On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

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Thank you for continually teaching me "love and kindness" and craziness too.

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Anger never ceases anger, but only through love that is the eternal and ancient rule.....

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Since it is Valentines Day, once my ex-wife wrote in her journal that Valentines Day is not for me.  It is for the all the other men who needed it to make it up to their wives.  I already make very day feel like Valentines Day.  That was a very long time ago.

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My favorite teachings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LE4wtPaano

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I am forgiving you for the dis-clarity that you planted in our garden.  I will continue to live with clarity all my life, because it what brings me peace.  It is what will empower me to be my best and allow me to live leading with love and kindness.  Your lack of clarity are not mine to keep, but thank you for the lesson.

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I don't know why this silly song is stuck in my head, have to post it once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieNz3Y79eY

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I don't know why this silly song is stuck in my head, have to post it once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieNz3Y79eY

Okay that was a really bad song and idea, but I will live with it on my blog.

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I came out alone on my way to my tryst.
But who is this that follows me in the silent dark?

I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not.

He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger;
he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.

He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame;
but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.

Rabindranath Tagore

I will rid myself of my own little self so that I won't be ashamed to come to thy door.  He has no place in my life.

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A great mentor.....Jim Rohn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6GY-mMILw

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Just in case the video is hard to understand, the son was actually the one that passed away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68xBh2ZklL8

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In the long run, life, like the stock market, reason and logic triumphs because it makes sense.  In the short, we act on our emotions because it gives understandable and immediate satisfaction.  Charge our emotions to completely understand reason and logic, and we will find performing tough tasks for long term success easier.

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I was spending with my daughter today and MOA.  She showed me a really sad video, and then she showed me a bunch of pictures of anime that she likes.  In one of the anime was the name Honda......the n something occurred to me.....

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For ST, one of my favorite stories on physical beauty:

Ryonen's Clear Realization

The Buddhist nun known as Ryonen was born in 1797. She was a granddaughter of the famous Japanese warrior Shingen. Her poetical genius and alluring beauty were such that at seventeen she was serving the empress as one of the ladies of the court. Even at such a youthful age fame awaited her.

The beloved empress died suddenly and Ryonen's hopeful dreams vanished. She became acutely aware of the impermanency of life in this world. It was then that she desired to study Zen.

Her relatives disagreed, however, and practically forced her into marriage. With a promise that she might become a nun after she had borne three children, Ryonen assented. Before she was twenty-five she had accomplished this condition. Then her husband and relatives could no longer dissuade her from her desire. She shaved her head, took the name of Ryonen, which means to realize clearly, and started on her pilgrimage.

She came to the city of Edo and asked Tetsugyu to accept her as a disciple. At one glance the master rejected her because she was too beautiful.

Ryonen then went to another master, Hakuo. Hakuo refused her for the same reason, saying that her beauty would only make trouble.

Ryonen obtained a hot iron and placed it against her face. In a few moments her beauty had vanished forever.

Hakuo then accepted her as a disciple.

Commemorating this occasion, Ryonen wrote a poem on the back of a little mirror:

    In the service of my Empress I burned incense to perfume my exquisite clothes

    Now as a homeless mendicant I burn my face to enter a Zen temple.

When Ryonen was about to pass from this world, she wrote another poem:

Sixty-six times have these eyes beheld the changing scene of autumn

I have said enough about moonlight, Ask no more.

Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs.

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Love is giving.....and sometimes we need to find love so that we can give.  Not having someone to give it to, the love sits inside and can eat us up too, as well as the negative emotions.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

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