Unspoken Understandings Often Aren't

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Happy Women Make a Happy Village

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Prince Ashitaka in the amazing movie Princess Mononoke says, "well they say..." making me think this is an old Japanese proverb, b...

Tribalism Is The Root of All Evil

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I used to think it was 'comparison', but its really the false dichotomy of us-and-them and you-and-me. There is no them. When we mee...

Stars Are Emitting Organic Matter

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Until very recently we thought that stars create new atoms via nuclear fusion and that those atoms coalesce into planets upon which organic ...

There are no greater bonds than those of complete freedom.

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When we recognize that we are truly free to do whatever we can imagine then all excuses melt away and we get a glimpse of ourselves - we say...

If you run, you die.

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Go towards it! The things we fear are nearly *never* as bad as we expect once those fears are confronted. Whether it is a video game, an...

Thought is reality.

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We still haven't caught up with our latest understanding of existence. We generally run around operating from a 'Newtonian Mechanic...

What we give energy to flourishes.

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Sometimes we specifically *don't* give energy to things so that they *won't* flourish. That amazing gloriously beautiful person you...

"Show a child and they become interested, tell a child and they will become confused, let a child *do* and they will learn." - old adage

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Experience is the only teacher.

Nearly all of our limitations are self-imposed.

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Everything begins with choice.

We are a combination of our motivations, our intentions, and the results of our actions.

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I am one of those people that doesn't like the idea of words that have no definition or questions that have no answer. I understand th...

"Like begets like." - Charles Darwin

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Even more so than we sometimes think. Like begets like in the natural world ruled by DNA - Mr. Darwin told us this. Perhaps he also knew ...

Do it or don't.

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Don't half-step, don't pussy foot. If you are going to do it - DO IT. If we live our lives boldly then, when we make the right de...

Our Ego is our "Self" defense system.

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Our Ego is the ever-vigilant defense system that works to protect our personal myths. When people (even ourselves) or circumstances around ...

"He who understands Light understands Life." - Albert Einstein

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Raise children wherever you find them.

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No matter their age, their circumstances, or what is going on around you - raise children where you find them.

It is impossible to negatively define a thing.

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You can say all day long what something isn't and still not have explained what it is. When people say what they *don't* want, and ...

You only hate in others what you hate in yourself.

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In some extreme examples it is more like "what you would hate in yourself" or "very nearly what you hate in yourself". ...

No negative self-talk - even in jest.

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Your baby baby of hearts listens to everything you say. When you say something negative about yourself, like "AH! I'm such an idio...

Feelings just are. Feel your feelings fully. They will transform you in a positive way.

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They never need to be explained, they never need a reason given. There are no 'bad' feelings.  Feelings are always valid. Feelings ...

To truly *know* anyone is to love them.

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If you were completely able to understand a person's challenges, motivations, and reasoning you would have compassion for them. You wou...

There is always a reason and never an excuse.

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This is mainly because nothing really needs excusing. Everyone has reasons for what they do - conscious or not. Once they have decided and...

Cultivation is when humans think they know better than the rest of Nature.

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...and maybe sometimes we do.

Art is the attempt to take an idea or ideal and make it manifest with no compromise.

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To the degree that the person can brook *no* compromise they are that much of an 'artiste'. When the slightest deviation or comprom...

What's good for the egg is good for the nest, what's good for the nest is good for the branch, what's good for the branch is good for the tree, what's good for the tree is good for the forest. It doesn't necessarily work in the other direction.

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The concept of 'should' is invalid unless accompanied by a conditional.

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Things are the way there are.  They should never be different than how they are.  If you want things to change then you should try something...

Humans are chimpanzees - literally.

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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - Jared Diamond And in fact there are two other sub-species of chimpan...

We ask those we love to correct the wrongs of those we have loved in the past.

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Our creative subconscious is *amazingly* powerful. We are adept at manifesting what we visualize - tweaking circumstances slightly but regu...

There are only 3 valid communications to a child.

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I love you. I love you and I love what you are doing. I love you and I don't love what you are doing and I know you can do better. ...

We are all our own teachers and we teach ourselves the same lessons over and over again until we learn them.

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Reminds me of the japanese saying, "Pain is weakness leaving the body."

The only sin is imposing our will on another when not motivated by love for that person.

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It is easy to destroy and hard to build.

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The magic is not in the planting of the seed, it is in the tending of the garden.

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"Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children." - Furious Styles in 'Boyz n the Hood'

There is only one thing that we *must* do - die. The rest is optional.

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Everything begins with choice.

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Start with being kind to yourself - always. Kindness spreads out from you like rippling rings in a pool.

When fear controls our decisions we draw what we fear to us. Beware of *not*.

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We only really understand things *that are* or concepts of *what will be*. The idea of *not* is a modifier on the understanding of a certai...

We can only love others as well as we love ourselves.

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It is also true that we only allow ourselves to be loved as well as we love ourselves. There is a poem by Thich Nhat Hanh that addresses thi...

Given the circumstances we *always* do exactly and only what we want to do.

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No one has your volition but you. Someone might forcibly grab your hand and make it rise (circumstances), but no on can make you *lift* you...

Recognition gives choice.

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When you are unaware of something you don't get to make decisions around it, but once you recognize something - a dynamic, a pattern, a ...

Our greatest self-deception is an existence small enough we can understand.

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The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao - Tao Te Ching Small enough - or convenient enough.

It is ours to be glorious, everything begins with choice.

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You are not separate from the universe. You are made of it — the seven billion billion billion atoms in your body were created during thermo...