Out of Control?
Are you in control of your life?
Life is wonderful, and dangerous and unpredictable.
Sure, you pretend that you have everything under control.
But you know that’s not true.
Pretending to be in control makes you feel safe.
And everyone wants to feel safe.
It’s hard to think about personal growth, enjoying life, or anything else, when you [...]
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Do you think that having more choices is good for you?
Choice is critical to the feeling and practice of freedom. Without choice, you would be doing exactly what you’re told to do, every moment of the day.
You’d be following your programming like a machine with no soul.
A kind of pretend choice is where [...]
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Leading a Double Life
Imagine that there is a door in your apartment or house.
Each day you step through that door and visit a distant and strange world for a few hours.
In that world you have a different name and face and body.
You live, work, earn money, face challenges, create, succeed, and grow – every single [...]
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The Space of Choice
Houses get dusty, people grow old, machines break, men destroy, and everything that lives dies.
Yet, people build, and plant, and create. Children are born, and the world changes and grows in beautiful, new, and exciting ways.
Both are true.
The world is dying, and the world is growing and unfolding.
Life is full of contradictions.
Which [...]
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