Owning your story

If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you allow me any of my own wants, or beliefs, or actions, then you open your-self, so that someday these wants of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right - for me.

To put up with me is the first step in understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.

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Our world is pointing toward an insistence on conformity

Our world is pointing toward an insistence on conformity, which is causing us enormous grief. It's what's at the heart of all of our religious battles, and religious battles are what are at the heart of all of our battles. In other words, all of our wars and global irritation with one another is over our determination to promote sameness. Our democracy insists that it's the only government that works. And every religion, (it's interesting to note) proclaims that it is the only one that works.

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Shoulda, woulda

The words, "I should have" must be banned from the dictionary! It's a totally useless exercise pondering on what you 'should have' done in the past. The past is gone, done with, cannot be changed and the best way to deal with it is to learn from it, embrace your mistakes and move on.

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How we spend our days

"Life is a joy filled with delightful surprises My life is a joy filled with love, fun and friendship. I choose love, joy and freedom, open my heart and allow wonderful things to flow into my life."

A Daily Affirmation

How DO we spend our days? Most of us are so busy working, watching TV, doing the laundry, playing taxi, shopping, visiting and whatever else it is that takes up our day, that we don't realise that, each day that has passed, each month and each year that has passed, designates the way we spend our whole life. And then we wonder where's the happiness? Where's the thrill? Where's the satisfaction?

It's up to us to create the happiness, the thrill, the satisfaction - if we spend our days creating these things, that is how we will spend the rest of our lives.

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Every man is free

A murder of crows and some inspirational words

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. 
- Ayn Rand

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Believe in yourself

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