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Everything runs better with a rhythm or pattern. Once you learn to recognize the rhythm in anything it becomes easier, once you learn to feel the rhythm of life you can notice the changes much faster. The faster you notice a change, the faster you can adapt and keep your rhythm.

Curiosity over death in dreams isn't a new thing, it's been tossed around since the days of Freud. The general opinion is that it cannot be directly experienced unless the person dies, whether the death is caused by the dream or the dream by the death is a question that can't be answered for obvious reasons. I have died in dreams but I've never actually experienced it, it was like watching a from a third person perspective. One thing that they have been able to determine with certainty is that we cannot experience anything in a dream that we aren't familiar with, so if you've never felt pain than you can't feel it in a dream (that's just an example).

More often than not, it comes from experience. If you are insecure in a relationship it's because past experiences have taught you to be. I really wish I could get rid of mine but it seems to be subconscious for the most part.

It is a postion of responsibilty, not privilege. Any privileges that come with being a leader are in compensation for the responsibility. There are certain absolutes with that responsibility. You cannot lead people where you don't go, you can't reasonably expect those under you to take on tasks you refuse to or you'll lose their respect, and if you don't respect those under you than you can't expect them to have any for you.

Life is about many things, liimits being among them. The important thing is that you don't submissively accept any limits that are within your power to change. Grow and expand beyond the limits as you can and become more than you are. Don't be so arrogant as to think that you can do this with all of your limits though, you may regret it. I know from experience that you just can't go beyond some.

I made this comment in MBK's thread on utopia and dystopia and it seemed fitting to include it here.





"A utopia is defined as, 'An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects'.



Perfect is a matter of opinion, in that sense utopia is defined by each individual perception of what "perfect" is. My uptopia no longer, and possibly never did, exist and, more than likely, never again will.



As for dystopia, well, asi es la vida.

If you really want to feel alive, feel the life of the world. Don't hide from the rain, don't fear the lightning and thunder, welcome it as a lover and you'll feel alive like no other time.

What is it? During my time studying with the Jehova's Witnesses I learned very little that I didn't already know. One thing I did come to understand much better is faith. The definition that they go by is "The assured belief in things unseen." That's an interesting thought. If I'm to go with that definition than I really don't have faith in anything. I stopped believing in the teachings of Christianity a long time ago, I can remember that day fairly well and I was nine years old. The things I believe in are things I have seen. I never really have understood how people simply believe in something without any viable proof.

Remember, nothing helps restore equilibrium when you're worrying about something too much like a good laugh.

I have said many times that reality is perception but I have contradicted this several times with other things I've said. After thinking on it, I realize that I know this not to be true. I once met a man who truly believed he could walk through walls and he had broken his nose many times for the attempted practice of this belief. So perhaps reality is reality, no matter how we perceive it, but is alterable to an extent. On the other hand, perhaps this is not the only reality in which it is possible to exist?

I have never kept a Book of Shadows, I started one once but when my mother forbade the practice I passed it on to a friend. Even so, I have only ever cast one successful spell and I have never written it down. That one only exists in my head. I don't know that I would ever make another Book of Shadows, I've considered it but I have a specific desire for that if I ever should.