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July 29, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  pure
Category: Life
World,

           Today I woke up with the thought that I need to mail off a few of my DVDs to some paying costumers. So after I did my daily routine I got in my car and started heading over to the post office. When I got there I could feel the same thick wall of silence that always seems to be there regardless of occupation count. Some days its only 1 person standing in line, today it was around 15. So I grab my boxes, fill out all the addresses and now I'm ready to role.  So here I am waiting in a line of other people, with a deck of cards in my hand practicing my passion.

Finally its my turn to get called up. "NEXT CUSTOMER!" said the stressed out Chinese lady behind the counter. I walk up with everybody's eyes on me. I place my boxes on the counter and an international mailing slip to mail off one of my DVDs to Germany. Right away she said "YOU HAVE TO FINISH FILLING THE REST OUT!" (I missed a small part where it asked for my address/signature/date) and I asked her if she can tape up my boxes so the dvds won't go flying out. I thought it would be perfect timing so I could finish filling out the form and she could tape up the box in about the same amount of time. She then says "You can't use our tape, you have to buy your own right over there behind you. NEXT CUSTOMER!"

Every time that I've come there, they have taped up the boxes for me with no big hassle. So I take a deep breath, pick up my things and walk to the shelf where all the boxes, envelopes, tape, and other mailing accessories were. I did this in a silent manner and walked to the back of the line. About 5 seconds later a lady from the front of the line says "Hey, do you need tape?" and I laughed and said "Yeah, actually I do." "Well, I have some in my car, in the back seat inside the milk crate. Here, take my keys."

 So this perfect stranger just gave me keys and trusted me to get some tape from the car outside where her Honda Accord was parked, some people don't even trust their own family members but here was a lady I just met at the post office who without even thinking about it gave me the keys to her car to go get some tape so i wouldn't have to spend extra money. I leave my things as some what of a subliminal insurance policy so she would trust me even though she already demonstrated that she trusted me. I go and get the tape then come inside and tape up my boxes. I saved 5 dollars but more importantly is the principle behind all of this, a stranger trusted me with the keys to her car.

When I gave her the tape back I asked "Just out of curiosity, why did you trust me? You've never met me before and you handed me your keys." This was her answer:

 "Well, when you were told to go buy tape and get in the back of the line again you didn't make a scene, you didn't argue, you just grabbed the tape and calmly walked to the back of the line. Also, you seemed a bit down from that and I felt it was the right thing to do. I felt it in my gut to trust you."

 I thanked her and she ended up giving me her website address.


When it was Sandra's turn at the counter the lady asked if she'd like any stamps and I heard her say "I'd like the lighthouse ones, I'll take those Lighthouse stamps please." For some reason the word "Lighthouse" was highlighted and almost seemed louder than everything else that they were saying to each other. I started to think about why the word "Lighthouse" was so powerful in that moment. It was then when I realized that she was the Lighthouse. Lighthouses have forever been known as way points, a guide in the dense fog so you don't crash into land, a home base, a feeling of safety and consistency for being a beacon for the peace of mind that you are still tethered in some way to the shore. You won't get lost with a security blanket such as a lighthouse.


Thank you Sandra, for refreshingly proving what I already knew about the world.
"So shines a good deed in a weary world."


T r u s t -  to be Trusted.

Illuminate the dark, trust a stranger.
Chris Brown


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July 8, 2009 - Wednesday 
Music that will assist in the receiving process of this blog properly:  Heal the world/You are not alone/Will you be there.


Where do I begin?

Every so often somebody enters this world that has a higher purpose than anybody has ever seen before. Michael was this person. People have always seen Michael Jackson as the singer, dancer, writer, and performer. I saw him as all of these and none of these. I saw him as somebody who had all the ingredients to change the world. If love decided to become human, Michael Jackson would be the person responsible for holding all of the traits, ambitions, attributes, actions, and the human form that love would take. Love by itself is a beautifully wrapped conundrum. Lets think about this curious feeling for a moment.

 As far as science is concerned, human beings are the only species capable of loving. Michael Jackson loved everything and everybody he came in contact with. Imagine how two grown adults can fight with each other whether it be brother and sister, brother and brother, husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter...and note how quickly this dispute can lead them to feel that they don't love the other person anymore. The love is gone.  Then you have to ask yourself after how much ridicule, hatred, abuse, cameras, flashing lights, betrayal, false accusations, false facts and rumors spread about Michael Jackson took in...and still, he didn't lose love for a single one of you.

On the contrary, he loved you more because he knew the people ridiculing him needed the love more than anybody else. The people who latch onto bringing others down to bring themselves up display something not going right within their lives. The feeling that they NEED to do this to fill a void or to get back at the world for what they have interpreted against them. Take a quick second to think of everytime you've felt alone, hated, being left behind by somebody you loved/trusted and the feeling that the world is decaying around your life. Michael was talking directly to you through his songs.

 "I am here to stay. You are not alone. I am here with you."

Have you truly listened to the message in the music? He speaks about always being there for you, loving you unconditionally, hope, enduring, healing, changing the world, coming together. One of the last things he told a public crowd was the following.

"I love you. I really do. You have to know that, I love you so much. Really. From the bottom of my heart."

The world needed him. He did what he came to do. He delivered the message that we needed to hear to restore balance. Balance works by opposing forces equaling each other out. I personally believe that after a long time of war, killing millions of people, promoting hate to be the norm, Michael was that opposing force. Can you imagine hundreds of years with war, death, and hatred vs. one. He has changed the world. By reaching so many people from all around the world, he has single handedly created new doorways, new hope, new ways of thinking, new ways of bringing us together as a humanity. One man. One.

There's a quote I love and Wayne Dyer says it, it goes "Don't die with your music still in you." During the day of Michael Jackson's death my good friend, Matt Johnson, brought forward a very important lesson that I think we should all take a look at. Matt said "At least he didn't die with his music still in him." Could you imagine the tragedy of dying with all of your thoughts, ideas, dreams, wisdom, music, art, still in you? Now the question is, with everything that he has done simply by believing he could and having all the faith funneled from millions of people into one, can YOU set the new bar?

 As a door closes, Millions more will open. One door at a time. Michael Jackson's aftershocks in humanity will echo louder and louder forever. Has he opened a new door for you? Will you go through it? Will you change the world and be the next one to show love to everybody? Do you think you can do it? If you think you can, you're already there. Be the next ONE that will change many. The future existence of our world depends on taking what he started and build higher and higher until our children take over the building process. Who knows where we could reach someday ALL because of one man. That one man that we all had the privilege to live in the same era with. A finite number as "One" has never been so infinite as it is today. I wonder who will be another "one" that will change millions. It all starts with one, be one.


I love you.


One,
Chris Brown






“I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily.”

“Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.”

“And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.”

“'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.'”

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”

“My heart and prayers go out to every individual”

“I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,”

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

“There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.”

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”



“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

-Michael Jackson




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June 2, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Hello and welcome. First off. Let me explain what this is.

Welcome to the Sensory deprivation tank. Imagine a bath tub covered with a shell. 10 inches of water that is the exact temperature of your skin. Over 600 pounds of Epsom salt included so the density of the water allows you to float and not touch the bottom of the tank. Inside, its pitch black. No light. No sounds, only your body to listen to. Nothing. You go inside naked so there's nothing weighing you down or interfering with your experience. Its just you, floating, exploring through the mind.

So I get a text from John Bodine asking what I was doing last night, I was just getting out of Byron Walker's house getting some magic books to expand my library with. Of course I was down to hang out with John Bodine, he has been one of the driving dominate forces into the direction I've gone in magic. A mentor to say the least. He's definitely given me places to go with my magic and things to think about. Not to mention every session with Bodine is much like a session in never never land. You never know where you'll go but you know you're going somewhere.

So I get to John's house at around 10:30ish. We session and talk about magic for a while. Jonathan Steigman came over and we were speaking of the arts as usual. As soon as Jonathan left, it was float time. You start by taking a shower to take off all the body oils followed by some stretching. Then it was time. I approached the tank almost as if I was about to enter a space shuttle. I get in and close the hatch. The small blue and white LED lights were still on while I was in there, I followed John's instructions on how to stabilize myself while inside. I stabilized and then turned off the lights. Here we go....

1.5 Hours later John knocks on the door and I knock back...my time is up. I got out of there a different person I believe.

This is what happened during the 1.5 hour float. Ready? Come along.



Past this line, there's no coming back. Don't read ready if you're not further. Wait, strike that...reverse it. MOVING ON!
_________________________

The first 10 minutes were devoted to relaxing my muscles. Toes all the way to my neck. My neck had the hardest time relaxing but it wasn't an issue. I was floating in space and every movement i made with my arms through the water felt as if it propelled me in one direction. I had total control of where I believed i was floating towards. The controls to the direction of which I was floating in was all in my head. Amazing. When I got out of the tank, John asked if I'd like to write down what I experienced and I jumped to it. I'm glad I did. I have the note right in front of my face. I'll write them word for word and I'll write in parentheses what I meant by what I wrote. 



- We are apart of infinity. We are too small to even be seen & yet too large to ever be seen across.

(I imagined space, what if we reached the end...a wall. How far would that wall go for. Infinity came right off the tattoo on my back and turned into a show for my mind. During the float I spent a lot of time traveling in space.)



- Problems only need a small nudge. Don't waste energy.

(While in the tank sometimes you'll glide over to the sides and you'll gently bump into the wall. All you have to do is barely move your pinkie against the wall and it will push your body away. Too much of a push and you'll send your body to the other side bumping into the other wall. I think to get rid of some problems, we make it seem like we need to shove it away with all our force. I don't think you need to exert that much energy to get rid of something unfavorable in your life. Give it a small nudge and feel your body slowly making a nice and easy glide away from it. )



- My body was a living being of nothing for the float.

(For the 40-60 minute mark it felt like my body was part of the water. Since the salt is in the water, your hands don't get wrinkly)



- I was sleeping while I was awake.

(It felt as if my body was sleeping and I was able to listen to it work while I slept. Almost like I tricked my body into thinking I was asleep. So it felt as if my body was sleeping and my mind was 100% awake. A very delightfully awkward feeling.)



*For a moment I was singing to myself in a quite voice "There's no earthly way of knowing... Which
direction we are going. There's no knowing where we're rowing, or which way the rivers flowing."*




- My body was music. Ancient music & we all still listen to it like its new.

(Since there was no noise, the only noise I heard was the noises my body naturally made. I could hear my heart beat as if it was the beat to a song. Then i heard my muscles working. The strongest bass sound came from blinking down. When you close your eyes it uses muscles and since the muscles are close to your ears anyways, it sounds like a bass kick. Then when you open your eye lids, it sounds like a snare hit, all while your heart is providing the steady beat for you to work from. I made a song in there using my eyes and heart. Music made from my body. I felt like I WAS music. Music that has been with us since the beginning of time but nobody has ever heard it. A hidden track to the human race.)



- Total control over direction.

(Any direction I wanted to imagine myself floating towards I could do. Up, down, left, right. The steering wheel was in my mind, not my body)



- I floated but all small worries and stress sunk to the bottom.

(I don't have any worries or stresses really but it felt like any residue of what remained was pulled to the bottom of the tank, through the ground and into the core of the earth. I thought "Ok, I'll leave that there...I don't need it." It was only me left over.)



- The layer of person was shed for the float.

(It felt as if my personality, my appearance, my memories, the man I am was taken off like a suit that I've always been wearing and it was left on the bottom of the tank so I could put it back on when the float was over.)



- I was somewhere else. Not sure where yet.

(I was going places that I didn't know about. My next float I'll try to discover where. Or maybe I'll just let that go and let the next float just happen how its supposed to happen.)


- I was in the womb.

(My skin was slippery, I was naked, I didn't feel like I was in air...I felt like I was in the water and I could breath in it. While floating, the water comes up to about 2 inches away from your eyes and it covers your ears so you hear everything through the water because its a perfect conductor. At one point I thought "Is this was the womb felt like? Is this why I feel so natural in here?")




- 1 hour felt like I did 2 weeks worth of traveling.

(I went many places, discovered many things, but I never fully 100% let go into complete blank nothingness. I'll try that next time.)



- Went in hungry, but during the float hunger was turned off from the brain.

(Speaks for itself. You know how if you go to sleep hungry but you don't wake up starving. Its like your body knows you're going into sleep mode so it turns off that hunger. So you can sleep peacefully.)

_____________________


This was my experience. I encourage everybody to try this at least once. It might change the way you process things and compute/analyze scenarios for the rest of your life. Definitely one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced.

Persist.
Infinitely Changed.
Chris Brown

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May 10, 2009 - Sunday 
So I wanted to make this note to document what was said between me and this guy.

I was in San Francisco at a bar for my friend Amanda's Birthday hang out session with some of her friends. It was around 9:30 when I decided to make my way back to my car so I could go to a magic workshop to brush up on the Diagonal Palm Shift. Alright so I'm leaving the bar knowing I have about 4 blocks to walk to get to my car. I'm fine with that, there's always something to see that's hidden underneath the scenery that is visible. I'm standing about 100 feet from the bar at the street corner waiting for the light to turn green so I can cross and start my 4 block walk. It was then a homeless guy (Age 45) came out of nowhere and started striking up a conversation with me about people around the city. He didn't ask me for money, instead he asked for my time as I walked to my car.

So we started talking about how he's not the only one chasing money. I told him that everybody is. Then I asked him the question I love to ask people to get to know them a lot better. (Because you can read volumes about a person based on how they view the world.) I asked him "How do you see the world?". His response was candid, 100% pure, and unexpected. This was his response.

"Well, my view of the world has changed time and time again. I think that just happens as you get older. My son died back in 1989 and it threw me into a different place. I started drinking heavily and doing drugs. It was the cause of me being where I am now. I lost everything. I have nothing. How do I see the world? Well, I see the world as one of the filthiest places in the universe. We've really made this place filthy. Although, I've come to find proof that even in the worst conditions and in the most dirty and decaying places, flowers can still grow."

So let me get this straight...He's homeless, he lost his son in 1989, his drinking and drug use led him to being homeless, he lost everything. Yet, he still sees that even in the worst conditions in the world or anywhere for that matter, flowers can still grow. This man can find beauty and hope in anything. If he can do it, can't you? Why is it that we have people with an opportunity to do anything they want in this world that will never see this kind of perspective and take advantage of this open doorway? Something to think about.

Just had to share this.

Find the flowers.


Persist.
Chris Brown



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March 23, 2009 - Monday 

Current mood:  enlightened
Category: Life


Before reading this. Go to Pandora.com and search Philip Glass. Listen to this music as you are reading. It was my means of transporting what was in my head as I was writing. Take in a deep breath, relax, erase everything about today, yesterday, and all time. Here we go...

World,

Imagine with me a scenario. Lets imagine on TV there's a public announcement that an asteroid is coming our way and to seek shelter. Imagine the last 10 minutes on earth.You are currently downtown, you see people rioting, punching each other, looting stores, crying, praying, murdering, hugging, drinking, creating a war zone of "So what, an asteroid is coming? What does it matter?" mentality.

 Then all the sudden the TVs turn on announcing that ALL the networks were just hacked by people who valued life so much and appreciated what they had to the point where they saw people who didn't appreciate anything and felt the need to teach them the hardest hitting lesson they would ever learn. How would you react to this? Imagine looking at these people from a bubble where you were invisible and you were watching them destroy the world they think is coming to an end in that moment.

Your first thought may be to think of them in disgust...how could they do this? How destructive and primitive they become when they feel that they are no longer in control. Or would you think beyond thinking about why they are doing this and more towards thinking to yourself "Why do I let small things matter so much? Why does it matter at the end of the day? What does money truly mean before I existed and after I'm gone. Nothing." I usually tell you all about things that just are, things that I've discovered, and what I think are important messages for you to inherit. Now let me tell you about the thoughts I've created on my own due to factoring all of the notes that I've been taking throughout my life:

Life is everything. Life is nothing. Life is an explosion of energy. Life is a blip on the radar. Life is not worth living it just to fear it. Its not worth living life holding hatred towards a person that won't be alive a hundred years from now. The earth will move on with out us, so why can't we move on in our own lifetime? Einstein spoke a lot about relativity. People can say our life spans are so short. Some may see it as its too long and they want it to end quicker. Everything we've ever touched, seen, smelled, tasted, heard, is a build up of memories we develop in ourselves. Some people only remember the bad things about their past memories, other think of the good things that they can carry with them. Everything, entirely everything is how we see it. Change how you see things and the things will change how they appear.

Whatever you put out into the universe I believe it gives back to you. I'm not speaking about religion...I'm not speaking about Atheism. I'm not even speaking about an established preset belief system. I'm speaking about evolving your thought processes beyond what has already been provided. Will science matter when that asteroid is on a collision course for real? Will religion matter? Will anything matter? How do you see the world? We are everything, we are nothing. You decide.

Divide yourself from the equations that keep you from moving on to the next level of living this life we have. If you can do that, you'll be that much closer to your version of heaven, utopia, the center of the universe, your happiness. Try to not look down upon somebody who has found their happiness, even if you are on the polar opposite to what they believe. Why can't an atheist make peace with a religious man for finding their peace and happiness. Why can't a religious man make peace with an atheist who has found the same exact thing? Why draw lines in the sand at all? Find me a religion or current belief system that DOESN'T draw lines in the sand and classify others as inferior. You won't find it. I want to change this. Here's your chance.

 Try to take a step back when people behave in anger and when they retaliate with violence. Take an invisible bubble overhead look of these events and translate them to what it truly is. A species fighting for something they only have for a limited time. Stop wasting your time being pulled from one painting to the other when you have that canvas you've been building on since you were a child but forgot about. The longer time you stay focused on your goal (your canvas) the more intricate it will get and the quicker it will start to develop its final look that you've always wanted. Focus. Don't let tradition hold you back from discovering your consciousness about what,who,where,why we are.

You decide on how you want to take this stream of unfiltered, untarnished, untouched, pure form of inner honest expression. Its your choice and never has it not been.

If I told you an asteroid is coming...What would be your perception?

Mine would be peace, simplicity, and a beautifully balanced sense of understanding but at the same time not even scrapping the surface as to pretending to know and fully understand what really IS.

Understand that we will never understand everything. Decide Happiness and just enjoy the ride.

Persist.


Chris Brown


The only thing I ask is for you to take this message and do something with it.




Currently listening:
Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective(10 CD)
By Philip Glass
Release date: 2008-09-30
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February 16, 2009 - Monday 

Category: Life



Come with me.
This is what I have in mind. Try to imagine a building.

This building is 808 stories high. In each story there are mystical animals such as mermaids, unicorns, and sea monsters of all the varieties. Look above you, you can see an air duct but the only things coming out of this air duct are ideas, compliments, and joyous laughter by children who only have the capability to receive and project happiness.

Walk to the back room down the hallway of cherubs on bicycles. Knock on the door and ask it to open for you. No wrong one, not that one yet..oh well, go in there anyways, it just became the right one. It will listen to what you have to say and it will open itself because why wouldn't it? You asked it to right?

Inside this room you can see a painting that captures every single visual piece of serenity you have ever and will ever experience throughout your entire life. While looking at this miraculous piece of immaculate art you hear a song. Its the accumulation of every good song you've ever heard. All of the songs that you sang in the shower on a Friday morning right before a 3 day weekend that you knew was going to turn out amazingly adventurous. Its whales singing, its the light breathing of an infant, its the music box that used to put you to sleep when you were new to this whole living thing and still working out the kinks of reality.

You'll stay in this room for 4 minutes and 1 second. 4:01. While in this 4 minute and 1 second euphoria, you're dancing. Each step you take somehow empowers you and makes you more and more sure of the next step you take. This dance brings rains, life, and joy.

When you're done you'll walk down the hall to another room where there's a map. On this map it shows every place you've ever been, every place you'll go to, where you were born, where you'll expire in life, and where you will find love and happiness. Its the road map to your life, but its here in this building...how can this be so clear to you? Is this possible?

All is possible. You are all. Anything you create in your mind, is possible.

Look towards the stairway doors open like a lamborgini's doors. You can see a number 1. You're on level one. You go up to the 2nd floor and everything that was in the previous floor has just amplified times 999. You just can't believe that there was a multiplication of floor 1, a place you thought you'd never ever reach.

Floor 3 is also 999 times as reality bending as floor 2. You start to notice a trend. Each floor evolves from the last. But why is this happening? How is this happening? Where is it taking you? Look closely at the map of the building...in bold it says 808 stories...but the 08 part has been scribbled in by an average man named "Society's Norms" to give the illusion that there's an end. Turn the building map sideways, only then will you see how many floors there really are from the remaining number. Zoom out of this buildings window from a mile away in a Wonkavator . The building says something on the side of it, turn your head, can you read it yet?

It says "Chris Brown's Mind."



You're welcome for the tour. Explore your own building. You all have a hidden door that will bring you to a higher sense of things.



Evolove.
Persist.
Discover.
Share.
Chris Brown




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February 10, 2009 - Tuesday 



World,




I have an infinite curiosity about you
and me. I personally see me in everybody. I see everybody in me. So in
a sense...I am you. One of my many ambitious goals is to give you
something because I also believe you have something to give me as well.
What is it? I'm not sure, we'll figure it out though. Read through my
blogs and try to find answers to all of the questions you carry but
never speak verbally speak out loud to begin your treasure hunt of
life. Search for a key that I may have for you within my words. All the
words that I make are put into words for a reason. They are to give you
that flashlight.

Here's how I see it, we're all in a dark room. Throughout life we'll
ask ourselves questions like, what is it like to die? When will my time
be up? Where do we come from? Who/what created us? What am I here to
do? How do I find happiness? Questions such as these give you a blip of
light in that dark room to better see your surroundings. My goal for
you is to grant you a flashlight in this dark room. Now, with a
flashlight you can't see everything but it will make looking for the on
switch much easier.

That on switch that I think we all hit at one point in our lives. That
switch that turns every single light on in the room to reveal its not
just a room, it connects to 401 hallways that lead you to different
buildings and each building has millions of rooms. I'm not looking to
be idolized, I simply want to give you a vital piece to your treasure
hunt that will assist you in finding the pot of gold, the on switch,
Happiness.

Here is all I ask from you, reader. Once you find this on switch, give
somebody else the flashlight that I gave you. Give them the spark that
will allow them to be as aware and conscious as you have just become. I
am you. There is nothing we can't do. All boundaries are self created
and once you realize this, the world transforms itself from a prison to
a playground. Find your happiness, help others find theirs. This will
in fact change the world.


The butterfly effect is all around us. One thing leads to another that
leads to another that leads to another. This is why you should not
stress at any of your current predicaments and issues. If its negative
in your life...look deeper and see how it is actually assisting you
towards the next chapter and increasing your self value as a person.
When things don't go your way, it makes you stronger. So how can this
be negative when looked at in that light? Stop stressing, stop
worrying, stop drawing lines in the sand, stop all judgments, we all
came from the same point of origin and we're all going towards the same
destination. If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view
it.

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)




The world is yours.
Persist.
Chris Brown




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January 25, 2009 - Sunday 

Category: Life





"Life isn't truly worth living until you find something within yourself to live for."

- Megan


Female

21 years old

NorCal, California

United States


"Nobody is going to help you until you help yourself."

- Kevin Gibson


Male

21 years old

FREMONT, CALIFORNIA

United States



"For what reason do we hate?"

- Roman


Male

H-Town, Texas

United States



"Fear Is Nothing But An Illusion That Our Minds Create To Show Our Limitation So Live With No Fear Then Live With No Limits"


- Ghost Che


Male

19 years old

MASPETH, New York

United States



 "Don't let others have more control over you than you have over yourself."

- Trevor


Male

16 years old

Lakeland, Florida

United States


"In order to get something you have never had before, you have to be willing to do something you have never done"


- Miguelito


Male

16 years old

Bx, New York

United States



"I want to live forever. Not immortally, but eternally."


- Rob


Male

20 years old

MESA, Arizona

United States



"Keep your eyes open, and your mind open wider, assume nothing, and question everything..."


- Noah


Male

20 years old

Dayton, Ohio

United States



"In the wake of the smoke and ashes. The path that lead us to this momment where we once believed we were in the right hands, is now and forever. The world will still spin on its axis like clockwork, and we should do the same. Move along with life, live merry, strive to be more than just a person, try to succeed as an individual. Marking down every passing judgement as a sign to keep heading forward. Through stuggle we will become one, and die as a whole."


- Tyler




"your heartbeat knows all u want. it's only the stars that watch u when the sun sleeps. u can do this with your eyes wide open only if you're ready to sacrifice your soul. to crawl out of your own comfort and confront what you do not see. but when you do see...will you be digging your fingernails deep or will you finally exhale?"


- BJ Ganzagan


Male

HILO, Hawaii

United States



"wake up and Think,While Its still legal."


- J Farm


Female

15 years old

Knoxville, Tennessee

United States



"you're never alone, your shadow follows you everywhere. just be sure you don't follow in the shadows of someone else, be you. always."


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Christina

Female

21 years old

California





"Consider your life, and everything that you've done. All the good, and all the bad. Was the good really good? Was the bad really nessicary? Would you change something if you could? Think about it. You might want to change your direction in life."  


-
Kaleb

Male

FREDERIC, Michigan




"Nothing Changes until Something Changes!!"


- Shane K.

San Antonio, TX





"Everything will be okay in the end. if it's not okay, then it's not the end."



- pizza for dinner

Female

18 years old

Ohio




"Nothing...absolutely nothing is what it seems."



- Michael ? Meister




"In order to start loveing someone you have to dig inside yourself. Love yourself
and know yourself before you even try to love someone else"


-
Neil

15 years old

APPLETON, Wisconsin



"A human's only limitations are the doubts and fears that the mind allow you to believe... If you're mind is bold enough to believe you can fly... you will fly. For example the mind of a young child that doesn't know any better is so free and pure... one day children will fly..."


-Clarence

15 years old

St. Louis Missouri



"Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living. "


©2005-2008 Heather D.



"The world is like a lake, you can throw a rock into it and cause a ripple. The ripple is a change that slowly sweeps over the entire lake. Now the ripple can hit a log and bounce back but other ripples just go around the log signifying that some people change while others refuse. Are you the ripple or the log?"  


- Robert

17 years old

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa



"Success is like your shadow, if u try to catch it then u will never succeed, ignore it and walk in your own way... it will follow you"   


-Ramo D.

Male

GARDENA,

United States





"Nothing comes easy, if it does, then its not worth it."

-Joseph

16 Years old

Los Angeles,CA




"Everywere is a walking distance if you just have the time."


- Anthony

Male

14 Years Old

New Jersey




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September 8, 2008 - Monday 
Humans.

A violent race, a race of which we see an eye for an eye. How have we come so far with a mentality that is so self destructive? Lets put things into perspective. Earth is here. Plants grow from the earth. Plants and trees take over. Trees grow branches. Branches then grow more branches. Each branch grows leaves. Each leaf is identical to one another. They are all made the same. They come from the same source. If our way of living is where it should be, why aren't leaves setting each other on fire? Self destruction is the quickest way to prevent yourself from growing and reaching destinations you could only dream about.

The lines in the sand are so bold here, but most fail to follow the lines to where they go. They all lead right back into one another. Everything is connected. Everything. Imagine the possibilities if this view was seen by the rest of humanity. I wonder what would come to be. We seem to be confused by how many times we've changed the color of our leaves trying to break away from our truth. Figuratively speaking, we all have a stem, we all have a branch, we all have a tree, and we all come from one source under the dirt and roots.

I wonder what would happen if you started practicing this. I wonder how many new doors would open, how many new lights would turn on, and how many lives would be altered. We all live, we all die. Its so simple. Simplicity at its maximum degree.

I had a dream the other night. I had a dream that I died. Most people fear death more than anything else but after this dream I can only tell you how peaceful it is. Imagine your whole life, you've been carrying a weight on your shoulders that you never felt or knew about. Now imagine during your last few minutes of life on this earth, there is no more weight and there are no more restrictions on what you can and cannot see. If you had 2 minutes left. How would the world look to you?

Would you be thinking about bills?
Would you be thinking about grudges?
Would you be thinking about debt?
Would you be thinking about hatred?
Would you be thinking about worry?
Would you be thinking about fear?

No. That what dying feels like. Not only does your body shut down, but so does the whole system that keeps you from fully appreciating the life you're living. Why do you have to be 2 minutes from death to enjoy this feeling? I think I may have figured out the glitch in the system and I am now living those 2 minutes for the rest of my life. Simply Beautiful. Go find the blue bird.

Try this. Apply it. See what happens. Tell somebody else.

Just Another Leaf,
Chris Brown
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August 18, 2008 - Monday 
The "∞" Symbol - Infinity; My meaning towards Infinity.




Infinity is not a calculation, but a frame of mind. Think of how many boundaries we set on ourselves as people since childhood. Boundaries surround our world, our houses, and even our thoughts. Everything starts and ends right? Logic says that this comfortable finite feeling is what IS. Its your mind's default way of processing the world and beyond, but what happens when you start to disarm these pleasant thoughts of sureness. I believe in no beginning and no end. I used to set so many boundaries on my life. I can't do this because of x-y-z or I can't be this because of x-y-z. I finally figured out that all boundaries are learned and self created. Can't you also unlearn or enhance what has been taught as well?




Grass teaches us about persistence, no matter how many times you cut it, it just keeps growing back. This idea is an infinite way of thought. The problem with the infinite train of thought is most people don't believe in it for the simple fact that there is socially enforced finite logic. Social norms as to ways to think act as a boundary.


Boundaries are the stealthiest reasons why we as a race can never be fully happy. Its one of the main preventions of happiness. At least for me and a few hundred other people whom have directly contacted me. Popularity, Race, Age, Class, Religion, sex, and social norms all play roles into boundaries. There are certain things that girls are told they can't do, same goes for boys. What if people knew that they have an infinite supply of potential if they truly believe that.



Ever heard the term, "Whether you think you can or if you think you can't, either way you're right"? This idea is called "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy". The mind and its voyages are infinite. So if what our mind can create is infinite, we all have infinite potential. Infinite imaginations. Infinity and all its tentacles which spark deep thought, tease our minds and gives us wings that no other idea can do.


Its a never ending conundrum that some people find impossible to wrap their thoughts around; The idea that something is never starting and never ending. The idea behind infinity has completely erased all my boundary lines. I feel invincible in the sense that I can run full speed in any direction and do whatever I want to do. The world has transformed from a prison into a playground. I carry the symbol tattooed on my upper back for this reason. Infinity reminds me of that euphoric x-zone that most people never get the chance to ever experience but often dream about it. Its a beautiful world, you just have to find proof that you're right and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy will do the rest.



∞

Chris Brown


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