I compose my song to celebrate myself in different movements. Some evoke jaunty steps, smiles, and others comfort, encouragement, and still others cringes, sweat, discomfort.
I want to share this because my Purpose, characterized by the name Discovery, covers a wide realm of possible concerns and topics. I by no means am a savant in any of them, nor am I lacking knowledge, at least some, in all of which I write. Except maybe this one: zombies. Yeah, I don’t get the obsession with them, but on the other hand, I kind of do. Why? They symbolize, perhaps, the state of large segments of humanity right now. How do they do that? The living dead represent those who have virtually silenced their own Heart. They have a life form that is powered by Ego, and an unchecked Ego, one not relegated to its place, is destructive of those holding true life, if the zombies can get to them. It’s not a perfect analogy, and the last thing I intend is an argument about zombies and what they can and can’t do. However, I will argue that people who murder and destroy like terrorists and criminals are like those raggedy-looking, very obvious zombies. In St. Louis, Missouri, this past weekend, I think at least seven people were shot. In London, England, seven people were killed. While the motivation was different, the source of misery and destruction are the same: unawakened, unsatisfied, unfulfilled people. When Heart is not acknowledged, when the link with eternal Spirt is not forged, when the deep, gnawing hunger for purpose and happiness can’t be satisfied, then Ego has complete control. Ugliness ensues, and others are infected when those who appear to have life but are dead to Heart decide to attack and bite. Not so nice so far, but these are things I have discovered in my thoughts about the nastiness I have seen this past weekend. However, criminals and terrorists as defined by laws are only one brand of zombie. The ones who are difficult to spot, maybe ones who we knew as normal, who look familiar to us, they may be the most insidious for infecting others. They appear to be trying to protect, but they steal from the uninfected, unsure masses the environments in which they can discover Self and pursue happiness and purpose. They create states of fear, negativity, and control. Oh, they can’t totally prevent awakening, but when a nation’s government restricts, oppresses, or represses the people, the negative zeitgeist that results throws people more in danger of being infected by the zombie virus of Ego. When a respectable-looking zombie like a national leader distracts from sources of evil and truly workable solutions by engaging in knee-jerk, mouth-jerk reactions, then they only empower the whole zombie world. If I’m being too subtle, then you probably don’t want to know all I’m actually thinking. However, let me at least be this bold: any current world leader who calls names and shakes fists at criminals or terrorists has little idea of how to lead. Nor does one who continually pisses off even allies. Such leaders are zombies, themselves. They have the means to act as living, sentient beings but choose continued paths of assured destruction. Those acting through Heart-energy, at least to some extent, will recognize that this is no longer a planet where nationalistic bullshit will benefit anyone except themselves and duped followers, who will never, in the long run, be better off. A global perspective, relationship, and appreciation is required. In reference to America, Walt Whitman sought to provide a new song, a new literature that would address those living in the New World and raise awareness for everyone, a democratic awareness — -not of government but rather of the potential of every human being to live in joy, purpose, fullness, happiness — just to experience life in acceptance, understanding, and appreciation of everyone. He wasn’t nationalistic; he believed that America embodied any who would come. How far the mighty have fallen. We are not that nation right now. Walt saw America as founded on such principles of universal democracy, respect and appreciation for one another, and the right for individuals to live based on the Bill of Rights and their evolution — not restriction. I believe he knew abject failure was the course America was headed for — if his song was not embraced and each one of us from an awakened soul would not compose our own song from our own awakened, empowered souls and minds. The government could not do that for us, but he saw government as the entity that could set up conditions where we would not be restricted. We have to be able to think and feel with Heart-energy if we don’t want to be devoured by Ego-propelled zombies. If Walt Whitman were here today, I think the new song he would write might be one of those expanded songs of those who sang through their lives for equality and freedom of human spirit. Have we forgotten the likes of those such as Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther and Coretta King, Ghandi, Mandela — too many to name here? Today, WW’s fear of not being able to think, create, and compose new songs that include everyone in equality and freedom has been materializing. We still have opportunity, but not in angry, prejudiced, narrow-minded rhetoric. Dr. King’s quote strikes home more deeply now than ever: “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that” (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/376797-returning-hate-for-hate-multiplies-hate-adding-deeper-darkness-to). And allow me to end with that today, because I will take the side of those who have not been infected by the zombies. I will, with those like Dr. King and Ghandi, choose intelligent, Heart-driven paths of love. I would like to share the mindset with Malala Yousafzai, who says, “I don’t want revenge on the Taliban; I want education for son and daughters of the Taliban” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7064545.Malala_Yousafzai). That’s love driving out hate. Yes, I know well the arguments of those like Trump and his supporters, and at some point and to some extent I embraced them. I know intimately that such rationalizations as they use for being hard-asses are stupid, narrow, restrictive, destructive, and lead to suspicion, fear, and hatred. I won’t have it, and as I continue to discover with my Heart-energy, I will share from my truth and expose darkness as well as encourage in light. Harsh realities of the news on any given day are only a fraction of the injustices in this world, even in one country. Things get sensationalized to promote political agendas. The zombies are on the move. Beware! My function, what I wish to do, is to help All discover Self, give them tools, thoughts, suggestions — things their Heart can use to speak to their souls and minds. Blessings!
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Logically, I should not spend another night exploring Walt Whitman. If I were writing a syndicated column once a week, it wouldn’t be such a big deal, I guess. Part of my personal truth, however, is my Heart provides the motive force to my being, and I follow my Heart’s prompts — when my Ego doesn’t scramble the signals!
That is not the case tonight as I have spent some time today reading and pondering Walt’s “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads.” This piece of prose provides a wonderful, unique, inspiring view of not only the development and impact of his major life work, Leaves of Grass, but also it gives us insight into the self-analysis of one awakened to Heart. Even though it is powerful and I could develop this into an academic analysis, I am going to grab parts that speak directly to me, that could have been me writing. No academics here — only Heart-analysis. I have extracted some principles of developing, knowing, and evolving a framework of personal truth I referred to yesterday and many other times.. Not many such complete records of analysis exist of one who comes to know Self, awakens to Heart, and carries out created Purpose and Vision — at least not ones who have become so well known as Walt Whitman. My process of development of personal truth parallels Walt’s in many ways; however, it is personal truth, so none of us will ever have the same experience. I am not pretending my work is the same caliber as his; in fact, it may be far worse or better. It’s interesting that he knew from his contemporaries that his work, as far as financial and critical success, were failures. So, who knows? I have different intentions and purposes fro my work, in one way. On to Walt Whitman’s explanation in “A Backward Glance.” He had experienced what I describe as the whisperings of Heart since childhood, as I have: “After years of those aims [pursuing other jobs and possible career paths] and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess’d, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction…” (444). With a much fuller consciousness, he recognized, addressed, and awakened to his Heart. As he embarked on his journey, he developed and crystallized his thoughts, emotions, and experiences into Purpose and Vision: “…a desire had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, and steadily advanced to the the front and defined itself, and finally dominated everything else” (444). He had to call the Purpose into being, create it, or he could have crumbled into Ego whisperings that the scope of his Purpose was too unbelievable to even attempt. Many cave at this point, because when we know who we really are, when see the scope and power of our ability to create and the eternal possibilities of actions here on earth, that is daunting to Ego, which recognizes a total Self investment in our own created Purpose. Ego can’t accept such a proposition of nonconformity. With his awakening and creation of his Purpose, he developed a Vision of what that might look like: “This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and aesthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America…” (444). Pretty distinct Vision, isn’t it? What does it require? Total devotion of Self to Purpose and Vision. Allow me to recap, briefly, the scenario the Good Gray Poet, Walt Whitman, shares in this. By the way, these are my relatively unrevised impressions — raw, unfiltered, but evident. At some point, I may do some revision, but for tonight, here are some elements of developing a scheme of personal truth.
3. Find encouragement and joy in Heart and those in the fellowship of the Heart who truly support you: (a.) Heart lets us know we are doing it our way: “…unstopp’d and unwarp’d by any influence outside the soul within me” (444). (b.) Friends: “…the best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause…” (443). 4. Do not fear to put Heart-work out into the public arena, the Universe itself, with no thought of the value of it: “…put it unerringly on record — the value thereof to be decided by time” (444). No matter what Ego-prompted others say about the value or lack thereof in your Purpose and Vision, do it. 5. Acknowledge and know those who are impacted by the Vision, no matter what the numbers are: “I consider the point that I have positively gain’d a hearing, to far more than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings” (444). Value those who enter into the light and love of your Purpose and Vision. You make a difference. 6. Hold and act on faith in Purpose and Vision, that your intentions are of Heart and acceptable to the Universe, no matter what one other person knows or thinks: “Essentially, that was from the first, and has remain’d throughout, the main object. …Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were creditable — and I accept the result, whatever it may be” (444). Walt looks over thirty years of acting on Purpose and his Vision. He sums up his investment, revealing elements that made up his personal truth, which gave him a framework to live his life without regard to Ego-valuation or -response to his work. Not a bad framework for us to consider. What is the outcome, the result of this? Who we are (Heart-identity), what we do (Purpose), and how we do it (Vision) matter, mean something, bless Spirit, the Universe, and fellow human beings. Walt’s words illustrate this sentiment: “‘Leaves of Grass’ …has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature — an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being…freely, fully and truly on record” (454). Have we put our core Self on a full record in this world? Blessings when thirty, forty, or fifty years from now, you may say the same! (All quotes: Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman. Ed. James E. Miller, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Print.) Are you a success? Do you think of yourself as a failure? What are your definitions of success and failure? Who told you that? Extend your thinking a bit more: How do you react if you are deemed a failure by your own Ego or anyone else?
These questions present challenges that could halt or hinder one’s push to live personal truth, follow a dream, or walk in nonconformity in order to live in harmony with Spirit and in the fellowship of the Heart. Ego loves to frame the definition of success painted by a world largely driven by Ego itself. It looks good. For this reason we must know personal truth and the emotional and cognitive framework it provides. Then, we can face whatever comes our way in living our truth, which often requires us to ignore the criticisms, advice, and aspersions cast by jealous, pompous, or fearful conformists. The framework of personal truth in reference to living Heart provides the ability to push through the doubtful, fearful, depressed, and even angry times. “You’ve been doing this for over a year now, and you only have 900 followers? Would they buy a book, pay to purchase a publication that carried your column? Would they register for a seminar? How are you helping people, anyway? Wouldn’t it be better if you got a real job, made some kind of salary, and then you could do this writing in your spare time? Then, you could donate to other charities or maybe meet more people who could help you? Don’t you care about me?” Any of that sound familiar? Maybe not to you, but I have heard such things. Personal truth: I am a creator. I have created the drive to discover and share that. I will share through writing and activities that may derive from that: speaking, seminars, webinars, personal coaching sessions. So what do I do, my Heart? What is our truth? Write. Discover and write. So sit down, focus, and write. But what about money and publishing. Have you forgotten faith? Faith is part of our framework of personal truth. Have you forgotten magic and miracles? What does your magic say? This is part of our framework of personal truth. Are you not pursuing publishing? Keep on track. You get the picture? In the face of very real opposition, criticism, and discouragement, I know and I act. Oh, and part of my truth is I will not stop. However, I have to process the emotions that come with all of this. It is not automatic, and in the throes of internal conflict, I address Heart as in the example above, and the direction is to my personal truth. Scads of corollary issues arise, other angles, other challenges, but each one can be addressed by my truth. Ultimately, the question is am I a success or failure at the end of every day? That’s easy for me. I set out the terms, I define it, and I learn if I fail my terms. Did I get to work on either of my books today? No? I failed that goal; therefore, what will I do tomorrow to address that. It doesn’t depress or discourage me. While others may say they don’t mean to discourage us and they may not do it directly, they make it clear that we have failed to meet Ego-driven expectations. That leaves us feeling bad about ourselves — like we are failures. Not acceptable for an awakened, Heart-driven co-creator. A reader might say that I am messing around with trivial matters, that no one cares about my paltry writing. I would laugh at them. Near the end of his life, Walt Whitman ruminates about this very issue of success, failures, and the definitions and interpretation of those. He does it in a preface to another work, November Boughs. In the preface, “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads,” he says reminiscing about one’s life work as a “grand resume” provides, perhaps, the most beautiful of songs. Since he delighted in the the lives of others, though, he believed everyone could have a song. I don’t think a very grand song will result if one has never discovered personal identity or created purpose and truth to live that identity. Walt turns to thoughts of the over thirty years’ development of Leaves of Grass and says this: “That from a worldly and business point of view ‘Leaves of Grass’ has been worse than a failure — that public criticism on the book and myself as author of it yet shows mark’d anger and contempt more that anything else…” (443). This is the Ego definition of success and Walt well knows it. People of his time, by and large, rejected him. Have you ever read the simple profundity of his poems? Were they morons? No, just driven by Ego-expectations of what could and should be said or written or lived. Conformists — resigned, apathetic, pathetic conformists when it came to knowing and living their truth. However, self-righteousness can be a passionate and ugly commodity, and Ego delights to evoke that. Did Walt really distinguish between society’s truth of conformity and his own Purpose and truth? “I had my choice when I commenc’d. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions…unstopp’d and unwarp’d by any influences outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way…” (443–444). Yes, and since he knew this at the outset, writing thirty years later shows he must have called many times on his Heart and used that framework of his truth. He lived it in his “own way” (444). Who are you, and what do you want to do to live that Self, imbued with your own dreams, passions, skills, abilities, and emotions? Set out to do it establish your own principles, write your own manifesto, live that truth without regard of others’ opinions. Join with those who walk in the fellowship of the Heart. We get to define success, and the best way to even know what we wish to succeed in is to know Heart, become self-aware. The definitions and judgments of anyone else do not count; oh, they might hurt and we will need Heart help, but they don’t count. We can nonconform our way to success through our own truth! Out of time and space, let’s see what tomorrow brings! Blessings! (All quotes: Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman. Ed. James E. Miller, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Print.) Personal truth. I have used that term a lot over the last sixteen months. Knowing personal truth can only be your truth if you have discovered Self, come to recognize core essence, who you are. Oh, I wouldn’t question if someone is there or not; I would take them at face value. I’m just giving the primary prerequisite for growing in and living personal truth. Only the individual knows if they have awakened to Self.
Personal truth, though, provides a foundation upon which we can build our life. Who do I know myself to be? What have I created as my Purpose? How do I stay focused on expressing self-identity in my purpose? Personal truth. Without that foundation, every time someone questions us, criticizes us, or we do those to ourself, we will doubt, fear, withdraw. It doesn’t mean we will never feel those emotions at all; however, our life purpose will not be scrapped and we will not end up in a state of perpetual defeat. It means we won’t cave to accept mediocrity, to resign our lives to the control of others, to maintain status quo. Simple survival, while sometimes a motive to get through challenging spots, will not be the norm of life. Personal truth gives us the outline, the framework, the essential coding that programs how we act and react, how we relate and present ourselves to others, how we choose our engagements and encounters. As we grow in knowledge of Self — “Know then, thyself, presume not God to scan; / The proper study of mankind is man” (Alexander Pope) — the framework becomes sturdier, more substantial, and more beneficial for us. Earlier today, I shared the following story: “I spent the later afternoon and early evening with a great friend yesterday. We worked together on a project of his on his patio. Then, we had a few beers together, and talked and laughed. At one point, he claimed he and I were failures as teachers because we just could not reach all students with the ideas we deemed crucial and draw out of them the ability to reason to those. He is the same friend who taught for ~35 years and said it was his calling but that since it was, he counts it as a burden. He couldn’t do anything else, wasn’t free to. I was forceful in my response to him. I asked him if he chose education as a profession because it was his soul’s desire. Yes. Then, he was living, as far as possible, his personal truth. Failure does not, is not, defined by responses of others on a personal level. We only truly fail when we don’t live personal truth, live our Heart self-identity.” That last bit presents some difficulty in processing and understanding if we do not know our own Heart. Ego likes to tell us we are failures, which discourages us from conformity. If we feel defeated, we are not going to strike out on our own. So allow me to repeat it: Failure does not, is not defined by others’ reactions to me as I live my Heart-purpose. More than that, even though my Heart-purpose involves the expression of my love to this Universe, any single individual’s negative, rejecting, or apathetic reaction to what I do means nothing to me in one way. In another way, it hurts and gives me pause for evaluation; however, the reactions of others do not determine failure or success. If I’m living my personal truth, then I’m successful. Yes, I am still reading and pondering Walt Whitman’s work, and I found a moving, applicable set of statements that highlight this idea of living personal truth, of knowing and positively carrying out expression of Self, that which we create as purpose. The statements bookend his life and my message tonight. One is in the first “Preface” to the original 1855 version of Leaves of Grass. The next is a preface to another of his works, November Boughs, entitled “A Backward Glance O’er Traveled Roads.” Near the end of the “Preface,” Whitman lists many examples of “the best actions” of people, those who do things based on this: “…all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great hands…these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring” (424). He recognizes that Heart is divine, and what is determined, spoken, and worked based on Heart is personal truth which “inures” (in the sense of tempers) all that is done, and that is based on “identities from which they have sprung,” i.e., who we are. He goes on to say, “…no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent…What ever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul…the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself…” (424). If we know Heart, core Self, and have created Purpose and live life expressing our essence and in touch with Spirit and the fellowship of the Heart, then we live well and honestly; we prosper in personal truth; we enjoy life out of the fullness of soul. None of this is possible without knowing Self and personal truth. A few lines after these I have quoted, Whitman brings up the possibility that a young man may freely choose to live his truth and put himself in a situation where he dies, and the estimation is he “has done exceeding well for himself,” (424) because he lived personal truth, which gave him the conviction to act. In contrast, he says there may be a wealthy man who doesn’t live out of a conviction that costs him anything may live to an old age and gained wealth and a life of ease, but such a one “has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning.” He has met society’s standards of wisdom, but that is often a far cry from personal truth. The difference isn’t in the life actions; the difference, the determination of failure or success is in living from conviction of personal truth. This is lengthy, so I will save “A Backward Glance” for tomorrow. In the meantime, who are you and what is your truth? Important questions that determine personal success or a resigned life usually full of regrets. Blessings! P.S. Last night I think I forgot to give the book citation, and it is the same as tonight — mea culpa: (Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman. Ed. James E. Miller, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. Print.) I’m spending one more evening on Walt Whitman, mostly because his prescience pretty much included us about 125 years after his death. Last night I briefly mentioned that in Democratic Vistas, Walt addresses his observations and offers his opinion about America.
He believes, on a basic level, America held new hope for a new society. He sees America through the eyes, what he viewed as the intentions, of the founders. He knows the possibilities, but he recognizes the struggling nation America has become. He experienced the Civil War first-hand, and the throes of the end of slavery and new rights of many to vote, all while the travesty of Reconstruction corruption is occurring. In his epic volume of poetry, Leaves of Grass, one that evolved until the year of his death, he rises above what is to envision what could be in his elevated, spiritual vision. Walt faces reality, though, always with a view to the ideals upon which he feels America is founded. As he presents these in Democratic Vistas, he exposes darkness and offers possible solutions. He encourages the reader and makes his expectations known. The forty-six pages that Vistas span in my volume could be unpacked into many essays to examine, but I want to take one kernel of thought, one that slides from spirituality into politics and the connection Walt sees between the two. He senses that America won’t work as an enduring democracy without spiritual awakening, coming to know core Self, Heart, and living in purpose of that Self. He speaks of “personalism,” the idea of individuals who come to know their personal truth. He refers to “the identified soul” coming to that identity through individuality; organized religion, creeds, doctrines do not bring a person to self-identity: “Personalism fuses this [identified soul], and favors it. … Alone, and silent thought and awe, and aspiration — and then the interior consciousness, like a hitherto unseen inscription, in magic ink, beams out its wondrous lines to the sense…it is exclusively for the noiseless operation of one’s isolated Self, to enter the pure ether of veneration, reach the divine levels, and commune with the unutterable” (481). An individual comes to know core Self independently of all others, because the second others get involved, telling you the right way is this here or there, Ego is involved. This is all Heart. But what the heck does Heart have to do with the course of America? Walt slides right into that immediately at the beginning of the next paragraph: “To practically enter into politics is an important part of American personalism” (481). While he stands for equality and the common humanity — not feudalistic hierarchy which he discusses in the essay — he thinks the design of America is one that opens the door for every individual to become self-aware, and if the democracy is to flourish, self-aware people need to be involved. Knowing Heart means less possibility of being swayed by Ego ploys of others for selfish purposes. In fact, having identified our own Self and discovered our personal truth, we can more aptly evaluate where candidates are coming from and pursue our citizenship in an enlightened way, thinking for ourselves: “It is the fashion among dilettantes and fops…to decry the whole formulation of the active politics of America, as beyond redemption…do not fall into this error…Always inform yourselves; always do the best you can; always vote. Disengage yourselves from parties. They have been useful, and to some extent still are. ... For America, if eligible for downfall, is eligible within herself…” (481–482). Dilettantes and fops are people who put on a show but have no substance. Awakened individuals have the substance of eternal Spirit that they have tuned into. We don’t need a party line to think for us. If we don’t think for ourselves, the nation is over. Walt goes on to say in the same paragraph that the danger America is to herself is that she will become “more and more combative, less and less tolerant of the idea of ensemble and of equal brotherhood, the perfect equality of the States, the ever-overarching American ideas” (482). If you know yourself, then “it behooves you to convey yourself implicitly to no party, nor submit blindly to their dictators, but steadily hold yourself judge and master over all of them” (482). Yeah, you see, I think Walt’s take on things is very apropos to our situation today. A harmonic blend of equality for all can only come through Heart. He ends the essay with the idea that people need to be stimulated towards discovering Self and creating the idealized vision of America though a new literature, like his poems. He felt he never arrived at his envisioned form, but I beg to differ. His take on the responsibility of the individual, though, is nothing short of the way every author should think. Authors and poets write, and the readers complete the work. We hold the key to the final message, the consequence of the writing. He associates this with the success of America, especially in light of the colossal failure of the nation within it’s first hundred plus years, much of which Walt lived in. He says: “In fact, a new theory of literary composition for imaginative works of the very first class, and especially for highest poems, is the sole course open to these States” (500). Why? Because those become what minds and souls under the guidance of and in fellowship with the Heart can use to awaken us to the issues and conduct of the nation. How should we use these books and poems? By engaging our enlightened minds and impassioned souls: “Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep…the reader is to do something from himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay — the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or framework. Not the book so much needs to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does” (501). The current furor and confusion about “fake news” would not be occurring if we read with Heart motive force, with awakened minds and souls. We would recognize and throw out those trying to deceive and manipulate. Know what we believe, why we believe it, and evaluate everything in the light of our personal truth. Then, discussion can happen, because we are not threatened. If we don’t know our own truth, Ego will always be combatting and justifying in an unhealthy way. Well, that is it for Democratic Vistas in this little three day peek at it. Awakened people with enlightened souls knowing the value and worth of every person — now that could change the face of America. The nation was designed with that in mind. Honestly, I don’t know if redemption exists. If it does, education needs to be redefined with these principles in mind, and awakened souls need to be active in very real, everyday life. Blessings! |
Questions to consider:How many times have you asked yourself or simply thought about the following questions?
Who am I, really? What is my truth? How do my actions reveal what I really feel and believe? What would I do with my life if I could do anything? What is my passion? Why am I here? How can I discover answers to any of these questions? If you have considered any of these questions, I hope that my experiences and writing will give you some guidance. Please read my blog and comment and share your thoughts. I would love to hear from you! Archives
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