Most People

Most people are trying to be the first to know something new.
I am trying to recognize and show honor to what is old.

Most people want to be first,
I want to be last.

Most people want to share their ideas and beliefs
I am done thinking others care about what I have to say.

Sharing with others instantly
Instead of allowing ideas to flourish naturally.
Then waiting for an even less thought out response from less educated peers.

Is what the majority of people do today.

Forget about needing "friends" "fans" and "family"

en mass.

Quality over quantity.

Know, love and respect yourself.
You will never need the encouragement and praise of others.
Because your own self determination will lead you forever.

Tremendous Progress

The distances I've traveled cannot be measured.
The amount I've gained cannot be counted.
My final destination is nowhere in site.
Because I keep firmly focused on the here and now.

When all is said and done
I want to be able to say I've done all I said I would.

Still at War!

Know What You're Looking For.

There is no limit to the opportunity out there.
Don't go blindly forward as if life was a game of chance.
We are given choice and thought to aptly direct our own paths.
Don't allow stagnation and contentedness to sully your travels.

Don't allow negative thoughts.
Be positive.
Want something! Look for it and get it.

Don't allow doubt to stop you before you start.
Make moves, share ideas, create and destroy.
Buy land, build a home and get an education.
Turn on, Tune in and Drop Out.

"Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity"

A New Beginning

Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Those who don't proactively seek their future are bound to lose it.

We cannot expect the world to shape itself around us, we must shape ourselves to fit in to the world we want to create. We have to be what we want to be. Don't try and achieve something, do it. Don't think to yourself that someday you'll be this way or have this thing. Be what you want to be RIGHT NOW.

Act on your hunches, create your dreams, and when all is said and done, let them all go. Don't get attached to your accomplishments or possessions, if you find yourself feeling that one thing defines your life, even if it is the thing you always wanted, let it go and allow the next thing to take shape. If you have accomplished great things, allowing others to bask in that glory, and even take over where you left off, is the best possible way to make sure that accomplishment is remembered.

If you've already achieved great things, this doesn't mean that you have to hold on to that ONE thing. It should mean to you that even greater things are in the works. Subconsciously, metaphysically, and behind the scenes. Allow yourself to decrease, lessen your power and control, part ways from the old, in order to allow the new to come to you. New power, new people, new progress.

If you are in the same place you were last year, with the same exact people doing the same exact thing, you haven't grown one bit. Allow yourself to let go of past achievements and success, don't hold on to long, because if you do, those accomplishments will not be respected, because what people know is not what you've done for them but what you're going to do next for them.