Consecration

“I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest. I will search within for the pure idea of right in all things, and when I find it I will express it in my outward life.  I will abandon everything I have outgrown for the best I can think.  I will have the highest thoughts concerning all my relationships, and my manner and action shall express these thoughts.  I surrender my body to be ruled by my mind; I yield my mind to the dominion of my soul, and I give my soul to the guidance of God.”

Listen to life

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above. – Útmutató a Léleknek.
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A New You

@Regrann from @dasoulkey@idillionaire: The energy you keep around is constantly affecting you. The ones you spend most of your time with, influence your attitude, thoughts, beliefs, and your level of success more than you think.
Everyone walking around is holding a level of vibration. Some people are stuck in their own cycles and habits that keep their energy at a low vibration. In this state, the person tends to see life from a negative perspective. They always seem to be complaining, and have many problems in all areas of their life. A person like this, will most likely try to bring you down if you’re around them. They’ll try to make you see life from their “negative” perspective, and discourage your dreams & vision. If you’re around them too long, you’ll start to share a vibration of belief with them.
Only energy connects people, and you can’t expect to stay positive being around negative vibrations. This is why it’s crucial to understand the energy you hold, and the people it aligns you with.
High vibrational beings are people who have an optimistic view on life, they’re always happy, because nothing affects their internal state, they get what they want because like attracts like, success is apart of their life, because they hold a positive belief about money. Being around someone like this will inspire you and show you an insight into a life that you probably didn’t know existed. Their good vibrations will uplift you.
However, to attract someone in higher vibrational state, you have to be in that state to align yourself. All this alignment is happening, but we can’t see it unless we start paying attention to the things we’ve manifested around us. When you realize the kind of energy you have been attracting, then and only then can you make a change. Don’t try to hold on to meaningless friendships, and relationships that are keeping you in low vibrations. Life is too short to waste your precious energy on being unhappy. Shift yourself to align yourself.
Tag someone to inspire. ✨ – via #Regrann#vibrations #Energy #LOA #Awareness#Prosperity #Mastery #Knowledge#loveyourself #Change

Greatness

There is a Principle of Power in every person. The sharing of the mental runs deeper than the ocean. The sharing of the mental goes deeper than the holes of space. I extend the level of consciousness with a deed of kindness man made developed with the genius of God. The genius within. Man inherent power. Mental Power of man has yet to show any boundary.

Excerpt: The Science of being great–

The power of conscious growth is not given to the lower animals; it is man’s alone and may be developed and increased by him. The lower animals can, to a great extent, be trained and developed by man; but man can train and develop himself. He alone has this power, and he has it to an apparently unlimited extent.

What is your power?

What does your future hold for you? Claim it!

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person, anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible in action. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

Viewpoint

“All is right with the world.  It is perfect and advancing to completion. I will contemplate the facts of social, political, and industrial life only from this high viewpoint.  Behold, it is all very good.  I will see all human beings, all my acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and the members of my own household in the same way.  They are all good.  Nothing is wrong with the universe; nothing can he wrong but my own personal attitude, and henceforth I keep that right.  My whole trust is in God.”

Love

LOVE is the only bow on life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star.  It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art, inspirer of poet, Patriot and philosopher.   It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, Kindle of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality.   It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of the wondrous flower–the heart–and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beast; but with it, earth is heaven and we are gods.

—–INGERSOLL

All Growth is from within

Laws are specific, mastered by the gifted/
thought trained by the everything taken on a difference in appearance/
the uninteresting and once insignificant/
becomes the opposite, reality vital thing in existence/
ALL mistakes are but the mistakes of ignorance/
certainly conditions, environment and experiences/
Life characteristics, habitual, predominant, stimulant/
I entertain the weak consciously with great assistance/
My vocal box, tongue and mouth is a mighty instrument/
I treasure the value while in tune with the infinite/
It’s traditional, initiating and assembling/
members through the threshold while contributing to evolution/
Cultural in this stage of life, Access to the portal;the temple/
complicated yet simple are the truths, the laws: the principles/
Light, Life and Love-ancient and mystical/
Like GOD creations manifesting in expressions/
symbolized and justified by the omnipotence, omnipresence/
Universal soul… Your body is the residence/
Mortal mind, the flesh; the perfect essence/
Be knowledge invested, know the golden mean/
put effort in attitude not to view with negative extremes/
it’s evident in all nature where it begins/
every plant, every animal, every human–ALL growth is from within….

Is it just sex? (The beginning/The Tantra)

In our experience only love can give a glimpse.  That is why love becomes the very basic device to impart tantric wisdom.  In our experience we can say that only love is something which goes beyond duality.  When two persons are in love, the deeper they move into it, the less they are two, the more and more they become one.  And a point comes and a peak is reached when only apparently they are two.  Inwardly they are one; duality is transcended.

God is love…  Love is the only reality in our experience which reaches nearest to God, to the divine. Why? Because in love oneness is felt. Bodies remain two, but something beyond the bodies merges and becomes one.

That is why there is so much hankering after sex.  The real hankering is after oneness, but that oneness is not sexual.  In sex two bodies have only a deceptive feeling of becoming one, but they are not one, they are only joined together.  But for a single moment two bodies forget themselves in each other, and a certain physical oneness is felt.  This hankering is not bad, but to stop at it is dangerous.  This hankering shows a deeper urge to feel oneness.

Shared from the Book of Secrets– Osho

The Goal

The Goal

The Means is the End:

We intend to restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the advocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings, but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually. The central insights of this awareness is the recognition of the Emergent and Symbiotic elements of natural law and how aligning with these understandings as the bedrock of our personal and social institutions, life on earth can and will flourish into a system which will continuously grow in a positive way, where negative social consequences, such as social stratification, war, biases, elitism and criminal activity will be constantly reduced and, idealistically, eventually become nonexistent within the spectrum of human behavior itself.

 

This possibility is, of course, very difficult for most humans to consider, for we have been conditioned by society to think that crime, corruption and dishonesty is “the way it is” and that there will always be people who want to abuse, hurt and take advantage of others. Religion is the largest promoter of this propaganda, for the “us and them” or “good and evil” mentality promotes this false assumption.

 

The reality is that we live in a society that produces Scarcity. The consequence of this scarcity is that human beings must behave in self preserving ways, even if it means they have to cheat and steal in order to get what they want. Our research has concluded that Scarcity is one of the most fundamental causes of aberrant human behavior, while also leading to complex forms of neurosis in other ways. A statistical look at drug addiction, crime and incarceration statistics, finds that poverty and unhealthy social conditions comprise the life experience of those who engage in such behavior.

 

Human beings are not good or bad… they are running, forever changing compositions of the life experience(s) that influences them. The “quality” of a human being ( if there was such a thing ) is directly related to the upbringing and thus belief systems they have been conditioned into.

 

This simple reality has been grossly overlooked and today people primitively think that competition, greed and corruption are “hardwired” elements of human behavior and, in turn, we must have prisons, police and hence a hierarchy of differential control in order for society to deal with these “tendencies”. This is totally illogical and false.

 

The bottom line is that in order to change things for the better fundamentally, you must begin to address root causes. Our current society’s system of “punishment” is outmoded, inhumane, and unproductive. When a serial killer is caught, most people jump up and down and scream for the death of that person. This is backwards. A truly sane society, which understands what we are and how our value systems are created, would take the individual and learn the reasons behind his or her violent actions. This information would then go to a research department which considers how to stop such conditions from occurring through education.

 

It is time to stop the patchwork. It is time to begin a new social approach which is updated to present day knowledge. Sadly, society today is still largely based on outmoded, superstitious dispositions and resolutions.

 

It is also important to point out that there are no utopias or endings. All evidence points to perpetual change on all levels. In turn, it is our personal actions everyday of our lives that mold and perpetuate the social systems we have in place. Yet, paradoxically, it is also our environmental influences which create our perspectives and hence world views. Therefore, true change will come not only from adjusting your personal understandings and decisions, but equally from changing the social structures that influence these understandings and decisions.

 

The elite power systems are little affected in the long run by traditional protest and political movements. We must move beyond these ‘establishment rebellions’ and work with a tool much more powerful:
We will stop supporting the system, while constantly advocating knowledge, peace, unity and compassion. We cannot “fight the system”. Hate, anger and the ‘war’ mentality are failed means for change, for they perpetuate the same tools the corrupt, established power systems use to maintain control to begin with.

 

The Distortion and Paralysis:

When we understand that all systems are Emergent and constantly in a state of evolution, along with the reality that we are all Symbiotically connected to nature and each other in the most simple yet profound ways, forcing the realization that our personal integrity is only as high as the integrity of the rest of society, we then see how twisted and backwards our social establishments are and how their perpetuation is largely the cause of the social instability in society. For example, the Monetary System has been long deemed a positive force in society due to its claim to produce incentive and progress. In actuality, the monetary system has become a vehicle for division and totalitarian control.

 

It is the ultimate form of “Divide and Conquer” for at its very core are the assumptions that (1) We must fight each other in order to survive. (2) Humans must have this reward “Incentive” to do anything meaningful.

 

As far as Number 1 (We must fight each other in order to survive.), this characteristic of ‘competition’ in the system guarantees corruption in society on every level, for the basis is “us against them”. Many argue that the “free market system” is good… but it is corrupt in the modern day due to bad policies, favoritism, bailouts, etc. They assume that if a “pure” free market was allowed to flourish then it would be okay. This is false, for what you are seeing today IS the Free market at work, with all its differential advantage and corruption. No laws will ever stop the insider trading, collusion, monopoly, labor abuse, pollution, planned obsolescence or the like… this is what the competition based system produces without fail, for it is based on the premise of taking advantage of others for profit. Period.

 

We must begin to transition out of these oppressive ideals and move towards a system which is “designed” to support human beings… not force them to fight in order to survive. As far as Number 2, (Humans must have this reward “Incentive” to do anything meaningful.) this is just a sad and an incredibly negative perspective of the human being in general. To assume that a person must be “structurally motivated” or hence “forced” into doing anything, is just absurd. Think back to when you were a child and had no idea what money even was. You played, were curious and did many things… why? Because you wanted to. However, as time goes on in our system, that natural curiosity and self-motivation is stripped away from people, as they are forced to conform to the specialized, compartmentalized, nearly predefined labor system in order to survive. This, in turn, often creates a natural rebellion within the person due to the forced obligation, and this is how we came up with “leisure” and “work” separations. The laziness assumed to exist by the monetary system proponents (who claim it produces incentive) do not recognize this. In a true society, people would follow their natural inclinations and work to contribute to society not because they are “paid” for it, but because they have a greater awareness which recognizes that contributing to society helps them just as much as everyone else. This is the heightened state of awareness we hope to communicate. Your reward for contributing to society is the well being of that society… which, in turn, furthers your well being.

 

Now, putting things into perspective, it is important to understand that our world is currently run, undeniably, by a small group of dominant men in high positions of those institutions which are most dominant in society- Business and Finance. The establishment of government is in tandem with the influence and power of corporations and banks. The life blood is money, which is, in fact, an illusion that now has little relevance to society and serves as a tool for manipulation and division along a kind of social organization that guarantees elitism, crime, war and social stratification.

 

Simultaneously, individuals are taught that being “correct” is what creates their value as human beings. This state of being “correct” is directly related to the prevailing values of society itself. Therefore, those who accept and support the social system’s views are considered “normal”, while those who disagree are considered “abnormal” or even “subversive”. Whether it is the dogma of a unique social tradition, or the alignment with a worldwide establishment religion, the basis is the same: Intellectual Materialism.

 

As we realize that knowledge and hence our institutions are always evolving, we see that any belief system which claims to “know” anything, without allowing for dispute, is a failed perspective. Religion, with its foundation in faith, is the king of this distortion, as it claims to know something definitively about the most complex and elusive origins of human kind, and this simply is not possible in an emergent universe.

That being said, it is then realized that equally as dangerous as the Establishment Power Structures, are the people who have been conditioned to completely accept the static understandings put forth by these systems… therefore becoming: “Self Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo”. This applies to every system, especially political, financial and religious systems. Since people’s identities become associated with the doctrines of a Country, Religion or Business ethic, it often becomes very difficult for a person to change, for his or her identity has become combined with the ideologies which have been imposed upon them.

Therefore, they perpetuate the doctrine of the institution, simply to maintain their personal integrity, as they see it.

 

We must break this cycle, for it paralyses our growth not only as individuals, but as a society.

New Year

“It seems strange to me that we look upon ‘New Year’s Day’, as the beginning of a new cycle for making changes and resolutions. Can there be any greater cycle than the one of 24 hours that is close at hand each day? Think of waiting from one year to another to make new resolutions when each new sunrise brings the birth of a cycle that is just as full of possibilities as any great mystical cycle can be!” Harvey Spencer Lewis

Syrian Clementine liturgyy

O GOD, Who art the unsearchable abyss of peace, the ineffable sea of love, the fountain of blessings and The bestower of affection, Who sendest peace to those. That receive it. Open to us the sea of THY love and water us with the plenteous streams from the riches of THY grace. Make us children of quietness and heirs of peace. Enkindle in us the fire of THY love; sow in us THY fear; strengthen our weakness by THY power; and bind us closely to THEE and to each in one firm bond of unity.

Seneca’s imaginary tutor

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external precepts.  Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.  Come to hold yourself in awe, and you will have no need of Seneca’s  imaginary tutor. — BALTASAR GRACIAN (1601-1658)

Royal

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external precepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. Come to hold yourself in awe, and you will have no need of Seneca’s imaginary tutor.

BALTASAR GRACIAN, 1601-1658

What must one do?

What must one do when words must not be said but they must? Even if the words are not said, they are being heard. Thought has been given thought. I remember seeing two owls starring back. Phenomenon? Not really. But in my eyes…. Strong 18 but weaker as older.  Beauty goes inside the ear seen by heart. It gets there quicker cause the eye cant hear.  Love the light but finding a home in the dark. I cant. I will shed this house. Just let me still have some youth.  

Written by:KV
(A letter to me)..

Weekend Wisdom: Whispers and Prayers

 

The higher form of society, which we call civilization, really begins with a growing self-consciousness and the attempt to have it discipline the whole of human behavior.

Despite the trials and tribulations of life, always consider life the most precious gift the Cosmic ever granted human beings, because it is the medium of our spiritual evolution and the source of the happiness we seek.  Furthermore, regard your body as the temple of your soul, and take great care of it.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” — King Solomon

O my God, the best of Thy gifts within my heart is the hope of Thee and the sweetest word upon my tongue is Thy praise, and the hours which I love best are those in which I meet with Thee.  O my God, I cannot endure without the remembrance of Thee in this world and how shall I be able to endure without the vision of Thee in the next world?  O my Lord, my plaint to Thee is that I am but a stranger in Thy country, and lonely among Thy worshippers.  —Rabi’a al-Adawiyya

 

The Beginning Stage (of the last days)

 

Behold essential Kingdom principles, ancient wisdom

mystical like the 7, the Gods that navigates the heavens

relevance in my presence, I present life through the words that I write

I’ve got death on my tongue and sin on my flesh

And at the very best of what you miss is here to greet you

embark on this journey to the full nine

on the black side, headed east into the sun rise

watch by the eye of RA we are space travelers

I’ve been here before with Sumerians holding a key

Seven Angels now surround me as I kneel with my hands together

Halo’ over thy crown, no wings, no sound! Just praise

This is the beginning stage of the last days….

 

Written by dasoulkey (Des)

 

Motivational Rules: No.6

DON’T LIMIT YOURSELF. “Constantly envision what you see yourself being.  Don’t allow yourself to be defined by what other people say you are.  Dreams don’t have deadlines.  Don’t let fear control you.”
Motivational Rules are shared by @llcoolj from an MF ICON article published March 2011.

Motivational Rules: No.5

LEARN TO DO WHAT YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE DOING. ” Sometimes you roll out of bed and don’t feel like going to the gym–doesn’t matter. You gotta master your emotions, master yourself.  What’s that saying–‘A man who can conquer himself is greater than the one who can conquer a city’?  If it’s the right thing, and you know you’re supposed to do it–do it even if you don’t feel like doing it.”

Motivational Rules: Rule No.4

LET THINGS GO. ” Do your best, pull all of your energy in, and then you gotta let it go.  If you become too attached to something, that can block your success.  At the same time, don’t rest on your laurels.  Don’t plant a seed, then sit on top of it to protect it–you’ll keep it from growing.”

Motivational Rules: Rule No.3

LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY. “I think it was Abe Lincoln who once said, ‘I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.’ Learn from your mistakes, the mistakes of others, and apply them in a practical manner.  Learning opens up your life, you’re constantly improving, it keeps you from being stagnant. When you stop learning-it’s over.”

Motivational Rules: Rule No. 2

CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS. “You get in life what you give out.  If you want the world to celebrate your success, you have to celebrate the success of the world.  And use others’ success as motivation and inspiration to go after your dreams.”

Motivational Rules: Rule No.1

 

Seek Balance:  “The four quadrants of your life are health (exercise and diet), business (going after your dreams and working toward them), family and friends (spending time with them and enjoying them), and the spiritual (giving to charity and being grateful).  It’s like a scale.  The secret to balancing a scale is putting equal amount of weight on both sides.  Obviously no one is perfect, but if you always mean to balance the four quadrants in your life, things kinda fall in place.”

 

The Way of the Heart

I know a simple man who has never read a book and who, nevertheless, can solve the trickiest problems of science better than famous scientists.  There are humble people without academic qualifications and medical experience to who heaven is so accessible that the sick are healed at their request and the wicked feel their hearts melting in loving kindness at their contact.

Joan of Arc had never read a treatise on strategy nor seen a battlefield, but she defeated at her first attempt the greatest tacticians of her time! How could this be? It is quite simple: because she surrendered completely to Divine Will and did not question the Invisible, as an adept of the intellectual plane would have done.

Should one then wonder at the puzzled way in which critics look at these creatures who are animated by the “living light of the Father” and generally known as quietists or mystics? They (the adepts of the intellectual plane) cannot understand them because they attempt to measure universal faculties with the limited capacities of their brains. Because they cannot understand the mystic, critics insult them and hold them in contempt, while mystics pray for their tormentors and carry on with their labors of love.

Live always for others and never for self;

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you at all levels;

Don’t ever speak or think evil of the absent;

Do what is hard before doing what you like–

Written by Papus

Weekend Wisdom: Grenville Kleiser

If I can do some good today,

If I can serve along life’s way,

If I can something helpful say,

LORD, show me how!

If I can right a human wrong,

If I can help to make one strong,

If I can cheer with smile or song,

LORD, show me how!

If I can do a kindly deed,

If I can help someone in need,

If I can sow a fruitful seed,

LORD, show me how!

If I can feed a hungry heart,

If I can give a better start,

If I can fill a nobler part,

LORD, show me how!

–by Grenville Kleiser

The Emotional Uplift

Emotional intelligence is irrelevant or should I say in this case the main cause of the situation?  The situation is like an invitation to your dark side.   Is this the neurochemistry of timidity? Your aggression becomes my confession… Along with a knee jerk perception.  I’m hostile, sensitive and typically committing an inside crime, delinquent in time. Intensified are my thoughts by my feelings and your judgement.  I engage with rage following instruction to strike hard.  These words are accompanied by lies complete yet preventive of destruction. I find no peace but I do find justice!  You suppress me! You depress me! You consistently raise the rates of what it cost for your attention! I have to choose sides like I am at a political event…  I propose defeat. My failure runs deep.  I am an individual ascending to higher heights of belief. My source last to coöperate beyond your game of experience.  I leave you puzzled  at my point of contention.

This is my social art extending from a demonstrative heart. Consider my words remarkable  like biological patterns at play as a life without empathy.

I state my cognitive elements. These are my elements of intelligence.  My feelings that went missing with all that should become seen as essential. Am I practical?  Indifferent?

I am self-aware unlike many who go there, do you dare ask where? Where the heart lies a thousand times over to oneself. It’s enough to make you realize just how many steps you are closer to death.  Let me reflect. Unpleasant moods, degrees of success, anger, mercy, regret with a contrasting view calculated to equal disrespect.

I’m a mood altering device. I remove anxiety! I am the speaker of therapy.  I choose freely while you become filled with worry.  My positivity explains your misery. I am the resource, the hope, the optimistic reality, the achievement of super natural ability!

Is this the cost of love?

Once again… It falls upon my heart and I am now in despair. Copeness and  the ways of love concludes the everlasting journey of perfection in imperfection.  I rubbed aloes on your scars and fed you strawberries and brought myrrh and cinnamon to show my gratitude. I worshipped you and viewed every moment as a blessing. Knowledge and understanding, my lady is Sophia=Wisdom.. You are special, you are beautiful, you are the mother of my earth and I stand with you.  God gave you to me but the instruction and guides are deluded.  Words are no longer heard or listened to and the Kingdom is now vulnerable. This is LOVE. I love hard and my love has been treated  as a disease. We deserve more and we have it, the future is ours, the Kingdom is ours but placement of values and tradition are misplaced and my heart pierced by your rod, your spear and I bleed— Is this the cost of love? Oh what pain do I endure…

Elliptic Soliloquy

I kissed the sky and reminded myself of an elliptic soliloquy, a remedy for Passion, Lust, and Love…

I saw your beauty and was sadden by my own faults and flaws….

I surround myself with universal law and truth beyond comparison to others perception…

The depth of my understanding falls deaf upon unwise ears…

My years are shown in the reflection of my tears

and my GLORY is told in another persons story…

My Love is lost, my Life is found…

My heart is abandoned and my mind is drowned—-by thoughts of

natural intelligence and nostalgia combining an epilogue

of distraught men to a battle of wits and blood

is it better for one to share wealth or have his grave dug?

–D. R. Strong (Gnosis)

Misfortunes

Those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them.  But there are others who are not born to misfortune or unhappiness, but who draw it upon themselves by their destructive actions and unsettling effect on others.  It would be a great thing if we could raise them up, change their patterns, but more often than not it is their patterns that end up getting inside and changing us.  The reason is simple– humans are extremely susceptible to the moods, emotions, and even the ways of thinking of those with whom they spend their time.

The incurably unhappy and unstable have a particularly strong infecting power because their characters and emotions are so intense.  They often present themselves as victims, making it difficult, at first, to see their miseries as  self-inflicted.  Before you realize the real nature of their problems you have been infected by them.

Understand this:  The people you associate with are critical.  The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself.  Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others.  Never underestimate the dangers of infection.

There are people who attract happiness to themselves by their good cheer, natural buoyancy, and intelligence.  They are a source of pleasure, and you must associate with them to share in the prosperity they draw upon themselves.

Recognize the fortunate so that you may choose their company, and the unfortuante so that you may avoid them.  Misfortune is usually the crime of folly, and among those who suffer from it there is no malady more contagious:  Never open your door to the least of misfortunes, for, if you do, many others will follow in its train… Do not die of another’s misery (Baltasar Bracian, 1601-1658)

This application is universal.  There is nothing to be gained by associating with those who infect you with their misery; there is only power and good fortune to be obtained by associating with the fortunate.  Ignore this law at your perill.  (Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power)

This was a lesson well learned (by experience)– Des