188. If you are ill, sick, diseased, disabled or dead; if you are in danger; if your spouse leaves you or cheats on you; if you lose your job, career or business; if you came in last in the spitting contest; if you are homeless, hungry, destitute, enslaved or without cell service; if you are unappreciated, unloved, have no one to love, are alone and lonely, get no respect, are hated; if your life is empty of challenging and stimulating experiences; if you have not accomplished anything; if you are robbed, burglarized, in an accident or your toilet backs up and soaks your butt and you are bleeding to death and don’t know where your pet monkey is, for sanity sake, can’t you at least enjoy it?

189. Your mind has a mind of its own. Sometimes it thinks thoughts without your permission–thoughts you don’t like. When you realize you are thinking thoughts that don’t serve your joy, peace and happiness (or anyone elses) replace them with thoughts that do. Entertain only kind thoughts that serve you and others. Always know what you are thinking. Be the GUARDIAN at the gate of your mind.

190. I plan my day and work my plan, but some days, the day has its own plan, and those days were some of my best days. Sometimes surrendering to the day is the best way.

191. What you FEEL (when not thinking, interpreting or fighting life) is PEACE.

192. Are your views not different today than yesterday? Perhaps they will be different tomorrow as well. Has there not been a time when you thought you were right and later found out you were wrong and laughed at your perception? Will there never again come a time when you will laugh at yourself? Yes, you will laugh, for your knowledge and understanding increases each day and your views will change in days to come. You are on an amazing journey of self-discovery, so you will not hold fast to today’s thoughts about things, for tomorrow you may be laughing at yourself, and truly, you will enjoy the laugh. As to others, are they not also on a journey of discovery? Yes, so I will laugh with them, but never at them. You will always be their joy and never their sorrow. Wisdom says, only laugh at yourself.

193. Often, humans have a herd-mentality. They have herd values, herd cultures and herd norms. Because of that ,it is an udderly undocile undertaking to buck the herd. If you turn on the herd and feed them new ideas they may turn on you and stampede and trample you, or they make take away your grazing-rights. Herds are not bully about ideas that discombobulate their vested interests. Hobnobbing herds with strong political, ethnic, cultural and religious beliefs must be approached with extreme caution (for your own safety) or you best leave them alone to continue feeding on their accepted common diet (no matter how bad it is for them).

194. If the universe doesn’t love you, why are there peaches?

195. If you believe in an after-life: I passed beyond the world today, crossed to the other side, and walked among the living there who recently had died. There are no frowns, no furrowed brows, no worries and no fears. There are no lonely hearts yearning to return to here. They’re happy there, their joy is full, with family and with friends, and meadows green and clear blue skies and peace that never ends. In loving memory they recall, with fondness they embrace, their journey in a darkened world among the human race. Those days are done, no trials now, no more hearts of stone, for all is love and love is all in that eternal home.
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