Charlie's Blog

YEAR OF THE TIGER

‘no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin. or his background. or his religion. people must learn to hate. and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught LOVE.

for LOVE comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.’ – MANDELA

WITH UNITY, COMES LOVE.

right now in this world. as a community. as race and in humanity. we need LOVE. this planet gave us our first warning w/ the virus. it tested us. trapped n’ isolated. in our own realm. space. head and mind.

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the second sphere corresponds to Man’s ability to learn whatever he needs to know from within his spirit.

this is wisdom.

when you look at a bottle, you know what it is without recourse to its name. definition, logical process, or any other kind of mental operation. on the other hand, names, definitions, and so on can give you false information regarding the identity and function of a thing.

we must therefore understand the difference between thinking and knowing. thinking involves the manipulation of symbols and knowing occurs in their absence!

I.e., to know, you must shut down the thinking process. this is an effect of one of the highest stages in meditation and spiritual initiation.

given the fact that Man’s life, personally and socially must be led by the intuitions of the wisdom faculty, the Supreme Being, in It’s infinite mercy has provided Man with surrogate for the wisdom faculty to compensate for its absence, given that it has not been evolved by the majority of people as yet. this is the oracle.

as a complete being and a vehicle of God’s expression. as an entity unlike all other creatures. Man must include within his being elements of compulsive (instinctive) behavior, and the freedom to choose.

first and foremost. you need to take full possession of your life. a constant reminder that you do for yourself is to re affirm that you are THE sole creator. the master of your life. so handle w a firm grasp. 

yin yang. 

there is a world OUT THERE that is trying to tell you who you are. and there is a world IN HERE. that is opposing. 

NOW WHERE DO YOU WNNA PUT YOUR EGGS?>

the world OUT there is very loud. a lot of temptations that go about. but there is this saying. ‘too much candy gives you a tummy ache.’

we as humans are PROGRAMMED. all ours lives to consume. especially this in this day in age. more is better and that is just that. 

BUT. 

the only reason you are indulging in this process is because YOU don’t think you are enough in the FIRST place.  

the whole idea of the world trying to sell you stuff is first of all, they have to make you feel bad about yourself less than in some way. the whole concept of sales. selling is to make you first feel bad about yourself. playing off one’s emotion. THIS IS THE SYSTEM. 

 I don’t resent the system by the way. 

there’s essentially only two worlds. there is the inner world of energy and the outer world of energy.

two identities. one’s real. one’s false. 

the EXTERNAL WORLD = “I’m asking you to tell me who you are.”

that’s what we’re all playing it. THIS IS THE SOCIETY. THE MATRIX. SYSTEM  what ever you want to call it. 

THE HEROS JOURNEY. 

ARCHITYPES. //

every new chapter of your life will demand a different version of yourself.

what got you here in your life won’t get you to where you want to go. this is so important to understand.

you MUST always be in a constant state of growth..

adaptable to new circumstances.. gain the awareness to accept reality as it is and not what you wish it would be.. and willing to make the changes necessary.

just as a snake sheds it’s old skin. you must shed your past over & over again. unlearn everything you have been taught & relearn through everything your own experiences & soul teaches you.

out with the old, in with the new.

it is only through this awareness and recognition are we able to reinvent ourselves to something much greater.

A choice between not taking action (“sticking”) or making a change (“twisting”).

Often issued as an ultimatum.

As a young man, our most valuable asset is time. you may not think that since we are so young. we have a lot of time on our hands.

it is time because what we do with our time will ultimately decide how our outcome may be. for our future.

stick or twist.

many of us are stuck. comfortable in our 9-5 jobs. comfortable in the relationship we are in. comfortable in the environment we have created.

twist.

the mentality of doing the BARE minimum work in our 9-5 ‘job.’ and using the rest of our brain power / willpower/ eagerness to learn and hone our skills to self improve where you are creating more and more value as a MAN. a peace of mind ultimately is our goal. the money we work so hard for buys us that peace of mind. money is essential in order to survive.

are you choosing your currently brain power for money today.?

or will you choose to twist. challenge your self. put yourself in a foreign territory once again and be uncomfortable.

stick = cash out

twist = grow and set yourself up to succeed more in the future.

what can I do today to TWIST my current situation or environment?

‘ENERGY CAN NEVER BE CREATED NOR DESTROYED, only TRANSFORMED or TRANSMUTED. ‘

whenever you hang out with someone and share your energy with them, you’re not just giving them energy but receiving their energy in exchange as well. have you ever been around a person and after words you feel drained?

the very basic law of energy is that it moves in circle, every time you allow someone in your energetic field you are creating ab energetic connection with them. whether you know it or not.

if you are not aware you start absorbing all the programs and beliefs of the other person without even realizing it. you start to adopt their thinking patterns. you start to implement their habits without even noticing it. be extremely conscious of with whom you’re establishing an energetic connection because people come with their own emotional baggage. maturity is being in control of the energetic connections you create with others and not hanging around with just everybody. that is a big part of it.

honor your energy and be aware of the people you surround yourself with. you become the average of your 5 closest friends. that is no lie.

kanye’s ego is a thing of legend, but without his unwavering self-belief, there’s no way he would’ve made it.

the roc wasn’t giving him a chance & shelved his album, if he hadn’t spent months borrowing free studio time from other artists or spent 33K of his own money to make the music video that broke his career, he’d still be a producer.

when nominated for 10 grammys after the release of his first record and asked, would you believe it if someone told you this 10 years ago, he said, ‘i’ve been telling people for years and no one would believe me.’

you’ll find the same self-belief if you watch any chef of chef’s tab;e or hear any entrepreneur on a podcast.

often self-belief is the fuel required to achieve escape velocity through rejection & failure.

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everything you choose is at the expense of something you didn’t.

every priority means certain things get de- prioritized.

every decision you make- for your career, your relationships, your health, etc. – is a formula of trade-offs and a balancing act between what you value most and what gets you valued less.

with finite time and resources we have available, everyone must decide for themselves what their unique formula consists of .

others may not get it or understand, but all that matters is that you do. keep pushing.

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for the dreamers,

to those that have big ideas and maybe struggle to fit those ideas into reality, creating the discipline of every day habit is super helpful.

new ideas are exciting, but the right ideas, backed up with proper execution is more powerful.

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The world as we know it has already ended. As each day passes it seems like the world as we know it slowly changes right in front of our eyes. The “cyborg age” arrived so quietly, few people noticed. Each person now carries a permanent digital device in their palm. In the blink of an eye, all of us—from the developed world to the farthest backwaters—were turned into cyborgs. The year 2021 will be remembered as Year ONE. The children born into this “digital catastrophe” will be known as the First Generation. Our only recourse is to teach them how to survive or help them discover means of survival under the “digital swarm” unleashed upon us.

“First Generation”—that is, those who are teenagers today, the first generation to be wholly raised up within the digital swarm. Given the premise, the truth of which seems undeniable (but of which more later), that technology is not going away, and the second premise that those who have come, and are coming, of age in the new era of technology will decide how our society will interact with, and become inter tangled with, technology. We, or the First Generation rather, must not abdicate responsibility, but grasp it, in order that we all may continue to lead lives worth living.

But this highlights what I think is an important question—can mankind truly exist mostly in a digital space, or does its unreality simply preclude the adequate transmission of belief and culture? If we are all hanging out in the metaverse, is that merely a translation of man’s culture to a new environment, or is it a deracinated, silly imitation, where no real culture can be truly formed, and certainly nothing real can be passed to our children? It seems to me that the latter is closer to the truth, and that no matter how many rites of passage we create, to the extent they revolve around digital, they are inherently fake and alien to mankind.

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