Live the Dharma

What makes us human?
Is it our heart, opening…closing, like the windows of God’s eyes.
Is it our brains, constantly scanning, searching, hoping, thinking about what comes next.
Is it our emotions, feeling a single high for every low, always keeping us on our toes.
Is it our ability to recognize suffering? Is it our ability to acknowledge it?
Are [...]

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I’m proud to be who I am. I am thankful to God, The Creator, The Divine…for giving me a chance to take on this shell and learn what it was like to be human once.
There are some that teach us to feel guilty for being born in this skin. Others will have you believe we [...]

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Would You Take the Red Pill?
You claim freedom and free will, but how far are you willing to go to back that up? Given the choice, would you take the red pill and risk everything to gain it all, or would you be afraid to leave your “quasi” life behind and cower behind the blue [...]

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Living Your Dreams

In the last two parts of the series, I talked about eyeing the world with innocence, and keeping hope alive. In the final installment of this series, I’d like to talk about keeping your dreams alive. Now, nowhere in the manual of life does it have to say that you have to reach [...]

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A World Full of Hope

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In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about seeing the world for what it truly is, which is full of magic and wonder. In this part, I’d like to move on to the topic of hope. I believe that there is far too little hope remaining [...]

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I’ve been reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and besides being extremely impressed wih the quality of the writing itself, I am fascinated with the character of Howard Roark. If you haven’t read the book (I highly recommend it), Howard Roark is a man defined by his integrity. In this instance, integrity [...]

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