How you see the world depends totally on how you choose to think. Events are just events until you choose otherwise. You want to choose to see that the people around you, like your ex partner are screwing you? Go ahead. It's a free world... or is it.

I've met many people who take pride in their right to think what they want to think. Sometimes those same people ask me to help them change their life. But they want to change things, rather than change thinking. Not a wise strategy if you ask me.

I do think we have free will, obviously, people think what they want to think, they see the world as they want to see it. An environmental catastrophe or a wonderful evolving universe... it's really free choice. But, again, I doubt those choices are really free because most people I meet who choose negative consciousness aren't well, but are hoping to become well, by changing the world. Funny really.

"If nobody said anything unless they knew what they were talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. A P Herbert"

Fighting for peace is like picking your nose and eating it. It's going to turn people off. The angriest people I meet want peace. They want the whales to be left alone, and they think corporations are without conscience. Peace on the outside and war on the inside is no peace at all. 

The day you can find one person who has inner peace, you will find true outer peace. But this might take longer than you think. 

Those who know, shut up, and those who don't know, speak.. so how in the heck will you know when you find someone who knows because they won't tell you they know?

Wish to turn the clock back to the past? Maybe you are a fossil from your past. Wish to defend your viewpoint? You are your viewpoint. So, is that what you are? A viewpoint? You want to defend a Whale .. maybe you are a whale? Defend the forests .. are you a big old growth tree that doesn't want to shift? What do you defend?

I defend people against the "establishment." Does that mean I am an establishment? Golly, I guess I think my establishment is more universal than the establishment I defend people against. Maybe the Universal Laws of Nature are they simply a more loving establishment?

One lady defends children.. does that mean she's still a child? Seems so... Maybe our stories can get stuck when we experience something bad as a child and we can become emotionally stuck at that age? I mean, everybody is defending something or someone..

The first question I ask people when they attend a seminar is "do you love your life?" I guess I'm asking in a round about way, "what needs to change to make life more loveable?" ... This includes work because we can't love life with only half of it loveable.. do what we love and love what we do is an all embracing inspiration.

Usually the answers involve an obstacle of some sort. Sometimes there are three or four obstacles. And sometimes the answer is "yes most of the time but not all the time."

There are things in our lives we'd all love to change. I can list 20 of them in my life and I work on the disciplines of happiness a lot more than most people and yet, the answer for me, if someone asked "do you love your life?" is a resounding "Yes, Yes, Yes."