What If Money Was No Object? Alan Watts

Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, "we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do". So I always ask the question, "what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"

Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way. Or another person says well, I’d like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said you want to teach in a riding school? Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do?

When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

And after all, if you do really like what you’re doing, it doesn’t matter what it is, you can eventually turn it – you could eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you’ll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much. 

That’s everybody is – somebody is interested in everything, anything you can be interested in, you will find others will. But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like, in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow in the same track.

See what we are doing, is we’re bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing, so it’s all retch, and no vomit it never gets there.

And so, therefore, it’s so important to consider this question: 

What do I desire?

These 28 carefully selected words of wisdom

These 28 carefully selected words of wisdom truly are some of the most powerful and wisest quotes ever written.
Here they are…

1. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, 

it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, 

first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” – Sigmund Freud

3. “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” – Unknown

4. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is a fruit of love, the verb.” – Stephen Covey

5. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: 

the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given 

set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

6. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne

7. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

8. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

9. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long 

at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

10. “Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is 

what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

11. “If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. 

If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a 

year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time – help someone else.” – Chinese proverb

12. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of 

meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

13. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go

 back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

14. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

15. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs 

about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality” – Anthony Robins

16. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney

17. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. 

The only way we can grow is if we change. 

The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. 

And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” – C. Joybell

18. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, 

change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit

19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, 

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw

20. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, 

too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,

 but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry van Dyke

21. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino

22. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 

the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

23. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; 

they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey

24. “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. 

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. 

We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Theresa

25. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, 

which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

26. “Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.” – Unknown

27. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, 

known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. 

These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them

 with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. 

Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

28. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. 

It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

What If Money Was No Object? Alan Watts

Hinduism

Hinduism is the dominant religion, or way of life, in South Asia. It includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism among numerous other traditions, and a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "daily morality" based on karma,dharma, and societal norms. Hinduism is a categorisation of distinct intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid, common set of beliefs. Hinduism, with about one billion followers is the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam.

Hinduism has been called the "oldest religion" in the world, and some practitioners refer to it as Sanātana Dharma, "the eternal law" or the "eternal way" beyond human origins. Western scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no single founder. It prescribes the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings (ahimsa), patience, forbearance, self-restraint, compassion, among others.

Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include (but are not restricted to), Dharma (ethics/duties), Samsāra (the continuing cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth), Karma (action, intent and consequences), Moksha (liberation from samsara or liberation in this life), and the various Yogas (paths or practices). Hindu practices include daily rituals such as puja(worship) and recitations, annual festivals, and occasional pilgrimages. Select group of ascetics leave the common world and engage in lifelong ascetic practices to achieve moksha.

Hindu texts are classified into Shruti ("heard") and Smriti ("remembered"). These texts discuss theology, philosophy,mythology, Vedic yajna and agamic rituals and temple building, among other topics. Major scriptures include theVedas, Upanishads (both Śruti), Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Manusmṛti, and Agamas (allsmriti).

On attachment

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency and has to do more with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it is not about what others can give because you are empty. It is about what you can give others because you are already full.

Purifying your lungs in three days

1. Take a break from smoking ASAP.
2. Immediately eliminate all dairy products from your diet. Their benefits are not worth the costs to your lungs.
3. The night before your detox you must drink some herbal tea to start your detox process.
4. As soon as you wake up, make yourself some organic lemon water.
5. Between breakfast and lunch make sure you drink some carrot juice.
6. Any time during the day, enjoy some grapefruit or pineapple juice.
7. Right before bed, enjoy a potassium-loaded juice like cranberry juice.

Repeat for three days. Then enjoy breathing!

Pacific Crest Trail

The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT) is a treasured pathway through some of the most outstanding scenic terrain in the United States. Beginning in southern California at the Mexican border, the PCT travels a total distance of 2,650 miles through California, Oregon, and Washington until reaching the Canadian border.

The PCT is one of the original National Scenic Trails established by Congress in the 1968 National Trails System Act. It is administered by the US Forest Service. The Forest Service partners with the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, California State Parks, and the Pacific Crest Trail Association to provide effective management and protection of the trail.

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Tasacion de viviendas 2015

Cuando nos enfrentamos a la compraventa o alquiler de una vivienda siempre nos asalta la misma duda: el precio, ¿es caro o barato? ¿cómo lo calculo?. Da lo mismo si eres el propietario, el comprador, el casero o el posible inquilino, todo el mundo duda sobre cuál sería el precio adecuado de una vivienda en venta o alquiler.

El blog de Bankinter ofrece una tabla y una fórmula con la que tú mismo podrás calcular una aproximación al que debería ser el precio de una vivienda, al que luego se le podría aplicar un ajuste al alza o a la baja en función las características concretas de cada casa, pero que al menos te colocará en un nivel de precios adecuado.

La clave se llama: PER

Los precios de venta y alquiler guardan siempre unas relaciones que varían en el tiempo, pero que se pueden calcular:

a) Rentabilidad bruta por alquiler

Es el porcentaje resultante de dividir el dinero anual que obtenemos por una vivienda en alquiler entre su precio de venta. Así, por ejemplo, una vivienda que se alquile por 12.000 euros al año (1.000 euros/mes) y que valga 240.000 euros se dice que ofrece una rentabilidad bruta del 5% de acuerdo con esta fórmula: (12.000/240.000) x 100 = 5%

b) El PER

Si hacemos la operación inversa de dividir el precio de venta entre el precio de alquiler, obtendremos lo que suele llamarse PER (Price Earnings Ratio). Este dato equivale al número de veces que el precio de alquiler está contenido en el precio de venta o al número de años que tardaría en pagar el precio de una vivienda mediante el alquiler en las condiciones actuales. Es un ratio universalmente aceptado para valorar activos como empresas, viviendas, etc.

El PER de la anterior vivienda sería 20 veces y el cálculo mediante el que se ha llegado a ese dato sería: (240.000 / 12.000) = 20 veces

Tabla de equivalencia entre alquiler y venta

De acuerdo con los datos anteriores, si tuviéramos dos de las tres cifras anteriores (precio venta, precio alquiler o PER), podríamos calcular la tercera. Como tenemos el dato de la rentabilidad bruta por alquiler de toda España ofrecida por el Banco de España (BdE), sólo nos falta conocer un dato fiable de alquiler o venta para poder calcular una aproximación de la otra variable.

Según el último informe del Banco de España (BdE), la rentabilidad bruta de alquilar una vivienda en España al cierre del tercer trimestre de 2014 es del 4,6%. Esto equivale a decir que el PER es de 22 años o 264 meses.

En resumen, si tenemos la seguridad de que una vivienda idéntica o muy parecida a la que nos interesa se alquila por un precio determinado, actualmente bastaría con multiplicar el precio del alquiler mensual por 264 meses para obtener un precio de venta aproximado adecuado. Por ejemplo, si se alquila por 1.500 euros al mes y multiplicamos ese precio de alquiler mensual por 264 meses obtendríamos que el precio de venta debería rondar los 396.000 euros en las condiciones actuales.

Del mismo modo, si tenemos una vivienda que podría venderse por 300.000 euros, bastaría con dividir entre 264 para saber que su precio de alquiler debería ser de unos 1.135 euros mensuales.

Con estos datos ya podemos construir una tabla en la que se relacione el precio de alquiler con el precio de venta actual. Es importante saber que el PER o la rentabilidad por dividendo varían con el tiempo, por lo que habría que ir actualizando el cálculo de este dato para optimizar los cálculos. En los tiempos de precios inmobiliarios muy elevados, el PER era muy alto, mientras que ahora es más moderado.

Nota: los datos se han calculado de acuerdo con el último dato publicado por el Banco de España de una rentabilidad del 4,6% de 3T 2014 (PER 22 veces). Para pasar de una columna a otra se debe multiplicar o dividir uno de los datos por 264 meses. Este coeficiente es vigente para los datos actuales, pero varía con el tiempo.

Otro ejemplo de aplicación de esta tabla es si nos encontramos ante una vivienda o zona en la que podemos vivir en ella comprando o alquilando. Si por ejemplo, nos ofrecen una vivienda a la venta por 400.000 euros y la misma en alquiler por 1.000 euros/mes (12.000 euros/año), ¿compro o alquilo?

Lo primero que puedo hacer es calcular el PER de la vivienda dividiendo ambos datos (400.000/12.000) y veremos que es 33 veces. Este dato es alto, ya que es muy superior a la media española de 22 veces. Es decir, con los números en la mano, esta casa es cara para comprar y sería mejor vivir en ella de alquiler.

En resumen, cuanto más bajo sea el PER de una vivienda respecto a la media española (22 veces) mejor será comprarla, mientras que cuanto más alto sea, será mejor vivir en ella de alquiler.

Ajustes para cada vivienda

La tabla anterior sirve como aproximación de precios de venta y alquiler, sin embargo después conviene afinar porque no todos los mercados ni todas las viviendas son iguales. Como reglas generales tenemos que el PER puede variar por:

1) Ubicación: las provincias con más demanda suelen tener un PER más alto que las que tienen menor demanda. Así, contrasta que en España el PER de San Sebastián sea de 27 años, mientras que el de Las Palmas quede en 17 años.

2) Localización: dentro de una misma ciudad o localidad, también varía el PER. Así, por ejemplo, los zonas con mayor demanda y consideradas como más consolidadas, suelen tener un PER más alto.

En este sentido, el precio de venta por m2 del distrito Chamberí (Madrid) es de 4.087 euros, mientras que el de alquiler es de 15 euros m2/mes (180 euros m2/año), según los datos deidealista.com. De dividir el valor de compra frente al alquiler anual se obtiene un PER de 23 veces. Para Villa de Vallecas, con precio de compra de 2.076 euros/m2 y de alquiler de 9 euros m2/mes (108 euros m2/año), el PER baja a 19 años.

3) Las mejores casas suelen tener un PER más alto: en consonancia con todo lo anterior, por las mejores casas o las que están en mejor estado se suele pagar un sobreprecio por la seguridad que supone invertir en ellas. Las casas de calidad inferior suelen tener un PER más bajo.

Todos estos datos, llevan a la realidad de que en las mejores casas muchas veces es más fácil vivir de alquiler que comprarlas. De hecho, hay personas que pueden pagar un alquiler en una buena zona de las ciudades, pero que no podría comprarse el piso en el que vive de alquiler.

Otros métodos online de valoración

En Internet podemos encontrar actualmente numerosas páginas web que nos ayudan a conocer aproximaciones de precios de compraventa o de alquiler, como la web tercerob.com o Sociedad de Tasación. En ambas, se puede acceder a aproximaciones sencillas sobre precios de transacción.

En cualquier caso, hay que tener siempre en cuenta que son aproximaciones de gran ayuda y que nos sirven para calcular y negociar mejor los precios pero que no tienen valor oficial de tasación de cara a solicitar una hipoteca.

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Ólafur Arnalds - So Close (feat. Arnór Dan)

Through dark and light I fight to be
So close
Shadows and lies mask you from me
So close
Bathe my skin, the darkness within
So close
The war of our lives no one can win

The missing piece I yearn to find
So close
Please clear the anguish from my mind
So close
But when truth of you comes clear
So close
I wish my life had never come here
So close

Through dark and light I fight to be
So close
Shadows and lies mask you from me



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Trembling Blue Stars - All Eternal Things

Although there is now hope, embers of sadness still glow.
Something hasn't quite flown.
But I know you're there to catch me now.

All eternal things, the moon, the sea, the turning leaves, speak to something within.
And you, ease the longing too.
My reason. My sunlight. My lifeline.

All eternal things and you, how this frightened heart they soothe.
You and the seasons will pull me through.
Will calm and comfort, and always be beautiful.
You and the seasons will pull me through.

I know you won't let go of the string.
I know you won't let this kite be taken by the wind.

All eternal things and you, how this frightened heart they soothe.
You and the seasons will pull me through.
Will calm and comfort, and always be beautiful.
You and the seasons will pull me through.

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A Stutter (feat. Arnor Dan) - Ólafur Arnalds Lyrics

Mumford and Sons - Awake my Soul

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show
Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep, totally free
Har har, har har, har har, har har
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show
Har har, har har, har har, har har
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
And where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these…

4 signs that this isn't your first life on earth

Reincarnation is the spiritual belief that souls leave the body at the death of the physical body and the re-enter another physical body after spending a brief time in the spirit world.  Some people come back to alleviate Karma, some come back for the purpose of further developing their souls, and some come back for the purpose of service and helping others evolve.  There is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence for the existence for reincarnation, some of which is summarized in an article I wrote here.

How can you tell if you have lived before in the past?  There are different ways you can tell if you have lived on earth before.  You can visit a hypnotherapist and receive a past-life regression, you can meditate and feel that you have lived before intuitively, or you can reflect on some of the characteristics you have as a person and see if they imply you may have lived before.

It’s certainly the case that you may have lived before and do not possess these characteristics, but here are 5 that I think are pretty universal and indicative of an old soul.  Here are 4 signs this isn’t your first life on earth:

1) YOU GET A GOOD READ ON PEOPLE

From a young age, you have been able to get a really good read on people.  From watching someone interact for just a few minutes, you are able to identify the characteristics that person would have and the lifestyle they live.  It’s almost like you have this software that allows you to look around and download the information on other souls.  This is because you have seen the archetype of that person before in a past life and are familiar with the general behaviour and psychology of that archetype.  You have interacted with thousands of people throughout the course of your souls history, so there is really no archetype you haven’t interacted with yet.

This doesn’t mean you are judgmental, it just means you are observational.  You may find yourself at parties or social gatherings looking around every once in a while checking things out.  Watching people interact, observing the exchanges of energy that are occurring during conversation.  You may even feel more comfortable as a distant observer than as a participant.  It feels natural to you.

Having the ability to get a good read on people has also given you a really good bullsh*t detector.  When someone is lying to you, you know it.  You notice the disassociation in their eyes, the shift in their energy field, the change in the way they pronounce words.  You’ve been through this place many times before, so you aren’t socially naive, even though you may have not had much social interaction in this life.  You’ve always been hard to manipulate because you can see into the real intentions and desires of other people.  You are just good at feeling people out intuitively.

2) YOU ENJOY ISOLATION

You enjoy time to yourself.  Not because you like being lonely, but because you like being alone.  You are content with just being by yourself.  You would rather been on a dock by yourself all night under the stars than at a party somewhere, and you would rather be in a forest alone all day than at a shopping mall.  This is not because you are a hermit, but because you don’t need society in order to validate your sense of self.  Your own worth comes from your relationship with yourself and your spirituality, not from peer-approval and social acceptance.

When you are thrown into this world for the first time, your inclination is to learn how to play the game and make a comfortable life for yourself.  When you have been here many times before, you already know it’s a game, so you don’t even bother trying to play it anymore.

You may still like to go out and be social, but it doesn’t serve you in the same way it does for others.  You are used to being around other people, and have been for centuries.  You know what to expect.  At the end of the day, the most satisfying thing for you is feeling peace within yourself, generated from within yourself.   This leads into our next point.

3) YOU DON’T FIT IN…YOU REALLY DON’T FIT IN.

You stick out like a sore thumb wherever you go.  School, work, family gatherings.   You’re whole life, you have always felt a little out of place.  Being human is still something you’re getting used to, and may never get used to.  Behaving “properly” in public seems forced for you, and trying to maintain a meaningless conversation is painful for you. You don’t quite understand why humans operate the way they do.

It’s kind of like being a lion who thinks he is a sheep his whole life.  He behaves like a sheep and thinks like a sheep.  After living a few lives pretending to be a sheep, he realizes he is something much more than that.  He discovers himself and transcends his sheep-hood.  When he goes back in to life again pretending to be a sheep, it feels unnatural for him because now he is just role playing.

You’re the one who will start a discussion about things like lucid dreams, animal rights, and spirituality while everyone else wants to talk weather and sports.  They’ll sometimes initiate the conversations because they are interested or intrigued with you, but most of the time it’s you who will break the film of social convention.  But it’s not only a difference in interests that makes you stick out.

It’s most importantly the fact that you don’t really know how to fit in.  Maybe you have tried before, and it felt awkward and failed.  And that’s OK.  You don’t understand how some people are happy as carbon copies, and it’s unnatural to you to be conventional.  You may do things that other people will call “weird” such as meditate on a bench in public somewhere, or maybe you’ll stop yourself in the parking lot to soak up the sun rays.  You have more “quirks” than the average person, not because you are trying to be different, but because you don’t know how to be “normal”.

4) YOU HAVE AN EVOLVED SOUL

People may come to you to seek advice, even though you may be younger than them by decades.  They value your inputs because you have a good deal of insight and wisdom for your age.  Without getting egoic about it, you seem to have more understanding and a more universal outlook to life’s challenges than the average person.  Perhaps this is why you are here: to help others reach that same place.

You’ve lived a few lives here, so you understand the importance of things like patience, self-honesty, and introspection.  What takes some people 10 years to learn it may only take you 1 year to learn because your soul has already went through this before and is used to recognizing the signs. Having “heart to hearts” with someone who is struggling seems natural to you, because you are almost always able to assist them with what they are going through.  You will still encounter your own adversity in life, but you approach it with maturity and level-headedness.  You are a quick learner when it comes to the lessons of life, and you are very good at listening to what life is trying to show you about yourself.

And quite frankly, it’s acquiring more wisdom and experience that you value the most in life.  You aren’t really concerned with social status, fame, or making a nice cozy nest for yourself.  You desire to grow spiritually, to evolve into a better person, and to help other people do the same.  This feels most natural and rewarding to you.

There are of course many more characteristics of people who have lived on earth before, but I think these are some of the most prevalent ones.  If there are any I missed, let me know in the comments!

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How can 12 laws of Karma change your life.

What is Karma? Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it. 

This law of cause and effect is not punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or learning.

A person may not escape the consequences of his actions, but he will suffer only if he himself has made the conditions ripe for his suffering. Ignorance of the law is no excuse whether the laws are man-made or universal. 

To stop being afraid and to start being empowered in the worlds of karma and reincarnation, here is what you need to know about karmic laws.

1. THE GREAT LAW -

• “As you sow, so shall you reap”. This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect”.
• Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us.
• If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Love, Friendship…Then we should BE Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a True Friend.

2. THE LAW OF CREATION -

• Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation.
• We are one with the Universe, both inside and out.
• Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
• BE yourself, and surround yourself with what you want to have present in your Life.

3. THE LAW OF HUMILITY -

• What you refuse to accept, will continue for you.
• If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative,
• then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

4. THE LAW OF GROWTH -

• “Wherever you go, there you are”.
• For us to GROW in Spirit, it is we who must change – and not the people, places or things around us.
• The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES
• and that is the only factor we have control over.
• When we change who and what we are within our heart
• our life follows suit and changes too.

5. THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY -

• Whenever there is something wrong in my life,
• there is something wrong in me.
• We mirror what surrounds us – and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth.
• We must take responsibility what is in our life.

6. THE LAW OF CONNECTION -

• Even if something we do seems inconsequential,
• it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected.
• Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on.
• Someone must do the initial work to get a job done.
• Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance,
• As they were both needed to accomplish the task.
• Past – Present – Future
• They are all connected…

7. THE LAW OF FOCUS -

• You can not think of two things at the same time.
• When our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts such as greed or anger.

8. THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY -

• If you believe something to be true,
• then sometime in your life
• you will be called upon to demonstrate that particular truth.
• Here is where we put what we CLAIM that we have learned,
• into actual PRACTICE.

9. THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW -

• Looking backward to examine what was,
• prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW.
• Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…
• Prevent us from having new ones.

10. THE LAW OF CHANGE -

• History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

11. THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD -

• All Rewards require initial toil.
• Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil.True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in on it’s own time.

12. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION -

• You get back from something whatever YOU have put into it.
• The true value of something is a direct result of
• the energy and intent that is put into it.
• Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole.
• Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it.
• Loving contributions bring life to, and inspire, the Whole.

- See more at: http://truthseekerdaily.com/2015/01/how-can-12-laws-of-karma-change-your-life/#sthash.ML7pVBRJ.dpuf

CATCALL: The World Is Ours

You ready
One two three
Three
You ready
Three
You ready
Three
You ready
One two three

(Verse)
Hold my hand take a breath
Baby this will be quick
Don't let go
Not even one little bit
I know it will be okay
You and me me me
Don't be scared there's a road
That we can take
Let the moon run and
Fill the wind in our face
I want to find a place
And just be be be

(Chorus)
You know that I love you
And know that we are true
And the world is ours again
You know that I love you
And know that we are true
And the world is ours again


(Verse)
I wanna run wanna go
Gotta make an escape
To the edge of the world
See the furthest place
I wanna fallow in
And just be be be
Close my eyes and tie them
Waiting for a surprise
There's a breeze and
I'm feelin' sunsight in my eyes
Are you ready all came out
You and me me me

(Chorus)
Three
You ready
Three
You ready
Three
You ready
One two three
Three
You know that I love you
You know that we are true
And the world is ours again
(And the world is ours again)
Three
You know that I love you
You know that we are true
And the world is ours again
One two three
And the world is ours again
And the world is ours again
And the world is ours again
And the world is ours again
(And the world is ours again)

(Outro)
Three
You ready
One two three

Alan Watts. Become what you are

-To see the moon you must forget the pointing finger, and simply look at the moon.
- The antidote to ignorance is not action but knowledge.
- The best is yet to be.
-The more I get pleasure, the more I must want it. To want pleasure it to lack it.
-To be delivered from futility, we must stop seeking.
-Human desire can gain nothing out of life. But to realize this is at once to become the sage, since the greatest wisdom lies on the other side of the greatest despair. It is, of course, more than despair -a joy, a sense of creative life and power. It must happen by itself.
-Awakening cannot but must not be induced by trying and willing, since anything that one could will would't be it.
-Almost every fundamental principle of life can be expressed in two opposite ways.

John Legend - All of Me