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How would you like to create a brand new life for yourself? Don’t be shy…step right up and get ready to look behind the curtain! I am going to reveal the something-from-nothing type of life-changing power

Hello friends! My book is now live on Amazon :-) Check it out, read it, review it...even buy it if you want to! I really need reviews so if you leave a review and message me below I will send you the audiobook

Our perception is our reality: This is one of the basic underlying concept of Yin and Yang in the Tao. Most people in the West assume that the two concepts are totally separated, in part because the

From the moment you wake up until you go to sleep- as well as through every single hour of sleep- you’re an energetic being, full of thoughts, awareness, life force electricity and magnetic fields swirling,

I want you to think about this for a minute...Are you a slave to your desires or a master of them? Put another way, is what you have never enough or are you grateful and content with what you have right

Tim Urban may not be a great artist but his art provokes great thoughts...as does his writing:-) There are two things that are guaranteed to inflict suffering on us (remember, suffering is self inflicted?)

Meditation is not about sitting very still and thinking about nothing... It is actually one of the very best ways to release trauma and painful events from our lives Buddhists teach that there are two

OK...for a long time, I thought that I could find enlightenment by working on mechanical things. So when I read this book by Robert Pirsig,it made me realize why I wasn't achieving anywhere near a zen

Hello my fellow Steemians I owe you an apology for not being present and engaged. It seems that the most important lessons I have ever learned first totally derail my life and through picking up the pieces

It is disturbing that your social media life can disappear without recourse. Deplatforming....Have you heard of that before? Neither had I until today, but apparently its a thing, and it just happened

Music. Rhythm. Bass. Takes me to a wondrous place Life's heartbeat of grace. Thank you for stopping by on Haiku Tuesday! As always images are from Google and should have links/credits embedded in the image.

Many people have the impression that Stoics are folks that don't care about anything and pessimistically endure whatever life throws at them. Nothing could be further from the truth because one of the

Nature is lovely I revel in the beauty Of a single Rose. Namaste. As always images are from Google and should have links/credits embedded in the image. If you like my work, please upvote, resteem, and

When do we really make a specific choice of which action to take? Is it when the thought first comes to us "Whoa...that looks fun!" or does the choice crux lie down in the murky depths of our

When somebody asks you, "what are going to do today and why?" can you answer concisely with confidence, or do you have to fumble for an answer and make something up? If we do not know what we

There are only two paths in life, the differences between individual journeys are just graduated shades of grey between black and white, the slavery of false comfort or the freedom of the true power which

"Be true to yourself!" That is your purpose in life. Everybody has heard those words many, many time...but how can you be true to somebody you don't really know? I am not talking about the person

Resolving to do nothing can actually lead us to accomplishing more of what is really important to us! So forget all the New Year's resolutions (most of which, fess up, are already forgotten or broken already,

I found this picture by Hector Casanova while writing my last blog post and thought it was too good not to share! It really goes to show why we need a third major party to get D.C. to work for the national

What is the purpose of communication as opposed to, say, throwing a temper tantrum? I never have a problem about people saying how they feel because one of the core values implicit in authentic communication