Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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The first step in AA, Alcoholics Anonymous says: We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol––that our lives had become unmanageable.
Whether you know it or not, that is the most important of all the steps. And of life… Continue reading “If your life is manageable, you can’t and won’t grow”
Are humans even interested in transcendence?Transcendence is growing through and beyond. And whether anyone says it or not, you always go beyond a stage when it is considered by you handled.
I am reading a book by the same author who wrote about the predatory genes in another book of his.
He is a novelist, a fiction writer, so anyone who takes everything he says at face value is like the people who listen to Alex Jones and take it like the truth… I even know one personally… ugh.
Anyway, I am reading this new book that just came out a few days ago. After a boring 110 page preamble he gets to the interesting stuff… about sentient life in the cosmos… Continue reading “Does Alex Jones, like children, believe his own B.S.?”
Trying to be funny? This is one of my sore spots watching movies or interacting with people in life…
I hate people when they are trying… trying to please me, trying to prove that they love me, trying to prove that they are already OK… They are trying my patience!
You resort to trying because you are a twitchy little bastard. Because you want immediate gratification, but nothing worth having is going to give it to you, so you are covering up the fact that you don’t want what is worth having… Continue reading “How to turn yourself from a guppy into a majestic dolphin?”
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How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Helen Keller didn’t become human until she could connect things in reality with words. Does this mean that Adam and Eve weren’t human until they began naming the flora and the fauna of the garden? Yes.
Humanness is to put word between the thing and conscious awareness…
There is this popular conundrum. What was first, the chicken or the egg? Continue reading “Can you see without words? Can you love without words?”
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The title sounds like the beginning of a a joke, like how many philosophers does it need to change a lightbulb?
Four; one to change the light-bulb and three to say ‘Yes, Socrates,’ ‘Well done, Socrates,’ ‘Good job, Socrates.’ Funny as hell… but not exactly what I wanted to do… although that joke talks to me deeper than it probably talks to you.
But I digress…
This morning I stumbled on a page from Dan Millman’s ‘The Life You Were Born To Live‘ a quasi Kabbalistic astrology book.
I have always disliked it, but today I came to hate it. Continue reading “How many people it takes to turn H.Sapiens into Human Being?”
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I used to know this guy, a chiropractor, who had a son with a wife he divorced.
He charged little for his sessions, made all his money in cash, all to avoid paying child support. He could not stand the idea that much of his work went to his ex wife.
When the boy was 16, he came to live with his father… and miracle of miracles, the father started to look how to get rich, how to make more money.
If you are successful you have to give back? Why? What? How?
Continue reading “If you get successful you’ll have to give back? Why? What?”
As I promised, I am continuing the discussion about powerlessness… the sense, the feeling, the belief of powerlessness.
This sudden awareness was helped along by Alex Hormozi’s video the other day. He talks, no, he rails against what makes you weak and fragile.
Watch it and learn. Get knocked conscious of what you are doing to yourself!
You may want to listen to it with slower speed… Alex talks really fast!
Now you see why I am in love with Alex… I want to be like him when I grow up! lol. Continue reading “Turning points: You are not really stuck where you are.”
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I have something to say in the matter… but what can I say?
Back in 1986 it was revolutionary. Closed circuit TV across the world.
Werner Erhard had his Saturday seminars. I lived in New Jersey at the time, but the audience was in many cities in the US, in Australia, and maybe in Europe…
I was green and my ‘est’ vocabulary was non-existent, so I probably only got 1% of what was available, but I did get something.
In one of the sessions Werner set up the question: I have something to say in the matter… and what the matter was I don’t remember, but I suspect, that he was doing what I am doing with my DNA adjusted students: Continue reading “I have something to say in the matter. But what do I say?”
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How do you know, how can you tell what is your attitude?I have always wondered where good acting comes from… acting that almost no American actor does well… almost, I said.
But where do the attitudes that give the foundation of a scene originate.
But this morning I got really lucky. I saw a few interviews with Larry Thomas who played the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld. Continue reading “Can you pinpoint your attitude with 100% certainty?”
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Let’s see if you have a sense of humor? If you don’t… stop here and go darken someone’s day
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~ Woody Allen
When I first came to the United States in late September of 1985, my trip was paid by a lawyer somewhere on the Palisades of NJ. I asked his secretary to type up my resume. She did it, on a computer.
There was something I wanted to change, so I asked for permission to go to the office and change that thing over the weekend. Continue reading “How I learn and other stories you can learn from”
