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A mans heart can be judged by the way he treats animals.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

The brand of leadership we propose has a simple base of MBWA (Managing By Wandering Around). To “wander,” with customers and vendors and our own people, is to be in touch with the first vibrations of the new.
Tom Peters

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo

The sixth sense defies description! It cannot be described to a person who has not mastered the other principles of this philosophy, because such a person has no knowledge and no experience with which the sixth sense may be compared. Understanding the sixth sense comes only by meditation through mind development from within. Napoleon Hill

A little integrity is better than any career.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius

The secret of health for both the body and the mind is not to mourn the past or worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
Charles Darwin

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward deBono

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass

Action does not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

All control will return to it's rightful owner eventually. It's usually God in the end. People take control at the expense of others(un rightfully) and appear to be in control often. You will not keep control if you don't respect that you could lose it at anytime or have it taken away.

"With great power comes great responsibility"

He who thinks he can, can and usually does. He who makes himself a priority has everyone else cater to them. 

"Man judges action, God judges intention"

So help you God, you are judged. God is "good" therefore if you experience a good action, it chose you because of your intention being good. The goodness you experience is to the level you cause it. Sometimes a little goes a long way. Sometimes goodness you cause spreads far and wide. Don't measure your success on actions. You measure an emotion by feeling it. You measure goodness by the way it feels. Sharing that feeling is similar to 6 degrees of separation. It immediately effects at least 6 people as soon as you effect one.

 You are the drop falling into a pool of water. The bigger the drop, the more force it sends out in the ripples of effect and the stronger the force coming back in, is.
Courage and control are attractive. Those who want it, follow. Those who need it obtain it however they can. Those who don't, give it up to someone else. Those who deserve it are given it. People may give control to others as a means to take it from themselves healthily or un healthily. It's the same as exiting a relationship before getting dumped. A way to control something "out of your control". A false sense of real power. It's wrong.

If everything you do, does not involve,  love, forgiveness, trust, integrity and self reliance, ultimately, responsibility and respect, then it's bad, not a lesson, causes pain without reward, and does not grow anything, instead kills. If you can't recycle "the shit" (bad experiences), it's caustic. If you are going to make a mistake, at least make it usable (productive), like compost.

"Don't recycle it for more than it's worth" (Baz Luhrman-Sunscreen song)

How many dead people do you know? You can base someone's emotional knowledge by the amount of dead people they know. I don't mean "know of". I mean, truly knew and constantly communicate with, via thought or remembrance.

Responsibility
Love, forgiveness, trust, integrity and self reliance, is only 5 rules. Ultimately I would advise following all 10 (commandments) but it's a lonely world out there. Otherwise, they say someone will rise again and watch out. Like my Mom said, "You want to cry, I'll give you something to cry about". That is life. Every time you complain selfishly, you immediately get something bigger to cry about. No one does this to you. It just happens. If you are the drop, the force you cause from your impact on another, will come back at you and be equally felt. Another way to say this is, every feeling you are having, you caused in another. So hard to believe. So true.


Excuses
What are you afraid of? What are you waiting for? What is inevitable is inevitable.
"Ignoring or avoiding anything won't make it go away." 

"Life will find a way." (Jeff Goldblum-Jurassic Park)

Law of Attraction
One word- vibrations, maybe two, energy, maybe three, projection when you don't talk. The latter, 'Projection', when you don't say the words you think or feel, will come out of the other person back at you.

Winning
If you are not winning at what you are doing, exceeding your limitations, live the edge. Letting it go, giving up control, is a "take away close", "voodoo". It isn't the same as controlling control by giving it away. It is the thing that wins, ultimately. The Zone. Keeping your eye on the goal while paying mind body soul attention to everything. He who lets go, wins. Let go bigger, to win to the next level of the game. It wins for everyone.

Let go of being the star. Show people how they're their star. It's inside of them that wakes it up in us. We are each others life source if we really live.

Connection
Connection can be had with anyone, anything, but ultimately connection is felt to the degree it is felt with oneself first. The age old saying is, "You can't love someone else until you love yourself first."
Someone who does not know themselves, is not connected to them self, will drain you, not love you, not fill you up. It is stifling, exhausting, draining.You cannot give when you need. When you feel this way, ask yourself what you need, and find a way to get it without draining another. A way that may empower another eventually. "If you wear shoe leather, the whole earth is is covered with leather." My best memories are walking barefoot anywhere, being outside in rainstorms, running for your life and being really scared, walking in the night along paths difficult by daylight, swimming with the dolphins, jumping in the air surrounded by birds in flight, being naked in the sun. If you want to feel connection, take off the layers that protect you from feeling it.Sacrifice
Life is not about melting into lustful greed and gluttony. All growth and amazing ness of feeling is achieved through sacrificing ones own happiness. Without sadness there cannot be happiness. Strife, glory. Without all things, the other cannot be achieved. Know that utter bliss must follow and be followed by utter angst. Both extremes create each other."8"
If it's not hard it wasn't worth it. How fun is it to know everything?Is it exhilarating? Is anything worth your time that is easy?  Anything that comes easy goes easy. So make it more. Make things last. Create a foundation of stone. You have to put the grit into it. Cry, beg for freedom, show you mean it. The biggest challenges have the biggest reward. The path of least resistance, is the path of least reward. That is what life is about. Don't need challenge? If you want to live or feel alive you do! Do it respectfully. Make everyone feel alive. Then everyone wins. Do you think you are great? Be greater. Turn off the TV.

Authenticity
Remember you have to get into the feeling to speak to someone on that level. You have to be on their page to communicate. The only place we all are on the same page is the feeling. Regardless of how we get that feeling, all different, the feeling is a common denominator. What makes another feel like they are stuck and in need of freedom and growth and adventure? Exactly what is found in you is what you find in getting away from who finds that in you. Many many movies about 3 way love. All a form of grass is greener. Show why your grass looks greener but is not. Why you must search for greener grass too, because yours isn't as green from your own view.

Will ism's
What will be will be. Whoever has the most will wins.

Your Spirituality will help Support your Health at its Energy level and will provide better Insight in your own Existance the way you Perceive it. This way you are better capable of first Accepting the things you would actually want to Change. Every thought we think is Projected.....into our own Reality. Attracting anything with the same Vibration. What we Focus on....will Expand. What we Resist....will Persist. FOCUS on what you LOVE...............Let GO of FEAR.

In a moment of anger, for example, whether acted out, verbalized, or merely seething unexpressed within, one trains oneself to become angrier by laying down a thin layer of angry disposition. A person so disposed to anger will more and more easily erupt in anger anew at any provocation. But in a moment of kindness a kindly disposition is deposited, and one becomes incrementally more disposed to kindness. The attitude with which we respond to an object of experience, with anger or with kindness, will therefore not only influence the causal field outside ourselves but also progressively reshape our very nature.

We inherit our karma from our past, from previous moments of existence in the form of a self—a bundle of dispositions, more precisely— and that past shapes how we understand and construct our present intentions. Yet every moment we also have our future karma in our own hands, as we shape a response to whatever is arising in present experience. This response, which may be more or less wholesome or skillful, is what determines what we will inherit downstream in the flow of consciousness.

The crucial factor influencing how well we can respond in any given situation seems to be the level of mindfulness we can bring to bear upon the moment. If we don’t care to be present, unconscious decision-making systems will function to get us through to the next moment, albeit in the grips of (often flawed) learned behaviors and conditioned responses. If, on the other hand, we can increase the amount of conscious awareness present by manifesting mindfulness, we expand the range of our possible responses. Even if disposed to anger, we can choose to act with kindness. This is the essence of our freedom in an otherwise heavily conditioned system.

The uncertainty and unpredictability of the quantum world is manifested in the fact that what ever can happen, does happen (this is often called the principle of totalitarianism, that if a quantum mechanical process is not strictly forbidden, then it must occur.

What is next is what you least expect. Expectations are resenrments in the making. We want to seek what we don't know and become bored with what we do. We seek to be illuminated. We search for the unknown while describing what we do know. We feel something else after we say it. We always end up back right where we started, all over again and again, the same, but different. :-)

Life is like an orgasm. A lot of effort goes into that one climax, but when you get realy good, you experience them deeper, more often and sometimes even unexpectedly. You can't fake it and what a waste of time to do so. But they have proven through MRI brainmapping, that through doing positive things it actually changes the brain. More astonishingly they cant explain that when a few centers of the brain are simultaneously activated, what looks like a firework show goes off. Another orgasm, of the brain?

"Follow me" is one of the best most intuitive forms of teaching. Careful who you follow. And when the person you were following disappears, remember.

Ignorance is bliss-fully blindsiding.

Jordan Romero is the son of (in their own right) nothing short of an amazing adventurer. Paul Romero and Karen Lundgren (world champion adventure racers)....click here for more.
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