furtick on oter people's opinion of him

"If i live for their compliments, I die by their criticisms."

-Steven Furtick

Pass It On: Helen Keller

 

Astrology: Cold distant orb. Uranus in retrograde. "alternative alignment".

What cold distant orb holds sway..... 

 

Uranus in retrograde. 

 

I love the vibrant optimism of some of the astrologers--their capacity to see all these potentialities as doubtlessly positive.

A distant body in "alternative alignment" with our own distinctions and usual, a distant body both cold and fairly independent, come to that "alternative alignment".

Compassion.

Our compassion for others is what redeems in this world--that and not much else more.  A helping hand, however, is not always a welcomed hand, but persist and the rewards are in part emotional, but as they say, spiritual, too.

In the whole world, we are set up by all kinds of people and groups, such that sometimes we are bound to mistrust even the honest among them; but let us not give up hope.

pass it on: world citizen

 

"cosmopolitanism" is a neat word applied to the Stoic ideals, meaning a good citizen of the whole world.

on Success and Failure.

May your successes outweigh your failures....

We learn by our failures, of course, what works and what doesn't, what gets a response, what gives us a reward or not, such as the dog getting hit on his nose.

on True Adulthood; the proof.

Accountability is the purest proof of true adulthood.

Responsibility as on each one.

#thestruggleisreal

#realworldproblems

 

Fate: the journey and the destination.

Life's great highway offers up a journey, and not a destination; you will spend so much time staring out the windshield that you may as well enjoy the time.

Pass It On: on respecting others of differing opinion.

 

Respect, respect, respect.

We so often talk about the uniqueness and spontaneity of the human existence; we do lip serve to the very miraculous nature of people, but yet we have so much trouble recognizing and appreciating in person, the unique nature of each of our fellows.

the cost of inner peace.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  -Mark 8, King James Version

Indeed, inner peace is far more valuable than most of the things offered to us by the world, and sometimes, we only learn this lesson the hard way, after making the wrong choice.

If it costs your inner peace, shun it, my friends.

Pass It On on Respect, and from me on Role Models.

 

Respect, both false and true variations, come sometimes in the most unexpected forms; it is in fact, a shading of emotion, something of the thought process. 

It influences us.

If only we could be more selective in what we choose to admire, but is it really choice?  Who and what help to mold our person?  Why, I'm not talking about nitpicking ourselves, but I mean self-awareness in the sense of pulling from our own lives and generalized pattern.

Who are we like?

Can we muster the emotional and mental acumen to consciously choose who we emulate in life?

Joyce Meyer, and some "manifesting".

"We don't need wishbone; we need backbone."

-Joyce Meyer

When some people now speak of manifesting, is it just wishing?

Are we dealing positively with our everyday concerns, thinking we are owed something more?  Just because we picked up our dirty socks?  A whole bitcoin for your house-cleaning?

Remember that 20% of your actions often determine 80% of your results--meaning the residue of some good habits carry over into other things in one's life.

 

"the illusion of Free Will"

Reading of God and the illusion of Free Will.

Remember, if you are indeed in total control of yourself, then you bear responsibility.

Such was the Spider-man saying from the early 1960s, "with great power, comes great responsibility".  This was said when the young Parker was imbued with superhuman power.  Uncle Ben reminded the young man of the truth, that his life was forever-altered and he would have to use his special abilities for the common good.

 

Aristotle and King Solomon on money and enjoying one's labor.

Aristotle, speaking from thousands of years ago, reminds us that money is not an end; money is a means to other ends, in terms of things to be purchased.

What is our point?

I see so many influenced by "gangsta" culture stacking up bills, greenbacks, and posing.  

To what end?

A life never enjoyed is a life not well-lived, but to enjoy overmuch is to become almost a glutton.  It was King Solomon that reminded that the very best thing was to enjoy the fruits of one's labor; therefore even then, we work for things, not for money.

What fulfills?

Pass It On on Diversity.

 

Room for everybody: "inclusion", and the room has a space even for people we may not agree with......

a poetic about the mind.

The river of a thousand boats--

--our acquaintances being the tributaries and outlets....

Our minds, and our minds, tethered to our souls, and both trapped at the mercy of our bodies, to toil for it, keep it alive.

The very astounding mystical vastness of such a few inches of half-empty space in the skull.

Pass It On: "Mutual co-operation."

 

It was Aristotle that said "man is a political animal."  Later, in Rome, Marcus Aurelius would echo the same sentiments.

Man is made for the mutual cooperation of man and nature.  Pantheist, panentheists, the garden-variety Christians, and even the left wing atheists believe this.

And of course, a kind of word given in the right frame of heart and mind can go a long way towards healing various forms of hurt.

Indeed, as some have said a bit differently, "if you can't see the light, be the light".

sk on clarity and mental direction.

"What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do."   -Soren Kierkegaard.

Freud taking the struggle to the street level.

 

Life is the struggle.

"life" is not that enjoyable time after struggle is finished, that's death. Life is the struggle.

Planning for the future is fine, but not completely and totally sacrifice today for tomorrow's enjoyment; tomorrow is not promised. 

The good and bad of life's storms.

Remember that the same storm that destroys your home also waters and fertilizes the pretty flowers.

Mindset matters.

In life, we suffer very few things that are not uncommon.  If you can remember that, you have a bolster, like a mental crunch that will help you weather your own storms in life.

Sometimes a destroyed building is life's way of clearing out something to make room for something else.  When you see carnage, you might soon see life blooming anew in the same spot.

pass it on: more on dreams, this time in manifesting.

 

Two kinds of people: some of us zombie-shuffle through life, while others live more deliberately.  Choices.  We all make a variety of choices everyday.

aging round two. ding ding.

By the time we get the right to say we are no longer young and dumb, senility has removed the urgency to declare it.

pass it on: Thoreau

 And he did, Henry David Thoreau, even when working as a butler for Ralph Waldo Emerson, he later, as the itenerant writer spent summers enjoying the flora and fauna.

With age comes what? on aging.

The sands of time wash away the fires of youth, and underneath we find a blank fog; in some there is wisdom: we were promised that with age comes wisdom.  While yet for others, age brings a greater confusion, but at least we're too tired to fidget too much by then.

Young and dumb?

Old and confused?

Middle-aged and busy building for the future?

Are we nubbing and stubbing away the best years of our lives?

Build the future my friends; make it something.

Pass It On: Emerson

 

Dweems.

You decide on your dream.

It's only important if you make it important; you could forget it, or fight for it.

Kierkegaard on "why". Faith generating a life purpose.

"The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die."

-Soren Kierkegaard

 

pass it on: making one's dreams happen.

We may say that only small minds make small goals, and that small goals equal small success.

But think of a vast dam built one pebble at a time.

Such is the adage of 20% of your actions determining 80% of your outcomes.

 

the Tao: one brick at a time, builds something magnificent.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-Lao Tzu.

 

no goals, no failure?

If youve never set any kind of goals, then youve surely never failed.

Goals sometimes keep a person focused, even through adversity.  In this work a day world, a goal can push you forward to start a new day, or do that last few hours of a shift.

Appreciation, gratitude.

 

A bit of gratitude: appreciate what you DO have instead of obsessing about what you DON'T have.

I say this on a perfectly gray overcast Sunday morning; some people think its depressing.  However, I disagree.  I think its like a security blanket, comfortable here in the warmer months, keeping the temperatures down.

Its good meditative weather.