{"id":588,"date":"2015-12-22T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch4cs.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2015-12-22T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:42:06","slug":"assorted-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/assorted-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been blessedly busy lately, and as such I have not posted several things which have come to me to write about. So, here are several little bits which probably deserve their own extended posts.<br \/>\nI like the process and results of Observation, far better than the process and results of belief.<\/p>\n<p>When I am observing I am questioning and open to discovery. I can then choose to act on what I see to be True in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>When I believe something, I am accessing old mental constructs and making decisions based on the past. Life is Flow and energy in motion. When I believe something, and make decisions based on the past, I take myself out of the presence moment and act as though life is static. This prevents me from seeing the flow of life, and prevents me from learning anything new.<\/p>\n<p>In order to learn anything new, I must approach the presence moment with the understanding that what I currently think I know is either only partially true, or completely false. Otherwise I enter the situation knowing that &#8220;I know what I know; I know how I know it; I know how and why it&#8217;s right!&#8221; When I enter a situation from that perspective I am going to leave it knowing what I knew. From that perspective there is no possibility for learning and growth.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a nine minute clip about the value of observation over belief, and a story illustrating the point: <a title=\"Story of B-Leafs\" href=\"http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=210\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=210<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhile listening to people talk recently, and hearing people degrade themselves and others because of poor decisions, I was prompted to write the following:<\/p>\n<p>There are no idiots. Only Brilliant Souls who have temporarily forgotten, or have yet to discover their Brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has done things which by their own assessment they have looked back on and labeled it idiotic. That was just a single decision or behavior. That is simply a single choice or a snapshot in time. Those things do not define us. Even when we happen to string together a series of events, or days, weeks, months, or years when we do things we later label as idiotic. That does not define us.<\/p>\n<p>We have choice. We can learn, and choose again. This is one of the wonderful things that separate us from every other known creature.<br \/>\nThere are no idiots. Only Brilliant Souls who have temporarily forgotten, or have yet to discover their Brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn a road trip recently I listened to several of my old talks and found that I have some new favorites. This prompted me to edit two short pieces and add them to my website.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a six minute clip which is the best I have heard myself talk about role models: <a title=\"Role Models six minute clip\" href=\"http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=209\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=209 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a twenty minute talk I gave at the Unity Spiritual Center in July 2015:<a title=\"Tim talk twenty minutes \" href=\"http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=202\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ch4cs.com\/audio.asp?ID=202<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and listening.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holy Days!<\/p>\n<p>We Come From Love, We Are Made Of Love, We Are Love!\u00a0 Everything else is false.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been blessedly busy lately, and as such I have not posted several things which have come to me to write about. So, here are several little bits which probably deserve their own extended posts. 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