ever.  Each day seems to get better and better... yet I keep feeling like I'm on the verge of something big.  This would be ideal, except for the fact that I've been feeling like this for about 7 months now.  I know the secret is to be happy in now and not expend all of your energy waiting and  hoping for the future, but now recently things seem to even be pushing back at me for some reason.  There are things around me that compound my urgency to "take off" already. 

So I'm sitting here checking my emails in my workout clothes a little after 5am before I have to pick up my friend for our morning workout...  and I run across this old email I sent to myself with a quote from Henry Ford;  It reads:  "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind and not with it."  Perfect!  I can see how the new "things" around me can be perceived as the final lifts that are pushing me to "take off!"  Thanks for the words of advice Henry.

See you in the clouds! =]

Thought of the Day - Oct 18 - Do Unto Yourself

If everyone truly has equal rights in God, you can only claim yours by being just to your brother and your neighbor and your co-workers and your spouse and your children.  Hate and you will be hated. Disrespect and you will be disrespected.  Look upon as ignorant and you will be looked upon as such.  Seek to deny, and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived.  …goes back to love thy neighbor as thyself, otherwise the opposite is turned back upon oneself.

Thought of the Day - Change Best from Within

Out of a plethora of mangled dreams last night I somehow ended up on a serene, single thought hours before sunrise.  I thought "change is better from within."  This seems a simple enough truth.

You've heard people say "...this person changed me" or "...they made me a better person," but was it not a change within themselves first that brought them to that person and brought them to the fork in the road that opened them to change based on an external force?  I do not believe a woman can change a man for better without him first changing in himself.  He would need to be ready for and willing to change before the woman even enters the picture.  Then he is open to the inspiration he finds in her.

There have been times for me when I really want to make an impact on someone.  If change is truly better from within then is there anything I can really do for someone?  Yes and no is what I came up with.  No, because that person cannot change by your flinging words of reform or inspiration at them; and Yes because it is the change within you that can create true inspiration and plant new ideas within something else.  Change may be best from within a single person first, then see it expand outward to those around him or her.  Before 1952, could you take a runner and say "You can break the 4 minute mile! Now Go!"  Chances are, it would never materialize unless the person you tell believes it.  Now Bannister believed it in himself and did it.  After that, a handful of others made the same accomplishment because they actually believed it could be done. You can have a lot of people believe in you but if you don't believe in yourself, chances are it won't happen.  Alternatively, if you believe in yourself and tons of people don't, chances are it will happen anyway.

The whole idea goes back to being the change you want to see in the world.  Don't worry about "helping" someone if they don't ask or care for it, even if they seem or say they are miserable.  The story about a little girl helping a butterfly out of its Chrysalis too soon, resulting in a lameness and soon death because it cannot fly, comes to mind her...  Instead be that change you'd like to see and the world will change starting from within yourself. dac.

I Did Whaaaat??

For some time now I've been keeping my thoughts to myself when it comes to God and life and the meaning of it all.  Its been quite fun as a matter of fact and I feel I've been awakened.  Now let me say here that I've never been and never thought I would say that about myself.  I was very "asleep"; I was a guy that was out every single night and let's just say I was the kinda guy a girl would not want to bring home to their mother.  "Those people" that talked about God all the time were weirdos to me and I felt they just gave up power in themselves to be lazy and dumb.  My views have changed a bit even though there are still lazy and dumb people out there lol-  but I still love them =].  Everyone is on their own path and that just happens to be there's at this time.

This new thinking really started when I was fed up with creating heartache in my life.  I'll divulge more later but fast forward 3 years or so and I changed myself and then met my wife.  She is not the type of woman that would have accepted me then but readily accepted me now.  I noticed what good came into my life by changing myself, and that the vision of being happily married came true for me even though it was so far removed from the actual situation that was unfolding in front of my eyes, what with boos and parties flowing readily.  I remember I asked for help (part of me really didn't want me to ask for help)  but I was tired of being heartbroken and down.  My prayers were answered!

Now that I was married I needed I started in on family-mode and the house was first on our minds.  I was kind of a surprise to me because it was she that brought it up and I hadn't really thought about it until that point.  I had always been carefree and didn't really care much about money.  I felt that when I needed it, it would be there.  The fact is that I was right- the only problem was that I never needed very much so there was an impossibility once again in front of me.  I asked for help again from God and 9 months later my wife and I owned a beautiful two-story house with a view of the mountains that is really something.  I was given a raise at just the right time that allowed this to happen and everything really just fell into place.  We couldn't be more happy.

I'll say now that being a home owner with previous negative credit marks and everything else that said it wasn't possible, is pretty amazing again.  I started to really bring forward the power of God, visualization and right thinking to examine how these things were possible.  I had this thought every morning that said "I did whaaaat???"  After realizing the amazing changes that occurred I had this insatiable urge to study books like "Think and grow rich" and the "Tao Te Ching" and "The Master Key."  I feel I have made large strides towards further growth and I want to share it with others to get there opinions and guidance from those that have experienced more.

For my first blogs, I believe I'll start where I am at this moment- starting the book "The Course of Miracles."  It's a book that was said to be channeled by a women who said the author was Jesus of Nazareth.  At this point I've dropped all per-conceived notions and realized no matter what it is there would be something to learn from it.  I have to say that so far I'm pleasantly surprised and I look forward to hashing out my thoughts here on a daily basis.  Please feel free to jump and and comment on anything.  dac