Like any good mother, her desire was to have her child grow bright and bold, and to be full of good humor and wit, and to be generous and courageous and kind.
For, being such, how could anyone not have the most beautiful story?
After all, what is the code and concept of life, of living, of humanity, if it is not to find one's calling and to have that calling be greater than one's self; if it is not to pursue that calling and complete it with joyous self-respect?
There are many ways various entities describe this embodiment, this masterpiece, this miracle of creation, this channel of the power of a universe coursing through time - the human.
Eight billion strong, we are! So often we are proven no match for the force of nature (its mighty rivers, its glorious mountains, its fiery revolts, its thunderous oceans) and so often, thoroughly humbled, we turn around and conquer it (force of nature matched to force of nature) neither able to fully tame the other! Eight billion strong we are, still growing and valued, of necessity.
From whence cometh such power? And for what purpose?
Let's for convenience sake dissect this channel into four sections - physical, spiritual, intellectual, emotional - fully appreciating that any such dismemberment of this masterpiece in reality will utterly destroy it. NB: For eductational purposes only.So, where does this mighty power reside?
Ah! A fascinating revelation!
Physical power is work done per elapsed time.
Emotional power is focused passion over force of will.
Intellectual power is capacity to effect change.
Spiritual power is divine expression of pure intention.
Thus uncovered, by the miracle of reconstitution we made this masterpiece whole again. Immediately, a series of questions arose, the most basic of which is this: where is all this power now? Eight billion crumpled chunks scattered.
In the oceans of believing there is very little belief.
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SCENARIO: Vulnerable! Walking. Riding. Running. Driving. Floating. Flying. Journeying through the broad market place enroute to our grand arena, no mode of transport shields us from our natural vulnerability. No depth of inner peace, strength of resolve nor sanguine posture renders us invincible or invisible to immortal menace. Wisdom, we've come to learn, charts paths matched to pure intention. No coercion. No deception. No bribe necessary. Freely, wisdom obliges, should we accept its intelligence. Freely. Therein lies the rub. Breathe. Knees bent, teeth clenched, powerless, we beg, not recognizing who we are nor understanding how better to be. Unprotected. In denial. Dependent. Vulnerable. Vulnerable - that, for sure, we are! Compounded in a pretense. Hubris. Vanity. Buttressed. Still vulnerable.
Bring out the big guns then. Thunder. And lightening. Shock. And awe! "Powerlessness." Come fear and fury into that gap! Like bundles of energy freshly released into this sunlit wonder, scrambling through shadows at the friight of our own sounds, we shatter ourselves to pieces: eight billion crumpled chunks scattered beneath a gross misunderstanding! Vulnerable. Within. And without. Powerless. Wisdom shines its light again: power and vulnerability are distinctly uncoupled, by its design, neither a means to the other's end. Ah - epipahny!
Not quite yet.
It is easier to think our good angels have a wicked sense of humor.That our story is primed to prompt forth latent davidic impulses against advancing giants. And there might well be some flickering truth in that. That's the kind of story we love. Good unbowed before evil. Bloodied pawns buried! Temporary retreat. Fireworks! The pendulum swings. Don't sleep. Guards! Guards! Bring out the big guns.
Yes, we love a good battle - fire and ice - they infuse us with, with, with . . . something; they keep us drugged - buttressed against fears. The next generation will prove better, though. Yet this much we must know or at least can attest - having bred billions upon billions in our time - our children, our beautiful children, our awesome children, meek and mild, sponges glleefully absorbing faith full narratives, our children left alone boxed in with those very matchsticks, oh-dear-dear, one needs a lot of luck included in the boxset. A lot-o-lot of luck. For, good intention has never conquered stupid. And the burden of our history hasn't settled yet. Besides, that outcome has long been decided: heads chasing tails --- ever faster --- through a wilderness.
But what if - pray hear this - you were to discover - or let's just say it is so - or let's call it another kind of story - what if you were to discover that there exists imbedded in each of our children (yes, even within all of us) the slosh of a unique alchemy (not witchcraft, not magic, not sorcery, a potion as real as blood and bones), the amalgam of three untainted elements - freedom (true freedom), love (real love) and intention (pure intention) - when being experienced seamlessly through gut and heart and head - boom!That's real power. That is power at its purest. That is power at its highest. That power moves mountains. Up, thou sluggard, and be cast into the sea! Splash! And that all else of power is synthetic! That power is not a thing accumulated or attained by pursuit; it is harnessed from the bowel. It is not how much there is in you, it is how it is used. So, what if, you were to discover that this is indeed the case - love, freedom and pure intention experienced flowing silky smooth through gut and heart and head - you in that moment of discovery standing before a stubborn mountain that must-needs be moved . . .
During this series we are getting things done in fresh new ways with fresh new applications using solid working principles and employing exciting innovations.
In a remarkably innovative way you've not experienced before, each episode will transform one of theseven deadly sins into afresh new lens and a BS Meter that will further enhance our abilites to get things done superbly well.
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Today's pivot QUESTION: if 1) you know and understand your source of true power and 2) you recognize yourself as a) its conduit and b) its autonomous user
- how are you making the most effective use of your true power?
what are the results?
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What Is In Your Personal Toolkit?
How helpful is your personal toolkit? Do you have all of the tools you need in it? Does it include a snipit? Be sure to have one!
Are you using all of the tools you have to your best advantage?
Any brand new ideas? If need be, here is a fine recommendation that will generate a few: step to the edge of what you know; search there; you will be exploring the adjacent possible. Later, while connecting the dots, you'll be amazed to discover that that was your adjacent necessary - the essential link to your great idea; the glue, the spark, the fix, the epiphany, the moment to one of your finest accomplishments. Look there - the edge of what you know!
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Wolf. And who it is that said, "Freedom is nothing but the chance to be better."?
While yearning to be free is a universal outpouring, eight billion humans. each conditioned by his or her own unique circumstance, it might well be said our yearning is the same and yet not ever the same, but every bit as earnest!
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Are you free? How do you define freedom? What's next?
Do you have a 'snipit' in your toolkit? Be sure to have a snipit, and keep your snitpit sharp. It comes in handy if perchance you got ensnared. Be sure it is your own personalized snipit (updated), and be a competent user of if. Snip it! Snip it good! Snip it quick!
To further enhance your toolklt, to be more proficient with your toolset, or to create tools uniquely suitable to your tasks and needs, you are welcome to consult freely with our regularly updated PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTand associated playlists - styled for your convenience. Click. Take. Peruse. Use freely.
This episode's fresh new lens is pride: def - "a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired." (Which of LIFE'S virtues would you consider a counterpoint to pride? 100 points. To compare your answer see Flight Of The Fused Monkeys - Listen to it - Read It.)
Consider the following essential elements of true power and establish that they are comported to empower you in this moment:
freedom
love
intention
Reconsider the state of each in terms of your balance, surplus, deficit and debt. Let your discovery inform what you do next.
Knowing better positions us to do better!
While making your daily journey through the broad market, do you find your engagements generally or specifically combative, competitive, passive, or collaborative? To what extent does your comportment influence your outcomes?
In order to assess whether our comportment supports our pure intention in the best way possible, let's employ a few sporting analogies to improve our understanding of the following two dispositions (or postures) :
Competitive
Combative.
We are generally disposed to think of all sporting activities as competitions. In actuallity, we may be better off (or at least for our daily-life market applications) categorizing the following popular sporting activities more precisely. This will facilitate application of best practices throughout our endeavors as well as help us align our actions with our intention.
COMBATIVE: Pugilistic sports, like boxing, fall into this category. "Winning" requires physically (sometimes mortally) disabling the opponent. Physical and personal harm is essential to the outcome.
COMPETITIVE: Sports like track and tennis fall into this category. "Wimning" is about putting out one's personal best efforts under the circumstance in a way that outperfoms or challenges the opponent's display of his or her best effort in that moment.
Should you be applying competitive or combative principles to your daily practice? How are you generating and using your true power? Are you combatting or competing? How does that approach align with your pure intention? What's the cost?
What are you doing to maximize your physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual power, and how are you optimizing the usage of each? Are the tools in your toolkit helpful in this regard?
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"Know what you own. Understand what you claim. Believe you can achieve what you conceive then call it by its name. Mine! The extent to which you have this clarity of mind, this purity of understanding, this strength of belief, you have the fire, the fuel, the impetus, the passion, the determination, the willpower you require to pursue and retrieve your truest desire. But do not claim what does not belong to you. It will not keep you . . . it will suffer you but for only so long."
You are valued. You are important. What you experience is important. Your intention matters. You are a whole being. You are a true wonder. You diminish yourself whenever you pit valued elements of who you are against vital elements of who you are: your intuitive self against your intellectual self, your rational self against your emotional self, your gut against your heart against your head. Don't be put at war against yourself: you are a masterpiece. An intricate being. Human!
How do YOU apply your 'adjacent necessity'?
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Life: it is a dance. It gets better with practice; its music is in your heart and in your soul and in your blood and in your bones. Life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. You have a partner – your spirit. You can have a party if you like, but choose smartly who you invite, for life – your life – is a dance. It gets better with practice, unless you stop the music or so crowd your dance floor there is no space to move or be moved within it. Explore. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice until the dance becomes the dancer and the dancer becomes the dance and life and all of existence becomes a singular flow. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. Dance.
Masterpiece
a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
Is your BS meter needle in the red? If so, this is a necessary time to check on your power source. Fix and recharge? Is any non-essential draining your power? Fix it. Is there leakage? Fix it. Remove anything that is corrosive. Ensure your connections are ideal. Schedule routine check-ups of your power source. Habitual practice of empathy, humility, and high esteem are perfect for power-source maintenance.
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
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live laugh love
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let your light shine
Come, let us all be friends for once,
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.
Across the nation and around the world there is a long rumble.
It is a rumble so loud it strikes ready ears as a distant clap of a fierce thunder. It is a rumble so low, it rides beneath the noise of a thousand human fears; it can no longer be heard. Fear of flight, fear of heights, fear of sand, fear of snow, fear of monsters in the closet, fear of bugs in the pillow, fear of cats, fear of bats, fear of strangers at the door, fear of being lost, fear of being laughed at, fear of being stuck in the toilet bowl, fear of whites, fear of blacks, fear of browns, blues and yellows, fear of nakedness, fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt.
Smile. Live. Love. Laugh. Look. Listen. Learn. Be awesome. You are powerful beyond measure. You are not alone. You can do all things. I am you. You are me. We are one. Keep Sharing.
May our light shine on sprinkled seeds along The Journey.
"Live Your Life - Live it well. You are worth it."
Listen. Learn. Lead.
Standard problem-solving steps repeated: 1) Understand the problem. 2) Devise a workable plan to solve the problem. 3) Test your plan where applicable. 4) Implement the plan. 5) Interpret the results. 6) Use that feedback.
Something to Consider: We have an internal team. What do you do when your internal team members are in conflict with each other - at loggerheads - and have set up impassable boundaries, blocking your best moves? This internal team - the creators of your personal narrative; the protagonists and antagonists of your infernal stories; the arbiters of your doubts and fears; the adjudicators of your joy and peace; the advocates for your spectacular - are they in need of a courageous leader? - (A Place Called Ah.)
Breathe.
We are accompanied.
Balance - Focus - Rhythm
Love is alive in fertile dimensions, where it lifts you up, never puts you down, and is always real! Love heals.
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