2020 – Step 62: Journey to a New Life

"Compassion is the basis of all morality."  ~Arthur Schopenhauer Out-of-time-outcomes. Chop wood - carry water - OR - Chop water - carry wood.  Repeat in reverse.  Westlessness - the end of the subconscious belief in civilization supremacy.  Worry (mind) and stress (body) - click here - are caused by anxiety.  When concerns from the outer …

2020 – Step 36: Point of No Return

"Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."  ~Hank Aaron Linear thinking cannot solve exponential problems.  Plan for the Unplanned.  Slip into something less comfortable.  Is the glass half-empty or half-full?  Remember - two halves make a "whole."  If Human can't find happiness inside - then it will not …

Step 364: Change Over Habit

"I hope in this year to come, you make mistakes.  If you're making mistakes, then you're making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.  You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."  ~Neil Gaiman 2019 is about to go dark.  The 2010's brought …

Step 327: Sunday Blessings – Skittles

"Confluence - (noun) - the act or process of merging.  A flowing together of two or more streams." Educating the Mind without educating the Heart is NOT education - at all.  Is it possible to choose correctly without "seeing?"  Skittles candy pieces are all the same flavor - but the brain tricks Human into thinking …

Step 303: Unfinished Business

"Phantasm - (noun) - a product of fantasy: delusive appearance; illusion; ghost or spector; a figment of the imagination; a figment of the imagination.  A mental representation of a real object." Look beneath the surface - what's "brewing?"  Human loves satisfying - yet unprovable explanations for human behavior.  We'll call it a "rationalization."  Human rationalizes …