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What if everything you learned about happiness was wrong? Where did you learn what you learned about happiness anyway? Scientists don’t understand it. You learned your ideas about happiness from family, friends, society, movies, and the media, right? Where did they get it from? The previous generation. What if we’ve been living the happiness lie?
CBC news report: “What if mental illnesses like depression aren’t really caused by chemical imbalances, and that millions of the people who are prescribed those drugs derive no benefit from them? And what if those drugs could actually make their mental illness worse and more intractable over the long term?”
On the road, detouring through a new town that these eyes have never seen, still there is a knowing, a recognition of something that has not changed with the clocking of kilometers. Nothing here is new. Nothing here is not known. Nothing here is separate. Actually, it’s been that way the whole trip, something has stayed the same, all the way from Brampton. A vastness, peace, and joy comes with this eternal, unchanging recognition.
Does Emerson have it right, that once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen? That may be what appears to happen, but knowing what I know now, after what happened to me in the woods, I know that nothing is separate, and that there is no separate “me” deciding…
In this installment we get up close with a childhood writing experience Dan Millman can’t forget, how The Way of the Peaceful Warrior first flopped and then became a best-seller, and more!
In this installment we discuss the origin and development of characters as devices to write creatively. These concepts are also useful in everyday life when you feel stuck or trapped!
Dan and Sierra discuss language, writing, being an insider and outsider, fiction vs. non-fiction, story telling, the five stages of creativity, getting feedback, and what makes a best seller.
With 13 books and a major motion picture under his belt, Dan has been bringing personal transformation to people via the power of the pen, and now he and his daughter Sierra are passing that skill on in their new book, The Creative Compass.
No. Thoughts are powerless, harmless, in and of themselves. Left along they can come and go because they only have a momentary existence, and no reality. Thoughts are powerless The brain’s job is to offer you thoughts, as options, not as mandatory, and it does a brilliant job of that, automatically churning out 40,000 thoughts a day, it is said. But you don’t believe them all, nor are you even aware of them all. So thoughts cannot “make” you suffer. Only when you
Mooji speaks with Cindy about her Direct Seeing – This video was made April 26, 2010, and the direct seeing happened three months before, and nine months after the discovery of joy within. “I had been seeking God, to see and know the Divine, or Source, directly, not as a thought, concept, or hope, but to have final knowing of Truth.”
