Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

TIP #01: ANONYMOUSLY ATONE …
Merely pondering our past errors and wishing we had behaved differently is not going to
get us anywhere. For real change to occur in our lives, real action must be taken.
Logically, then, if we wish to cleanse regrets that are mental and passive and selfabsorbed,
it is necessary to engage an activity that is physical and active and selfless.
Instead of focusing on ourselves and our own plights – or fixating on ourselves and our
own mistakes, it is necessary to get up, go forth, and extend a helping hand to someone
else in need – especially when that someone happens to be in some way related to our
specific regret. And it is especially helpful when that helping hand is an anonymous one –
as the most potent change comes from the most potent gifts, and the most potent gifts are
always the ones done solely for the sake of giving (not for the sake of receiving any form
of thanks in return).
Of course, because there are many different sources of regret, so too are there many
different ways in which we can anonymously atone for the same …
*Do you regret not spending more time on “things that matter”? Then go forth and start
doing so – doing anonymous Good Deeds for your friends, giving anonymous smiles to
strangers, engaging anonymous acts of Kindness for your enemies.
*Do you regret having caused another person pain? Then get up and go forth to do your
best to anonymously remedy that mistake.
*Do you regret that you didn’t study harder or that you didn’t “make more of yourself”?
Then get up and go forth to anonymously invest an hour or two a week in learning a new
skill – preferably something that you can use to benefit your community thereafter.
TIP #02: ACTUALIZE your INNATE PERFECTION …
This might be a surprise to some of you, but life is not “a Journey” – it is not merely a
long, drawn-out series of opportunities to gradually “get happier over time”. No, your life
is – at least as far as your “personal development” is concerned – a series of
interconnected and yet completely independent moments. Your life is happening fully
and completely, right here — right now …
There is no tomorrow & there is no someday … This is it.
In each and every moment of your life, you are either selfishly focusing on the things that
aren’t perfect (e.g. fears for your future, or regrets over your past), or you are selflessly
focusing on bringing another instant of Peace to someone else (e.g. Loving others).
There is no way to “become perfectly happy” over time, and there is no way for us to
maintain a lasting sense of “inner peace” either – our brains simply aren’t built that way.
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