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"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use." ~ Sai Baba We value what we understand. Understanding takes effort, interest, and intent. To understand we need to care. Caring, compassion, peace are virtues. Virtue defines and expresses who you are. Your values determine where you want to be and who you want to be with. That is why shared values are the connective tissue that binds a community together and encourages a state and a feeling of unity. Without shared values, we are just a group of individuals.  The virtues that you choose to practice and guide you to support you and exemplify your character. No virtue. No values. No understanding. No empathy. No love. No peace. No order. No growth. We get to decide who we are and what we want to be. Do we just accept the status quo and what is and not tr

FOR-PROFIT AND DIVIDENDS "Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere" ~ Blaise Pascal I was recently diagnosed as having Type 2 Diabetes. I went to the Dr. for a regular check-up to get a physical. Pretty routine stuff. He scheduled me to get labs done. I hadn't seen him in a couple years. So it made sense. Saved time so he had the baseline numbers PSA etc.. to work with. Turns out my blood sugar was through the roof - 15 when 5-6.5 A1C is an acceptable number. He said we would treat it with meds first then pursue getting the number done with diet. I thought ok. It was all new to me. I did not even realize that I was looking at diabetes until I asked him what was going on. Later after doing some research, I realized that the Dr. did not even mention exercise or what foods I should eat or other options as far as medication. I did n

Just because you think, it is so, or just, does not make it so. You may be wrong. I know it is hard to believe right. What else could you be wrong about, who knows. Since you believe it, it must be so. That is called conformational bias. We all suffer from it. We all want to be right, but because the ego must always be right so must we. If we think we know everything how will we ever learn? We are entitled to our own opinion, as the saying goes, but not to our facts. The facts are the facts. We must keep an open mind and not run everything through the filter of our experience alone. We must try not to interpret everything and assign it a fixed meaning. We must approach everything from all sides, put ourselves in the place or space, and do our best to apply reason and logic whilst we trust our intuition. If we are able not to blame, shame, admonish or praise we are better able to see things as they truly are. Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become wh

MASS CONFUSION INSIDE YOUR HEAD “the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.” The ego’s goal is to persuade us to believe things that are patently false, untrue, to create a distorted reality so that it can protect us. To bend and warp what we think we know and believe is its way of keeping us where it wants us – unsure, on edge, enmeshed in self-doubt. Men will exaggerate thousands of things. Collectively we misremember most events that we experience as if the odds were always in our favor. We reconfigure and reconstruct and hyperbolically color and edit and embellish.  Everyone loves a good story. That does mean we live a good one. Nostalgia takes us back and fills us with a feeling of how - perhaps we wished we felt. In actuality, the truth is hidden in a reality that we may not want to process or accept. Hindsight is 20/20 through rose-colored spectacles but there are shades of grey that we don’t see because we may not be able to come to terms with

"This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity - only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem." ~ Rajneesh The ego helped us stay alive as we wandered around the Savannah before we realized we didn’t have to be eaten by lions, tigers, and bears. We could make weapons and protect ourselves. Then tools to plant and harvest. It was necessary so that we could survive. It was crucial for our evolution. If not we would not be here today.  It is not who we are. It is there to help. But like any aspect of the whole, it must be healthy. A healthy ego looks out for us, is full of prospects and it wants to lead the way, to help, but like any determining factor real or imagined, it gets in our way. A healthy ego a well-trained ego well-mastered ego will be our lookout and know its place. But yet it will stop, block and deter when it doubts us. It sta