Fall Seven Times & Rise Again

“For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.”
—Proverbs 24:16

You’ve stumbled. You’ve fallen. But you won’t let this keep you down. Not again. Not this time.

You’ve been created on this planet with a purpose. Some people find their purpose & live it out, while others contribute to purpose without knowing.

To find and live your true purpose requires a righteous pursuit. On this path you will fall much more than 7 times, but you will continue to rise and be stronger with each comeback.

You can go through your entire life with your eyes “closed”, or you can open your heart, mind, and soul and find the treasure that it waiting for you.

It’s your choice.

Pray about it.

Dream about it.

Love your fate. 

& Rise again. 

Comparison is the thief of joy

Theodore Roosevelt is given credit for the quote: “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

But that really doesn’t matter.

What’s important is what you do with this information.

Because how much time do you spend comparing your life to others? Or others’ lives against others’?

What’s better than comparison?

Inward reflection & gratitude.

Change Happens Now

Everything is happening right Now.

Transformation is happening in this Moment.

Now is where everything happens.

For example, reflect on yesterday. Everything you did yesterday was happening in the moment. The same is true for today.

Everything is literally happening right Now.

What are you doing Now?

Love your fate

We rise.

We fall.

We get back up.

We carry on.

Your fate is what is destined for you specifically.

You are born into this world in the current form you are in, and you have no say in how you are born.

Your life has been written for you.

It seems the practical choice is to love your fate and flow with it. The other choice, like the stoics talked about, is to try to fight your fate – which is like a dog putting it’s hind legs in the dirt trying not to be carried by the cart which is pulling it.

It’s better to let go and flow with life than to resist and be painfully pulled.

Friedrich Nietzsche said:

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it, but love it.”

Your life has been designed for you to live, and for you to love. 

It’s better to embrace and love your fate than to resist and be dragged.

The Power of The Dream

MLK jr. had a dream.

John Lennon imagined.

Jesus Christ lived a vision.

& the list goes on…

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Proverbs 29:18

Not only did the dreams of these greats serve as inspiration, they were necessary building blocks toward the quality of lives we live today as they continue to serve & inspire us to dream & take action toward our dreams.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho shares the dream.

Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth shares a vision.

Shakespeare said “Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.”

& Einstein said “Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

Your thoughts & ideas — your dreams, hold more power than you think the do.

So what’s your dream?

What do you imagine?

What vision lives within you?

The Power of Prayer

What is prayer but a conversation with God?

This is exactly what prayer is, and it is powerful.

“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
― James 5:16

First let me define God for both believers and atheists. God cannot be defined with 100% accuracy because God is formless yet inhabits form. God is both the metaphysical & physical world (all of it), and not only this but God’s realm is infinite – It is all encompassing throughout the limitless Cosmos, but people try to put God into a box (a human box…a man-made box…). They want to label God & create religions and cause wars because of God – that’s probably very funny to God.

God is not a male. God is not a female. Yet God is within both. Like I said, God is formless yet inhabits form (which might be the Holy Spirit).

Through the Holy Spirit we can communicate with God in the form of prayer.

God is very much listening: all-seeing, all-knowing, all-everything.

A good prayer to begin with is “Your will be done God, your will be done.”

and if your prayers are in accordance with God’s will, thy will be done.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
1 John 5:14

Your prayers are up to you. Here are some prayer suggestions for the globe:

“I pray for World Peace”

“I pray for Understanding”

“I pray for us to save ourselves”

“I pray for the Earth to be healed”

“I pray for love”

You can pray for whatever you want, but ultimately God’s will – God’s plan, will be done.

Amen

The Power of Your Imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
-Albert Einstein

Einstein knew it.

Buddha knew it.

Jesus knew it.

& not only did they know it, they realized & embodied it – Imagination.

They of course had their own unique methods for sharing one of the most misunderstood truths within humanity, but they shared it.

It baffles me sometimes that we never learn about this in school – The Power of Imagination. We are almost always taught the opposite – Conform. Don’t question your teachers & adults because they are right! yea, that’s a big joke.

Ego has dominated the 20th century but it is loosening up in the 21st century. What we need now is Soul. Real Soul. & it’s happening.

Imagination comes from the Soul – True Imagination, & all the great spiritual teachers & great scientists understood this. That Imagination is not just some surreal & futile function of the human mind, but that it is playing a huge role in the manifestation of humanity & the lives of all beings.

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
— John F. Kennedy

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
— Romans 12:2

You have been gifted with the power of imagination. You can let it go to waste or you can learn more about it & play a role in the evolution of humanity.

The choice is truly yours.

What are you waiting for?

How much time do you spend waiting?

Waiting for someone else to do it. 

Waiting for answers.

Waiting to feel better.

I’ve spent a lot of time waiting for these things to happen until I realized it is my responsibility to make it happen.

I am in the driver’s seat of my life just as you are in the driver’s seat of your life.

We can hitchhike & wander all our lives or we can learn how to drive.

Where are you going?

What are you waiting for?

Memento Mori

“To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
—Michel de Montaigne

Memento Mori is Latin for “remember you will die”

This may appear to be a frightening remembrance, and it is to the ego, but Memento Mori is liberating to the human Soul.

“Of all the footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditation, that on death is supreme.”
—Buddha

Meditating on the thought of death can help loosen & release the ever so tightening & clinging grasp of ego in our lives.

Death of the ego gives birth to the Soul, and this world could use some Soul right about now.

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
—Leonardo da Vinci