So much of marketing is aimed at yanking or jimmying open the gateway to the mind.
Words – hypnotic ones – can make dead souls rise and fight for the glory of the fatherland or for the honor of the father. They can also make us purchase products, services, or propaganda wholesale without a care.
Yet the combination of words, phrases and visions artfully implanted can also lead to uncompromisable creativity, blissful peace and endless tolerance.
Ah, if only most language was only used to such positive effect, then the need to warn others to watch carefully over the gateway to the mind would diminish immensely. We could live with child-like curiosity and experience the newness of each day without ever needing to utter, “What’s the catch?” or “What’s in it for me?”
“To err is human, to forgive is divine”.
~Alexander Pope~
Your Number One Hero Is You!
Who are the heroes in your life? Maybe that question gives you pause in this age of put-downs and cynicism.
In the modern world, we love to idolize people and then cut them down to size. To watch others pain and comeuppance gives us a false reassurance that we are lucky to be less.
Ultimately, our heroes must teach us lessons of how to act and and how not to act. We must not hero worship at the expense of striving to be a person of excellence ourselves.
The judge brings this court to session (and turn down the volume a tad):
Whether you live under a bridge off an interstate highway or in a 20-room estate overlooking the French Riviera, your life is still a work in progress.
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or misfortune which lay before you could yet turn the pauper into king and the king into a stink-pot prisoner on death row. Only time will tell.
One definition of wealth is “a great amount.” We all have a great amount of life – a wealth of it – by the time we reach our 60th. It is our duty to bring – to at least a precious few – our wealth experience and subsequent wealth philosophy. They in turn can pass forward our weighty thoughts about how to approach life successfully or how not to approach it.
Listen to the Judge as he chimes in on this touchy subject:
The word adore comes from the French aourer meaning “to adore, worship” and from the Latin adorare meaning “speak to formally, beseech, ask in prayer.”
In our modern world of relativism, it becomes increasingly difficult to adore anyone or anything very much or for very long. Most images implanted in our minds are fueled by Hollywood fantasy or meant by advertising executives to sell us things we don’t need in the name of unbridled capitalism and consumerism.
Where have all our heroes gone? A good question to put to the adoring Judge…
Many people are petrified of their intuition and hunches. They instead follow the stars and the latest trendsetters to decide their destiny. When they arrive where they think there going, all they see is a heartbreaking ghost town with tumbleweeds blowing hither and thither.
Is your heart broken because you feel trapped in other people’s dreams and expectations? Then I propose you take your life back before you are a tombstone.
You gotta have heart and grit to live a life of your own design. The message which follows may give you some perspective.
What happens to a person when they travel through life with no self-confidence? Well, pretty much everything of perceived importance seems to pass you by. You often hear that ringing in your ear: “Poor me! Why me? There’s no God and not even the Second Coming can save me from my wretchedness. My birth was a mistake and my death can’t come too soon.”
Feeling in that stream? Then climb on this audio steamer, and let’s move one ocean away from despair…
