Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin may have been onto something when he said, "Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it". It is one thing to be confident in ones wisdom it's another to think one is so wise they have nothing left to learn. Friend, if you had nothing left to learn your energy would be vibrating so high you would not even need to be of this world anymore. So lets just say if your still here then you have lot's to learn!
The universe teaches us in every single thing that plays out in front of us. There are hidden messages in numbers, geometry, words spoken off in the distance, the birds singing, the annoying dog barking at the house next door. There is never a given moment when you can not walk away after something is brought to your awareness with out taking away more knowledge. But wait. You have constant opportunities to gain knowledge! Why can't you just go to the library and gain more knowledge? Maybe study all the famous guru's of the world or live under the word of God and the Bible? Surely you will be a wise man if you study the word of the wise. Right?
You are not a wise one until you let go of your ego, walk in with your wisdom with your bare feet, and live your wisdom and not push it upon others and even then you are never so wise that you can not gain more wisdom. As humans we use very little of our brains. If we have all this space available we must have plenty to learn! So the next time you think you are more right than the next person maybe you should stop and question your wisdom because yes you may possibly be correct in this situation but more than likely you still have plenty you can learn from it and it may just be that you merely need to learn to let go of your ego and open your mind. Wise men never shut the doors to their mind they keep it wide open allowing the old to leave when the new has arrived.
Albert Einstein is known to the world as a true genius but he understood that true knowledge did not come from books and studying he has been quotes as saying, "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school" and "A true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination". In order to be a truly wise man we must open our minds and let go of what we "know" and allow the space to be filled with what is waiting for us to learn! As you grow and learn be sure to keep the door wide open so that new ideas are free to enter as the old ones exit! An open mind is the key to a truly wise man!

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Do Not Mistake Spiritualism for Escapism

Religion, spiritualism, drugs, alcohol, people, food, exercise or whatever your "thing" may be do not mistake them for your personal "crutch". Often we unconsciously turn to these things to fill a void within ourselves that we just can not pin point or to help us through a time when we feel lost and helpless. It's one thing to reach out for a helping hand now and again but its another to put all your weight into it and use it as a means to escape dealing with the real issue.
Religion is often looked up on as a safe place when you have no where else to go. God will always be there. Jesus saves us all! God forgives! Ask and you shall receive. But your trading one problem for another. We are dealt hard hands for a reason. Life forces us to see our flaws and the flaws of the world so that we are challenged to grow. You can not know your strength unless you are forced to lift the heavy weight with your own bare hands.
Spiritualism is not the same as religion. Spiritualism is for those who believe in more than just a God that will solve all our problems. With Spiritualism there is a sense of not belonging here when enlightenment has been reached or when a true sense of knowingness occurs. Some tend to reach further and further to things out of this world. A place they call home. A place not here on this planet. If this is true or not we were still born of this world with earthly human challenges for a reason. We still have dramas to play out if not for our consciousness than for the consciousness of others on this planet. When we choose escapism of any form we are not helping our planet evolve we are standing still. If you feel your religion gives you the answer that fits you than that is wonderful but when life deals you challenges and you see bad things happen all around you do not look to a God to solve your problems walk out your front door and make a difference.
If you feel this planet is not your home and choose to be lost in space in order to not deal with this worlds issues you need to rethink your theory and remember you chose to be here now in this time of great shifts. Escapism is just trading one thing for another and no solution ever occurs. It is not solving any problems. It is not helping humanity. It is not nurturing you. It is sweeping the pain under the carpet because you are to weak and feeble to deal with it all by yourself.
If you are reading this post take a few seconds and think about what your personal crutch may be. Has it solved all your worries and problems for you? When you pick up the phone or sit and talk with it does it give you the answers you are looking for? When the euphoric affect of it wears off has all the pain subsided and all your problems magically melted away? No? Why not? You mean they are still there? So what did you get out of it? You wasted precious time in your life. You extended the suffering and possibly complicated it and made it worse. All in all if you choose to get rid of your crutch or not it is all meant to be BUT if you are worried about pain and suffering wouldn't it be more pain free to deal with things and be done with it than sweeping it under the carpet only to be there nagging at you and never going away?

The simplest way to live life is to go with the flow and not fight life's challenges. Instead conquer them as they are handed to you. Face your problems head on and then go on to the next challenge. Master one thing before moving onto another. When you see problems that are not yours have compassion for them. Appreciate they are part of our planets evolution and needs to happen even if it hurts to witness it. Fight your own battles and send love and support to those who need it. Lose the escapism its just a dream that loses all meaning once you come back to reality. Spend some time reflecting on your escape route and ask yourself if you really need to be escaping of if you need to be fighting the battle in front of you.

You Are The Slave and The Master

Some say we live in the land of the free. We weren't always free and many of us still are not free at all. We are slaves to society, to work, to reaching the American Dream, to our families, to our significant others, to our projects and commitments. We are slaves and our minds are our masters. The irony is if we are our own master are we truly slaves?
Take the time to think about something that makes you feel enslaved. Something you feel trapped into doing and there is no way out of it. Is there really no way out of it or are there other conditions and arrangements that depend on you to keep you enslaved? A lot of times you pay the price for one convenience over another. Maybe you feel as though you are a slave and trapped by your own emotions. Do your emotions good or bad control you?
If we do not want to be enslaved by something, anything, than we need to dig beneath the surface and see the true source of that enslavement. Once you realize that you yourself hold the key to your freedom you will feel the true meaning of free. Remember you are your own master you control your own fate.
Be free!

Never Sweep The Stars Under The Carpet!

Stars are bright! That's stating the obvious but what about those that you unconsciously just sweep away under the carpet? In life we tend to not want to see the light when its blinding us. People who are here to teach us come in many forms. Sometimes its that one friend who seriously annoys you and you just do not know how to let them go. Other times it's a person who poses a more serious problem like your mother in law or your child. These stars do not look like stars to you but they shine so bright that they blind you and all you want to do is sweep them under the carpet and not deal with them. All stars show you the way. Light can be conveniently disguised in the middle of darkness. We draw challenging people and situations into our lives to show us the way home. These people are part of our solar system they are our stars! Take two seconds and think to yourself who in my life do I just not want to deal with right now? It could be someone from the past that you allow to annoyingly nag at the back of your mind but you never really take the time to think about. Who is that person you are avoiding that is showing you the way? Keep in mind that our universe is very big and just because we sweep the stars under the carpet they are still there! Maybe it's time to do a little spring cleaning. Once you take care of the things you desire the least an immense weight will be lifted off your shoulders and a magic elevator will come out of the sky and transport you to the next level of consciousness. Well not literally but you will definitely feel the shift to a brighter you!
I would love to hear which stars you swept under your carpet! Do share maybe that's all it will take to let them light your way again!
Reflection time!

Got Karma?

Admit it when something bad happens to you the first thing you think is what did I do to deserve this? I have even let it cross my mind that maybe in a past life I was a horrible person! I have come to the realization that karma does not exist in the sense that people believe it to be. You take something without asking and then someone steals something from you...KARMA! Nope it doesn't work that way really. The universe isn't punishing you for being selfish. What is happening is your own personal vibrational field is sending out a frequency that draws that action towards you. Maybe on some level you know you should not have taken that something without asking and unconsciously fear it coming back on you. Well every action creates a equal and opposite reaction. That is all karma is. You do not necessarily "deserve" bad things to happen to you but you created it to happen. You throw a ball at the wall what is going to happen? It is going to come back. It is inevitable in our 3D universe.

So if this is the case maybe we can "will" karma away. If you tell a lie that you yourself really believe are you going to attract that energy back? You sent out a message with the intentions that it is real so how is your vibrational frequency going to react? I believe you can will things away with pure intentions and the power of thought. You can stop the ball you threw at the wall from hitting you but you can not stop it from coming back to  you. So if you make a mistake you can correct your energy field before a negative effect takes place. So let's test this theory out. Hypothetically lets say you went to the grocery store and noticed the person in front of you dropped a $20 bill. You grab the bill and walk after the person who dropped it with the intentions of giving it back but they get in their car and drive away before you reach them. Hmmmm did you really try to give it to them or did you think hey the universe must have wanted me to have it? Later that day you feel bad about not giving that person their money and now you are creating the frequency that something wrong really happened. There is bound to be some sort of opposite reaction. How can you fix it with the best of intentions? I personally would spend the money on someone who needed it and apologize to the universe for my previous actions. I would change my frequency for the greater good and stop that ball from hitting me! We all have choices in this world. When we choose to put others before ourselves with the purest of intentions life will return it just the same. Sure bad things may still happen to you but more than likely its because you set yourself up unconsciously for a lesson to be learned. Just like you set yourself up to read this post :0) ! Reflection time!

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There Are No Endings Only New Beginnings...

Every so often tragedy strikes. Just when you thought everything was going great the world tumbles down. The only way to look at these dark times is to remember that there are no endings only new beginnings. I'd like to share some of Osho's transformative wisdom.
~Lori Marie
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The Chinese mystic's last surprise

Laughter is eternal, life is eternal, celebration continues. Actors change but the drama continues. Waves change but the ocean continues. You laugh, you change--and somebody else laughs--but laughter continues. You celebrate, somebody else celebrates, but celebration continues.

Existence is continuous, it is a continuum. There is not a single moment's gap in it. No death is death, because every death opens a new door--it is a beginning. There is no end to life, there is always a new beginning, a resurrection.

If you change your sadness to celebration, then you will also be capable of changing your death into resurrection. So learn the art while there is still time.

I have heard about three Chinese mystics. Nobody knows their names now, and nobody ever knew their names. They were known only as the "Three Laughing Saints" because they never did anything else; they simply laughed.

These three people were really beautiful--laughing, and their bellies shaking. And then it would become an infection and others would start laughing. The whole marketplace would laugh. When just a few moments before, it was an ugly place where people were thinking only of money, suddenly these three mad people came and changed the quality of the whole marketplace. Now they had forgotten that they had come to purchase and sell. Nobody bothered about greed. For a few seconds a new world opened.

They moved all over China, from place to place, from village to village, just helping people to laugh. Sad people, angry people, greedy people, jealous people--they all started laughing with them. And many felt the key--you can be transformed.

Then, in one village it happened that one of the three died. Village people gathered and they said, "Now there will be trouble. Now we have to see how they laugh. Their friend has died; they must weep."

But when they came, the two were dancing, laughing and celebrating the death. The village people said, "Now this is too much. When a man is dead it is profane to laugh and dance."

They said, "The whole life we laughed with him. How can we give him the last send-off with anything else?--we have to laugh, we have to enjoy, we have to celebrate. This is the only farewell that is possible for a man who has laughed his whole life. We don't see that he is dead. How can laughter die, how can life die?"

Then the body was to be burned, and the village people said, "We will give him a bath as the ritual prescribes." But those two friends said, "No, our friend has said, 'Don't perform any ritual and don't change my clothes and don't give me a bath. You just put me as I am on the burning pyre.' So we have to follow his instructions."

And then, suddenly, there was a great happening. When the body was put on the fire, that old man had played the last trick. He had hidden many fireworks under his clothes, and suddenly there was a festival! Then the whole village started laughing. These two mad friends were dancing, then the whole village started dancing.

It was not a death, it was a new life.

(This story was taken from Osho.com)

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There's much wisdom in Osh's parable but I will not impose my reflection upon you but simply suggest you take sometime to reflect upon it yourself.

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