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Never Fear The Dream…

Be open to all ideas and beliefs, yet choose carefully what you allow into your mind—it can be difficult to remove later. Rather than striving to be the best in the world or even the best on any given day, perhaps being your best self each day is a bolder goal, and one that truly matters. 25.14

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Never Fear The Dream……

While our paths converge, let’s cherish our time together. When they diverge, let’s hold each other in our thoughts until we meet again. When someone chooses a different spiritual path, don’t critique or criticize—it is their journey, not yours. Simply offer your support. 25.13

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Never Fear The Dream…….

You cannot change the circumstances you find yourself in. But you can logically assess, understand, and accept. Don’t worry about yesterday’s actions and words, nor be anxious about tomorrow’s. If you are, you miss the pleasures of today. You can navigate through virtually anything that confronts or confounds you. You really can if you want to.   25.12

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You honor your cause, even a lost cause, by ardently defending it with integrity. You dishonor and cheapen it when resorting to threats, intimidation, coercion, extortion, or extradition. 25.11.1

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Never Fear The Dream…..

Don’t hold your ideas too superior or too sure. Challenge them. In reflection, some of the last century’s great truths are mocked today as ridiculous and shallow. Just as our thoughts and ideas will be a century hence. As hard as it is to hear, the world doesn’t revolve around you, regardless of your self-conceived worth. And yet, each of us has a part in how the world unfolds.  25.11

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Never Fear The Dream…..

Progress, unlike decline, is slow and arduous. It takes a lot to continue the effort when so few gains or rewards are experienced. No one achieved anything worthwhile in a single act but in the accumulation of constant mundane effort in their pursuit. Decline is easy and natural. Our bodies wither without exercising, and our minds atrophy from lack of challenge if we all live with familiar ideas and concepts. The decline is a steep slope most cannot recover from without even more effort. Constant challenge, even if upsetting, is a better alternative. Your body needs exercise, and your mind wants to wander, explore, and make connections; let it.  25.10

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Never Fear The Dream…..

We see, assess, and evaluate through the corrective lens of our teachings and experiences. We do this unconsciously without regard for or appreciation of different perspectives. But yet, trying to understand the perspectives of others is paramount in a functioning society. The world isn’t just how you or I see it. It is a beautiful mix of colors, angles, shadows, and fractured scenes, all blending into our perspective. We should appreciate and learn from other ideas and concepts as they add to the richness of our understanding. If you lived only in and understood an additive world, the ideas of subtraction would violate every pretext of existence, yet 6+4=14-4. Obstacles always arise; rise to their challenge. Don’t let perception be the obstacle that blinds you to a broader understanding.   25.09

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Never Fear The Dream…

The fears created by your imagination are more insidious than reality. Don’t run from your fears; chase them. Your mind, especially a fatigued mind, can make your anxieties into terrible monsters. Monsters that rage within you and hold you in fear’s death grip. Rather than succumb to them, turn and face them. Turning your anxiety into a strength and every challenge an opportunity. 25.081

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Never Fear The Dream…

When you look through a glass window, do you look for your reflection or yearn to view the world? You are part of both views, but make one your focus. Those vain and self-centered will focus on their reflection, regardless of its distortion. Others will see but not focus on their vision but will strive to see the world they are part of. They know no one knows everything but that everyone knows something. It is the accumulated knowledge that pushes us forward. Never forget— you can learn something from everyone, and they can from you. 25.08

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Never Fear The Dream…

If all you’ve ever known is privilege, you believe in your superiority and resist efforts for equality and balance. If all you’ve ever known is oppression, then you believe in your right to resist. If the privileged sense a loss of inherited rights, they are incensed. If the oppressed gain any new rights, they feel empowered to grasp for more. And so, the power pendulum swings synchronized with misunderstanding and mistrust. At some point, the pendulum must reach a point of stasis, lest we are forever trapped in senseless struggles. 25:07

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