tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701433822263540412024-09-05T03:40:12.271-07:00The Chain Reaction InsideJoshua Enfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00020978240631712028noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070143382226354041.post-19428659828644114952010-05-31T04:49:00.000-07:002010-05-31T04:55:33.463-07:00

I found a paper by Richard Carlson detailing happiness.I found it very perceptive and enlightening.http://www.melbabenson.com/articles_files/You%20Can%20Be.pdf

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The gentle flow caressing my heartCarving it slowly into art.The torrents, the stressCan feel so powerless.The senses, the touchThe feelings, the rushSo intricately carving all that I am.Seeking meaning in the safety of control.Doing the best to direct the soul.The shimmers of beauty at first dawns light.The storms of sorrow at midday's crest.A glimmer of hope as day fades to night.Calm and

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I lie here looking at this screen.Trying to express something I cannot quite conceptualize.Words are so constraining, constricting.I am looking for something.I think it's serenity.I have been lucky to be perfectly content as of late.However, I have starved myself of feeling and expression.This has happened before.I become a little numb inside.I lose sight and focus.I am dancing around what I am

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I think most of us have an aspect in ourselves to react emotionally to the things our world dishes out to us. I will talk of this from the context of myself. We all react to different things, and have different things we care about. First I want to emphasize with Halo is that while it is a video game don't write it off. What I am saying here is able to be generalized to everything you care about

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As I get older I find myself valuing and seeing things differently. In the last week I found myself no longer nervous or anxious to the idea of going over seas. Studying\traveling abroad is something I have always wanted to do. I am fascinated with culture, and experience. It is through the experience of new things that we live and that the fire in our hearts ignites in the brightest shades. Ever

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EDIT: 4/4/2010 - I am being unfair to religion (Catholic here) in this post. Not because my point is bad, but because of my intentions and emotions when I wrote this. I have a personal policy not to censor or edit my "published" writings. (By edit I mean change what I wrote.) I believe when I click publish it will republish to 4/4/2010, but I posted this in late 2009. That said, when I wrote

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If you want to be something...become it with every breath you take. The only time is now - be who you are now. Imbue your heart, virtue, and soul in your life.Let passion, ambition, and joy fuel you. Be strong as steel for the world is as you see it.Remember you can take control. Focus and become who you are.

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I am falling asleep inside. So many questions inside.A maelstrom of thoughts, feelings, and emotions molest my soul.Organizing this mess sometimes progresses but recurrently ends up with my soul as cold as coal.Imitation, creation, and loss of motivation.Perception and erosion effecting corrosion.Working hard to create a facade to create complement to your judgement of whom I should be.Caring

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Thing’s in life aren’t always quite what they seem, there’s more than one given angle to any one given scene. So bare that in mind next time you try to intervene on any one given angle to any one given scene.My name’s Mark, I go to Uni and College, don’t socialise that much, I just revise and use knowledge. At times I find that hard become a virtual recluse and let my belt of interruption hang

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Head in one placeHeart in anotherBeauty in the stormHappily depressedSuffocating slowlyAtlast freedom to breatheHappiness touching my soulHead and heart togetherTwo parts united into oneIn the destruction of the past a lesson learnedExperience gained from the chains that held my divided soulFree for a while happy to liveIn my scars the lessons of the pastReminding me to let the light of life,

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Would you...Do what is right regardless of the presence of a God?Keep the same beliefs and ideas if the path to God was a set of different ideals from your own?Goto a future of pain and agony rather than a heaven in the action of doing what you currently believe?Would you be willing to goto "Hell" with your current beliefs regardless of if you think they are right or not?Why do you believe what

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I speak of Christianity here, because around me Christianity holds the majority, but this holds for any religion. I saw a quote the other day that really hit me hard. It said we must ask ourselves when we take action via words or physically whether we are under the motivation of doing it because it is right and virtuous or preforming it under the reason of judgement. The judgement should be left

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Check this out. It's interesting - ignore the quality and age and listen to what it says.Part 1:Part 2:Part 3:

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Something strikes me as interesting in this diverse social world we live in. I found it in myself. Its a spirit of debate. It's an immense desire to be right; to be validated. Anyone who reads this blog has a very likely similar desire within them. It's why people don't let other people be. It's why a select group of extremist followers of Islam terrorize. It's why Christians convert and preach.

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This is an amazing article, on skepticism and beliefs, reality, etc. I can't really describe it, but it is a really good article. This article developed some really interesting ideas for me so I thought I would post it here.http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/the-death-of-skepticism/

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I encountered a few things over the past week that caused me to reconsider my entire understanding of spirituality. They caused me to re-examine myself.Beginning and PrefaceIn the beginning around age 7 or 8, life was simple but there was always something in the back of my mind. Something that was always echoing in my mind between thoughts. What is this? What does Me in this world mean? Am I

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PROMISE YOURSELF:To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the

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Said by Venlafaxine at the whirlpool AU forums:It couldn't be any more ironic then that "Think for yourself, question authority" speech. The last thing people need is more people telling them what to do. So, the irony is, "don't do what people tell you to do", but unfortunately then you'd be doing what I told you to do. But, the most ironic thing is, watching a documentory on revolution. You have

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Look at a tree. What defines the tree to you? What defines the reality of the tree?Touch, Taste, Sight, Sound, Smell - these things define our reality. What are these things?Sensations?Let me propose a provocative question, what is a thought to you? Is it also a sensation?Is the thought of a tree, a creation of the tree in your mind any different than the actual tree? What is different between

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Just WalkPassion, Ambiton, Declaration;I feel these in my heart,I take a step,Sometimes almost one more,Soon I lose my passion,Soon I lose my ambition,Soon I lose my declaration,I look for them,I call for them.Where did they go?My heart dies.My life loses direction.I lose my balance,I fall back,Into a familiar indention,With a history of many previous falls in the sand,I rise back up.They find

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This post is a bit of a deviation, from the traditional topics I blog about, but I find it to be a topic of interest.I am NOT qualified to analyze this. This is from light research and I plan to edit\fix this over the next few days. This should provide some overview on the situation, but treat this as possible misinformation for the moment. Please comment with fixes to the analysis, and I am

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These ideas and thoughts are an opinion. They are subject to change. If you see a problem anywhere post a comment, and I will do my best to ammend\address it.The world is changing.IntegrityUnimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. I see Integrity as representing a purity of information. After the recent election of Obama, I observed

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This is a religiously biased post under the presupposition that God exists. So it is food for thought under that view, and is only objective under that condition, and not the condition that he exists.Perhaps God does not reveal himself directly, because of what doing so would result in. Imagine what would happen to the world if God stepped into a clearly physical form and started dancing around.

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This post is a personal journal entry for myself, but you might find it interesting.I have never really run for any reason other than the occasional spurt to get healthy. Tonight I ran. I ran for a different reason. I ran to get out. To escape. There is this constant noise of things that develop into my mind. It is a chaos. It is an oscillation amongst finances, school (homework), ability to

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This was an email reply to someone I recently met. I felt it conveyed some new things very well, so I decided to post it here for preponderance.This post I do not mean to preach. Change views or convert. It is as much for myself as it is for you. Please read objectively. I worried I came across a little preachy in the beginning - just keep reading though) I jumped gears a couple times so do your

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