Beyond Words: Institutions that Create Coincides of Interests

January 25, 2012

Institutions that Create Coincides of Interests

Power is a failed human phenomenon. Those in power are rarely if ever pursuing the interest of the larger group. If the interests of the leaders and group do not coincidently coincide, the group’s interests will always be ignored. Institutions must be created to foster coincidence of interests across society. Without mutual interests those with the guns will starve those without.

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Journal Quotes

Ideology: Vested interests masquerading as moral truths.
Learning is a means, not an end.
To master a hammock changes one’s life.
I’m a winner, maker of losers. A loser, who learns nothing in winning, lives an empty existence of meaningless shadow victories distracted by acquiring material that I cannot possess.
The Final Loose End is Scheduled.
Clearing Your Conscious into My Baggage.
All Experience comes through the body but exists in the mind, a phenomenon created by the brain.
Our Multidimensional Life is being consumed by Materialism.
The story is usually wrong the first time but few of us read the story a second and third time.
I write what I write, you read what I write, the same words but never the same meaning.
War games…just as long as it isn’t your kid we send to secure the oil.
There are unrecoverable errors in life, one of which is death.
What you deny you become blind to in yourself and hyper critical of in others.
Learn history from a diary not a story written afterwards by a victor taking a victory lap.
Life has a way of working itself out if we don’t get in the way.
I walk without the cover of Faith.
“It works in practice but does it work in theory?” Reality based living versus theory based living.
You can’t have everything but you do have a few choices on how you live your life.
Live your learning to make it knowledge.
I already know what I know, the only way to learn something new is listening.
I am not disappointed by life as I no longer expect anything to last, nothing is forever, so I don’t expect it, hence am not disappointed when it is time to move on to a new adventure.
I have seen everything but know nothing.
Character is the fortitude to do what is right in opposition to your own vested interest and desire.
You can judge a man by the straightness and spread of his toes. A man with tightly packed curled toes has lived a life conforming to society’s repression. A man with straight spread toes has directed his own life. If you don’t know why, you haven’t experienced both.
In the pursuit of happiness we often find ourselves further from our dream. Is the search for such a self-centered desire worthy our energy or is it an outcome of a life well lived?
Once you know truth, you can never go back to blissful ignorance.
Those who can, act; those who can't, create plans.
Dieing rich is a sin if the world around you is starving.
Sleep, the fountain of life.
The quality of the excuse doesn't mitigate the consequences.
He who has the least to loose wins.
Knowing & believing are two different internalizations of knowledge.
Giving is for the giver, forgiving is for the forgiver.
Novel experience provides longer lasting psychological sustenance, material goods don't.
Yesterday's solutions are tomorrow's problems.
A life in balance is about being present, without awareness one cannot seek balance
Materialistic Obesity
The intellect is for the material world; the emotions are for the interpersonal
A fool is one who attempts to make their dreams perfect in the ever-imperfect reality.
Genuine modesty is not being aware of your power.
We can learn from experience to be wise or we can slide into disillusion to become bitter.
We deny one another the opportunity to change when we don’t express our views.
The nature of life is challenge and overcoming, without which there is no experience.
See the world as you experience it, respond as you feel it; feelings are the language of the mind.
While it can be interesting to learn how things work, it usually is irrelevant and often a hindrance to experiencing it.
Our sub-conscience is like a library; we can only take out one book at a time.
Everyone is so in tune with the times they are missing all the precious moments; living behind a façade forgetting it is not real, creating a fantasy love, only to watch the mirage vanish once more.
What will be will be, it is our life to fully experience it.
I found what I was looking for but it wasn’t what I thought I was seeking and I knew it all along.
The vast intelligence beyond our limited conscious awareness makes our intuition seem magical.
Think without words and the horizon is limitless, don't think and there are no boundaries at all.
Anything possible is only a stepping stone.
Life is in the doing; you cannot be given anything.
You need only believe to make it your reality.
Push back the horizon of consciousness to expand awareness.
Preaching the gospel while acting the devil.
Life is not a race, it is an experience; speed is irrelevant.
It is easy to learn, it is hard to practice.
If we cut the world half the slack we cut ourselves we would be at peace.
Spare the prayer, just do the good deed.
Duplicity is fuel for the subconscious.
What we run from haunts us.
What comes into your mind isn’t you, what you do with it is.
What others do is not about you, your reaction to what they do is all about you.
Some want to have friends to feel good, others want to be friends to love.
Living is about obstacles overcome, not quality of excuses given.
Just be yourself, that is the best you are,you cannot be the best trying to be something you're not, keep improving who you already are and you'll be great.
Truth is an elusive commodity. Each person attempts to convince themselves of the veracity of their statements, while the speaker of non-truth suffers the slow decay of integrity leading to irrelevance.
The more options you envision, the more likely things will work out for the best.
It is your life, no point just being an actor in it.
The outcome cannot affect the experience of doing. Otherwise you can only enjoy those experiences that you know the outcome to be successful. Life is not about outcomes.
All the pieces don't make a whole. It is experiences that make life. Material is an illusion that distracts us from living.
Passion is a blinding emotion.
Everyone is willing to change humanity, but no one is willing to change them self.
Worrying about others is a distraction from focusing on ourselves.
The need to convince others of the righteousness of our way demonstrates the fallacy of the way.
We each have a destiny and free will. Our free will is the choice to pursue our destiny.
Do it when it comes to mind, there is a reason why it came to mind when it did, so just do it, take advantage of the timing.
Regret is the moment you have learned the lesson. The antidote to regret is change.
Your judgment is as good as your intentions.
Look for the cracks within yourself to find the openings to the path to fulfilling your life.
What do you see most in others? What drives you crazies about others? Write it down. Introduce yourself, to yourself.
You are surrounded by 800 lbs elephants, find out which ones have your name on them and get on with it. If you fall down once in awhile you will be able to see through their legs.
Relax, enjoy what can be enjoyed, do what can be done, help what can be helped, don't judge the rest.
Truth needs no follower, nor does it need any leaders.
One of the tricks to life is finding opportunity in adversity. Just look. Is it still adversity?
Life is a series of experiences; don't get distracted by the material world.
Life is simply a series of experiences. You are now one of mine and I am one of yours now.
Control is an illusion, not because you cannot possess it, but because it does not exist. Effort and time wasted in obtaining it is lost.
Set a goal, map a course and flexibly pursue the journey.
Follow your inner voice, yield to the outer force and make you're way though life.
The obvious is obvious when it becomes obvious. Everything is obvious.
If you are not true to yourself the world around you isn't real.
Nothing is good or bad, just like all of life, it just is, make of it what you will.
Don't let the ego suffocate the soul to ease the pains of the sins of the mind.
Experience is the only uniqueness we have to share.
Please don't take my pain, pain is the catalyst for change, without change, life will not evolve, if I stop growing, I'll die of boredom.
The question is the origin of the path to the answer, where you start, determines where you finish.
"Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess.” - Charles Bukowski
My path is the same as everyone's, seek truth and peace while not turning away in fear.
Release the supports that prop up your existence. Do not propagate the illusions. Seek the origin of the path that is your destiny.
We tend to forget that the institutions of our society, government, church and economy are reflections of our values and ourselves. They should not be interpreted as moral imperatives.
You cannot come to understand until you find what you seek to understand within yourself. The man with no lust will never understand lust.
Life gets better with each passing year, but you do need to tear yourself away from the mirror to enjoy it.
Life is what it is, the trick is to just experience it just as it is in the very moment it is happening, then you are alive.
I aspire to be a conduit of knowledge to our awareness of it.
When emotion is not providing the energy to follow through on plans, discipline is the only hope.
The narcissist can never discover life; we are all narcissists. Life and awareness is a journey away from the individual centered self.
If it needs management, it is already beyond repair.
Between maintaining power and being right, man has little time left for anything else.
People tend to attempt to repeat their past successes with ever decreasing results.
The American symbol of freedom and independence is in reality a new iron shackle chained to us through debit service that imprisons us in the Capitalist System. The automobile made the modern world. It is the engine that ignited the industrial assembly line economy. But with it we have lost our freedom.
The more centralized and concentrated power, the more likely it will be abused.
I have said everything I have heard, I'm ready to listen.
I'm not judging you; I'm judging my reaction to you.
One day I got scared, I thought I might have said something.
A belief is a belief whether one person believes or all people believe.
Love and lust are two different things, boys get confused all the time.
Denial is a life long affliction.
It is nice to survive, nicer when it is no longer a top priority to do so, but too much and you risk loosing the essence of life.
We need to separate the important from the hype. Hype is now used to drive agendas. The media promotes hype to sell advertising. Interest groups elevate their rhetoric to get their message out. We are lost in the battle.
Hope is standing on the sidelines wishing for an outcome.
We have spent billions learning how to manipulate the mind, when are we going to teach people how to manage their mind?