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

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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. — Jacob Riis

https://natharward.com/pound-the-rock/

Every “overnight success” story is … just a good story.
A story designed to get us to believe “we too” can be as successful as the “overnight” success.

Well, we can. But not overnight. Because they didn’t get there overnight. These stories, so it seems to me, often are told to sell “the overnight method.” When we buy that method, we get burned. Expectations fall unfulfilled, and we don’t succeed overnight — because we need to pound the rock:

To pound out our weakness,
To pound in our dedication,
To pound out non-essentials,
To pound in our focus,
To pound out dead weight,
To pound in muscle memory.

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From the book 'Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear' by Elizabeth Gilbert, she stated that when Ernest Hemmingway writes, he write and when it is still exciting, he would stop. The reason is that his heart will remember the positive emotional energy and will want to continue to write later on.

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I was driving on early morning and I came to fork, go west or east.  East is the way and West would result in rerouting to go back east again. I suddenly ask myself, why don't I accidentally go west....so that I can reroute and do a course correction, and then an answer came to me. I wouldn't go west, not because it is heads or tails wrong, but because my emotions would not let me. My emotions do not want to deal with the  frustrating course correction and being late. Thus, the reason that I do not go the wrong way is because my subconscious emotions planned out the most emotionally peaceful way for me to drive, and i find it very difficult to override the subconscious programming of my emotional subconscious mind.

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.

We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
― Desmond Tutu


"When I started looking upstream, I learn that wherever there is great suffering, there is great profit." - Glennon Doyle

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Addiction: Giving up everything for the one thing.

Recovery: Giving the one thing for everything.

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For those of us who have someone in addiction. This is what the late author, poet, musician, and hair stylist Rhea Silas, a former addict (and struggling addict) herself, have to say on the matter.

The person you know and love is gone. What you have in their place is a vampire. You have a vampire that will suck you and everyone dry until there's nothing left, if you allow it. Do not think for one second that the person you love is still in there somewhere, waiting to be rescued and loved. They are not in there. All you have left is a vampire. 

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The Three Poisons—greed (attachment), hatred (aversion), and delusion (ignorance)—are the core mental defilements in Buddhism that drive suffering (dukkha) and the cycle of rebirth (samsara). They represent the root causes of all unskillful actions, distorting perception and obscuring our enlightened nature.

The Three Poisons Defined:
Greed/Attachment (Raga): Craving, lust, desire, and clinging to objects, people, or ideas.
Hatred/Aversion (Dvesha): Anger, hostility, aggression, and the desire to push away what we dislike.
Delusion/Ignorance (Moha): Confusion, apathy, and a fundamental misunderstandi ng of the nature of reality, such as impermanence and selflessness.

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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." - Albert Camus's essay The Myth of Sisyphus

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"My guru said only one thing will happen when you come to the ashram. You will discover who you really are." - Elizabeth Gilbert

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"What is thy will for me?" Opens the door to divinity. I was thinking of "My lord, how can I be of service?"

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You will have found your purpose when you come to a place and time that you want to give all of yourself and expect nothing in return. You suffer every day in your giving, but want to give more tomorrow. You will have found a great clarity into the patterns of nature as it applies to life and your place in it.

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When people are under pressure, most people respond out of fear to protect themselves. The correct response is always according a well thought out plan.

"Success is a system to improve." - James Clear

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Without dopamine, desire desires. The anticipation of a dopamine reward is a stronger than the dopamine itself.

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Thank you Johnny for rescuing my error today. I truly appreciate you taking your time. I will always remember your kindness.

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When I am on my death bed, I will be at peace knowing that I explored myself through all the many failures of my life and grow from them.