I was working security – polite-speak for ‘bouncer’ – on New Year’s Eve, years ago. It was a bash at a large four-venue plaza in the downtown of a large city a few hours’ travel from my own city. I worked part time for this security firm and they didn’t…
Free Your Thinking
FREE YOUR THINKING Freedom of thought means more than simply being allowed by others to think what you want to think; it also – more importantly – means dissolving your own barriers to freely thinking whatever you want to think. THINKING CONUNDRUMS IN EVERYDAY LIFE This is the first ever…
Think Less, Experience More
BEING MOVING, RATHER THAN BEING SOMEWHERE I used to hitchhike a lot. Hitchhiking was my main – and preferred – mode of transportation, for many years. I stopped counting my hitchhiking miles at twenty thousand, back in 1996, though I kept hitching for years after that. I hitchhiked across Canada,…
Explode Your Constructed Ideas
YOU MISTAKENLY CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN SUFFERING I was driving a male friend of mine somewhere across town, and he was in quite ‘a state’, hardly able to talk about anything except what was consuming him: his girlfriend had just broken up with him. He’s a good-looking guy and girls had…
Spit The Hook
HOOKED, TRAPPED, SQUIRMING I was sitting in a coffee shop years ago, wanting solitude to think. Enjoying the view, sipping my tea. All of a sudden, this man I’d never seen before was hovering over me, leaning over the table into my face, saying, “So what do you think is…
Think Into Clear Copy
AT TIMES, WE ALL NEED THIS IN SOME WAY The first time I understood the power of this was at a time when I needed it most. It was the beginning of my life changes, at a point where I had to make changes… but I didn’t know what to…