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Vol.2 No.14 Copyright Harvey Cohen ~ Published by AaaHa! Dynamics Press

We're making it all up anyway, so it might as well be wonderful~

Think about it~You only know what you know you know, not any more.
If you don't know whatever you need to know whenever you need to know it,
it's because you know that you don't know whatever you need to know whenever
you need to know it.
To know, whatever you need to know whenever you need to know it,
is kinda cool.
Go know!

What is reality? It's really not that complicated. Really.

Take a good look at the Pablo Picasso painting above. Have you ever seen anything so enchanting and exciting to look at? Doesn't it just take your breath away? You can easily understand why a collector would pay millions of dollars to own this artistic masterpiece.

"What?", you say. You wouldn't pay $1.95, $2.50 tops, for this ridiculous excuse for a work of art. For the life of you, you cannot understand what anyone sees in the painting that makes it so valuable. The buyer must be nuts.

Surely you are aware of the statement; 'Perception is reality'. Different people have different perceptions, different opinions, different realities, about the exact same thing.

The painting is not enchanting or ridiculous, or beautiful or ugly. It just IS. Your reality is not what you see. Your reality is how you perceive what you see, your opinion of what your see. Your perception of anything does not make someone else's perception nutty or wrong. Just different and interesting.

Everyone and everything in your life might as well be a Picasso painting. Everyone and everything in your life just IS. What you see tells you more abut you, the perceiver, than it tells you about what you see. Is that so terrible? Naw!

To argue if the painting is a work of art or not, is, well.....silly, and separates you from any meaningful interaction. An addiction to being right is an excellent strategy for loneliness.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. You will develop a friendly connection with others that is not available if you insist that someone's reality is wrong. It's not that complicated. Really.

Cheers,

Harvey

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When I read about the evils of drinking,
I gave up reading.
----Rodney Dangerfield

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We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
-------Albert Einstein

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places.
He told me to quit going to those places.
-------- Henny Youngman

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We know what we are, but know not what
we may be. We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
-------Shakespeare

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Circus elephants, when not performing, are restricted from freely roaming around. One end of a short chain is tied around an elephant's hind leg with the other end of the chain attached to a stake that is sunk two feet into the ground.

Even though the elephant, the largest and strongest land animal in the world, is more than powerful enough to free himself with just a slight tug of the chain to lift the stake, the elephant remains captive to the equivalent of a toothpick. How come?

Here's how come:

When the elephant is just a baby his hind leg is shackled to a short chain that is attached to a stake driven two feet into the ground. The baby elephant is not yet strong enough to pull the stake out of the ground, try and try as he will.

Pretty soon the baby elephant stops trying, never to try again. Even after he grows into adulthood, more than capable to free himself, he never tries. All because of past conditioning. Bummer!

Not unlike what happens when some people stop trying to overcome their own sense of helplessness. Not because they don't have what it takes, but because of past conditioning. Because they are convinced they don't have what it takes.

There is one reason and one reason only for not living life out of your highest ideals, doing and being what you love to do and be, in the most delicious, delightful and prosperous way. That reason is not circumstance or other people. That reason is; you bought into a bill of goods, from the past, that chained you to false ideas about yourself when you were too young to think things through. You bought into a sense of helplessness hook, line and thinker.

Like the elephant you were conditioned, indeed hypnotized, to believe you are much less than you really are. Got tug?


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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
---------Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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The intellect has little to do on the road
to self-discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness,
call it intuition or what you will, and the
solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why.
-----------Albert Einstein

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Is there someone in your life who delights you and fills you

with great joy?

Good.

Congratulate yourself for loving and accepting yourself so much that you can't help but attract someone that reflects

your self-image.

Do it now.

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Sometimes the road less traveled is less
traveled for a reason.
-------Jerry Seinfeld

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but the calf won't get much sleep. ------Woody Allen =================== =================== The holy passion of Friendship will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ----------Mark Twain =================== ===================

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So, what the hell, leap!
------------Cynthia Heimal

As time goes by......or not!

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday
........W.C .Fields

Have you ever felt like time just stands still........or just flies?
You might be on to something.

Get this: Albert Einstein, just one of the greatest minds that ever lived, that's all, proved that time is elastic, relative, not absolute as Newton claimed. If that doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will. The empirical evidence is stunning. Not just a metaphysical concept.    It may take a life-time or two to really get a handle on this; time is an illusion thing. Maybe not. Certainly requires a curious mind.

Time is an illusion? Not easy to grasp? Perhaps. It sounds sorta nutzy, huh? Sure, if you are using traditional worldly thinking instead of 'Einsteinium cosmic thinking'. Discovering that the world is not flat and that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth could fall into nutzy for some at some time .

The implications that time is not absolute are far reaching. You have no idea. Unless you do. It requires your   open-mind and curiosity. You will be intuitively guided to stunning considerations.

Like: You will discover that time is to you as you are to yourself. In the most remarkable manner time conforms to your sense of self. Time, then, is a mental construct. The more you complain about not having enough time to do what you want to do, the more you arrange time to, indeed, deny you doing what you want to do.   You will always have lack of time, bad timing, as reasons for you missing out on life's good stuff.

Calling time the crook that steals from you some of the joys and pleasures of life is like blaming the shoes you wear for taking you to places you'd rather not be.

An approach that will release you from the illusion that time has power over you is, for starters, your realization that time is not an absolute. Not because I say so, but because you figured it out for yourself. You figured out that time is flexible. That takes thinking about it. That may take some time. Or not. Mind-boggling experiences await your curiosity.

Here is your assignment;
With a ball point or felt tipped pen and draw a
happy face on the inside of your thumb.
With as much conviction as you can muster,
affirm the following:

Glance at your thumb during the course of the day.
It will remind you of the truth of your being.
You will be reminded that you are an illusion buster.

Should you accept this assignment, don't be surprised to find
yourself at the edge of discovering astounding
aspects of your nature. Wanna bet?


That's a wrap!

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