HEALTH AND WEALTH

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."
- Richard Baker

"Without health, nothing else matters."
- Lorrin Lee

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free."
- Edmund Burk

"You are right, being wealthy is not the same as just having money by working like a slave. Not only am I making thousands of dollars, I also have the freedom and time to enjoy it."
- Richard McKenzie

"The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream."
- Unknown

Let's dream; let's have the ability to see success!

"5% of the people make things happen. 10% of the people watch things happen. The other 85% say ' What happened?' "

Let's be part of that 5%! So, let's take action; let's go one step further than the rest!

After all, let's not forget that the greatest treasure that an individual can determine - one's own self - is already inside, making it unnecessary, therefore, to search for it outside oneself.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

All the best for you and your family.

Let's not forget that "Happiness is made, not found" (Hardy, 1570-1632, French dramatic poet).

The fact is that the human being needs to transform him/herself so that humanity can live through better days. Therefore, each person must become aware of what this means, and then strive to do one's part.

Down with war! Let's strive everyday for a world filled with more justice and brotherly love!

Merry Christmas and Happiness Forever!

FEELING WELL

How does one feel well, or good? Many think it’s being able to enjoy the coming weekend, by drinking a lot, dancing away the night and eating too much. Others think it’s taking advantage of a holiday in the middle of the week, so they’ll be able to use lots of drugs the night before, or when they can eat to their heart’s content. Others think they’ll feel very well during their next vacation, which is still some time away. But, what can we say of today, of Monday – a day dreaded by so many – of Tuesday, and so forth. Every day is a day. Should Monday be lived through, once more, with indigestion, with ones stomach bloated with gas? And what can one say of that habitual and intolerable headache that starts on Sundays, and stubbornly hangs on during the next few days?Not to speak of the rising blood pressure of so many; and the list goes on and on. Let’s face it, this is not living and feeling well, it isn’t living with a good quality of life. All this is no more than a great illusion.

The truth is that the wrong things we do are not only on a specific weekend, and on these holidays. How many, during the week – albeit eating less – are eating the wrong food, are drinking more than the usual in order to relax, are filling up on soft drinks, full of food dyes, sugar, acidifiers, etc., all of which do nothing to really feed a person? Why do people commonly prefer to have their refrigerators stocked with soft drinks, instead of orange or pineapple juice, or noni juice? Noni juice, what is that? If many already know what it is, there are many who still know nothing about it, and have no inkling as to its remarkable qualities that help so much in improving people’s health. Why all this? Why exchange what is healthy for something that gives nothing to make our health better? Just as this example was cited, there are many others that could be given. Why is it that the human being, possessing so much knowledge, does not know certain things that should be of great interest to him/her? Or, if they do know of them, why do they continue down a wrong path? And this walk down the wrong path becomes very costly to a person, and to any country – in terms of personal suffering and spent resources. The diseases of the soul and the body are multiplying all over, causing anguish to individuals and concern to governments.

Sadly enough, the strength of the media is unquestionable. We are frequently manipulated by a doubtful advertisement, many times deceiving, that intensely divulges a “good thing,” which is, for example, eating a greasy hot dog or having a soda, so poor in nutrients, and filled with chemical products. In this way, people end up being the victims of the very environment in which they live, victims of ever-increasing robotized minds. There are many who try to change, but this change is becoming all the more difficult to achieve…

What really gets in the way is that, from day to day, individuals are too concerned with their own goals that only have to do with the material world. And in the eagerness to achieve their objectives they don’t realize that they are becoming more and more distant from their very own selves. In this way they become unhappy, not seeing that happiness can be quite nearby, right within themselves. It’s getting easier and easier for the individual to let himself/herself be caught up in the appeals of the outer world, which is not good at all, but causes much concern. Only through self-knowledge, from a search for the truth and wisdom, can man become aware and make changes in his/her life. Solely in this way can a person stop living a life of illusion and of being deceived, and have a greater possibility of living with a better quality of life.

LET'S BE INFECTED BY WHAT IS NATURAL

“By uniting oneself to the immensities of nature, a man’s heart can become as large as the Earth and the Heavens” (Yuanzi, 210 – 263)

Experience shows us at every moment. Every time a person is tired and stressed out, and seeks the valleys and mountains, or the sea, in short, nature, that person feels refreshed.

The sound of a waterfall, the singing of birds, the shuffling noises of the leaves, the roar of the ocean waves, the shining stars, all of this stirs the essence of one’s being, the individual’s soul. After all, “man, a microcosm, is nothing more than a particle, an infinitesimal prolonging of the universe, the macrocosm”. The sun, for example, is at an enormous distance from us, but the fact is that we depend on it to survive.

Letting oneself be infected by nature, by what is natural – the opposite of that which is artificial and lifeless, found in abundance in the so-called consumer society – the human being , giving value to the simple things, will certainly feel himself to be more sensitive, much more loving, having thus facilitated the possibility of being in harmony with the cosmic consciousness. Once this harmony has been established, the perception emerges that the self, the Earth, and the Universe form an indivisible totality; they are one only thing.

Selection taken from my book, “The Self and The World”, which is for sale at the links here specified.

DO NOT BE A SLAVE TO YOUR OWN SELF!

We have mentioned, several times, the great evil that distorted and robotized minds exert on people’s daily lives. And the damage it causes to the quality of life has been terrible, just devastating.

The other day, sitting with a group of friends, we were commenting on individuals who led – in existential terms – miserable lives. A psychiatrist, one of the friends among the group, went on to tell us, obviously without citing any names, of a woman patient of her who, already nearing 83, had the frequent habit of masturbating. She also told us that this woman had never been able to have an orgasm in her whole life.

She added that the same person – who has had this problem since her teen years – continued in her pursuit in an obsessive-compulsive way, with no possibility of success.

This woman, she told us, was living in a mental state of hell; she was at the point of, for long periods of time during the morning, not even wanting to talk on the phone, since it was at this time of day that she masturbated with more intensity. Finally, she said that this was a common occurrence among young people, but that cases such as this woman’s were very rare.

Shocked at this report, we went on to discuss to what point a human being can get. And that all this stems from the unbridled seeking of – done even obsessively and compulsively – terrestrial things, having to do with ones body, when the topics associated with the spirit are totally despised, left on the back burner, so to speak. The result of all this is a miserable life – in this specific case, even causing shock and repugnance – in existential terms.

Despite being very rich, this woman was approaching the end of her life in a melancholy manner, a victim of her own fate that she helped form, truly a slave of her own whims…

Read more about similar subjects in my book, “The Self and The World”, which is for sale at the links here specified.

INNER COURAGE

As we know, there are a lot of irrelevant fears; the individuals who have self-knowledge and maturity certainly do not experience these fears. Gifted with inner courage they are also better prepared to deal with the challenges of the unknown and situations that could ultimately bring about some type of fear.

Read more about similar subjects in my book, "The Self And The World", which is for sale at the links here specified.

PEACE AND JOY

We wish you and yours Peace and Joy on Christmas and in the New Year!!

All of us deserve the best!!