21 Jul

Posted at 10:15h in Observations

Luck is the key to success. Once we realize that we're more than halfway to success. Luck is identifying opportunities and making lucky choices to realize them. Anyone who thinks their success is solely a function of their own abilities and efforts is a fool. Fools are prone to bad luck. To get lucky we need to vigilantly be on the lookout for luck. Luck happens everywhere but in some contexts more than others. Work is where lots of luck can be found. Working long hours and keeping our eyes open to for potentially lucky situations, we increase our chances of getting lucky. Then, when luck arrives, we recognize it immediately as we anticipated its arrival, embrace it and enjoy a ride to success, if we are lucky. If we're not successful with the chance we took, it was still luck; only bad luck. But bad luck is better than no luck.  ...

19 Jul

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Man has two ways through life. The way of the dog and the way of god. Dog/God is a semordniap, a word whose letters read backwards also spell a word but with a different meaning. The way of the "dog" and the way of "god" are suggested by the typeface of each word. "dog" begins with the letter "d" whose topmost part is above the horizontal axis of the word and ends in "g" whose lowermost part is below the horizontal axis. This suggests that the way of the dog begins in the heavens and ends below the ground. It begins with a sense of superiority, arrogance, and ends in equality with all. Likewise, "god" begins with "g" whose lowermost part is below the horizontal axis and ends in "d" whose topmost part is above the horizontal axis. It begins with equality, modesty, and ends in the heavens, in oneness with God. Simply, starting with arrogance leads us to death and starting with modesty leads us to the heavens. The way of the dog is animal consciousness and the way of god is divine consciousness. "o" is a symbol of perfection. The space within and the space without the "o" are mutually exclusive, mutually dependent and all there is. It is the now, the akin Earth experience of both dog and god; differing only in that the dog way enters the now with a sense of arrogance and the god way enters the now with modesty. Beyond the Earth experience, there are two ways: the way to the ground (the dog way) and the way to the heavens (the god way), death or transition. The choice between the ways is easy; dog is not man's best friend, God is.   Paul Rand was a personal friend, a graphic designer who assiduously focused on typefaces. I was with Paul at his deathbed. Paul didn't die, he transitioned....

17 Jul

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All religions hold sacred a simple truth, the golden rule: compassion, treating others as we wish others to treat us, treating others as ourselves because we are all one. This is the way to liberation from the selfish self. This is the way to be one with God; to realizing our purpose in life, divine consciousness. If we are not compassion incarnate, religions subject us to rules, regulations, rituals and absurd protocols in the name of serving God. Only when religious followers awaken and embody the simple truth, the golden rule, can they have freedom from religion....

16 Jul

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Within colorless white light hide the spectrum of colors. When the sun dances with rain droplets the rainbow appears revealing the spectrum. Blue is the symbol of wisdom. Red is the symbol of love. Between blue and red is yellow, the symbol of God. Flanked by wisdom and love is where God is hiding. When we know wisdom and love, we know where God is....

15 Jul

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No one is getting out of here alive. We all transition from this finite life to realize we are one with the universe forever. We transition as a piece of the universe to at peace with the universe. In time before the transition, we ready ourselves for sleep unlike the countless thousands of temporary daily sleep-deaths. Best a dome shaped room, like the dome shaped egg from which we came, with a video of the night sky; our hand held by a loving one; and waves of sound of transcendental music filling the room to quiet our mind until we and the waves light and sound become one. If the loving one speaks, what is there to say but "I love you, always have, always will, always and all ways. Thank you for being you. Thank you for having me."...

14 Jul

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Food is among the wonderful physical pleasures of life, engaging our senses of smell and taste. Once swallowed, the pleasures are over, our bodies absorb some of the food for nutrition and let the rest go. Not letting it go is constipation. Constipation can be debilitating, distracting us from fully enjoying ourselves at whatever we're doing. Likewise, as to all experiences; best to enjoy them at the time, learn what we can from them and then let them go....

13 Jul

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"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." "I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have." "To be alive, to able to see, to walk...

12 Jul

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According the Guinness Book of World Records,  "drunk" holds the world's record for the word with the most synonyms, as many as 2,241. This attests to how varied each of us experiences things in a free state of mind. However, when really drunk, we're unlikely to articulate but a couple of synonyms and not remember them after we recover. When we're not drunk, our experience of things is likely as varied as when we are drunk which makes it remarkable that we can understand and stand each other. Maybe that's why we get drunk....

11 Jul

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Together as two we see each other much of the time. Familiar, comfortable and at ease in the rhythm of habits. From a distance we look as one, very close but not open.   Together as one maybe far but far closer. Always open, connected joyfully all ways, beyond stretches of time.   Together as one and together as two, altogether, joy-us every which way....

10 Jul

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Almost everything is measured today. There's more focus on measurements and relative ranking than on the experience of that which is measured. Measurements are abstract, having nothing to do with the experience something provides. Ultimately, our focus on measuring leaves us experiencing things as a function of our mind rather than our senses. That makes experiences absurd, not real. It precludes us experiencing the absolute beauty in something that is relatively not beautiful. As such, we become oblivious that there is much about which to be grateful. As gratitude is a key to happiness, focusing on measurements diverts us from the path of happiness....