The 12 Laws of Karma

1. THE GREAT LAW - As you sow, so shall you reap. This is also known as the Law of Cause and Effect. Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us. If what we want is happiness, peace, friendship, love…Then we should BE happy, peaceful, loving, a friend. Negative energy sent out to others will come back to you 10 fold
2. THE LAW OF CREATION - Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation. We are one with the Universe both inside and out. Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state. BE and DO yourself what you want to have in your life.
3. THE LAW OF HUMILITY - What you refuse to accept, will continue for you. If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.
4. THE LAW OF GROWTH - Wherever you go, there you are. For us to GROW in Spirit it is WE who must change and not the people, places or things around us. The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES, and that is the only factor we have control over. When we change who and what we are within our heart, our life changes too.
5. THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY - Whenever there is something wrong, there is something wrong in me. We mirror what surrounds us and what surrounds us mirrors us: we must take responsibility for what is in our life.
6. THE LAW OF CONNECTION - Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected. Each step leads to the next step and so forth and so on. Someone must do the initial work to get a job done. Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance-they were both needed to accomplish the task. Past, Present, Future…they are all connected…
7. THE LAW OF FOCUS - You can’t think of two things at the same time. You should climb up a ladder on step at a time. When you lose your focus you let in insecurities and anger.
8. THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY - If you believe something to be true, then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that truth. Here is where we put what we SAY that we have learned into PRACTICE.
9. THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW - Looking back to examine what was prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW. Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…Prevent us from having new ones.
10. THE LAW OF CHANGE - History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.
11. THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD - All Rewards require initial toil. Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil. True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in it’s own time.
12. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION - You get back from something whatever you’ve put into it. The value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it. Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole. Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole or work to diminish it.

TEN QUOTES FROM OPRAH’S LIFECLASS

“We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.”—Oprah Winfrey

“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe yourself without judging yourself.”—Deepak Chopra

“The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.”—Deepak Chopra

“The world is a mirror for us—whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.”—Deepak Chopra
(To Perez Hilton about why he was always ripping others down.)

“When we judge someone else, we are really judging ourselves.”—Deepak Chopra

“If he can’t be redeemed, then neither can I.”—Oprah Winfrey
(Regarding doubt professed by audience members about Perez changing his ways.)

“I’m not going to be defined by my past. I’m not going to let that prevent me from doing good in the future.”—Perez Hilton

“You can never feel good about yourself by bringing someone else down.”—Deepak Chopra

“The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.”—Deepak Chopra

“If you are living a life of love and giving and receiving the best you know how—you are living a spiritual life.”—Oprah Winfrey

FOUR EXERCISES FROM LIFECLASS BY DEEPAK CHOPRA

1.) “When you’re feeling upset or out of control of your thoughts, STOP.”

S:  Stop

T:  Take Three Deep Breaths and Smile Everywhere in Your Body


O:  Observe How Your Body Feels

P:  Proceed with Kindness and Compassion

2.) Our Ego Profile is our Bio: Our Roles/Accomplishments/How We Think the World Views Us. 

Deepak asks us to create our Soul Profile by asking ourselves the following questions:

a.) Who are you? (not your roles in life, but who you truly are.)


b.) What do you want?


c.) What is my purpose?


d.) What do I want to contribute?

(Oprah said it took her two days to answer those questions when she went to India to study with Deepak—especially the first two. Deepak asked about ten questions to ask yourself. You’ll have to watch the class to get them all—he was going too fast for me to get them all down!)

3.) When making a decision, always ask yourself, “Will it make me happy and will it make others happy as well?”

4.) Write out your story or any story you want to happen from now through the next five years. Where are you or what is the story in five years?

20 Principles Of Success Not Taught In School

1. The only thing in life you have control over is your perspective. No matter what happens, YOU control what the meaning is, and what to do with the meaning you give to the circumstance.
2. Have more fear of regret than failure.
3. Failure is only part of the journey to success. There is not one success story out there that hasn’t experienced failure. The reason you are hearing about it as a success story is because those people saw failure as a tool to get it right.
4. It’s not about what you want to do for a living, it’s about you who want to be. What is your purpose and legacy?  I believe the age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is wrong. We need to be asking, “Who do you want to be? What footprint do you want to leave in this world?” From there, you will have your answer as to what you should “do.”
5. Stay focused on your race within. When you are too busy looking behind and around you, people are passing you by.
6. True leadership comes from good energy. Worry more about what your energy is like than the firmness your handshake.
7. Life will give you the same challenges/problems over and over again until you learn your lesson.
8. Until you jump over your inner roadblocks, your outer ones will stay firmly in place. We spend so much time focused on all the exterior obstacles around us, letting them be our excuses. But the more clear and aware we are of our internal roadblocks, and dissolve them, the external roadblocks will begin to disappear, too.
9. The most successful people are the ones that work on themselves first.
10. Do not judge—be inspired. If you are too busy judging everyone and everything around you, you are not remaining open to find inspiration in everyone and everything around you.
11. You are not allowed to complain about something unless you are going to do something about it.
12. Surround yourself with people you want to be like.
13. Learn to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. The more fears you face, the more you will grow.
14. Always ask, “What if?” and, “Why Not?” Instead of thinking, “What if I fail?” ask, “What if I succeed?”
15. Creativity is your unlimited capital. Understand and harness its power.
16. “I only have good days.” If you start off everyday with this mindset, even when challenges emerge, your positive mindset will help you overcome them more readily.
17. Create your own footprint. You do not need to do what others have done before you.
18. Hit the “mental reset button.” When you are thinking negative thoughts, envision hitting the “delete” button in your mind and begin to rewrite a better story.
19. Abundance is everywhere. You must choose to see it and believe it in order to fully experience it.
20. There is a lesson in everything that happens to us—wisdom to be gained and gratitude to be given. Begin with gratitude and everything else will reveal itself.

i was made to entertain.
second child tossed aside by the great deeds of the first,
entertain was the only way to get the attention an infant thrists,
so thats what i did.
threw jokes to get a laugh, sang songs for a clap, anything to get a "nice job zach..."
to be called by my name instead of "his brother", i had to stand out, to be known as an other instead of another,
so i worked at the craft till i could present it in hand,
no parental fan.
father was busy with the older so was the mother, 
until the younger stepped on a stage for a chance,
brave they called him, 
only then was he praised 
but no he wasn't born this way, 
shy from birth to get heard had to SCREAM had to beam to be seen, out of fear he would be tossed away..
yeah i was made to entertain

the vibes aint right

now i've never studied feng sway, but i get the concept, a reason for each space and finding ways to make that reason reasonate.
 echo throughout but out here in this house, the vibes aint right.. see niether have my parents ever studied the art but even the concept is loss, to them a place for each thing means where ever you can find an empty spot... my moms in the garage watching television, while my dad falls asleep on the mattress he's "strategically" placed in the living room so that you can't move to any other place in this place without waking him up, leaving me,
in this bathroom.. the only place that feels open enough for me to make a sound without waking anyone up but FUCK IM HUNGRY and i cant get to the kitchen, without tip toeing around as if not to disturb the rest of someone in the LIVING room. theres no place to congregate, every area is marked with items that make the rooms reasonate with ownership instead of co habitants. leaving a child to do the only plausable thing and mark his own shit, this isnt how we're suppose to live, nothing new or fresh can come through these doors or windows because there is no flow, the vibes aint right

20 New Year’s Resolutions For 20-Somethings

JAN. 2, 2012 

By JESSIE ROSEN

1. Before you status update, Tweet, Tumble or Instagram, pause and say to yourself, “is it entirely necessary that I share this morsel of thought with my entire social network?”and if the answer is not, “yes, I absolutely must,” then step away from the Internet.
2. Know which candidate you’re going to vote for in the upcoming presidential election, and know why.
3. Enough with the 14-day juice cleanses. If you want to lose a little weight quickly, eat less and exercise like crazy. If you want to lose a lot of weight slowly, do whatever Jennifer Hudson did.
4. If you really like the person you’re hooking up with and would like them to be your boyfriend/ girlfriend, find a way to tell them, and hope for the best. If you don’t and wouldn’t, stop.
5. Find a way to save approximately 300 dollars and spend it on a flight to see a friend or family member who lives far away.
6. Please stop liking the Kardashians, all of them. It’s not helping anyone, least of all the Kardashians.
7. Spend less than or equal to the money you earn each month.
8. Wear clothes that fit you, especially to work.
9. Call someone on the phone at least once a week, and speak to him or her for at least ten minutes.
10. Start preparing now to get over the fact that Facebook is probably going to change again in six months. You’re not going to deactivate your account. You don’t know how.
11. Wait 30 seconds before you look up a fact you can’t remember on your phone, and try to remember it using your brain. This is what the olden days were like.
12. Replace one terrible reality show you’re currently watching with one wonderful scripted show currently available on television.  Swap suggestion: Real Housewives of Anywhere for HBO’s Enlightened.
13. Try that food you think you don’t like but have never actually tried, unless it’s brussels sprouts. They really don’t need any more attention.
14. Cut one person out of your life who you truly do not like and add one person who you truly do. Note: not on Facebook, on Earth.
15. If you’re still blacking out regularly, you should stop.
16. Volunteer once over the next 90 days.  You’ll feel really good about it, and probably end up volunteering again over the next 275.
17.  Tell someone who you love that you love them on a more regular basis. To their face, not in a text.
18. Back up your entire online life onto an external hard drive, especially your photos.
19. Crap or get off the pot. This applies to whatever thing you’re not doing that you should just sack up and do already.
20.  And in the eternal words of Tom Haverford, “TREAT YO SELF!”

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