What lives inside

We are all living lives of uncertainty 

Lives of surprise and pure originality 

But we think we know otherwise and get bored with monotony

When we don't realize that we are just one small choice away from spontaneity

Same old days with the same old things

Not seeing we are the one weaving the strings

Until one day we sit scratching our head

Wondering life can't be just this but instead 

Days where laughter is behind every turn 

And every moment is a lesson to learn 

That dreams are just as real as the paychecks we are expecting to receive

And nothing more is required to make them come true but simply to believe 

It is not that we are unaware of all this 

Walking from breakfast table to bedroom in ignorant bliss

But that somewhere along the way merely we had forgotten

Likely when we were no longer children and adulthood was not quite gotten

Life is beautiful they say, brilliant and divine

And we ask how did you learn this, where did you cross that line 

You had it all along, inside and waiting they'd say

Then suddenly we realize it is our own voice answering while we pray

We stop scratching our heads, open our eyes, and smile real wide

It is a beautiful life with nothing in our way for we have greatness living inside

-B.C.

Just love

“I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element, as oxygen or hydrogen, at last, but the world of manners and actions is wrought of one stuff, and begin where we will we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments”

-Excerpt From: Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Essays.” 

Elegantly stated, Emerson implicitly urges us to respect and love each other without judgments and pretensions. 

Fascinating to see writings of the past still run alongside the oldest teachings of time: Simply love. 

With love comes all virtues and manners. We needn't try to be "better" individuals. Just love ourselves, others, and the One. The latter existing and consisting of the two formers. 

If all of what you can see is with your eyes, then you are blind. 

You Are

You are magnificent

Your soul is pure

Stumbling beautifully 

Trying so hard to do right

When right and wrong seem to have no difference 

You tread forward 

Through the fog of youth 

And the night of doubt

What waits for you at the end

Is not so clear 

But you know it is worth the tears

Because anything is better than nothing

So you march on

With fists tight 

Knowing nothing of what's ahead

Forgetting all that is left behind 

Love is Virtue

The light spectrum of love are the virtues of man. Not by concentrating to strengthen virtue do we acquire its qualities, but by love. Simply living out of love does our light shine through the different shades of circumstance which filter its color to specific virtues. 

Restriction + Creativity = Good

Restricting the range and generalization of your creativity can force you to focalize your creativity and enhance ideas. 

Like energy, creativity cannot be destroyed, only manipulated and transferred. If made smaller, it is more dense and concentrated.  

Ideas^x

x = (Intentional + Specified) (Restrictions) +Creativity

IDEAS^x = Revolutionary 

Tongue tools

Holding better vocabulary is not a trait of pretension, but a trait of excellence. It is the same as maintaining correct posture. Though it may not always come naturally, you nevertheless will it for you know it is good for you. 

Who What How

In the life of Faith we do not concern ourselves with What, When, Why, or How. 

Just Who. 

The Omnipotent. 

Don't flinch

Having greater faith is not acquired through greater effort. Quite the contrary.
Like the game we played as children when our mother or father would stand behind us and we'd try to fall backwards without flinching, fully trusting they'd catch us before we hit the ground; it is the same with trusting in our Heavenly Father.
We cannot put more effort into falling back trusting that He has us. We can however, learn to let go more and close our eyes deeper.
Greater Faith = (Trust - Effort)

Self Augmented Reality

Setting goals for yourself isn't just about having a more targeted aim, it inwardly converts you to expect the specified result.
It is not that we necessarily work harder or smarter in having a clear goal(though it certainly can affect to that), but that we now have a new reality for our minds to bind to and begin to construct in the outer world. In setting clear goals we begin to live in a different reality, one that may not exactly match the seeming present or the reality of others.

Self Augmented Reality > current circumstance.

By setting goals and focusing daily on them, we space-time travel to a different dimension. Where the better You is waiting for you to take Their place so that They can take yours.

Self Love > selfishness.