<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:18:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Thought Bubble Ten</category><category>passion play life purpose</category><category>Thought Bubble 10</category><category>life purpose</category><category>Easter</category><category>Einstein</category><category>Opus</category><category>adventurer</category><category>benefits</category><category>choice</category><category>competition</category><category>endorphins</category><category>failure</category><category>freedom</category><category>health</category><category>insanity</category><category>junk food</category><category>junkie</category><category>living from each moment</category><category>loyalty</category><category>meditation</category><category>mind</category><category>movement</category><category>passion</category><category>pause</category><category>play</category><category>questions</category><category>rebirth</category><category>sadness</category><category>self-doubt</category><category>silence</category><category>stress</category><category>swap</category><category>thoughts</category><category>writing tips</category><category>wrong</category><category>your stories</category><title>Passion Play and Purpose</title><description>Experimenting with Life on Ground Infinity!</description><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-7517933671622957569</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-08T01:14:56.150-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Opus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble Ten</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">your stories</category><title>Are you telling your stories (and living your life) as an Opus or a Finale?</title><atom:summary type="text">I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a  kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: &quot;What is my exciting thing  for today?&quot; Then, I do the day. Don&#39;t ask me about tomorrow.&amp;nbsp; Barbara JordanIf  you’re like me, you will be aware of what I call the Technology of the  Universe or what others may call the Law of Attraction or the Law of  Creation. &amp;nbsp;

Strictly  speaking, there is a </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-you-telling-your-stories-and-living.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-5170088751177069197</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-15T01:06:09.704-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">adventurer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">junkie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">living from each moment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble Ten</category><title>Are you an Event Junkie or a Life Adventurer?</title><atom:summary type="text">Life  is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging  day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Stephen Vincent Benét
Psst.. hey, mind if I interrupt you for just a moment? &amp;nbsp;One moment, that’s all.&amp;nbsp; I promise.
Who am I?&amp;nbsp; 
I’m the Present Moment. &amp;nbsp;Actually, I’m the Next Moment. &amp;nbsp;Actually, I’m both.&amp;nbsp; 
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JUDGMENT ESPECIALLY UNFAVORABLE JUDGMENT
Swap this for the tranquility of acceptance that everything, without exception, has its place on the Ground of Infinite possibilities. &amp;nbsp;
If you don’t feel good about something, focus on the feeling that you have </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/04/easy-swaps-for-instant-and-lasting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-1419189768241062446</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-21T04:26:28.868-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Easter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">play</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rebirth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silence</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble Ten</category><title>From the womb (or tomb) of Silence</title><atom:summary type="text">&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; 
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Let me give you an example of what I mean.&amp;nbsp; It may seem like a </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/04/are-you-choosing-freely-or-being.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-9008615990915599</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-06T04:01:11.625-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion play life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sadness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble Ten</category><title>When Sadness came calling</title><atom:summary type="text">The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the Joy.&amp;nbsp; Jim Rohn&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; 
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We exercise only a very minute number of these possibilities routinely.
Consequently, we end up </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-case-you-forgot-you-are-in-charge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-26142156975822185</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-02T07:26:09.850-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">benefits</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">meditation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion play life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pause</category><title>The Power of Pause and Pausing for Power</title><atom:summary type="text">&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; 
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Have you ever felt discouraged from pursuing something that you truly love because others are already doing it and you don’t believe you’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell against them?
I’m making some </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-it-worth-doing-it-if-others-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-5434715786982262903</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-27T22:45:26.863-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">failure</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion play life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble 10</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wrong</category><title>If you are willing to be wrong, you are willing to fail. Is that what you really want?</title><atom:summary type="text">Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent value is the equal sharing of misery&amp;nbsp; Winston Churchill
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Let me first say that the words, ‘wrong’ and ‘fail’ and the concepts that they commonly reflect are ones which I personally have little time for. &amp;nbsp;But they are words and concepts that have very powerful </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/03/if-you-are-willing-to-be-wrong-you-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-2472008534905261539</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-27T11:04:56.619-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion play life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble 10</category><title>Why you should think and act with Authority</title><atom:summary type="text">&amp;nbsp;The wisest have the most authorityPlato 

How many times have you thought about attempting something, like writing on a certain topic or in a certain style, and given up because you weren’t convinced you could?&amp;nbsp; Or taking on a certain project but lacked the confidence? &amp;nbsp;Or sharing an idea but felt too embarrassed or afraid of how people might respond?
Now you might be wondering </atom:summary><link>http://passionplayandpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-you-should-think-and-act-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Thought Bubble Ten)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdxNf2uGggigghmQQuR-k6J39lMrclPVqcOj_kjeQfuWeRNOQKa3Lb5osptLZQiSyzCLhcu8CqvV04z7104B_XsLS9mkw2fAIk9OZfaRCXmKXhUI-IZSvRIDA6ze9a6rbpIKjzM8XqIPG/s72-c/2010-11-16+12.11.29.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547288358478443275.post-6269611581572071899</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-27T02:21:44.243-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">passion play life purpose</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thought Bubble 10</category><title>What is my Life Purpose? is not the right question</title><atom:summary type="text">Whoever has found and has awakened to the self that has entered into this perilous inaccessible place (the body), he is the maker of the universe, for he is the maker of all.&amp;nbsp; His is the world, indeed, he is the world itself.&amp;nbsp; The Principal Upanishads


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