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On your terms.

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt; American statesman, political leader, and President of The United States.


“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”  ~ Kinky Friedman; American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and magazine columnist.



We are creative in spirit and that is our essence, and so the mere concept and use of money must not drive you, but what must drive you forward in your life is to be free to express yourself and develop yourself in whatever your heartfelt passion is; for money is just a tool and, even though it is needed to buy food and shelter, it is something created by man, and something created by man cannot bring true happiness to anyone’s life.

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To live life on your terms means to free yourself from the chains of society–i.e., from constantly working and thinking about ways to better jobs and more money, from the opinions and beliefs of society, from the judgements and ruling of family and friends, from the habitual traditions of your culture and religion, etc. etc.

 

Your mind has to reach freedom and acceptance.  So stop thinking about money and stressing about work, and remind yourself daily that freedom is the most precious thing; and that freedom is not found in your actions or in the money you can make, but that it is found in your mind and its content.

And to listen to other people’s opinions with the aim to please them, or to expect others to guide you or even respect your direction in life is the opposite of creating your life, of living life on your terms; for it deters you from being yourself, from being unique, and it blocks you from allowing your mind to learn on its own and develop itself. 

See, success is not really a thing you get or a position in society, or achievement through the manipulation or command of others, no matter who those others are, but success is much like happiness–i.e., it is a divine condition you experience within yourself by starting with a free mind that is unique, and so let go of the mental conditioning and set rules of a society or culture.  You bring peace and clarity to your mind by accepting life as it is and then by working towards a goal you have designed yourself; and also, by emptying the same mind from the set beliefs, ideas, expectations, and control of others, then, you master yourself, you create your own destiny.   

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Love brings freedom, money brings worry and frustration.
Deep inside you know this.
So forge yourself!

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Flow with it…

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”  ~ Melody Beattie; American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.


“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  ~ George Santayana; Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.



There is no more self-destruction and constant suffering of the mind than that of constantly regretting and thinking about past errors and bad experiences, because this is feeding the ego who constantly likes to feel like a victim and hinder any real progress that means moving on and becoming wiser.

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The pain of the past and of the present also is there, in the midst of our experiences, for a noble and inspirational reason; and that reason is to help us evolve and absorb wisdom to move on and become better human beings.  To learn and embrace all self-love.

All fear we have lingering in our minds and that we experience is either made by us a blessing or a curse, and we must embrace it and use it as a blessing to become stronger, thus grateful of past experiences of whatever nature.

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Everything and anything in life, even if your ego cannot understand it now, is a lesson to be learned, it is for our minds to learn acceptance and intelligence in every step we take to move on with our lives.

Life flows just like a body of rich and fresh water, and your ways of thinking, your ways of behaving and interacting in your own life must match this, must flow with life, along life, through life, become one with life (and whatever happens in it); that is, just accept what you cannot change, learn from mistakes and past experiences, do not just rush into things but analyze and stop reacting without truly understanding something.

This acceptance is to nurture ourselves and become one with life itself, because in this acceptance we see and experience pain, fear, and all heartbreak as a lesson; however, in order for us to see and accept this, we must tame our ego and not become victims of its nonsense.


So, learn to be wiser and see beyond all the past experiences and challenges you had; then, be grateful and accept the wisdom in these past experiences.
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Do not add more suffering, but free yourself.

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Not the end of the road.

“Authenticity is everything!  You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you.  And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character.  You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.”  ~ Aaron Rodgers; American football quarterback.


“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”  ~ Sylvester Stallone; American actor and filmmaker.



The mind can be a fatalist making challenges seem daunting and mistakes seem like the end of opportunities for progress in life; however, these ways of the mind themselves are challenges, distortions of reality due to a lack of self-discipline, and this is what is needed for us to become stronger and master ourselves.

Nothing in this life is given to you, but you create it with your thoughts of inspiration and persistence, never stopping because you make a mistake or you fall.

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How can someone learn to understand and appreciate life if that someone gives up because of a bad experience or mistake…??  How can someone really practice true self-love and at the same time stop the expression of his human spirit from pursuing his dreams and goals…??  How can that someone embrace happiness every day if there is neglect to keep going and learning from mistakes…??

You were not meant to just cruise by and admit defeat, put a fake smile and pretend that you love your life as it is.  You must understand that life is not random, life is conscious, much more conscious and wise than the highest human I.Q., and even highest than any Enlightened human heart.  You are the creator of your life all the time; when you are conscious of what you create, you control what you create thus beauty surrounds you; but when you are not conscious of what you create, you are not in control of what you create thus ugliness surround you.

There is no mistake in life, not even if it is a major crime, that will mark you as garbage or sinful for ever, you have always the power within yourself to change and raise above yourself and what you did; so, your next choice, your current moment will modify it in your mind, you either learn from mistakes and bad experiences or you drown in a dark pool of self-pity and self-destructive thinking.

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Life in its wisdom moves and never stops, and the clock never stops either; therefore, be wise as life itself is wise, mind your time and your thinking, act accordingly and keep going always aiming to be better than yesterday.
 

 

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The Way…

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”  ~ William Arthur Ward; American inspirational writer and poet.


“A good teacher is a determined person.”  ~ Gilbert Highet; Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian.


To guide somebody with sincerity and truth is to really love yourself and that other person, because in this process you are putting yourself in the shoes of another, you are walking with another, and experiencing an awakening of sorts with another, and this is a deeper connection. 

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But most people tend to judge other people and force them to see the truth, through heated arguments, through competitions of who is right and who is wrong, through displays of knowledge and all sorts of egotistical nonsense.

And therein lies the problem. Seeing the truth, choosing the truth and living it is not a desire you can introduce in others by force, but it is an experience which the other person at some point awakens to.

A person with good intentions and the heart for teaching others is a mere guide, a beacon which lights the way over the rough waters, a pointer of the truth; and so, one must not argue with others and think that the responsibility of making that other person see the truth is his, for this is the ego aggrandizing itself and distancing itself from the loving intention to help others.


The guidance and heartfelt desire to help someone develop himself is a strong character of wisdom and maturity; however, if you just desire to show off and display your understanding or knowledge unto others, then, you have been swallowed by the illusion of your own oversized ego.

 Think in terms of sharing the truth and your own experience with your example, perhaps, too, with kind and honest words; but do not see it as giving lessons or shaping the individual’s character or ways of thinking, because that is not your responsibility nor your mission in life.
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Let it go, let the others be as they are; their own experiences carry the responsibility of shaping their characters, and not your massive ego.

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Free to be…

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”  ~ Astrid Alauda; motivational writer.


“You must learn to let go.  Release the stress.  You were never in control anyway.”  ~ Steve Maraboli; American behavioral scientist, author, and public speaker.



Living your life expecting and desiring for something to happen is living in the illusion of the ego, in the illusion of the future, and it is not living the moment, enjoying every second of it.

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You are mentally enslaving your whole body, with expectations, ambitions, desires, stresses which take this same body to illness; thus, you are projecting all these problems that do not exist or desires which are allowed to run your life, and you are inflicting suffering throughout your daily engagement.  These are problems that are not really there but live in the imagination of your troubled mind, they seep into your psyche and then into your subconscious, pretty soon you make them into your habitual personality and your mind starts to think that this is normal behavior, while you become a magnet for illness and all kinds of hardships. 
This ignorant process distorts reality itself because our minds live in constant agitation and worry about what we are expecting or about what we think it could happen in the future.

In order to live our lives with a peaceful and harmonious mind we must accept life and its events as they are, we must work towards a higher goal but never become obsessed or filled with expectation; so, just work towards something your heart desires but let it go in your mind, say “if it happens, happens; if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.  It won’t affect me either way.”
And with this, your mind is liberated from all the chains of expectation and desire; then, your body feels free and no stress can overwhelm it, you become stronger and more confident, resilient and agile to endure all challenges.

Stress and all worry can only live and thrive in the past and future, as you recall memories that were and also expect the future to be the way your desire wants it to be.  This is forcing yourself, not respecting nature to do its job; and it is the opposite of love, it is fear.

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You owe it to your inner self to be stress free.
You owe it to your inner self to work and focus upon the moment.
This is embracing self-love and wisdom as you live in the Eternal Now for a better life.

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Choosing right.

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”  ~ Hans Selye; pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist.


“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.  It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.  When you complain, you make yourself into a victim.  When you speak out, you are in your power.  So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it.  All else is madness.”  ~ Eckhart Tolle.



What good is it really to always complain to yourself and to others, and have negative self-talks about your own life…??  Is your life really that bad and dark that you do not have any positives and so you must always focus on the negatives…??  Perhaps you shouldn’t always analyze and think things to death, but accept things the way they are and feel more while moving on.

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People tend to live and subconsciously choose in their minds to experience the negative more than the positive, and this comes about because the human mind, which is the ego, is more attracted to chaos and entertainment, something to analyze and dissect; however, positive and all things of the heart are not that attractive to the ego, because these things of the heart are purer things and experiences to feel and not analyze to death.
Analyzing and formulating opinions, over and over again, quite often non-stop overthinking, is the realm of our mortal mind, the purpose of the ego; but one cannot wisely trust this process of over-analyzing because the deeper things in life, the ones which matter more mostly, are the more emotional things, the more direct in regards to life itself, thus just flow and acceptance.  Flow and acceptance means that they cannot be questioned over and over again, because if they are then the process of questioning will make the mind focus on the pain or failed attempts, and so the mind will suffer, soon poisoning the whole body and leading to illness and all decay.

When challenges arise and your mind feels confused and bent on the negative, you must remember that in focusing on the wounds you may have or on the negative, then your whole experience, your whole world, is going to be negative and confusing; but, however, you will find strength and wisdom if you choose in your mind to see the positive, the things you can feel with your pure heart, without the analysis and stubbornness from thought, the things from the challenge that you can learn from.

Furthermore then, where you allow your focus to be is where your experience will be; so, the human mind is that powerful, and it will create your own experience based upon the attention you direct in life.

As Buddha said, “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice.”  So, pain is in the challenges and obstacles to make us grow and learn wisdom, but suffering that pain is a choice the human mind makes by allowing your attention here or there.
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So, choose wisely.

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In the footsteps of the master.

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”  ~ Lao Tzu.


“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”  ~ Sun Tzu.


The way of peace is knowing yourself, and this way is practiced by the superior mind; because the superior mind knows and deeply understands that confidence and power can only flower when the human mind is resting in the silence of internal peace and harmony–i.e., peace from the agitated mind, and harmony with the true self. 
Furthermore, this confidence and power flowering in the peaceful mind is what can conquer all your battles in life, overcome all obstacles, attain all victories over negative circumstances and mediocre naysayers, for this mind is free from all outside nuisances and pressures, for this mind stands on its own.

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The Tao (The Way to Enlightenment/The Source of Everything) in its unmatched wisdom says,  “But knowing harmony creates abstraction, and following abstraction creates ritual.  Exceeding nature creates calamity, and controlling nature creates violence.”  This says, ‘Knowing harmony, living and experiencing a wise and peaceful mind, creates the deep analysis and study of profound ideas, profound philosophies for a better life; and so, following this abstraction or greater philosophies, creates superior habits and thus ways of the superior mind.’
Then it explains, ‘Trying to force nature, and everything that happens in your life, brings chaos into your life; and controlling nature and outside events, creates an agitated mind and all violence.’

You must clear your thoughts from all agitation whenever you see obstacles and people wanting to hurt you in any way; for only with a clear and pure mind you may think straight and arrive to a solution or to an inspiring idea.  And when you need to become firm and fearless, fight people’s arguments and life challenges head on, then be also calm and confident because the energy of your own mind, of peace and harmony, will create your reality, will dictate the outcome of your experience.

The fool initiates quarrels and rebellions because he is full of fear/rage and hate, and his mind does not think clearly due to an inferior understanding/an inferior mind; however, the wise and superior mind of the sage remains peaceful and confident because nothing from the outside moves him, he is in constant meditation and harmony with his true self.

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The sage is the one who really holds the power.


 

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Truly Sacred.

“Never give up on what you really want to do.  The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.”  ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.; America inspirational writer.


“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”  ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe; American abolitionist and author.


 

What is life if not a string of challenges to make you stronger…??  And what is the purpose of life if not to achieve bliss in all you do by not giving in to these challenges…??

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Unfortunately, most people see life’s challenges and obstacles as a threat and something to fear or avoid at all cost; however, this is in fact the richness of life given unto you for no price whatsoever, life gives and gives for you to learn and become a better human being.

 

That is why one must never give in to fear and temptation, one must be watchful and alert, and so one must keep going faithfully because life responds to and respects the warrior who holds his goal and follows his dream without losing the passion, the fuel of his human spirit.

 

“The light at the end of the tunnel,” they say. But I say you create your own light in your journey, and if you create your own light then there is no darkness or challenge which can weaken you or stop you from becoming great in your personal pursuits, and there is no society which can ever deviate you or distract you from your goals.

And the golden key to create your own light is self-discipline in your daily behaviors and the process of envisioning your goals and never ever letting them go, not letting them go for your family, friends, or anybody else for that matter.

Self-discipline is the golden key then, the ability to control your feelings, your reactions to temptations, and overcome your weaknesses in the pursuit of a noble goal you think is right; and so, you do this by creating a heartfelt and intense passion which will give you the strength and endurance to resist all challenges.  You must select what you read and watch, what you think about and what you listen from others; that is, you must create your world and envision it, honor it every single day in your thoughts as the most sacred element to create out of your godly human spirit.

Make your dreams, your goals, sacred, and so sacred that nobody can touch them or get in your way to honor them.

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The Magical Core.

“Empty your mind of all thoughts.  Let your heart be at peace.  Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.  Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source.  Returning to the source is serenity.  If you don’t realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow.  When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king.  Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.”  ~ Lao Tzu.


 

Meditation is the core or essence of life, contemplation, the absorption of wisdom, the reflection of your inner being to strengthen your outer being and the one living in the world of form and deception.

During meditation you do not engage with any thoughts, you just flow in peace and harmony, one with Source, and see thoughts rise and vanish; you focus upon the breath of life, your breath in the moment.  This is life.

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For the awakened one, the true sage, life is just like meditation; you keep yourself immersed in peace and harmony, mind without heated thoughts and tempests that could rattle your meditation, flowing with what is, not rejecting whatever happens but accepting it, watching your emotions and reflecting upon the content of those emotions.

 

This process of meditation in life vanishes fear, because all fear comes from an agitated and perturbed mind, an unruly and rogue mind, a mind who always wants to be in control; therefore, if the mind in question is under meditation, then there exists no agitation and perturbation, for the mind dwells in peace and harmony, one with what is, and so there is no energy agent creating fear or great confusion.

And this higher mind, which is in meditation, reflects inwardly, watches the movements of Nature inwardly; and so, there is no beliefs and distractions from the outside, because this mind knows that whatever is outside is the illusion tied to space and time, tied to moods and changes, tied to all creation of man.

And this mind knows that the eternal reality is only inside, outside there is just a window into physical experience; and it knows and understands that all evolution and elevation happens from the inside.

Remind yourself to keep watch on your own mind, maintain an inner attitude of meditation every day, and erase all fear from your thoughts and actions.

 

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Discovering the eternal flame.

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”  ~ Socrates.


“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”  ~ William Shakespeare.



Happiness and pleasure are two different things; happiness is what we are eternally (obviously has no beginning and no end), pleasure is what physical life created (has a beginning and end). 
Pleasure, if is chosen wisely, may be something noble to which aspire and seek in life, but we must never confuse pleasure with happiness.

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Happiness has no purpose, no quality you can define; therefore, you are happy just because you are content and living in the moment, while you struggle and work you choose to embrace what you are, true and constant happiness.

 

Now, to acquire nice things and prosperity in your life by noble and inspiring work is great, it is to experience life and go after your goals; however, you must see that this is just pleasure, perhaps something you need to thrive day by day, but never happiness.


So, one reaches true wisdom when one is content and satisfied with the things and successes one has at this moment in life; of course, you may wish sincerely to achieve more, and that is okay as long as you see the difference between pleasure and happiness.
If your mind cannot understand and see this difference, then you are bound to self-destruct and lose yourself in the unhappy pursuit of your own ego which is never satisfied; this means, a life of all fears and vast suffering, a life wasted.

The greatest mistake of humankind is to believe that the outside pursuits will bring happiness to the emptiness they already feel inside; however, this is a deceptive dream and a fool’s paradise, because this is an illusion of their own egos which deceives them and distances them from reality, from the treasure inside themselves.  Buddha has said, “Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth.”  Furthermore, happiness lies in your choices, in your own mind, not in outside pursuits; you embrace happiness by not allowing the world and others to affect your state of mind.

Focus your mind on what you do have right now, and not on what you do not have; because most people in the world are never truly happy, due to following their insatiable egos and focusing on what they do not have–always wanting more, nothing being really enough. 

You must be wiser in order to see through the veil of pleasure; you discover happiness in the pure heart, not in the insatiable and superficial ego.

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