Funny Thing About Life

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.

Never Doubt

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." 

- Margaret Meade, was an American cultural anthropologist.

Moving Forward with Positive Emotion..

Don't abandon the Path when you face difficulty.
That's not what it's about. The people who live the
life of their dreams stay WITH their problems - they
do not RUN from them. The nature of the Uni-verse,
or life, is change. Nothing lasts forever.

Train yourself to be still, cool, calm and collected when
 things don't go well. Sometimes the Uni-verse is trying
to get our attention by putting road blocks up. If you are
running into road blocks - STOP - get still and ask yourself
if you are really going the right way. The right doors are
always open. The wrong doors will never be open.

Use your intuition to FEEL the difference. Move forward
with positive emotion. Stay with problems. Choose what
feels good, not what seems easy. In the long run the
hard path is the easy path. 

--Mastin Kipp

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's.

Creative Beings We Are

My experience has been that time and time again the thing that showers my life with the experience of abundance is my creativity. Not the validation of others, not what the government or markets are doing - but my own creative vision.

I love the quote from the Gospel of Thomas where Jesus is quoted as saying "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

This principle has proven true for me time and time again. The goal is to trust your creative visions, to take daily and consistent action towards them and to HANG IN THERE. It's pretty much guaranteed that RIGHT BEFORE you are about to succeed things will get really tough. It's called "The Dip".

You were born a creative being. You have talents. You were born to thrive. If you don't believe this to be true for you chances are that belief stems from early childhood when a parent, teacher or friend told you that you weren't creative. It's BS - everyone has creativity to bring forth. Get in touch with your creativity. It might be art, numbers, music, business or producing. You can be a creative business person or doctor. Creativity isn't limited to "starving artists", it's a quality that ALL of us have been given by our Maker.

Follow your creative vision with trust. Start now.

--Mastin Kipp 

"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."

- Philip Adams, is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, and social commentator.

The Nature of the Universe

The right doors are always open.  The wrong doors will never be open.

Use your intuition to FEEL the difference. Move forward with positive emotion.   Choose what feels good, not what seems easy.  In the long run the hard path is the easy path. 

The Values of Everything

Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom

So here we are, forming an orderly queue at the slaughterhouse gate. The punishment of the poor for the errors of the rich, the abandonment of universalism, the dismantling of the shelter the state provides: apart from a few small protests, none of this has yet brought us out fighting.

The acceptance of policies which counteract our interests is the pervasive mystery of the 21st Century. In the United States, blue-collar workers angrily demand that they be left without healthcare, and insist that millionaires should pay less tax. In the UK we appear ready to abandon the social progress for which our ancestors risked their lives with barely a mutter of protest. What has happened to us?

Why Do We Exist?

"The integrity of the child as an individual - indeed, the integrity of the environment - this is the mutual relationship of the two basic principles underlying the concept of the school as shared by myself and my like-minded colleagues. The very first lesson in the school ought to touch upon the meaning of human existence." 


--Mikhail Petrovich Shchetinin 


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