Personal Meditation No. 127

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within

I am tending toward disillusion when looking at how others act. There are few folks that are principled. Few folks that truly live their beliefs. Few folks that aren’t hypocrites in action. I hope you are coming to terms with those things in your life that are hypocritical. Those things that are antithetical to your journey. I hope you’re becoming principled in word and deed.

Folks don’t want to have more out of life. Sure, they claim they do BUT the evidence does not support those claims. The evidence supports that they want more without having to change anything in their life to get that abundance. Folks want to do the same thing and get different results than the day before. They want to get rich quick with as little effort as possible. That’s why there is an abundance of MLM and other Ponzi scheme entrepreneurs out there. Folks will easily manipulate and influence and take advantage of their coworkers, neighbors, family, and friends to turn a little easy cash. BUT that isn’t abundance. That isn’t getting more out of life. That’s being a shit human being.

Folks don’t want to take ownership for their actions. Sure, they claim they want responsibility BUT the evidence does not support those claims. The evidence supports that they want others to regurgitate what they already believe and justify their poor life choices. They want sycophants and yes men for friends that will tell them that their lives are alright just the way they are. Folks that will justify their poor behavior, justify their poor choices, justify their poor thoughts because those sycophants, those yes men, those friends are making the same poor choices as well. They don’t want responsibility for their actions. They want to hear that their shit life is not the product of their shit choices. That’s being a shit human being.

Folks don’t want truth. Sure, they claim they want truth and honesty BUT the evidence does not support those claims. The evidence supports that they value the comfort of a lie over the difficulty of the truth. This is evident in the words people use to cover up their horrible beliefs. They use terms like death penalty and abortion and war to cover over the term murder because it is easier to say I’m for abortion than it is to be honest with yourself and say I am for murder. Be honest and admit that you are for the choice that some people get to choose to murder some other people and be fine with that. Be honest and admit that you think some people shouldn’t get to make their own choices about their lives. Be honest and admit you could make better choices for them so they should listen to you. Be honest and admit you like a system, a government, a person telling you what to do so you don’t have to make those choices. Be honest and admit you want things to just be easier for you and a lot of the time that means they should just go along with your beliefs. That’s being a shit human.

And I was there. I was quite the shit human for quite some time. I wanted to make the world over in my own image. I wanted to do the same thing every day and wait for abundance to fall into my lap. I wanted to just hear that it wasn’t my fault. I wanted to hear that it was the government that was keeping me down. I wanted to have friends that didn’t call me on my bullshit. I wanted friends that were stuck in the same shit existence as me.

And it took a while to find my way out of it. No matter what tribes and groups and communities you find, there will be a lot of shit behaviors being justified by folks that aren’t ready to make changes. It is the reason we see generational poverty, family history of illnesses, gun violence, and a multitude of other problems I can’t think of right now but I am sure you can list as well. We have folks that are living less than lives getting together and convincing themselves that it’s ok. They tell each other it’s okay.

I don’t want to be okay anymore. I don’t want to sit around and wait for change to fall into my lap. I don’t wish anymore about what may happen. I make things happen.

I hope you’re making things happen in your life. I hope you are looking at that Ultimate Boon and working to get there every day. You may be on the Road of Trials right now BUT eventually you will get there because you are the hero of your own story. You get to answer the call and return changed.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain

Personal Meditation No. 126

“It’s not all in your mind but if you don’t control your mind, then the rest doesn’t matter.”

Embrace the Within

It’s another one of those important days for some folks. They get to go out and impose their will on others at the ballot box. That so many folks still buy into the notion that voting gives you a say in how things go and that if you don’t vote you have no right to complain, only proves that the government education and indoctrination machine is running according to plan.

It’s a nice distraction. It’s entertaining to watch. It’s a good activity for getting you to line up outside and get some Vitamin D. BUT voting is activity masquerading as accomplishment. They even give you a little sticker at the end that you’ll flaunt like I did in the past like a badge of honor.

Knowing anything about power and control will quickly strip you of the illusion that voting changes anything. Any of the politicians from any party take money from all sorts of interests to make sure that the system works for them and not for you. Unless you’re cutting checks or have some sort of large cult following, then I don’t see your vote changing anything.

What does change things? Taking control of your life. Ultimately, whatever the folks in Richmond, Annapolis, Charleston, Harrisburg, Washington, etc. decide means very little if you’re going to win. When you radically change your mindset to not worry about the next law or regulation, when you change your mindset to focus on controlling your life, when you change your mindset to one of abundance, when you change your mindset to empowering yourself, then you will realize that the true power over your life is internal and eternal.

Power is not temporal and external. That’s typically violence and coercion. True power doesn’t come from elections and governments. True power is having the control over your life. True power is being able to do what you want when you want for as long as you want.

And that power is inside of you. By living an abundant life, you get to make the rules for how your day is going to be in spite and despite what external factors exist.

If you’re ready to get free, if you’re ready to live a life of abundance, if you’re ready to embrace your ready to take control back, then you can make yourself great again. You can embrace that inner warlord and take back what is yours. Your body, your mind, your life are waiting for you to get back in charge. Are you going to take that control back?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain