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While Pathwalking is a personal, singular choice, this does not mean that outside forces are wholly invalid. I often talk about not letting outside influences dissuade you from your path.  But sometimes those outside influences cannot be wholly ignored. Oh great.  Another paradox.  This is true, it IS another paradox.  But it can’t be ignored either.  And yes, this can be a complication in matters…but let me explain the thought process. Diets almost never work.  Limiting what you eat for

Being FOR the things you want in the world

Be FOR, not AGAINST, the things you want. I have observed that in the United States, we always seem to be on the defensive against things.  We are against drugs, against guns, against drunk driving, against hunger, against war, against against against. Why is this important?  Because consciousness creates reality.  Ergo, what you focus on is what you get. What does “against” mean, anyhow?  Dictionary.com defines it thus: a·gainst [uh-genst, uh-geynst]  (preposition) 1. in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or

Pathwalking 55

What about branching paths? How do you figure out if the branches are worth walking or need pruning off of your life paths? This was an excellent question asked following Pathwalking 53.  The answer is both extremely simple and potentially complex. As you walk your path, you will come across forks, branches, crossroads, and various and sundry obstacles.  How can you tell a diversion from a proper path?  How do you choose which is the way to go? Let’s break

Pathwalking 54

Do you know yourself? I have encountered far more people for whom the answer to that question is No, rather than Yes. What does that even mean? As a society, we have become extremely complacent about our lives.  I say over and over again that people too often just let life live them.  Get up in the morning, go to work, go home, veg in front of the TV a couple hours, go to bed.  Rinse, repeat.  We look to

Pathwalking 53

How do I find a path to choose in the first place? Pathwalking requires a path.  Sometimes, it is not just a matter of choosing a path…it is a matter of finding a path to choose. This is sometimes simple, sometimes seemingly impossible.  But everyone has the ability to make choices, and as such anyone can find a path to choose. But how do I find the path?  Where do I look for a path? This is not something that

Actions for the New Year

Last year, I ended 2011 by stating my plan to make actions rather than resolutions for 2012. I feel that taking action, rather than making a resolution, is more powerful, and far more easy to work with and on.  I am not just putting out some idea for what to do that I might try, I am going to take action. My New Year’s Actions for last year: I will act to more frequently show gratitude for the things I

Pathwalking 52

Endings are seldom the end. One of the things I have postulated all along during the course of these posts has been that at the root of it all, everything is energy.  And energy, science will tell you, can neither be created nor destroyed, it simply is.  Theology says this too, it just calls the same thing the Omnipresent.  It moves into and through form, out of form, and then takes shape again, anew. As such, we never truly reach

Pathwalking 51

Given natural disasters, mass murders and other tragedies, it is easy to question how anyone can believe they have control over anything. It can be terrifying to see how fragile our lives are.  It takes so little to break a body and snuff out a life force.  I suppose it is that randomness, that nonsensical disillusionment that causes a person to turn to religion for solace.  Since it seems that control is but an illusion, if you give it over

Hate is never the answer

Hatred is a wasteful, ugly, primordial, and frankly useless emotion.  To quote Yoda – “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” Hate is defined, according to dictionary.com as thus: hate  verb (used with object) 1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry. 2.to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it. verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility. noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility. 5.the object of extreme aversion or hostility. Why do I bring this up?  Because a lot of people are currently feeling sadness, and sympathy following the recent tragedy in CT.  People are currently grieving.  But the next step will

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Confidence is important to Pathwalking. This is not to be confused with competence.  That’s necessary to many skills one may employ in the process of Pathwalking, but what I want to get into here is confidence. Confidence does not come easy for a lot of people.  We often feel that the way others judge us has a pretty major effect on what we are doing with our lives.  But the harshest judge of our confidence is usually ourselves. If I

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