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Seasons
Apr 13th
Do you allow yourself to live through seasons? Always changing, never the same way twice.
In our modern technocracy, we’ve removed ourselves as much as possible from living out among the changing seasons that the Creation holds for us. We wall ourselves away in boxes that are temperature regulated, light controlled, terrain un-changing. We’ve grown to dislike and detest any change in our “comfort” level. It’s very easy for us to be un-aware of the seasons in our own lives.
The world we live on adheres to cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay. Nature has its seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Our lives replicate this same pattern on the large scale (of our bodies) and the small scale (of our day to day lives).
All too often I’ve spent my time, fighting to stay in one season for too long. I’ve forced creation/work, when I should have been resting, or I’ve slept the day away when I should have been creating/working. Learning to live in balance and harmony is a challenging thing in the world we live in.
There is no concrete solution to creating balance in your life. It’s something that is unique to you alone. What creates balance in my life, will not necessarily be the solution in your life. Just as the length of seasons varies in different parts of the world, so your own needs will vary from mine. What is interesting to me is that all of creation is guided in the right moment to undergo the change needed at any given time. Imagine if the winter didn’t know when to end it’s bitter cold, or the summer when to cease it’s fire and burning. There are parts of the world where we can see the effects of this. The ice caps, the deserts, both extremes are examples of what happens in our own lives when we don’t allow the natural flow of seasons to occur. We become stressed. Life is still present, but the existence is harsh and mostly unpleasant.
For everything under the sun, there is a season… What are the seasons of your life?
Lately my life has been undergoing the transition from sleep to awakening, or from rest to plowing… working the soil to be ready for planting. After sowing, a period of rest will occur in which the seeds will begin to grow. The seeds will only grow if the work I have done has created the needed conditions for birth. Those conditions will only be created if I have rested properly to have the energy to create them.
Perhaps you are in Winter (the season where no work takes place, and you begin to dream), some will be in Spring (the season where you sow the seeds of your dream), some will be in Summer (the season where you tend your creation and help it grow), and finally some will be in Autumn (the season where you reap the benefits or consequences of your work).
The benefit you have over nature, is you are the only force in control of your seasons. You can begin again any time you wish. For some their lesson will be to nurse their garden/life/dream back to health/success. Others will need to wipe the slate clean and begin back at the Winter/Resting/Dreaming stage. Some will need to learn that there is a time to cease working and enter into rest, some will need to get off their ass and begin taking action.
How do you know when you are in the correct season in your life? When you feel at peace, when you feel like you’re living your life’s purpose, when things seem to click and just fall into place, all these are good indications that you are in the proper season.
Most people will spend most of their time in the dreaming/working stage until they learn to create the right conditions for their dream to grow into reality, but once a seed/dream starts growing, it grows all on its own.
Whatever season you may be in, love your way into the next one!
Have a great day and tend to your Garden 
Do What You Love
Jan 30th
I can claim none of what follows as my own, and I am indeed still learning to put into practice the things listed below. The following comes from Steve Pavlina as his Twitter posts, and I think they are brilliant and should be shared with all:
Do what you love -> get good at it -> share your talent to create value for others -> receive value in return -> do more of what you love.
Since many people are worried about the economy, there’s greater demand and more opportunities for people who aren’t worried.
If you have trouble discovering what you love, start by dropping from your life that which you don’t love. Purge the wrong answers first.
If you love doing X, then do X. Don’t do things you dislike because you think it will give you the chance to do X. Just do X. No excuses.
If you love helping people heal, you can start doing that today… long before you graduate from med school. Again, dump the excuses.
If you want to be a rocket scientist, take the time to learn the skills you need. Meanwhile, go build & launch some model rockets this week.
Pretend you died yesterday and lost all. Then live this day as the first day of your afterlife. Harder to make excuses when you’re dead. 
If you turn toward what you love, you’ll be staring directly into your greatest fear. Don’t look away. Take a bold, brave step forward.
Doing what you love is challenging. Doing what you don’t love is pointless.
Think about it…
I Have A Dream
Jan 19th
Being that today is Martin Luther King Day, and having seen many youtube links for his famous speech about having a dream, I’ve been made to think about my own dreams.
My dreams are for a literal Garden of Eden on the Earth. A planet where it’s people have no want for food. A people who don’t eat food that kills them, and can live in their bodies for as long as they choose to. I want to see a future where we build only the things we need, and that only out of sustainable resources. I dream of a place where we are free from money and the banks that control that money and thus our lives. I long to see the children of this future, for they will be far from what we consider human beings to be today. They may resemble us in appearance, but that will be it. I want to see people follow their hearts and not their minds. I want Love to be the rule, and not the exception. So yes, Martin, I too, have a dream…
What’s yours?
Build A Temple To Achieve Your Goals
Jan 15th
The Christ told us that our bodies were a Living Temple, a place wherein God could reside. Let’s use this as an example for our goals in this life.
1. Are our goals living or dead?
Consider what you want in life, is the end goal worth having? Is it alive, will it bring vibrancy and light to your life? What good is it to have everything you ever wanted, only to find out that the price you paid to get there was too great? If you’re not happy on the path to your Happiness, then you’re probably on the wrong path. Make sure what you want is indeed, what you want.
2. What is our Blueprint?
As any builder can tell you, if you don’t know what the building is supposed to look like, then you can’t build it. Who or what are you modeling your goals after?
This is not the place to be cheap or modest… Shoot for the moon here. Find the best at what you want and devour everything you can find about them and what they did to achieve the thing you want. An example… if you want to be successful in real estate, don’t model yourself after the agent from Century 21, model yourself after Donald Trump… if you want to play in the NBA, don’t model yourself after your high school coach, model yourself after Michael Jordan.
Don’t mistake what I’m saying though, you can still learn a lot from the high school coach and the local real estate agent, in fact, that’s a great place to start, but what I’m saying is pick a Blueprint of Perfection for whatever goal you may have.
3. How is a Temple built?
Here’s where most people fall away… It’s built one stone at a time. You create your body one cheeseburger or one vegetable at a time… you wanna know why people are dying all around you? Because they eat flesh that is dead… and as we all learned as children, you are what you eat, and one dead stone after another, they have created a temple of death around them.
In the same way, you create your goal one step or mini-goal at a time. You’re not going to become a millionaire, or an enlightened being, or an amazing lover and spouse and parent overnight. Some people are able to work faster than others. It depends on where you are when you begin. Some have more natural resources than you might… which is why there’s no time like right now to begin.
