6.17.2008
UNDERSTANDING BLINDNESS
6.16.2008
GOD KNOWS WHY YOU WERE BORN. DO YOU, REALLY?
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"Only maniacal champions cause great things to happen." Tom Peters
Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He went to Severn School for High School and attended Cornell University, receiving a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1965, and a master's degree in 1966. He then studied business at Stanford Business School, receiving an M.B.A. and Ph.D.. In 2004, he also received an honorary doctorate from the State University of Management in Moscow.
From 1966 to 1970, he served in the United States Navy, making two deployments to Vietnam as a Navy Seabee, then later working in the Pentagon. From 1973 to 1974, he worked in the White House as a senior drug-abuse advisor, during the Nixon administration. Peters has acknowledged the influence of military strategist Colonel John Boyd on his later writing.
From 1974 to 1981, Peters worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, becoming a partner and Organisation Effectiveness practice leader in 1979, and then in 1981, he went solo and became an independent consultant.
In 1990, Tom Peters was honoured by the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as one of the world's Quality Gurus, and has been awarded the number 3 rank on the international Leadership Gurus survey for 2008. The “Leadership Gurus 30” award, by Global Gurus International identifies the top Leadership professionals in the world by merit and public voting.
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5.23.2008
My ESSENTIAL LIFE SAVING KIT
- Life / Love / Truth / JOY Are Found Only in The Emergency
- PLEASURE Marks Death/HATEfulness/Evil as JOY Marks Life/Love/Truth
- The Map of Your Two Options - Joy / Life / Love or Pleasure / Hate / Death
- Pleasure or Joy - Your Only Two Options
- You WILL, You DO Wage. Is it Love/Life or HATEfulness /Cancer?
- Middle-Classism / "Family Values" - the #1 Killer of the World
- Re-Attaching TO Your World Family - The Entire Hope for Humanity - Yours and Ours
- Heart Must Reign Supreme Over Mind and Flesh
- Example is NOT the major thing. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING.
- Be What You Want to See
- Neglect is HATEful
- You Are Your Environment; You Are What You Do.
- Commit Life, Limb, Treasure - or You Are the Problem
- You're Committed to a Miracle - or You've Already Accepted Defeat
- The Lord's Prayer PRAYED THIS WAY
- "Success" - WAYYYYYY TOO COWARDLY A GOAL
- The Relentless Pursuit of Joy is the Only Hope of Salvation
- FOR JOY WAGE LOVE. REPEAT.
- YOUR CHOICE: A. DEPART FROM or B. BE WITH GOD (GOOD)
- BOTTOM LINE: WAGE LOVE, PROFIT HUMANITY, REAP JOY
5.16.2008
GOOD NEWS!!! The Truth is: Life, out of Love, Sacrifices for JOY
THE GOOD NEWS!!!! ...
TRUTH IS: LIFE OUT OF LOVE, SACRIFICES FOR HUMANITY, FOR JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "If you lose [sacrifice] your life you gain it; if you hold on to your life [refuse to sacrifice it] you lose it!!!!!!!!!" Jesus.
Now I can articulate it!!!!!!! Now maybe I can learn to express it beyond my own actions, before I pass on!!!!!!! Boy, that would be great!
GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
5.12.2008
THROW OUT CHRISTIANITY BUT DON'T THROW OUT CHRIST
This is what Tolstoy did - and now we have Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
LOVE IS, LIFE IS SELF-SACRIFICE. LUST IS, DEATH IS SELF-INDULGENCE.
LIFE IS SELF-SACRIFICE.
LUST IS,
DEATH IS SELF-INDULGENCE.
Clinically. Biologically. Psychologically.
5.04.2008
THE BOTTOM LINE: WAGE LOVE, PROFIT HUMANITY, REAP JOY
2. Profit Humanity - avoid the murderous lie that our "family" is some subset of Humanity. Every single one of History's heroes sets the lie to this - King, Gandhi, Jesus, Romero.... Avoid the cancerous lie of western civilization, aided and abetted by the cHURCH that it is OK to Profit FROM others. This is a direct perversion of Jesus teaching and life. Life PROFITS OTHERS. Period.
3. Reap the uninterrupted flow of the chemical/psychological coctail Joy - Heaven, "Our Father's Kingdom," Nirvana... by whatever name.
There is not much else that the greats teach. There is not much else to know.
Will waste a lifetime, like me, discovering this path?
Will you discover it and walk the path now in time to lead others?
5.03.2008
THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF JOY IS THE ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION
- An inescapable aspect of the human condition is that we cannot NOT seek our greatest self interest.
- An ALMOST inescapable aspect of our Religion of Consumerism is that WE ARE TOTALLY MISINFORMED ABOUT OUR SELFINTEREST. We've been told that PLEASURE is the ultimate, when in fact it is JOY.
- JOY is the FUEL of the PERPETUAL LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH/SALVATION engine. No? If not there is no hope. If not Jesus was wrong; King was wrong; Gandhi was wrong.
"He came not to give the
peace of the world
which is only that we
don't bother each other.
He came to give the
Peace of heart
which comes from loving -
from doing good to others."
Teresa of Calcutta
"Success" - WAYYYYYY TOO COWARDLY A GOAL
A mother works to lift a car off of her pinned child. Is her measure "success?"
HER MEASURE IS 'TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE ATTEMPT." And this it ALWAYS is with Love / Life / Truth / Courage.
"Courage is doing what needs to be done regardless of the likely outcome." Alfred Adler
"Full effort is full success." Gandhi
"Nothing great ever happens without a committed, maniacal champion." Tom Peters
"Never think that a small group of COMMITTED people can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.
"Never think that a committed individual can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving
BE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE
Example is NOT the major thing. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING.
Albert Schweitzer
1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Stop Talking,
Start Loving.
YOU WILL, YOU DO WAGE. IS IT LOVE/LIFE or HATEfulness/CANCER?
There are two basic forms of animated existence:
1. Healthy Life - that which Wages Life/Love/Good/Creation; that which reaps JOY.
2. Cancer - that which Wages Death/Neglect/Evil/Destruction; that which reaps PLEASURE.
There are no other options - not in this world of 5 of every 6 people in agony; not in this world where most of the people you know - for every $30 you spend, $29 are excess $ that your poor brothers, sisters and children needed just to survive a dignified life; every 14 hours you are awake, 13 hours you spend on what 5 billion people know as unreachable luxuries.
PLEASURE MARKS DEATH/HATEfulness/Evil as JOY MARKS LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH
as
JOY MARKS LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH
Now I haven't the time to argue that there is not some theoretically possible future world where all want and ignorance have been eliminated and the above law no longer holds, but today it does.
The proof? You are in Calcutta about to go into a stall with $20, just enough for a famed meal that you have been relishing! But before your eyes a mother with 3 starving kids is beaten and the only Dr. available insists she will not help unless $20 is paid in advance.
PLEASURE insists you spend the $20 on yourself. HOW HATEFUL THIS WOULD BE.
JOY insists you give the $20 to your sister's Dr.
Joy, as always when presented clearly wins.
But within the last day, probably, you caved to PLEASURE many times, with consequences seen by your POOR family JUST as HATEful as the above scenario.
Where do you think 9/11 came from? YOUR HATEful behavior due to your slavery to PLEASURE.
5.02.2008
IF I'M NOT SPENDING MY LIFE FOR MY FAMILY I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM (or they're not my family)
A dear friend reminded me that an activist shehe knows first lost eyesight and later mind due to Hunger Strikes. Now I don't expect that will happen to me, although I realize it might.
But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?
And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.
Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"
IF I'M NOT RISKING/SPENDING LIFE, LIMB AND TREASURE I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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