Bruce Lee 1940-1973
‘Take that which is valuable, discard that which is not and create what is uniquely your own.’
LETTING GO
If you love somebody, set them free – Sting
Free free set them free (oh)
Free free set them free
Free free set them free
Free free set them free
If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don’t even think about me
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
If it’s a mirror you want
Just look into my eyes
Or a whipping boy, someone to despise
Or a prisoner in the dark
Tied up in chains you just can’t see
Or a beast in a gilded cage
That’s all some people ever want to be
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
You can’t control an independent heart
Can’t tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe
That we can’t live, we can’t live here
And be happy with less
So many riches, so many souls
Everything we see we want to possess
[Verse 3]
If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don’t even think about me
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
Set them free
(Free, free, set them free)
The Serenity Prayer
Lord, Grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change,
The courage to change things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Amen.
Always look on the bright side of life!
You can turn the locks,
But you can’t turn the clocks!
Whatever happened in the past is not wrong.
It’s exactly what’s supposed to have happened.
So drop any judgement or negative reactions
in favour of…gratitude!
Tucker Carlson. ‘Accept the fact that all your senses are telling you the truth.’
image from www.independent.co.uk
‘Most of our perceptions come from intuition rather than reason. Every gut-level feeling you’ve ever had is real, is totally true. Your gut is the one thing that doesn’t lie to you. Your gut only has your interest in mind. If you get a very strong message from your viscera, from your intuition, obey it. Take it very seriously. If you feel you’re being lied to, you’re 100% right. You are being lied to…
The White House is being run by a cartel of people for whatever ends. [Joe Biden] is not running the country. The people currently in charge have no idea how the country works, what the country wants and they don’t care. They don’t understand human nature, they’re desperate and they’ll do literally anything.
What we’re watching is not political. Politics is a human-conceived system whereby civilised people settle their differences without violence and by concensus. Politics describes a negotiation. Everyone deserves to live in a country governed by politics, not force. Nothing that is happening now or that has happened for the last five or six years can be explained through conventional political terms.
Follow the money. If it were only about the money, we’d be fine.
There is no upside to the great trends of our age. What you’re seeing is evil done for its own sake. Hurting people done for the sake of hurting people.
No-one really benefitted from that war [in Ukraine]. A war with no hope of winning, where the best possible outcome is a generation of grandfathers get slaughtered. Why? What you’re looking at is someone [US Treasury Secretary Janet Yelland] who is thrilled by the prospect of people dying. Death is an inherent good. You’re watching death worship. Right now, if you’re rational at all, there is no other outcome other than prolonged human suffering. And if you’re endorsing that you have to ask why?
The Question of lying. The basic requirement of seeking the truth is admitting when you don’t find it. That’s how you know an honest person when he admits he was wrong. And if you’re dealing with people who never admit they’re wrong you’re dealing with liars. What we’re seeing now is very different. The kinds of lies that we’re hearing [now] are not conventional lies. They are an inversion of the truth. They are an exact opposite of what is true.
We’re not used to dealing with people who can lie without guilt. People don’t like to lie. It takes a very rare person to lie in the way that we’re being lied to. And it takes a very rare moment to see lying at this scale. They’re not just lying, they hate the truth. They’re offended by things purely because they are true.
The current version of history that we’ve been told is not only incomplete, it’s just wrong.
I can’t think of a single case where someone was [recently] destroyed for lying. There’s no penalty for lying. Truth has to be a defence and it used to be our first defence. As a legal matter and a cultural matter, you cannot punish people for telling the truth. Or else you become an empire of lies. In every sense, both in a literal sense and in a spiritual sense. And if you are governed by people who actively hate the truth and who lie for the sheer animal thrill of doing so, you are living in a dark time under very dark people. And the stakes are the ultimate stakes. It’s about what happens to the world and your soul.
The only way to stay alive and fully human in a moment like this is to resolve that you are going to tell the truth in every and all circumstances. You should never allow yourself to repeat anything that you know is not true. That will destroy you. That is the mark, not of a free man or a citizen but of a slave. That is the difference between freedom and slavery, is the right to say what you actually think.
Anyone who is trying to force you to lie is a) your enemy and b) believes that you are subhuman, because that’s not the way you treat adults. You are not allowed to say to a free adult citizen, “Shut up! You must do this”. You can’t do that under any circumstances, or else you are no longer a citizen, you are a slave and worse than that you have degraded yourself. And that’s the real cost. Clearly the people who run things see the rest of us as slaves.
The truth is it’s very hard to fight that…it begins with the strength inside you. If you are weak, you will never prevail. And that explains their determined effort to make you weak, by feeding you poisonous garbage, by trying to make you take medicine that is not at all medicine, by their insistence that you shut up and hate yourself, by their claim that your children are not your own.
They have no interest in you having dignity; in fact your dignity and strength is a threat to them.
It’s a determined, systematic effort to weaken the population in order to limit their resistance to what they plan for us. Obviously. I’m calling for a population that becomes stronger inside. And also outside. But it’s more than that. It’s retaining your dignity and your self-respect. The worst thing that can happen to you is becoming a slave inside. I will quote the great Jimmy Cliff, “I would rather be a free man in my grave, than live as a puppet or a slave”.
I think we should all want that. Don’t let them take your dignity and your dignity is rooted in your sense of self as free person. ‘You may not do that to me. I’m not going to do that and there’s literally nothing you can do to make me do that. I don’t want to be killed, but I am willing to be, because I don’t want to live like that. In fact I won’t and I’ve already decided.’
The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become and you can feel the change happening inside. In the same way that lying makes you weaker, telling the truth makes you stronger. You can feel it, it’s like a superpower. And other people can feel it too, they can smell it. The person who tells the truth is strong, other people respect the strong. And then it just increases from there.
If you adopt that posture…they will back off. Because liars are weak. They are weak and afraid. Weak people hide, scared people hide. People who can’t stand sunlight hide. They are weak and they are afraid of the population. They know they’re doing wrong, they know they’re serving lies. They know nothing they do or say is justifiable or can withstand scrutiny. And on some animal level, they are terrified of the day when the average person says, “No. I’m not going along with it, sorry. Because it’s immoral, actually…”
And if enough people do that, and things like it, this whole nonsense will end, immediately.’
From Tucker Carlson Tonight Uncensored on Telegram,
https://telegram-politics.com/catalog/channels/tuckercarlsonchannel
22 November 2023
Are we really going to aloow tyrants to rule our lives
when we know they are lying to us?
when we know exactly who they are and what they’re up to?
Eric Hoffer 1902-1983
Every great cause begins as a movement,
Becomes a business
And eventually degenerates into a racket.’
Albert Camus 1913-1960
‘The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.’
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you
are here on earth.
You have to risk your heart.
from Laura Aboli Channel on Telegram
https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel
Kurt Cobain 1967-1994
No-one is afraid of heights, they are afraid of the fall.
No-one is afraid to play, They are afraid to lose.
No-one is afraid of the dark, They are afraid of what’s in it.
No-one is afraid to say, ‘I love you’, They are afraid of the response.’
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
‘Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.
Never cease to stand like curious children
before the Great Mystery into which we were born.’
Chinese Proverb
He who blame others has a long way to go on his journey.
He who blames himself is half way there,
He who blames no-one has arrived.
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
‘There is something in the human spirit
that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and
brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not
go out no matter how dark the world becomes.’
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
God’s law is ‘right reason.’ When perfectly understood it is called ‘wisdom.’ When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called ‘justice.
Freedom is participation in power.
Lao Tzu (6th century BC)
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world
Great acts are made of small deeds.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Bruce Lee 1940-1973
‘Don’t speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke.
Your body doesn’t know the difference.
Words are energy and cast spells,
that’s why it’s called ‘spelling’.
Change the way you speak about yourself and
you can change your life.
What you’re not changing you’re also choosing.’
Man In The Mirror – Michael Jackson
Glen Ballard/Siedah Garrett
I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
I’m asking him to change his ways.
And no message could have been any clearer-
If you want to make this world a better place
Take a look at yourself and make that change.
May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you reach for,
May your arms never tire.
D. Simone
Note to Self
“What is my purpose in life?” I asked the void.
“What if I told you that you fulfilled it when you took an extra hour
to talk to that kid about his life?” said the voice.
“Or when you paid for that young couple in the restaurant?
Or when you saved that dog in traffic?
Or when, for him, you tied your father’s shoes?
Your problem is that you equate your purpose with goal-based achievement.
The universe isn’t interested in your achievements…just your heart.
When you choose to act of kindness, compassion and love,
you are already aligned with your true purpose. No need to look any further!”
source: Tao and Zen, the MindsJournal –
https://themindsjournal.com/quotes/what-is-my-purpose-in-life/
Confucius (551-479 BC)
It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Preface to ‘The Kreuzer Sonata’.
‘Ideals are a light at the end of a long pole,
carried by onself-
Never reachable, but always leading one on.’