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Powerful Context for Life

There’s not much you can do about the circumstances of your life. But the one thing you have absolute control over is the context of your life.

We are really good in feeling with the concepts of an event. We have a lot of skills in dealing with the process of an event, but we have almost no awareness about the context of an event. You see, it’s not about what you think that will improve the quality of your life, but it’s the space in which you think. It’s about what you could think that will improve the quality of your life.

What everybody thinks: 'Thinking positive will improve my life'. Thinking differently is not going to change someone’s life or is going to open up someone’s life. Because there’s no shift in context. You’re still in the same box, get rid of the box!

So what really alters your life isn’t starting with thinking, it’s about being. So be happy, be successful, be fulfilled, be creative, no matter the circumstances! Go out and play!

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Stop the game of becoming OK, you are already OK. You are whole and complete as a human being. Start playing the game of being yourself.

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• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 20 2011: Thanks for pointing out McLuhan and your reply.
  
  So Denis, how would you be if you had no past? Just take a moment at your view.....
  
  Enjoy the view and feel free to share! ;-))))))))))))))

• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 20 2011: Ok, here we go Denis,
  
  We are meaning-seeking creatures and, unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we cannot find significance and value in our lives.
  
  When a event is happening in life, most of the time we are judging, evaluate, find it good or bad, agree on it or not, and sometimes we want to chance the event. So where is all the judging and need for chance coming from? Let say it’s coming from your past experience, the past. So what is your past doing in the moment of the event now?
  
  In my experience it is in the way, it is a barrier to a clear view to the future.
  
  If we truly want to change things (if we want a breakthrough), we need to be able to let go of the things/feelings/emotions/believes that don't 'serve' us anymore. To be able to move on. Let say that those things are a result of your past experience, than your past is in the way to your future. If you would take the past out of your view to the future and put it back where it belongs, the past, now you have a clear view to the future. Where anything is possible, because there are no barriers!
  
  I hope you can wrap your mind around this way of being! ;-)

• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 19 2011: Thank you Ram,
  
  And what if we 'choose' to have no past. How would it be? How would it be for you? What kind of possibilities do you have/see?
  
  Thanks, Joeban.

• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 19 2011: Thank you Lynn and Denis,
  
  And what if we 'choose' to have no past. How would it be? How would it be for you? What kind of possibilities do you have/see?
  
  Thanks, Joeban.

• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 19 2011: Thank you Edward,
  
  And what if we 'choose' to have no past. How would it be? How would it be for you? What kind of possibilities do you have/see?
  
  Thanks, Joeban.

• A reply on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 18 2011: Dear Beste,
  
  Thank you for sharing. So given the fact that you would be incomplete without your past, let say you are already complete and having no past. How would you be?
  
  Thanks, Joeban.
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  A comment on Conversation: Humanism should be the only religion.

  Dec 16 2011: If we truly want this beautiful planet to be beautiful in the future, we need to be able to let go of the things/feelings/emotions/believes that don't 'serve' us anymore, to be able to move on as one! To let the planet flourish in all his glory, which btw is a powerful context for human beings as well. Now it's time to leave the era of tolerance behind us, and to move forwards to the era of appreciation. To appreciate all that is!

• A comment on Conversation: What is happiness for you?

  Dec 16 2011: Happiness means to me being happy. The sensation of a smile, the experience of anything is possible. Is there a absolute happiness? O absolute, you just need to declare it. No one can tell you when you are happy. It's already a part of you. You don't have to do something to reach it, you just have to be it. And it starts by a declaration... Just give it a try.... ;-) ... and be happy!