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What is Advice?
Today’s subject is well … subjective, so I will ask, what is advice? Instructions people give you when they think they are helping you with a problem. Trying to give someone helpful information. Sharing of information or opinion. What does advice do? What impact does it have? Well, it either gives you a new way…
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Never Wrong, Never Right
You are never wrong. No one is ever wrong. What do you think of this? I can buy that. I know some people who believe that. I think I am never wrong but everyone else is. The process for assessing rightness or wrongness of a point of view is non existent. The disciplines of philosophy…
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The Three Fates
The first fate is the creative principle. You can see her work on a daily basis. As your brain spins off every little random thing, and you overhear so many things, both the seemingly meaningful and the nonsensical, you are influenced by this principle. It’s why scientists are so enthusiastic about the concept of hetero-suggestion.…
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Secret of Liberation
So back to advice, how do we shape our consensus? How do we move the unmoved mover? The uncaused cause? How did Orpheus make the gods weep? What book is that from? Greek mythology. There are many accounts. I can’t recall a specific book at the moment. This is why he eventually achieved apotheosis though.…
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Be Informed by Your Affinities
So do you need advice? Yes, you need to be informed by your affinities, your feelings of love and attraction, trust and yearning. You also need to be informed by your antipathies, your sense of the diseased and confused, the rabid and threatening. These come not from striving, and not from some rare mystical ascension,…
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Blaze a Trail
Try that unusual way of preparing your desired food. Try that strange way of problem solving. These will only put you more in touch with your own gifts, your own instincts and wisdom. Laugh at the stupid joke, and see if you can make a worse one, but above all, immunize yourself to belief in…
Category: Advice
There is no truth to be found in concepts of truth no matter how prettily the thinking is framed. The truth is in the centre, and only the centre holds, only the centre truly learns and grows. You cannot be lied to unless you are seeking it. You cannot be truthed to, unless you are seeking it. Better to seek naturally occurring connection. In this you will experience genuine truth.
So do you need advice? Yes, you need to be informed by your affinities, your feelings of love and attraction, trust and yearning. You also need to be informed by your antipathies, your sense of the diseased and confused, the rabid and threatening. These come not from striving, and not from some rare mystical ascension, but from a simple centred attention aligned to the dynamics or forces that gave shape to your living being in the first place.
“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.” François de la Rochefoucauld (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)