My buddy can manifest. However, he is frustrated when others resist alignment with his desires.
Manifestation must be a powerful head trip. The danger is to use it as a tool: to bend the mystery of summoning into a transactional demand is contrary to the spirit of the source.
Tag: action
- Theme: Self
Making the mysterious transactional
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Growth
beyond reason
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1–2 minutesIs there a point where we can act spontaneously -instantly- manifest our uniqueness without the ponderous weight of rationality?
This presumes a self that can function irrationally, which we do constantly, yet we still privilege reason as an ideal.
This pursuit manifests as a programmable man, front-loading your reason into habits that become instinctive. - Theme: Self
spontaneity practice
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1–2 minutesHow will you ever find yourself if you don’t practice?
Most of life is training us how to conform to social standards.
To be unique you must practice strengthening your spontaneity and openness.
- Theme: Growth
Picking up your toys and leaving
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1–2 minutesIn my family, we were taught that when people will not listen or change with you, you should take your better, wiser self away and play your own game your way. That’ll show em.
While this preserves your integrity, leaving becomes limiting. How do you learn to charm, disarm or dominate if your go-to move is running away?Leaving isn’t a wrong move, but it is a crowbar, and it’s impossible to build a house with only demolition tools.
- Theme: Growth
Is Comfort Cowardice?
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1–2 minutesWhat is the relationship between comfort and cowardice?
It seems the trap of comfort provokes cowardice: doing the easy thing as a way to avoid doing the right thing.
There may be times when the easy thing is the right thing, but do not allow yourself to mistake the "feeling of ease" as a sign of a decision’s rightness. - Theme: Self
I hurt myself with your words
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1–2 minutesInstead of “what you said hurt my feelings,” why don’t we say “I took what you said and I hurt myself”?
Take radical responsibility: create your world, don’t be reactive to the world.
from Diana Chapman
- Theme: Growth
“Act Natural”
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1–2 minutesOf course, “acting” is not being. To be “natural” is to behave as though unburdened: an artificial state for any human.
Further, we assume “natural” to be associated with authenticity or sincerity, but acting natural merely parodies your culture by alluding to a false “normal” ideal.
- Theme: Growth
Find yourself by subtraction
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1–2 minutesTo know who you are, quit chasing and adding. Try restricting your activities. Your increase in focus will be more revealing.
By quitting most things, you give the remaining items more importance and intensity, and in their growth, you find yourself. - Theme: Growth
Practice knowing your value
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1–2 minutesIf you do not get what you want out of a situation, you may be unreasonable (unrealistic), which should be tested through more conditions until a pattern emerges. But most of us stay servile and complacent: accepting of the status quo.
What you miss out on is the beautiful fullness of being you to the extreme, knowing your worth not just internally but in society, and being appreciated for it. - Theme: Growth
Doing things “to people” rather than “for people”
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1–2 minutesGiven our incentive structure our time is very valuable. Thus we are good at doing things to people, such as procedures, but we are not good at doing things for people, such as attentive listening and discussion.