The other day, I was asked what I thought of the ads running almost nonstop for the elections in 2 weeks. I choose not to watch much TV, even in the middle of a 40 below cold snap in Minnesota. I do not get the daily newspaper; limit my viewing of TV programming, or watch many newscasts. I will watch the history channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and I do read a lot of books. I generally have 7-8 books open at one time, in all various states of being read. I belong to a study group that meets on Sunday evening, and every 3 months we read a new book and discuss it. I know the more I read, the more I will learn and advance in my career, but I really like to read, so any advancement is incidental. I have traveled the globe, been in the southwest with the Sacketts, traveled with Rand in “Wheel of Time,” traveled to far off galaxies with Luke and other star travelers, and sought enlightenment from the world foremost authorities, past and present. I have traveled back 2000 years ago and found that spin-doctors were very much alive and well and making changes in sacred texts and rewriting history. Some things do not change much at times. The winners get to rewrite history.
I do my best to try to keep my focus on positive thoughts, and stay away from the negative thoughts that sells fear and advertising.
If you wish to use this lifetime in a constructive fashion, in the only life focus of real value to your path, you will turn your attention away from the garbage of remote events reported by the media to inform you, but which really only divert your attention away from your life. Your life consists of the events you encounter first hand and the relationships you maintain in the ongoing days, is your prime concern. If problems are encountered there, those problems are indicative of real elements of you that need attention. The problems of the extended world are not you.
Understand, those problems, out there in the famines and disasters of the world, will always be there—at least until major portions of humanity outgrow their restricted vision of the workings of reality. Certainly you cannot solve them, cannot divert their problematic energies by your focus on their details. Only the problems you encounter in the daily course of your life can you deal with—and those, in that they reflect your inner state, you must delve into within yourself. The only part of the world that you can impact is you world and your thoughts. By changing your thoughts, your reality, your life, you will then change your view of the world.
As you delve inward to clean your mind of its limiting values, if you focus your attention on the crud and debris of the world’s disasters, you will be effectively taking a shower while standing deep in the mud. It’s impossible to take a good shower while standing in that mud. You might get the top part of you clean, but a lot of you—including some rather significant parts—will still be mighty dirty when you are finished.
I do my best to try to keep my focus on positive thoughts, and stay away from the negative thoughts that sells fear and advertising.
If you wish to use this lifetime in a constructive fashion, in the only life focus of real value to your path, you will turn your attention away from the garbage of remote events reported by the media to inform you, but which really only divert your attention away from your life. Your life consists of the events you encounter first hand and the relationships you maintain in the ongoing days, is your prime concern. If problems are encountered there, those problems are indicative of real elements of you that need attention. The problems of the extended world are not you.
Understand, those problems, out there in the famines and disasters of the world, will always be there—at least until major portions of humanity outgrow their restricted vision of the workings of reality. Certainly you cannot solve them, cannot divert their problematic energies by your focus on their details. Only the problems you encounter in the daily course of your life can you deal with—and those, in that they reflect your inner state, you must delve into within yourself. The only part of the world that you can impact is you world and your thoughts. By changing your thoughts, your reality, your life, you will then change your view of the world.
As you delve inward to clean your mind of its limiting values, if you focus your attention on the crud and debris of the world’s disasters, you will be effectively taking a shower while standing deep in the mud. It’s impossible to take a good shower while standing in that mud. You might get the top part of you clean, but a lot of you—including some rather significant parts—will still be mighty dirty when you are finished.
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