Personal Meditation No. 123

“The most rebellious action is taking ownership of your life.”

Embrace the Within.

It doesn’t take much courage to go along with the crowd. To think and act like everyone else is rather simple. There are plenty of influences out there to get you to go along and get along.

Once you start making changes and take ownership of your life, then you start seeing all the hatred. More hatred than you would get from wearing a Trump hat in the city. Folks are looking at you in disdain for daring to think and act unconventionally. Your lack of conformity is going to make them feel uncomfortable. It is going to shine a light on their lack of abundance. And they aren’t going to like it.

Your mind and body aren’t going to like change either. They are going to work against you to bring back the routine and sameness they are accustomed. You won’t find friends within and without when you get started changing. When you start taking ownership of you, things get markedly worse before they get better.

And that’s the struggle we all have to face in the struggle for difference. Wanting something different means you have to start doing things different. You can’t keep the same life and expect change. That is insane.

Taking control of your path is a struggle. There will be tension without and within. BUT the rewards of being who you truly are become immeasurable.

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

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain

Personal Meditation No. 122

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

Embrace the Within.

Living your beliefs attracts the people that believe the same as you. It never ceases to amaze me at the wonderful people I have met throughout my life. So many people that have taught me so much along the way. A lot of it starts with my own parents and my family as I was younger to some truly remarkable teachers to friends I have met and friends that I have rediscovered as I have grown older. It’s difficult to think of a time better than right now for the depth and spectrum of friends I have. Friends that live their beliefs.

I have met anarchists and statists that are out there living their best lives. Doing what makes them free and letting others remain free as well. They believe strongly in their beliefs but not so strongly that they need everyone else to believe the same. Some of my best conversations over the social media airwaves have started as differences of opinion that have led to two folks being understanding and listening. Conversations that led to a mutual respect for believing. I have had a few conversations that started as differences of opinion and continued to worse places BUT I tend to regard those as challenges. Amor fati.

You have to love the strangeness of life. There are so many folks to learn things from in order to grow along your path. So many things to learn about life and yourself out there. So many opportunities for growth. So many chances to change and become better today than you were yesterday.

BUT there are so many diversions to get folks side tracked. Technology is great for getting things done faster, learning things faster, and getting supplies faster BUT it can also pull you into its many distractions and diversions. Just like any media, social media has an agenda as well. If you don’t pay for it, then you are the product.

So, enjoy what technology gives us the opportunity to learn. Here I am closing in on fifty and I am still learning something new every single day of my life. I hope you are learning something new as well. I hope you are taking advantage of what technology can do to bring us together, help us grow, and make change. It is a far more compelling future to embrace than the narrative of doom and gloom some like to embrace.

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

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain