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Radical Labels, are we Entitled, or are we The Title?
When choosing to express upon a peoples position in a certain light just to cast shadows of doubt in the mind of the reader, It is thought wise to fictionalize the characters to diminish the value of the person, thing or subject.
This is a typical concept and political ploy to undermine and limit the real people and real events, and for a price the hidden hand can influence what is featured in the media to create or mold a general public opinion in attempts to then generate a manufactured public consensus.
With the formation and development of a public consensus or opinion, government and friends aka “local and world media” can then destroy the person, thing or subject with public support however seduced or misguided their beliefs.
Public opinion is used to gauge support for protection of Public interests when legal cases are brought before the courts or the public at large, if the judge finds that it is in the best interest of the Public that they carry out what ever decision in favor of public Interest [or public-private corporation investment perception] are acting out what is known as protectionism by omission of information or cases brought before the court that may disrupt public perception and investment potential/capital., which also at time limits the remedy for the parties of interest.
So in fact the court is protecting the corporation as it represents the public and its interest, and this is called Preventative Justice and it amounts to tax evasion by preventing justice and awards to protect of is own interests, opinion and bankroll.
Does this Sound Fair? Does this look clean? Do your hands need Washing?
I like to point out a few basic tenets of the queens ecclesiastical law, this is a reminder of the laws of the Canadian people and their Sovereign as defender of the faith, as I assert and defend my own, and correct the public opinion of Corporate–IN-Justice.
“You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.” -Exodus 22:5
“Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, ‘The righteous will by faith.’ The law is not based on faith; on the contrary,…” –Galations 3:11.12
“We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is not made for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers– and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.” –I Timothy 1:8–11
“There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy.” James 4:12 “Do not add to what I [the LORD] command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.” –Duet. 4:2
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.” –Isaiah 10:1, 2
Below is a sample letter:
sent to the brantfordexpostior indicating the characterization that diminishes the value of our persons, things and subjects, and whether they will acknowledge it or not is an act of Genocide and/or Politicide.
Hello and Greeting on this day of Friday March 25th 2011,
I have read a few of the expositors articles regarding the onkwehonwe “six nations peoples” and have concern of the use of the word you choose to continuously define the associated families “clans” and/or private members or to characterize the associated families or private members as so called FACTIONS please provide me with your Definition and your Editorial Interpretation of the selected word [FACTIONS].
If you can not provide me with your understanding of the word; FACTIONS, I will honorably ask that you choose a word you understand and can provide the definition for, the continual misuse of the word FACTIONS may imply that you are in-fact making a legal determination about the private members and families associated and linked with the organization of the needs of our community at whole or in part, and may pose a threat to the six nations general liberties.
My understanding of the word FACTIONS may imply:
1) party strife and intrigue; dissension: an era of faction and treason.
2) a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account.
3) literary work comprising a dramatized presentation of actual events
What I believe you mean by attempting to redefine our families/clans/unit/posse as a whole or in part, you may find that the words “Families and Private Members”, would have a greater reflection of our people and may help correct any legal implications or determinations on your part.
Thank you for your time and consideration, I will be forwarding this message, and await your kind response, if you choose not to reply I will be under the belief and understanding that you are in agreement with my understanding and definition of the word FACTIONS as provided above. [1–3]
Benjamin II,
Kanienke’haka; Ambassador-at-Large, and, at-Arms-Reach
Director of the Pentortoise; Evaluation of Administrative Regulations and Liabilities
http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutgenocide/8stagesofgenocide.html
Don’t pay attention to that man behind the curtain
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore
The Wizard of Oz: as extracted from ‘Cracking the Code’
Don’t pay attention to that man behind the curtain — just follow that yellow brick road and do as you are told!
WHOLESALE — To sell by wholesale is to sell by large parcels, generally in original packages, and not by retail. Black’s Law Dictionary, 1st Edition. Compare retail.
Note: The US government acquired title to our birth certificates in wholesale, or bulk purchase. Re the double-entry bookkeeping system of the Department of the Treasury, wholesale is the debit, or Public side, and retail is the credit, or private side.
WIZARD OF OZ, THE. Motion Picture, 1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, book by L. Frank Baum; adaptation for the screen by Noël Langley; screenplay by Noël Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; Produced by Mervyn LeRoy; Directed by Victor Fleming.
Note: Just as you can read between the gory lines in the newspaper on any day and discover clues issued by the Powers That Be — if you look hard enough — as to what is actually going on, such notice can also be found in lighter faire, like the movies. Such a movie was The Wizard of Oz, an allegory for the new state of affairs in America in the 1930’s following the stock market crash and factual bankruptcy of the US Government immediately there-after.
The setting was Kansas — Heartland America, and geographical center of the USA. In comes the twister, the tornado, i.e. whirling, confusion — the stock market crash, theft of America’s: gold, US bankruptcy, the Great Depression — and whisks Dorothy and Toto up into a new, artificial dimension somewhere above the solid ground of Kansas. When they finally land in Oz, Dorothy comments to her little companion:
“Toto, — I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
That’s right. After the bankruptcy, Kansas was no longer just “plain old Kansas”- it was now “KS,” an artificial corporate venue of the bankrupt United States, newly established “federal territory,” part of the “Federal Zone,” and Dorothy and Toto were “in this state” (see “in this state”).
In the 1930s, the all-capital letters-written (see all-capital letters-written) STRAWMAN (see strawman), newly created artificial aspect of the former American sovereigns, had no brain-and Americans were too confused and distracted by all the commotion to figure out that they even had a strawman. The Scarecrow identified his strawman persona for Dorothy:
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Of course, I’m not bright, about doing things.”
And in his classic song, “If I Only had a Brain,” the Scarecrow/Strawman succinctly augured:
“I’d unravel every riddle, For every ‘individdle’, (see individual) In trouble, or in pain.“
Translation: Once one discovers that his straw man exists, all political and legal mysteries, complexities, and confusions are resolved-and once one takes title to his straw man, he can protect himself from any legal trouble or legal damage.
The Tin Man, or “T-I-N” (Taxpayer Identification Number-Man), was a hollow man of metal, a “vessel,” or “vehicle” (see vessel, vehicle), newly created commercial code words for the straw man. Just like the Straw Man had no brain, this Tin Man vessel had no heart. Both were “artificial persons” (see person). One of the definitions of “tin” in Webster’s is “counterfeit.” The Tin Man also represented the mechanical and heartless aspect of commerce and commercial law. Just like they say in the Mafia: “Nothing personal — it’s just business.” The heartless Tin Man also carried an ax, traditional symbol for God — i.e. modern commercial law — in most earlier dominant civilizations, including fascist states. In the words of the Tin Man, expressing relief after Dorothy had oiled his arm:
“I’ve held that ax up for ages”.
The word “Ace” is etymologically related to the word “ax,” and in a deck of cards the only one above the King is the Ace, i.e. God. One of the “Axis” powers of World War II, Italy, was a fascist state. The symbol for fascism is the “fasces,” a bundle of rods with an ax bound up in the middle and its blade projecting. The fasces may be found on the reverse of the American Mercury-headed Dime (the Roman deity Mercury was the God of Commerce), and on the wall behind, and on each side of, the Speaker’s podium in the US Senate (each gold fasces is approximately six feet in height). At the base of the Seal of the US Senate are two crossed fasces.
The Lion, “king of beasts,” or “king of animals’ (some members of society regard you as nothing more than an animal, principally “cattle”) – a denigration in itself – representing the once-fearless American people, had lost his courage. After your first round with the UCC-constituted IRS “defending” your T-I-N man dummy corporation vessel/vehicle, individual employee, public corporation all-capital letters-written name, artificial person straw man, you probably lost some of your courage too. You don’t know it, but the IRS has been dealing with you strictly under the laws of commerce. Just like the Tin Man, commerce is heartless.
To find the Wizard you had to “follow the yellow brick road,” i.e. follow the trail of America’s stolen gold and you will find the thief who stole it. In the beginning of the movie the Wizard was represented by the traveling mystic, “Professor Marvel,” whom Dorothy encountered when she ran away with Toto. His macabre shingle touted that he was “Acclaimed by the Crowned Heads of Europe, Past, Present and Future.” Boy, that Professor Marvel must have been a regular wizard to be acclaimed by the future crowned heads of Europe – before they were even crowned! Before the bankers stole America, they had long since disempowered the Christian Monarchies of Europe and looted their kingdoms. Maybe this “Professor Marvel” fellow knew something about the future that other folks didn’t. With a human skull peering down from its painted perch above the door inside his wagon, the good Professor lectured Dorothy of the Priests of Isis and Osiris and the days of the Pharaohs of Egypt.
When Dorothy Gale and her new friends emerged from the forest they were elated to see Emerald City before them, only a short jaunt away. The Wicked Witch of the West, desperate for the Ruby Slippers that Dorothy was wearing, would have to make her move before our heroes were inside the walls. A significant point here is that in the original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, (39 years earlier), the Slippers were not ruby, or red, but silver. At the time the book was written America still had all its gold and silver, and the value of one ounce of gold was set at 15 ounces of silver — silver being the more plentiful of the two metals. Just as the Silver Slippers carried Dorothy, America’s stockpile of silver and gold — backing the currency — carried the country to a position or pre-eminence throughout the world at the time. But, as mentioned, when the movie came out in 1939 the Slippers were not silver, but red.
Between 1916 and 1933, most of America’s gold was rounded up by the private Federal Reserve Bank and shipped off to the Fed owners in England, Germany and France. The reason for this was that the use of Federal Reserve Notes (FRN’s) carried an interest penalty that could only be paid in gold. Our previous currency, United States Notes (USN’s), carried no such interest requirement – but such was the bargain that came with the Federal Reserve Notes. When bankruptcy was declared in 1933, Americans were required to turn in all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates by May the 1st – May Day — the anniversary of the birth of Communism in 1776. Talking to people who were alive at the time, you may find out that the general sentiment toward such thievery bordered on a second revolution. Maybe it was just too much of a clue, or too much salt in the wound for Dorothy to be skipping down the “Yellow Brick Road” in a pair of “Silver Slippers” so, for whatever reason, a color less likely to annoy or provoke was selected.
With regard to the choice of “Ruby,” or red–colored Slippers, one explanation is this: On documents and the like, red is a very significant color. It signifies “Private,” as opposed to “Public.” Your new Social Security Card has a red serial number on the reverse. The red Registered Mail sticker says “United States Post Office Department” – all other mail is marked “United States Postal Service.” But no matter their color in the Movie, the Wicked Witch of the West had big plans to get her hands on the Slippers before Dorothy and crew could make it to Emerald city.
Her tactic was to drug them all into unconsciousness by covering the countryside with poppy flowers, or “poppies,” the source of heroin, opium and morphine, and then waltz in and snatch the Slippers. In other words, the best way to boost the gold was to somehow dull the senses of the American people (Note: LSD was created in 1939 by Dr. Albert Hoffman). The poppies/drugs worked on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto, the flesh and blood entities, but had no effect on the Scarecrow or the Tin Man, the artificial entities. The two of them cried out for help and Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, answered their prayers with a blanket of snow and nullified the narcotic effect of the poppies on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto.
As they scampered toward Emerald city — the city of green (Federal Reserve Notes, the new fiat “money,” or “money by decree”), we heard The Munchkins singing on the glory of the Wizard’s creation:
You’re out of the woods,
You’re out of the dark,
You’re out of the night,
Step into the sun, step into the light,
Keep straight ahead for,
the most glorious place on the face of the Earth or stars!
The foregoing jingle abounds with Illuminist-Luciferian symbols and metaphors re; darkness and light.
The Wicked Witch of the West made her home in a round, medieval watchtower, ancient symbol of the Knights Templar of Freemasonry, who are given to practice witchcraft and also credited as the originators of modern banking, circa 1099 A.D. The Wicked Witch of the West was also dressed in black, the color symbolizing the planet Saturn, sacred icon of the Knights Templar and the color of choice of judges and priests for their robes. Who was the Wicked Witch of the West? Remember, in the first part of the film her counterpart was “Almira Gulch,” who, according to Aunt Em, “owned half the county.” Miss Gulch alleged that Dorothy’s dog, Toto, had bitten her. She came to the farm with an “Order from the Sheriff” demanding that they surrender Toto to her custody. Aunt Em was not immediately co-operative, and answered Miss Gulch’s allegations that Toto had bitten her.
“He’s really gentle. With gentle people, that is.”
Could “gentle” really mean “Gentile”? (see Gentile) When Miss Gulch defied them to withhold Toto and “go against the law,” dear old Aunt Em was relegated to “pushing the Party line” for Big Brother. She dutifully succumbed to the pressure and counseled Dorothy reluctantly;
“We can’t go against the law, Dorothy. I’m afraid poor Toto will have to go.”
When Dorothy refused to surrender Toto, Miss Gulch lashed out:
“If you don’t hand over the dog I’ll bring a damage suit that’ll take your whole farm.”
Today 70% of all attorneys in the world reside in the west – America, to be exact – and 95% of all lawsuits in the world are filed under US jurisdiction. The Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch, my dear friends, represent judges and attorneys: i.e. the American legal system (including the attorney-run US Congress), executioner and primary henchmen for transferring all wealth in America – everything – (And Australia and all other countries – Ed.) from the people over to the banks and the government (see Note at bar). The Wicked Witch of the West wanted the Silver Slippers – the precious metals – and her counterpart, Miss Gulch, wanted to take Toto. What does the word “Toto” mean in “attorney language,” i.e. Latin? “Everything!”
Dorothy and the gang fell for the Wizard’s illusion in the beginning, but soon wised up and discovered the Wizard for what he was: a confidence man. When asked about helping the Scarecrow/Straw man, among other babblings about “getting a brain” and “universities” the Wizard also cited “the land of ’E Pluribus Unum,” which is Latin for “One out of many” i.e. converting the many into one = New World Order, or Novus Ordo Seclorum, a Latin phrase placed on the American One Dollar Bill shortly after bankruptcy. He also proudly revealed/confessed that he was:
“Born and brad in the heart of the Western wilderness, an old Kansas man myself!”
The bankers did pretty well in Europe, but as the Wizard pointed out, they made a killing in the “Western wilderness,” with the theft of American gold, labor and property from the – quoting John D. Rockefeller – “grateful and responsive rural folk” who populated the country at the time.
When Dorothy asked Glenda, the Good Witch of the North (Santa Claus, Christianity), for help in getting back to Kansas, Glenda replied:
“You don’t need to be helped. You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas.”
Translation: you’ve always had the right and power to reclaim your sovereignty, you just forgot. The actual act of reclaiming your sovereignty – remedy (see remedy) – a simple UCC-1 Form to the Secretary of State, and Invoice and Bill of Exchange to the Secretary of the Treasury, can be completed from scratch in a few hours.
America and Americans have intimate firsthand knowledge of the heartless mechanics of the laws of commerce, religiously applied by the unregistered foreign agents at the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS, collection agency for the private Federal Reserve Bank, was consulted under the UCC in 1954 and has been operating strictly in that realm ever since.
You may have wondered what is the meaning behind the words in the title “The Wizard of Oz.” Look them up in the dictionary. Like almost everything else, it’s right out there in the open for you to see if you will just look closely enough. One definition of “wizard” is: “a person of high professional skill or knowledge.” “O-z” is an abbreviation of “onza,” o-n-z-a, the Italian word for “ounce,’ or “ounces,” the unit of measurement of gold, silver and other precious metals. No matter how large the quantity of gold or silver being discussed, the amount is always expressed in ounces. E.g. rather than “hundreds of tons” of gold, it’s “so many million ounces” of gold. As attested by the factual history of this country: “The Wizard of Oz.” was The Wizard of Ounces.
Everything worked out for Dorothy, i.e. the American people, in the end and she “made it home.” Meaning: there is remedy in law (see remedy). It’s there – it was just encoded and disguised and camouflaged. Fortunately, the code has been cracked, and there is a way home, just like in the movie. Like Dorothy said, “There’s no place like home.” – and there isn’t! There’s nothing like sovereignty for a sovereign! (see note at vice-admiralty courts) We have commercial remedy in the Redemption process. Will you continue to be conned by the confidence men and worship the Wizard’s light show, or will you wise up like Dorothy did and “look behind the scenes”?
In the commentary above, each time you read the word, ”see”, the reader is being referenced to Black’s Law Dictionary 1st Edition.
Duality in Evolution
Evolution is, in fact, not a thing in itself, but a procedure of Nature, and is wholly governed by the karmic causes originated in previous periods of the existence of any evolving entity whatsoever. — G. de Purucker, H. P. Blavatsky: The Mystery, p. 150
Everything in nature is dual, and so is evolution. I would like to share some thoughts with you about the evolution of the cosmos, particularly how the One becomes the many.
It is difficult for the human mind to grasp that consciousness, although essentially one, has differentiated itself during the evolutionary process into innumerable smaller centers of consciousness, sometimes referred to as sparks or dewdrops.
Two well-known quotations illustrate this thought. Sir Edwin Arnold in his Light of Asia remarks that Gautama Buddha is like the dewdrop that “slips into the shining sea” (Bk. 8).
Again, in Chapter 10 of the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna says about himself, “I established this whole universe with a single portion of myself, and yet remain separate.” G. de Purucker gives still another example in his Esoteric Tradition:
man in his septempartite or decempartite constitution [is] a hierarchical aggregate of hosts of beings over which the spirit of his constitution presides as the Hierarch or Logos, remaining separate and distinct from its children which it emanates during each incarnation; and yet these hosts of beings form in their aggregate man’s constitution or the vehicle of his spirit. — p. 170
Now where does this dual evolution begin? With THAT –
An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. — H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine 1:14
This eternal Principle forms the first fundamental proposition of the modern presentation of theosophy. Looking at the second proposition, we find the universal law of periodicity:
But once that we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute Negation, duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or consciousness) and Matter, Subject and Object. — 1:15
Duality, then, is basic to manifestation itself.
The highest duad the human mind can conceive of is called in Hindu philosophy Parabrahman (beyond Brahman) and Mulaprakriti (root-nature), the cosmic veil of Parabrahman.
A second duad emanates from the first one: Brahman and Pradhana. Brahman is the first or unmanifested Logos, the active or divine side of evolution, while Pradhana is its veil or passive opposite pole.
From Brahman and Pradhana is born the son, Brahma, a name which comes from a Sanskrit root meaning “expansion.” He represents the spiritual energy-consciousness aspect of our solar system, its active pole.
The garments of Brahma, his illusory, material manifestations or phenomena, emanate from his passive opposite pole, Prakriti. Although at the point here described the physical manifestation of our solar system has not yet begun, three evolutionary phases of a dual character have already occurred.
Two lines of evolution can be observed, a subjective and an objective one: Parabrahman-Brahman-Brahma as the subjective line; and Mulaprakriti-Pradhana-Prakriti as the objective line.
With the appearance of Brahma, the first “day” of his life begins, a period which lasts 100 divine years. According to Brahmanical calculations, Brahma’s life lasts 4,320 million x 36,000 x 2 years — quite a long time! Yet all is relative, as HPB explains: “The Eternity of the Universe … [is] periodically ‘the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,’ … ‘The Eternity of the Pilgrim’ is like a wink of the Eye of Self–Existence” (Ibid. 1:16–17).
Thereafter Brahma continues its dual evolution. How can we describe this process of the coming into being of Brahma’s garment — our home, our solar garment? G. de Purucker writes in Fountain-Source of Occultism:
Our solar system began in Space, in the womb of Aditi, the Eternal Mother, as a nebula — not by chance, but as one of the stages in its new imbodiment. As this nebula slowly moved in space, at its heart there began to be a condensation of its substance. This condensation became the sun, and a little later at various points within that nebula similar but smaller condensations of the nebular material occurred, and these became the planets. — p. 118
But who or what stands behind all this? Which cosmic intelligences plan and build up this universe? They are the architects and builders, to use the modern theosophical terms for such cosmic beings. Speaking of these beings, HPB says:
In every Cosmogony, behind and higher than the creative deity, there is a superior deity, a planner, an Architect, of whom the Creator is but the executive agent. And still higher, overand around, within and without, there is the unknowable and the unknown, the Source and Cause of all these Emanations. – The Secret Doctrine 2:43
Purucker says further:
Every unitary being within nature, such as a sun or a planet, is in consequence an imbodied entity, divine in its highest parts, spiritual in the part subordinate to the divine, having an intellectual essence or mind, and all these manifesting through the lower garments, including the physical body. – Fountain-Source of Occultism, p. 209
Human understanding divides the manifested universe into two interdepending parts: the light–side, the spiritual or divine side of nature; and the matter-side, the vehicular aspect. The light–side is represented by the architects and the matter-side by the builders.
In reality it is almost impossible to mark a dividing line between the two: both are built up by hosts of cosmic monads which differ only in their degree of development, and at the transition point they are virtually identical.
H. P. Blavatsky divided these monads into two parallel triads: the light triad consisting of gods-monads-atoms; and the vehicular triad consisting of chaos-theos-cosmos. When these two triads unite, the gods work in chaos, the monads in theos, and the atoms in cosmos.
Considering each triad individually, we see that on the spiritual side the gods work through the monads, and the monads work through the atoms; while on the material side, chaos works in theos and theos works in cosmos.
We can apply this cosmic pattern to the human constitution, for in human evolution there are also two lines and three stages. The two lines can be called the spiritual and the material. The three stages of evolution are the monadic, the intellectual, and the physical, and they work together simultaneously. Referring to the sevenfold human constitution, we have:
1. Atman and buddhi (the higher duad), the first stage;
2. Manas and kama (the middle duad), the second stage;
3. Prana, the astral body, and the physical body (the lower triad), the third stage.
The principles of our constitution are inseparably interwoven and intermingled, especially because humanity belongs to a class of monadic beings where spirit and matter are more or less in balance.
However, all such classifications are, in my view, simply artificial intellectual creations which have value only as working hypotheses when we are trying to understand the manifested cosmos. They have no independent reality.
The process of dual evolution is beautifully explained by the term sutratman:
It is this sutratman, this thread–self, this consciousness-stream, or rather stream of consciousness-life, which is the fundamental and individual Selfhood of every entity, and which, reflected in and through the several intermediate vehicles or veils or sheaths or garments of the invisible constitution of man, or of any other being in which a monad enshrouds itself, produces the ego centers of self–conscious existence. — G. de Purucker, Occult Glossary
By reflecting on the role of duality in the evolutionary process, we can get at least a basic idea of the way in which the One becomes the many, an event in which we all take part. In applying it to ourselves, we may substitute the words “universal brotherhood” for the One.
Cyclically a special effort is made to bring home to mankind this sublime fact of universal nature. In the beginning only a few are ready to accept universal brotherhood, but nonetheless the idea starts to spread. As a seed gradually grows into an organism, so the idea of brotherhood becomes a movement — in our time it is called the Theosophical movement.
Although the brotherhood ideal is the creator and supporter of the movement, it is not affected by the movement’s fate: movements come and go, but universal brotherhood, our essential oneness, was, is, and ever will be.
THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way. But, he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts; for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts and never takes responsibility for what he does.
There is no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.
A warrior goes to knowledge as he goes to war; wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute-assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it. —- When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites – to be awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute-assurance – there are no mistakes for which he will have to account, under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers defeat, he will have only lost a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.
Dwelling upon the self too much produces a terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue, itself, makes him cease to see the marvels all around him.
To be angry at people means that one considers their acts to be (too) important. It is imperative to cease to feel that way. The acts of men cannot be important enough to offset our only viable alternative: our unchangeable encounter with infinity.
The things that people do cannot, under any conditions, be more important than what they are or more important than the world. And thus, a warrior treats the world and people as an endless mystery; and what people do as an endless folly.
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior must ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart? – All paths are the same; they lead to now’here. However, a path without heart is never enjoyable, nor can it prepare one for the encounter with infinity. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy – it does make a warrior work with all his might, but it does not make a warrior work a liking it. It makes for a joyful journey; and as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.
There is world of happiness where there is no difference between things because there is no one to ask about the difference. But, that is not the world of men. Some men have the vanity to believe that they live in two worlds, but it is only their vanity. There is but one single world for us. We are men, and must follow, for now, the world of men contentedly.
A man has four natural enemies; fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity, and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effects can be postponed, but it can never be overcome.
A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can’t grab onto all the things that he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it is only a pity.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a warrior, one needs to be light and fluid.
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making a decision, but once he makes it, he goes on his way; free from worries or thoughts. There will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That is the warrior’s way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
A warrior must know that his acts are useless, and yet, he must proceed as if he didn’t know it. This is a warrior’s controlled folly. [Like Solomon’s vanity]
The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not “see”. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, defeat, or suffering.
When a man embarks on the warriors’ path, he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been left forever behind. The means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive.
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won’t give him time to cling to anything. So he tries, without craving, all of everything.
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior’s last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters there little to him. In his last battle on earth, a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, the warrior laughs and laughs.
When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind, than to behave as though we know everything. Other than his death, the warrior knows that nothing on this earth is for sure.
Every time a man sets himself to learn, he has to labor as hard as anyone can. The limits of his learning are determined by his own nature. Fear of knowledge is natural; all of us experience it, and there is nothing we can do about it. But no matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a man without knowledge.
We hardly realize that we can cut anything out of our lives; anytime; in the blink of an eye.
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world, he cannot appreciate the world around him. He is like a horse with blinders; all he sees is himself and he is apart from everything else.
In a world where death is the hunter, there is not time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. It doesn’t matter what the decisions are. Nothing could be more or less serious than anything else. In a world where death is the hunter, there are no small or big decisions. There are only decisions that a warrior makes in the face of his inevitable death.
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings, he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to.
For an average man, the world is weird because if he is not bored with it; he is at odds with it. For a warrior, the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, and unfathomable. A warrior must assume responsibility for being here; in this marvelous place, in this marvelous time.
A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death. Without remorse, sadness or worrying. He must focus his attention on the fact that he does not have time and let his acts flow accordingly. He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under these conditions will his acts have their rightful power. Otherwise all actions will be, for as long as a man lives, the acts of a fool.
A man; any man, deserves everything that is a man’s lot – joy, pain, sadness, and struggle. The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. — If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it – purge it, make it perfect – because there is no other task in our entire lives, which is more worthwhile. Not to fix the spirit is to seek death, and that is the same thing as to seek nothing, since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything. To seek to perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness and our manhood.
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anyone, much less to a warrior.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive; and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
A warrior is only a man, a humble man. He cannot change the designs of his death. But, his impeccable spirit, which has stored power after stupendous hardships, can certainly hold his death for a moment; a moment long enough to let him rejoice for the last time in recalling his power. We may say that this is a gesture which death has with those who have an impeccable spirit.
A warrior doesn’t hold to remorse or place unwarranted importance on the self or too much emphasis on his acts. The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
The internal dialogue is what grounds people is their daily world. The world is such and such, or so and so; only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such, or so and so. The passageway into the world of the warrior opens up after a man has learned to shut off his internal dialogue. Whenever the warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of a beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor for anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him, scrape the floor for him.
The flaw with words is that they always make us feel enlightened, but when we turn and face the world, they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment. For this reason a warrior seeks to act rather than to talk, and to this effect, he gets a new description of the world—a new description where talking is not that important and where new acts have new reflections.
Knowledge is a most peculiar affair, especially for a warrior. Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him and passes on. Knowledge comes to a warrior, floating; like the dust that cover the wings of a moth. So, for a warrior, knowledge is like taking a shower, or being rained on by specks of gold dust.
The world is unfathomable. And so are we, and so is every being that exists in this world.
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they do not demolish them.
An average man thinks that indulging in doubts and tribulations is the sign of sensitivity and spirituality. The truth of the matter is that the average man is the farthest thing imaginable from being sensitive or spiritual. His puny reason deliberately makes itself into a monster or a saint, but he is truthfully too small for such a big monster or saint role.
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior; in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion; an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment that they were born. In essence, the world that their reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and it dogmatic and inviolable rules… which their reason learns to accept and defend. Their reason makes them forget that a description is only a description, and before they realize it, human beings have entrapped the totality of themselves in a vicious circle from which they rarely emerge in their lifetimes.
Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
The basic difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an average man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
Any habit needs all of its parts in order to function. If some parts are missing, the habit is disassembled.
Human beings love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not to do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.
The warrior’s way offers a man a new life and that life has to be completely new. He can’t bring to that life his ugly old ways. The only freedom that warriors have is to behave impeccably. Not only does impeccability carry with it freedom; it is the only way to straighten out the human form.
People’s actions no longer affect a warrior when he has no more expectations of any kind. A strange peace becomes the ruling force of his life. The course of a warrior’s destiny is unalterable. The challenge is how far he can go and how impeccable he can be within those rigid bounds. A warrior’s ultimate accomplishment is to enjoy the joy of infinity.
A warrior is never under siege. To be under siege implies that one has personal possessions that could be blockaded. A warrior has nothing in the world except his impeccability;… and impeccability cannot be threatened.
A chief principle of the warrior’s art is the principle that a warrior always chooses his battleground. A warrior never goes into battle without knowing what the surroundings are. A warrior relaxes and abandons himself, he fears nothing. Only then will the power that is available to guide him open the road for the warrior and aid him. Only then.
Warriors compress time; this is another principle of the warrior’s art. Even an instant counts. In a battle for your life, a second is an eternity, an eternity that may decide the outcome. Warriors aim at succeeding, therefore they compress time. Warriors don’t waste an instant.
Applying all the principles of the warrior’s art brings about three results. The first is that warriors learn never to take themselves seriously; they learn to laugh at themselves. If they are not afraid of being a fool, they can fool anyone. The second is that warriors learn to have endless patience. Warriors are never in a hurry; they never fret. And the third is that warriors learn to have an endless capacity to improvise.
Calibrating by Shifting your Emotions
Emotions
Can you recall the last time you were really angry at someone? So much so that you were physically shaken just at the thought of them? Rarely does this feeling of anger help us in getting what we want. Often, it will work against us, resulting in more pain, unnecessarily.
Even the most gentle of personalities can temporarily turn into a vindictive rascal, if pushed far enough.
A friend of mine is going through a divorce with a spouse who is unreasonably prolonging the process. He’s sad, hurt, upset, frustrated and very, very angry. Words of anger and hatred spout out of his — otherwise polite and thoughtful — mouth. He was no longer his authentic and peaceful self. And he didn’t like who he was becoming.
Through helping him come to a place of understanding and forgiveness of his ex-spouse with love, compassion and humility (we had to dig deep), I realized that the same tools can be used in dealing with other negative emotions.
For sake of simplicity, we will use anger as the target emotion to overcome. Keep in mind that it can be applied to overcome other non-conducive and intense emotions such as jealousy, guilt, hatred, regret and fear.
Why Do We Feel Like Crap?
“It’s amazing how much emotion
a little mental concept like ‘my’ can generate.“
– Eckhart Tolle
Anger doesn’t feel very good. It’s pretty gross, actually. Our stomach tightens-up, we become sweaty, we react — instead of act — in survival mode. And anger clouds our judgment causing us to respond wildly out of emotion. We’ve all been there. Sometimes, it can get so intense that we tremble passionately while feeling strong hate towards other people. And when we cool down, we would wonder how we allowed ourselves to get in such a messed up state in the first place.
The answer is: Very easily. Allow me to explain.
Emotion is our body’s response to a thought, which could be triggered by an external situation. But this situation is seen through the lens of our own interpretation. Our lens is colored by the mental concepts unique to each of us; concepts like good and bad, mine and yours, like and dislike, right and wrong. Keep in mind we all have different lenses, thus interpretation conflicts are inevitable.
For example, we feel very little emotion when someone else loses their wallet. But when it is our own money, we suddenly feel pain and the desire to hoard it back to us.
The moment we’ve labeled something as “mine”, we will experience mental distress when we’ve interpreted that we have ‘lost’ it or are at the risk of losing it. Whether it is my wallet, my pride, my money, my house, my car, my job, my child, my stocks, my feelings or my dog, as long as we feel that it is lost or threatened, we will experience pain in the form of anger or other strong negative emotions.
We experience pain, because we have been trained since children to believe that the things which we have labeled as ‘mine’, are something that define who we are. We’ve identified with it and falsely believed that if we lost it, or face losing it, we lose ourselves. Suddenly, our ego has nothing to identify itself by. Who are we? This hurts our ego tremendously.
In our minds, we feel entitled to more, whether it is more money, or more respect, or a better job, or a larger house. Amongst it all, we fail to see that our mind will always want more. Greed is a highly addictive state of mind, always growing, blinding us of reality, while convincing us that we’re doing a reasonable thing.
Common Ingredients of Anger:
* Unfairness — We believe that we have been treated unfairly. We tell ourselves that we deserve more, and we buy into this story that someone has wronged us.
* Lost — We feel that we have lost something that we have identified ourselves with. Feelings, pride, money, car, job.
* Blame — We blame other people or external situations for having caused our loss, for taking advantage of us unfairly. The blame often only resides in our heads and is a product of our imagination. We fail to see things from other people’s perspectives. We become deeply selfish.
* Pain — We experience pain, mental distress, and anxiety. The pain causes physical responses in our body, which disturbs our natural energy flow and state of wellbeing.
* Focus — We focus on the thing we don’t want, and energize it by complaining about it passionately, and repeating it to as many people who will listen. This creates a downward spiral of anger. “What we focus on expands”, this is true regardless of the emotion.
The interesting thing is that if there are two angry people unhappy with each other, both people feel a sense of loss, unfairness, pain and the need to blame the other person. Who is right? The answer is: both are right and both are wrong.
Why Should We Bother with Overcoming Anger?
Negative emotions like anger kick us into survival mode, as if saying to our body, “we are in danger”. There is a physiological change that takes place in our body to prepare us for fight or flight. These physical responses disrupt the natural flow of energy in our body — affecting our heart, immune system, digestion and hormone production. A negative emotion is therefore toxic to the body and interferes with its harmonious functioning and balance.
Prolonged anger, stress and holding grudges will hurt our adrenal gland and immune system. For women, stress on the adrenal gland can affect the reproductive organs (uterus, ovaries) causing them to exhibit abnormal behaviors, potentially resulting in sterility.
Aren’t your physical and mental health worth more than the mental pressure you are voluntarily piling onto yourself? Is it worth it to react out of spiteful emotions and hurt feelings, so that we might temporarily satisfy our pride?
Anger also clouds our judgment and we become consumed with problems and pain. Instead of cutting ourselves loose, free from the self-inflicted pain; we make irrational, unreasonable, regretful and hurtful decisions. In the case of divorces, the legal fees alone can drain one’s savings, unnecessarily leaving both parties unhappy and poor. Nobody wins!
The Fundamentals of Change
Notice how quickly we can fall into a negative state of being? A split second, maybe. By the same reasoning it should take us the same amount of time to shift into a resourceful state of being. The challenge here is that we have been conditioned from a very young age to remain in an un-resourceful state. Nobody gave us the tools to shift our state into a positive one. Often, our parents didn’t know how, and still do not know how.
When negative feelings arise, we have two choices,
1. To follow the habitual pattern we’ve learned since we were young, to react and allow the negativity to consume us.
2. Or, to interrupt the pattern we have been conditioned to follow, and in doing so build new neural pathways that allows for alternative possibilities.
There are essentially three ways to interrupt a behavioral pattern:
* Visual — Change your thoughts.
* Verbal — Change your language.
* Kinesthetic — Change your physical position.
Okay, let’s dive into the practical stuff…
15 Ways to Overcome Anger
Some of these tools might be more effective for some of us than others. For me, “Look Up!!” has been the most effective (thus, I’m listing it first). I’ve also seen good results where several of these are used in combination.
1. Look Up!!!
The fastest way to change negative feelings is by changing our physical position right away. The easiest way to physically change is by moving our eye position. When we are in a negative state, we are likely looking down. Suddenly looking up (into our visual plane) will interrupt the negative patterns of sinking into the quick sand of bad feelings.
Any sudden physical change will do the trick:
* Stand up and stretch while letting out an audible sigh.
* Exaggerate and change your facial expressions.
* Walk over to a window where there is sunlight.
* Do 10 jumping jacks.
* Do a ridiculous dance that pokes fun at you.
* Massage the back of your neck with one hand while singing happy birthday.
Try this next time you feel a negative or unpleasant thought come up.
2. “What Do You Want?”
Sit down and write down exactly what it is that you want out of the current situation. Your job is to describe the end result you would like to see. Be clear, realistic and fair. Be specific with your description. Including dates of when you would like to see the results.
Once you have this clearly mapped out, and when you find yourself drifting into negative thoughts of what you don’t want, you can shift your focus on this list instead.
Also, when we do this exercise consciously, we’ll come to find that the arbitrary and materialistic things that we thought we wanted, aren’t want we want, after all. Clarity is a beautiful thing.
3. Eliminate: Don’t, Not, No
Words such as Don’t, Not, No, Can’t gets us focused on the things that we don’t want. Language is a powerful thing and can influence our subconscious mind, and ultimately our feelings. When you catch yourself using a negated word, see if you can replace it with another word of opposing meaning. Example: instead of saying “I don’t want war”, say “I want peace”.
4. Finding the Light
Darkness can only be eliminated when there is light (like a lamp, or sunlight). In the same way, negative things can only be replaced by positive things. Remember that regardless of what is happening to us externally, or how bad things appear in our mind, we always have the choice to speak and see things positively.
I know this is harder to do when you’re in midst of heated emotions, but I’m a big believer that there is something to be learned from every situation we encounter. Look for the lesson. Find something about the situation that you’ve gained, whether it’s a material possession or an understanding or a personal growth. Find the light so you can uncover the darkness of your mind.
5. Surrender
Surrender to our ego’s need to be right, to blame, to be spiteful, and to be revengeful. Surrender to the moment. Surrender to the pull to become worked-up by the situation.
Become mindful. Watch your thoughts and learn to separate your thoughts from your own identity. Your thoughts are not you.
Things will play out regardless of whether we become emotional or not. Trust that the universe will work its course and do its job. By not surrendering, we get worked up for nothing, and our body will suffer as a result of it.
6. Circle of Influence
When we are feeling down, it’s easy to be sucked into the downward spiral of bad feelings. It really doesn’t help to be around others complaining about the same issues. It’s counter-productive to getting well.
Instead, find a group of people with a positive outlook. When we are around such a group of people, they will remind us of things we already know deep within us, we can start to recognize the good, and the positives. When we are down, we can draw energy from them in order to rise above the problem and negative state.
In the same way that being around negative people can affect you in a negative way, being around happy and optimistic people can raise our awareness, and help us move out of the un-resourceful state.
7. Gratitude Exercise
Find an uninterrupted space, and bring a notepad and pen with you. List out (in as much detail) everything you are grateful for in your life, either in the past, or present; either experiences, relationships, friendships, opportunities or material possessions. Fill up the page, and use as many pages as you have things to be thankful for. Be sure to thank your heart and your body.
This is a simple, yet underestimated tool to help us focus our attention on what matters. This exercise can also shift our state of mind from one of a lower frequency to that of a higher frequency. It also helps us to gain clarity and to remind ourselves that we have much to be thankful for.
No matter how bad things get, we always, always have things to be grateful for. If anything, we have the opportunity of life, in which we have the freedom to grow, to learn, to help others, to create, to experience, to love.
I’ve also found it particularly effective to add silent meditation for 5–10 minutes prior, and visualizing everything on your gratitude list after the gratitude exercise. Try it for yourself!
8. Meditation
Meditation is training for the mind; to calm the noise in our mental space, to lower our thought count, to draw out inner wisdom, and mostly it helps us to recognize and remain anchored in our divine state.
Regardless of what is happening external to us, we have the capacity to remain centered, in a state of acceptance, of flow, of peace, and of love. When we are in this state, we are rational and have the clarity we need to handle any situation with grace, and with minimal stress on our body.
9. Breathing Relaxation Techniques
Most of us are shallow breathers, and air only stays in the top of our lungs. Deep breathing exercises will get more oxygen into our brains, and into the rest of our body. Try this:
* Sit up straight in your chair, or stand up.
* Loosen up clothing, especially if your stomach feels tight.
* Inhale through your nose. Exhale through your mouth.
* Put one hand on your abdominal area (over your belly).
* When you inhale, feel your hand expanding as air is filled up in your diaphragm.
* When you exhale, feel your hand retracting to the initial placement.
* Count in your mind the number of inhales and exhales, and gradually level them off such that both take equal counts.
* Slowly, add a count to your exhale.
* Keep adding a count to your exhale until the count for exhales doubles that of the count for inhales.
* Repeat this breathing rhythm for 5 to 10 times.
* Keep your eyes closed in silence for a few minutes afterwards.
10. Laughter!
We cannot laugh and be upset at the same time. When we make the physical movement required to laugh or smile, we instantly feel light-hearted and joyful.
Try it now: give me that beautiful smile of yours. I want a genuine and large smile now! J How do you feel? Do you feel an instant jolt of joy? Did you temporarily forget about your problems?
List out a series of movies that make you laugh and stock them up at home. Or meet up with a humorous friend who can really get you laughing. For my friend going through the divorce, I prescribed Episode 10 of “Survivor Gabon”, he laughed until his stomach hurt and told me the next day that he slept very well, without once thinking about the negativity that would otherwise trigger anger.
11. Forgiveness
For my little vindictive rascals out there, I know the idea to forgive your ‘enemy’ sounds counter-intuitive. The longer you hold on to the grudge, the more painful emotions you will experience, the more turbulence you are putting on your body, the more damage you are inflicting on your long-term health and wellness.
Unable to forgive someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. And there’s no way around it.
12. Snap a Rubber Band
Wear an elastic/rubber band around your wrist, at all times. Every time you find yourself having a thought that would lead to a downward negative cycle, snap the rubber band. It might sting a little. But this actually trains our mind to avoid triggering those thoughts. Pain is an amazing motivator.
13. Identify and Eliminate Your Triggers
Sit down and brainstorm a list of reminders and activities that will trigger this negative emotion in us. It might be hearing the word ‘divorce’, or someone’s name, or going to a particular restaurant.
Commit to yourself to eliminate the mentioning of these triggers from your life. If we know something will upset us, why would we bother triggering it?
14. Identify What Anger Brings
List all the things that you’ve gained as a result of being angry. When you’re done, go down this list and count the number of positive things that are actually conducive to your wellbeing. By the way, “making the other person suffer and feel pain” does not count as “conducive to your wellbeing”.
This exercise helps us bring more awareness, rationality and clarity into the situation.
15. Seek Closure. Solve the Problem
To the best of your ability, do not drag anything on for the sake of “winning” or “being right”; it’s not healthy for anyone involved.
Just because we surrender to the external events and choose not to give them any more attention, does not mean that we sit back passively to let others step all over us.
Take action that will help you move onto the next step, and closer to resolution. Be proactive and thoughtful. The faster you can get the problem resolved, the quicker you can set yourself free, mentally.
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