Trust

Control & Freedom

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“You are only rebellious in the eyes of those who cannot control or manipulate you.” 

Humans who have conformed to nothing will call you a rebel for living your own beliefs. 

They will call you strange. 

They will call you autistic. 

They will call you anything they can to try to control you & manipulate you. 

Don’t take the conformists seriously. They’ve given up their own minds to conform to the system’s game. 

And most of the systems current game is blind obedience. 

It’s taboo for anyone to ask questions about what the government is actually doing. Don’t ask don’t tell, says the system. 

But I don’t play their game. 

I am my own person. 

I am an empowered individual. 

And I will never ever ever surrender my mind to fit in with a bunch of mindless conformist who think they did the right thing. NEVER will I do that. 

I am a leader, not a follower.  

So think of it as a success when the mindless conformists start calling you names. Laugh at them, and continue going your own way.  

Trust your own intelligence, & not the “intelligence” of a system that wants you chained to it. 

Break free & live. 

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)

Jump Into Life

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“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

— Jean-Luc Godard  

Are you a sideliner or a player? Perhaps both. 

Sometimes on the sidelines and sometimes the main character. 

When we lead in life, we must fully go into that time and space as a leader.  

Even when we are on the sidelines we can watch life fully – we can jump into it. 

And we owe no explanation to those who watch us.  

The majority of people are more watchers of life than livers of it. And that’s ok.  

The next time you are leading something, I encourage you to fully jump into your role, embrace it & enjoy it – & worry not about how others may perceive you. 

Trust yourself. 

Who Do You Trust?

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“They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment.”

— Paulo Coelho (Santiago speaking in The Alchemist) 

We live in societies where a range of people are seeking your attention. Some of these people may be helpful, and some deceive. 

How can you know who to trust? 

Do you rely upon your own instinct? Or do you take someone’s word for it?  

I began with the above quote from The Alchemist because I’ve observed that certain governments snatch away people’s minds & instincts, and desire for the people to obey the government, but does the government lead people to nourishment? 

To me, it appears that current governments desire to control people, yet they rarely lead anyone to nourishment. 

Do you rely on a government to tell you what to believe? What to think? How to live? 

Or do you make those choices yourself? 

Exploring Perceptions

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“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world…”

— Terence

Life is a lot more than yours & my perception of it.

Not only are there billions of humans on this planet with unique perspectives, there are multiple other species with perspectives on life too.

Clearly, the “powers that be” operate to manipulate perspectives so that they benefit them, the oppressors. & they try to fight & destroy others who are a threat to their criminal systems.

Don’t take someone’s word for what reality is.

Would you listen to a squirrel who told you the meaning of life? That’s what you’re doing when you listen to a politician or anyone claiming they know what reality is.

I personally don’t know, but I do love life & enjoy living my life & minding my business.

Figure out what reality means to you, and don’t take someone else’s word for it.

Trust yourself. Reject oppressive “authorities”.

Reclaim Your Mind

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“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna

Culture wants you to conform.

It wants you to blindly obey.

But you were born to be free.

You were born with a mind to think for yourself.

This is extremely difficult in societies that aggressively attack non-conformists.

“For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This choice is yours.

And yes, if you choose to think for yourself you will lose friends. Some family members may disown you. But what you will find in this process is the truth.

You will find genuine support from the few who are living their truths as well.

It is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking, and a risk that might possibly save the world.

“If” Inspirational Poem by Rudyard Kipling

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If you can keep your head when all about you   
 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
 To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

A 3-Step Process to Begin Creating YOUR Life

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1—Define your ideal life.

Ask yourself: 
—“What does my ideal life look like?”
—“What does my ideal job look like?”
—“What do my ideal relationships look like?”

Continue this process of questions in each area you want to improve in.

2—Write down your answers.

It’s one thing to contemplate your ideal life, but when you write it on paper or a word doc, it enters the physical world and plants seeds into your subconscious.

3—Affirm your ideal life.

Your mind is like a garden, what you put into it is what will grow.

I have experienced this first-hand, “coincidentally” brushing shoulders with giants again and again. Affirm it daily. The more you affirm it, the more it will manifest.

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
—Buddha 

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
―Thomas Jefferson

“If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”
―Paramahansa Yogananda

This process is extremely effective in manifesting a life of your choosing. It’s simple yet requires great responsibility.

Some say “With great power comes great responsibility,” but it’s more like “With great responsibility comes great power.”

Great spiritual teachers spoke of this.
Great psychologists spoke of this.
Great philosophers spoke of this.
&Great scientists speak of this.

The path of Responsibility. 
The path of Empowerment.
The path of Truth.
The path to your Best Life.

9 Paulo Coelho Quotes on Being Tested in Pursuit of Your Dreams

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1) “The closer he got to the realization of his dream, the more difficult things became…In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, not impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.”

2) “It’s only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”

3) “‘I had to test your courage,’ the stranger said. Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.”

4) “…You must not let up, even after having come so far. You must love the desert, but never trust it completely. Because the desert tests all men: it challenges every step, and kills those who become distracted.”

5) “‘Once you get into the desert, there’s no going back,’ said the camel driver. ‘And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.’”

6) “What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’”

7) “He realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.”

8) “…Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

9) “In his heart, he felt a strange sense of joy: he was about to die in pursuit of his destiny.”

19 Joseph Campbell Quotes That Can Inspire You To Follow Your Bliss

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1) Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

2) How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.

3) To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is — not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

4) I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will be supported.

5) The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

6) The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

7) There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

8) Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

9) Questing is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.

10) You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path…Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

11) Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

12) What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.

13) If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.

14) The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it’s really a manifestation of his character. It’s amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

15) When you are on the right path, invisible hands will come to your aid.

16) Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.

17) Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.

18) When you go through life…it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme…Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, ‘Who wrote this novel? You did.’

19) A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.