Your Reality = A Reflection of your Mind

The Secret To Success

Balance is the key to Life's fulfillment. Think good thoughts and positive actions will follow!

What Most People Think Versus What Successful People Know

Take a deep breath.

2 Easy Steps to Living A Happy Life

1. If it looks like bullshit, smells like bullshit, and tastes like bullshit,
    you are probably eating bullshit.

2. Eliminate the bullshit from your life.

What is an Expert?

30 Abandoned Places That Look Truly Beautiful

More specifically, an eerie tone of beauty which lies in the mystery of human desolation. Because we are mortal beings, we are an amnesic species from generation to generation; and our past is nearly as mysterious as our future. What we can remember, marks the capacity of human knowledge. What we have yet to learn, marks the capacity of human potential.

Incredible. Isn't it?


Craco, Italy.

Groundation - Weak Heart

"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me!"

Is there even a shred of truth in this rhyme? I understand that it is supposed to teach children to take the high road or to not take it to heart when taunted by a bully. But what is this rhyme teaching the bullies?* And what kind of lesson are we teaching the youth regarding the value of their spoken words?

Perhaps our society would be a better place if people understood that the words they speak do indeed have a powerful impact on the lives of others: that as a speaker they control the power to do much good or much evil with their very words.

So instead of the old "Sticks and Stones" saying,
what if we taught our youth a different message?

What message would you teach?


*Not to mention the apparent increase in the amount of attention this society is giving bullying. It leads one to wonder what the correlation is between our culture's general social mentality and the growing severity and numbers of "bullies."

The Universal Language Is In Our Minds

"UC Berkeley linguistics lecturer Patrick Boudreault, who is deaf, explains that language is a fluid thing that's not just spoken. It's something universal that happens in our minds, whether it's communicated with our hands or our voice."

Have you ever stopped to really think about language?

How it magically enables us to communicate with each other?
How it mysteriously allows us to think
and define the incredible world which surrounds us?
How without it, our reality would not be our own?

In a culture of affluence, it is all too easy to take material things for granted. Which consequently makes it even easier still to walk through this life and overlook the most fundamental miracles of simply being.

Be grateful. And you will be happy, my friends.
Aloha~

9-Year Old Discusses the Meaning of Life and the Universe

It is amazing what a mind this young can grasp with such conviction. Continue to plant seeds among the youth! They are the ones that will have to answer to the problems we create today. 

Reinventing Yourself

Sam Richards - A Radical Experiment In Empathy

Sam Richards delivers one of the most thought-provoking TEDtalks where he challenges the viewer to participate in a radical and emotional exercise in empathy.

Richards' leads us through this sociological experiment so that we could better understand the "other" people beyond our immediate political-social proximity. You may find his talk mentally exhausting as he unapologetically touches on sensitive political topics, but if you allow yourself to open your mind and step outside of your own preconceived socio-cultural constructs, I guarantee that you will experience something new. True empathy has the power to destroy and reconstruct the way you perceive yourself and the culture of which you are a part. Learn how to understand your fellow human.

Be Enlightened. Change your Heart. Change the World.

Learning Is Everything

The Pessimist and the Pro-Activist

Which one are you?

Higher Calling

If your path is more difficult, it is because your calling is higher~
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What if Money Was No Object - Alan Watts [HD]

A powerful message.

Do what you love my friends, life is too short.
I only wish you happiness and good health~

Be Convicted

And don't forget: Repetition is the Mother of all Learning~

To Thy Own Self Be True

In this world, no one is perfect - there are only those with greater work ethic, discipline, and passion.
Not knowing your weaknesses is far more detrimental to your success than your weaknesses themselves. Be stronger, better in spite of fully understanding your own areas of lacking. In order to grow, one must "accept [his] limitations for what they [are] and capitalize on them." This my friends is wisdom. Now shall we endeavor to put the words into practice. Do what you can do and continue perfecting your strengths in light of your weaknesses.
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If can can. If no can, no can.

Food For Thought

Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios

An Imagination is a Terrible thing to Waste~

Here's an awesomely created video featuring one of my tv role models. It's really wonderful to be able to look back at my childhood influences and finally be able to fully appreciate the amazing people out there spreading good vibes and planting seeds of wisdom in the youth. I pray that we live and never outgrow that youthful spirit and innocence we had before we became so impressionable, and continue to truly absorb ideas and create endless possibilities with the full potential of our unleashed imaginations. Stay tuned! I'll be sharing more sweet music videos from melodysheep in the future :)  

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