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What it is that you do that keeps you from the light

I finally figured out what it is that attracts me to certain novels, certain movies, certain TV series… and repels me from others. What it is that I am muscletesting.

I am looking for goodness.

But goodness only exists in contrast.

So only the books qualify where the main character has both good and bad and in the struggle, the good wins… Also where the evil is strong, the pull to give up or to give in is strong.

As the Kabbalists say: only if and when you overcome the Opponent that you are good… for the moment. Continue reading “What it is that you do that keeps you from the light”

What is your Rosebud? What would YOU miss if you had to go?

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I had this weird question this morning: what would I miss if I were ‘torn’ away from ‘home’?

I would miss playing Freecell. Maybe I would miss my first cup of tea in the morning. I would miss writing an article. I would miss talking to you.

Citizen Kane missed being young. Sliding down the hill on his sled… the rush of the slide, the freedom of winter, the yelling…

When I look back, leaving a country is a lot like that. Continue reading “What is your Rosebud? What would YOU miss if you had to go?”

I wrote about ‘It’s the system, stupid!’ the cause of misery

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The other day I wrote about ‘It’s the system, stupid!’ the cause of misery.

The question I am not sure I answered is this: what is this system?

So in yesterday’s Friday Podcast, I looked with Bonnie, what is the system, really. The Friday Podcast is a one-on-one coaching. I am the coach, and Bonnie is the coaching client. It is real, not play acting.

And what I saw is that the system is really the seed level of a person, of an organization, of a business. The seed level. Continue reading “I wrote about ‘It’s the system, stupid!’ the cause of misery”

When I say: It’s the system, stupid! Where do you look?

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Some people, a few, will know where to look. The rest is clueless.

So why would they be clueless?

Because they can’t connect the dots.

What is connecting the dots?

It is seeing the relationship between seemingly unrelated things, seemingly unrelated data.

Seeing what is cause, what is effect… Continue reading “When I say: It’s the system, stupid! Where do you look?”

I woke up this morning happy. A health turnaround…

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I woke up this morning happy. WTF? lol

It was so unusual, I actually tried to remember the last time I felt that way upon awakening. I could not find any…

And if I want to be quite, brutally honest, I can’t recall many times when I felt good… physically, emotionally, psychically… Not many.

So waking up happy was an event… worth investigating. Continue reading “I woke up this morning happy. A health turnaround…”

How can you use your intention to great success? Astuteness

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How does an animal, how does a human animal develop astuteness?

Astuteness: acute in perception and sound in judgment

Astuteness is a word that expresses to what degree what one sees is actually what one think one sees.

Incoming information needs to be interpreted by the brain so the action can be a good match to what is happening.

So you identify what you see accurately.

The average accuracy, the average astuteness on the planet is 1%. Continue reading “How can you use your intention to great success? Astuteness”

What is the most important thing to learn and practice?

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If I were you, participating in my programs, I would ask: what is the most important thing for me to practice and maybe even bring it to mastery.

When I look at the people I have the opportunity to observe, what I see is that they are mastering in:

resistance and
tish-tush. (avoiding responsibility)

Continue reading “What is the most important thing to learn and practice?”

Source has learned how to push my buttons…

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Source, in our 17 years of cooperation, has learned how to push my buttons.

You tell me I can’t do it, I’ll defy you, and by hooks or by crooks I’ll do it. I am a ‘Forget Thyself’… it is my nature.

So Source has been telling me that I am due to die… and the same mechanism is now pushing me to 1. defy the deadline 2. maybe manage to take some people over the hump and into the Promised Land.

I like this game. And I much prefer it to hope and nice-nice.

On another note: it is part of human arrogance to think you already know everything important, and only minor details you may not know…

Continue reading “Source has learned how to push my buttons…”

The season of the toxic immersion is nigh

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‘Happy Thanksgiving! Merry Christmas!’

Or the Indian equivalents for Hindu festivities: ‘Ganpati Bappa, Morya‘

These words spring joy in every Mumbaikar. Mumbai can be associated with many things, but I associate it with the Ganpati Festival.

It is a festival of joy and togetherness which is celebrated in mid-August/September. As a child, I would go visit exhibitions for the holiday. Each year the exhibition would get bigger and more grandeur.

This beauty would become a horrid sight on the day of immersion. The day Ganpati, the deity, is brought, the entire city is celebrating and when it leaves, the entire city is mourning.

The environment is toxic. And the letdown after the holidays is of epidemic proportion. Not just in India, everywhere. Continue reading “The season of the toxic immersion is nigh”

Intention is the beginning of all transformation

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The power of intention

Most people don’t know the power of intention, it because they have never experienced it, because they don’t know how to get access to intention.

They never intend. They live inside wanting to, needing to, having to, and should… the horizontal plane, the Valley of the Shadow of Death… Fear of death, fear of annihilation. Continue reading “Intention is the beginning of all transformation”