Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

The “Law of Attraction” does indeed function, my Friends, and yet your unique region of
the Cosmos responds more to what you do & especially for whom you are doing it than
what you merely think about, wish for or focus upon. Radiate a frequency of “wanting
more”, and the Universe will hear your lack — and ultimately send you more of the
same. Beam out a frequency of “me first”, and Nature will respond accordingly — by
isolating you more & more completely from everyone & everything around you.
Such “wealth” – both of thought & of wallet – is more poverty than prize.
TIP #03: ENGAGE KINDNESS EVERYDAY …
Of course, there is another facet of positivity that is active in the face of difficulty and
caring in the face of tragedy; a positivity that thereby empowers resolve instead of
resignation. In-deed, positivity only disempowers us as long as we are engaging it
mentally &/or for our own personal benefit. Active Kindness (which is the only true
Positivity) does not support the myth of co-creating a new reality, but rather enhances our
ability to interact with our existing one. It is not seeing everything through rose-colored
lenses, but rather recognizing life’s shadows realistically, while simultaneously noticing
& engaging the opportunities to serve others therein.
*To gaze upon a sufferer and tell him to “just be happy” is cold & callous, whereas to
gaze upon that same sufferer and offer her the opportunity to change life’s focal point –
away from her own pain and towards the relieving of another’s, is fully liberating.
*Instead of blindly saying “things aren’t that bad” in the midst of an obvious tragedy, or
looking upon a crisis and indignantly saying “things are bad, so I am going to will them
towards goodness”, true Positivity looks upon those same situations, calmly accepts them
as they are, and then courageously uses them as opportunities for bring others Peace –
affirming that “things are indeed painful for me now -- which makes everything I do for
others in this moment extremely powerful”.
In conclusion, there is no more need to believe in the myth of our powerlessness, for our
true Power is not tied to physical strength, verbal force or “majority rule”.
From the moment we set forth to live our own lives as adults, we each accrued a legacy
of liberty instilled in us at birth – the freedom to choose Kindness over callousness, the
freedom to choose Love over fear, the freedom to choose emPowerment over resignation.
Human life is not to be lived like a mountainside expedition; an arduous trek through trial
& temptation that may someday reach a pinnacle known as “happiness” or “salvation”.
No, my Friends, our lives are much, much more than that. Our existence is not to be
judged by its length of duration, by its distance traveled, or even by its pleasures known.
Rather, life can only be truly appreciated by the courage with which we have walked its
days – however few or many those days might be; however far or abbreviated those paths
might lead.
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