Softly

Softly is the way to go

Violence does not usually help

Nor do the majority want it

Violence is the method of choice for those who cannot offer anything else

Nothing constructive

Just killing with imagined justice on their side

Will the world adjust to the random violence of fanatics?

It did before in other times

This time everyone everywhere is involved it affects us all in one way or another

Softly may not appear to be the answer

However hearts and minds must be won if success is to be gained

Alienated young must be reached

To see the error of violence as a means of obtaining their masters ends

Efforts must be made to end the glaring inequalities around this planet

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Walls will not help

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They never have for more than a short time
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No reason to believe they will now
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Education and discipline must be the twin approaches
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Education to lead the majority away from violence
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Discipline because the line has to be drawn with no compromise for those who would murder
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And your role?
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Be clear, be conscious one day it will affect you

Politics

Are a dirty game in most places

Can anyone think of a place where they are not?

Often masquerading as democracy

Voting once every few years for greedy men and women

Is not an appealing proposition

People who will then spend other people's money

As they and various interest lobbies see fit.

Leading us into foolish directions

Avoiding critical issues trying to find the easy way out

Our choices?

Stay uninvolved

As many do

Or start exploring Internet forums

There are many groups today who are very active

Over time these groups are finding their way to make themselves heard

Add your voice

Life is too important to be left to politicians.

New

Is stimulating

Is refreshing

Is important

We all get into daily habits and routines

Without noticing we do the same old things over and over

Make it your business to do something new this summer

or winter depending on where you live.

Go into nature

Enjoy our beautiful planet

Do something new

We all need new

Mmmmm - 49

‘Do not be the slave of the vagrant mental tramps that run through your mind. ...
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When the thoughts chase through the mind as unruly steeds do not struggle and waste your force.


Picture to yourself the things opposite to those you hate.


Picture the things that you really inwardly love, really love in your heart, and which you know are helpful. ...


The secret is inner visualization ...

‘If you find yourself gloomy, if you are ashamed of thoughts that are in your mind, do not struggle with them, do not fight them, forget them. ...

If you are obsessed by uglinesses, picture to yourself scenes of beauty. ...

See things of a high and noble character and visualize them forcefully.

Visualize to yourself a success in fine things.

Visualize things of beauty, of inward splendor.’

(GPE 42-6)

Strange

When something goes wrong that has been working perfectly well for a long time

Scratch your head and wonder what the h.... happened

Then check everything

It all looks OK

Batteries fine

Leads OK

Connections seem fine

No luck

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Ring service center go through normal nausea of trying to talk to a human

Human finally comes on line and runs through trouble shooting list

Still nothing, repair call out will cost a million Euros/Pounds and that's without spare parts

Repair man arrives and spends thirty seconds fiddling

Voila it works

Thank you and normal life resumes

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Item does not work

Go and buy new unit

Either experience gives you a little jolt and plenty of fiddling around finding service manuals, calling service centers and so on

Notice how quickly life changed with one little inconvenience

Did you get irritable?

Or did your equanimity remain tranquil and undisturbed?

Like most of us you could probably have done better

These experiences are real life

See if you can improve your life performance

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Over time it saves a lot of grief and stress.

Morning laugh

We would be pretty sorry people without it

It keeps intolerable situations tolerable

Don't know if you do but it's a nice way to wake up

Go on line and open your mail and find some jokes there

Send them on and lo the day is better

Nice to laugh at the jokes if they are funny

And nicer to send them on

Something about sharing makes them funnier

Knowing your friends will laugh

Feeling good that they will feel good

Pass humour around we all need it

Have a laugh today

Smoking

Is no longer a fun or sexy thing

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Now it is out

No longer fashionable or cool

Dope fine that's something else

Talking here about nicotine

Notice how companies are offering to help you stop smoking with patches and pills of guess what?

Nicotine

Are they kidding?

Giving you more poison direct into the blood system

More poison?

Thanks a lot

If you want to give up smoking then find a higher hierarchy

Something more important than cigarettes

Like good health for the rest of your life

So that you do not arrive at the end sitting in a hospital bed filled with tubes to keep you alive

Choosing good health for life makes it more likely that your determination to stop smoking can be successful

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Using poison to stop smoking is not the best way

Not only time

But our energy levels have also changed recently

Our experience of time changed after the last full eclipse of the sun

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The past hardly exists any longer

Energy levels have been variable since then as well

Meaning?

That you will feel suddenly very tired and sleepy

All you feel like doing is to go and lie down

If you experience this and can lie down then do so

Even if only for ten minutes

We are into a period where many things are changing

The weather everywhere

Time for all of us

And now our energy levels as well

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Be aware

Breathless

TV people, pretending gravitas with today's must know stories

Breathlessly reading their auto cues

Story gone tomorrow, but oh so important today

Have you heard, didn't you know?

Who cares?

An overload of spin and deceit

Dis-empowering because none of us can know which is which

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Few of us can do anything with this information except to wonder why

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Why so much pain and unpleasant behaviour?

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Do humans really have to behave this way?

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And then as surely as night follows day

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More important visual fragments and sound bites.

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Let them be

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Life can continue much more agreeably if you cut them out

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For one month go without

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Oh and don't worry if the world really has come to an end someone will tell you.

Not just words

You cannot talk all the time

Some try, but usually wind up being alone

Relationships thrive on emotions shared not just words

Men often find trouble sharing emotions

Why is this?

Cultural reasons might explain a little

No education in this area is another possible reason

Parents who spend little time with their children is another

Parents who never experienced this themselves is more likely

How do you share love if you never knew it yourself?

How do you share emotions of love if you have never seen them

How do you create a loving family if you have never seen one

Been in one

And here's the rub so many have never experienced these things

So next time your partner or friend shows no understanding make sure that they know what you are asking for

You would be surprised how many have no experience of sharing emotions

Simple idea emotions shared

Equals emotions understood

Simple idea yes

Reality no

Realise that words do not mean the other person understands