Hippies can be hustlers too: I think the more information we gather and store in our brains, the further from truth we stray. I think when our brains are brand new, when we're just born, they have access to the universal truth of nature that connects us all. As we are progressively conditioned by our different environments, we begin to create the imaginary borders and boundaries that separate creatures, cultures, races, sexes, and individuals: beginning with the word I. We spend such great deals of time focusing on what we can touch and see; we leave ourselves no study-time in a day for the fantastic lessons taught through clearing our minds of the chatter of our different languages. Only with an empty mind can we perceive, study, and learn the truth. The truth was the same yesterday, is the same now, and will be the same tomorrow. The truth will always prevail. That is my faith. I do not agree with organized religions and believe they may be the foundation of the notoriously ignorant ways many humans have been living on this earth so far. Ignorance is humans' disease, communication is the cure. To me, the word god represents the force that unites all living things in a realm not affected by the restrictions of time and space. A spirit realm where we communicate with energy, much like animals do in the wild. I try to begin each day (or holdem game) with the mind of a child. On a morning with no preconceptions, expectations, or fears, the sun is much brighter and the colours of the flowers are a lot sharper. My senses of hearing, smelling, feeling, and seeing work best when my conscience is clear and my mind is empty. Rather than studying who you are, you should study who we are. It is in our connections to one another, our understandings of one another, that we will find truth. As Salman Rushdie so wisely noted in his delicious love story, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, "in order to see the whole picture, one must step out of the frame." ************************************************************
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********************************************I have just started a campaign called Free The Chickens. I want to ban all animals from being subjected to a life of torture in factory farms. Please buy organic and/or free range meat and dairy products. If you choose not to, at least do you homework on the alternative. Your money is your voice. Whatever you spend money on, you support. I believe I am special because of my compassion and humanity. I refuse to give strength and power with my money to organizations that commit atrocious, inhumane actions against the animals and nature that I am a part of and who make me the person I love today and look forward to waking up as tomorrow."We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." -Martin Luther King Jr."And what I've learned is that character and compassion are more important than ideology, and that even if its absurd to think you can change things, its even more absurd to think that its foolish and unimportant to try." -Peter C. Newman
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