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LIVE WITH PASSION

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“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

— Ludwig Van Beethoven   

To the athletes & artists, this is for you.

If you are passionate about what you do, you will become great. 

You will fail over and over again, but if you are passionate, you will never give up.  

Let the apathetic ones give up. 

Let them laugh at you for being so passionate & obsessive with what you do.  

Ignore those losers – they’ve already lost so they try bringing others down into their misery. 

Ignore the haters. Stay far from them!! 

Do your art or your sport with passion. You will make mistakes, but never let mistakes define you or put you down. 

Get back in the game. Get back in the art. 

Play with passion. 

Live with passion.  

Never give up. 

Always keep going. 

Be Called Crazy (Trust Yourself)

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“When they call you crazy, remember that great ideas don’t come from average minds.”

— Nikola Tesla   

Whenever you choose to think for yourself, you will be called crazy by everyone who has conformed – especially if they’ve conformed to not having their own mind.  

It’s much easier to give up your mind and conform than it is to have your own mind & beliefs. 

You may even be called a witch or a devil, truly, for thinking different than your community. 

That’s how the community got rid of anyone who thought different or disagreed with their leaders – they called them a witch or a demon & then they got the people to agree, and the “witch” was burned to death… 

That really happened – & it still happens today – just in a more subtle way.  

Communities and people are so strong in their ways of conformity – that anyone who thinks different is often punished. 

It’s happening less, but it still happens today.  

In the early 1600s Galileo was sent to house arrest for claiming that the Earth revolved around the Sun. He used science, telescopic observations, to come to this conclusion. The church of the day believed everything revolved around the earth, and could not accept Galileo’s blasphemy, so they punished him.   

Being ahead of your time may get you punished. You will definitely be called crazy.  

But the good news is that science has gained much more power over the years – since science is based on research, trial and error, learning, & not just a blind belief. 

If you’re going to have an impact on this planet and the human species, you will almost definitely be called crazy by the people who have conformed to blind belief. 

Be called crazy. 

Be called a witch or a devil. 

Ignore the conformists. 

Trust yourself. (& trust real science)

Antisocial Intelligence

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“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

— Nikola Tesla  

Why would anyone socialize with people they don’t even like?  

Also, cultures like that in the USA are enemies of meditation. 

They are an enemy of the individual being with themselves and enjoying their own company. 

The USA culture wants people constantly moving, constantly consuming, constantly being busy, constantly distracted. 

The “powers that be” are great at creating predictable people who obey their systems without question. 

What the “powers that be” cannot stand is an empowered individual who thinks for themself. 

The “powers that be” will literally break laws to break down the empowered individual, and all the mindless masses will just think that the individual was wrong for being an individual… 

It’s a crazy system…if you think about it, but most people don’t think about it – they just try fitting in so they lose their individual self in hopes for acceptance, yet then they are almost never really satisfied.  

Don’t lose yourself and gain the world…  but most people lose themselves and the world, as they conform to what the system wants, and lose their individual self.  

How can you begin taking back your individuality? 

Go somewhere and be silent. No technology. No media. No music. Just you with yourself. In nature is the best place to do this.

Here is a short meditation guide to help.

This is the beginning of meditation. 

This is the beginning of taking back your individual power. 

Build The New

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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates 

Great quote from Socrates, and it’s true, yet it’s difficult since the old ways & people are almost always fighting anything new. 

The old whom are cemented in their beliefs and ways of living – cannot comprehend other ways of life. They hold on and they fight the new. 

So we can’t change that, but we can focus on creating something new. 

And when enough people believe in the new more than the old, then the new manifests itself. Or when there is enough research and scientific study supporting the new. 

But again, it’s not easy to lead new ways of living and thinking – since so many people are stuck in old ways and fight the new. 

Even if something new is healthy and beneficial for a range of people, for example, psilocybin mushrooms are medicine, is scientifically proven to be beneficial for people, and it is becoming decriminalized and legalized medicinally – but we live in societies in the USA that grew up in education systems that didn’t teach any factual drug education – they just repeated “all drugs are bad,” while I’m sure all those teachers were taking prescription pills… 

blind leading the blind … people repeating what they’re told and not thinking for themselves … that’s not new. That’s old. 

But a new way is here and it is called actually educating people with facts & science and research and not just repeating something you heard from a teacher who knows nothing about drugs. 

Anyway, this is just one of the many new ways of living and new ways of medicine that is trying to become part of life in a healthy way – yet the old drunk and angry political men are so cemented in their hate and anger and ignorance that they won’t even take 1 minute to see actual scientific proof that mushrooms are healthy for people. 

So, yes, we the new, will continue working toward new ways and new medicines. 

Science, research & positive results support us – even if any old angry ignorant fools fight the Truth. 

One day intelligence will overcome ignorance, but for now we must keep creating and cultivating the new ways of life. 

Writers Read

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“I don’t have patience for people who say ‘I want to be a writer, but I don’t have time to read.’ If you don’t have time to read, you can’t be a writer.”

— Stephen King 

I’ve read hundreds of books so far, on my to a thousand, and I enjoy reading. 

But sometimes I’ll read the first chapter or two of a book and not finish it, if I can’t get into it. 

But for the most part, I finish reading the books I start. 

Some books I read for entertainment, some I read to give myself ideas for writing, and some I read to learn something. 

There’s no end to what any person can learn, and reading books is one of the most practical methods for learning, especially learning to write. 

Dive Into The Depths of Yourself (To Find Gold)

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“I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.”

— Anaïs Nin  

Ralph Waldo Emerson also said “It is not length of life, but depth.” 

Depth has multiple definitions, one of them is: “a point far below the surface.”   

People dig into the Earth to find gold, minerals, things that will help themselves. But who digs into themselves to find gold within? Almost no one. 

There is gold within you – there is gold within all of us, but most will never find or seek the gold within. 

“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore; if you want one, you must dive for it.”  

It’s easy to do what everyone else is doing – to follow the crowd, to conform, to let someone else tell you the meaning of life.  But that is living on the surface; shallow living. 

You will get by on the surface, but you won’t find or experience gold within your life.  

You must dive within yourself to reach the gold, and it really does take years. 

But you have to start somewhere.  

Meditation is the place to begin.  

You can be like the majority of people & live life on the surface, or you can begin your journey to the gold within yourself.  

Begin with this meditation guide. 

Look For Opportunities, NOT For Problems

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“Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded.”

— Stephen Covey   

Do you look for problems? 

Or do you look for opportunities?  

Seek and you shall find – if you’re looking for problems you will find them. 

And if you look for opportunities, you’ll also find them. 

But let’s look at the problem seeking for a moment…  

It is so easy to find problems if you look for them – & it seems like the older people get the more they look for problems (especially problems about other people).  

This is true for me at least – not me looking for faults in people, but realizing that people were looking for faults in me & my life.  

I never wasted my time or energy thinking about what’s wrong with someone – but I found out that people do that all the time. 

Some or many people are actively seeking scapegoats. Seeking someone to blame or find fault with.  

And I didn’t know that people were doing that until I ran into a brick wall of people’s opinions about me & my eccentric ways, as I prepared for fame.  

All of a sudden I went from opportunity & joy minded to problem minded. I went from living in peace to living in fear, and I began seeing problems with everyone & everything – which I wasn’t looking at before. 

I lost my energy and my mind in looking outside of myself, towards potential problems, and I’ve been working hard to get my mind back with myself since then. It’s been 3 years.  

I’m re-learning to lead my life & be true to myself. 

I’m re-learning to NOT be like the problem-seeking people. 

And I’m learning to NOT take on the fearful projections of the problem-seekers. 

I’m re-learning a lot. 

And I’m embracing MY perspective and MY beliefs. 

And not worrying if people see a problem with me having my own perspective – because they will. 

But some will love it too, and to those fans I say thank you.  

The Seeds You Plant

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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” 

We all want the best outcome, the harvest, the crop, the money, the championship, the finished essay, the good grades, the most sales, the best of everything, but are you willing to put the effort in every day & night until you see the result? 

It’s easy to look around ourselves and compare our lives to someone else’s, & to be discouraged or encouraged. 

I’ve heard to not compare your chapter 1 to someone’s chapter 20, yet we are human and we do that. 

We all start at chapter 1 – no matter what it is we are working on. We all start at the beginning. 

Yoda or someone said “You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”  

Whenever you begin anything, you will almost never be good at it in the beginning. You will fail. It’ll be difficult. You may even be laughed at & feel the humility of attempting something & not being great at it. 

It’s okay. 

No one is great at the beginning. It takes time. 

If you want the results, you have to keep going. 

You try again and again, and again and again, and you get better, slowly. 

It won’t be easy, but nothing is, and as you try again and again – you will be planting the seeds for your success. 

You Need A Stronger Mind

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“If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.”

— Epictetus 

Some miserable people live their life looking for the next opportunity to provoke or bother someone. 

Don’t let it be you. 

Even if they go out of their way to insult you – you can’t get angry if you have a strong mind. 

The easy route is to be annoyed, to be miserable, to be distracted, to be hopeless, to be disempowered. 

And the hard route is to live as an empowered individual. To remain calm, centered, and uneffected by the hate & misery of others.  

Provocation is just another distraction sent by the ignorant to destroy your inner peace. 

The ignorant have no life of their own so they become lifeless parasites, literally like diseased bugs, trying to spread their disease – their hate, misery, violence, ignorance, pain, etc. and they’ll get you if you don’t put your bug spray on. 

And what is your bug spray in this situation? It’s focus. 

You must remain focused on your mind and your life. 

What are you doing with your life? 

Where are you going? 

What do you want your life to be like 2 years from now? 5 years. 10 years. 

Maintain a long term vision, add goals, and act toward your best life, and when other people call you “difficult” it’s because you can’t be provoked or manipulated. 

Stay true to your life path. 

Ignore the haters. 

Focus. Win.

Do This To Be More Self-Empowered

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“Nature is not mute. It is humans who are deaf.”

Noises surround you daily, keeping you moving, but in what direction?

There really are certain “powers that be” that live to create distracting noises.

They want to keep you in fear, in anxiety, in anger, etc…basically, they want you to be dis-empowered.

They want to control you & your life & they have brainwashed the masses to try to distract you too, and to bring you into their confusion.

What you need to do to begin to get out of the confusion of the conformist masses, is first, recognize this is really happening.

Second, think about your life & what sort of life you would like to be living.

What does your ideal life look like?

Dare to dream.

Dare to step away from the conformists confused masses & live your best life.

Before listening to the distracting noises, listen to yourself. Listen to nature. Go within.