The Manifesto

You are further along than you know. Keep going.

Primary Focus:

  • Maintain financial stability through diligent work and mindful spending
  • Cultivate inner bliss and consistent mindfulness
  • Prioritize physical wellness through an agile, limber, and healthy body
  • Nurture a Divine partnership, characterized by deep love, acceptance, shared joy, and play.

“Water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.” – Siddhartha

Ambitions:

  • Achieve financial freedom, comfortably enjoying life’s pleasures and travels without anxiety
  • Foster a vibrant, fulfilling community balanced in growth and joy
  • Experience sustained natural highs: energy, clarity, belief, and passion
  • Own property designed for homesteading and sustainable living
  • Create prolifically, unattached to outcomes.
  • Write and publish a book: “PARTY”
  • Sustain a loving partnership that models Divine love

Affirmations:

Believe in yourself.  Who are you? What good do you have in you?

  • I have a deep and longstanding relationship with the Divine
  • I have an abundant life.
  • I am a visionary creator.
  • My pursuit is pure: To Proliferate Love & Joy through a community of art.
  • Anchors of community often lean on me.
  • I am present and mindful.
  • I am willing to evolve. 
  • I have a “Won’t lose” attitude and get things done.
  • I am truly kind, generous, and benevolent.
  • I have a beautiful mind. I connect disparate parts, thereby amplifying their impact
  • I believe audacious change is possible.
  • I am emotionally in-tune. I connect well with people from all backgrounds.
  • I am a talented musician. I can uniquely conveying heart through music.
  • I have a beautiful aesthetic. I unique skill at capturing beauty I see.
  • I have a poetic view of life and artfully craft words.

Forever Truths:

  • Let the soul reign and enjoy the ride.
  • Be the best you, be the truest you, enjoy.
  • Life is meant to be enjoyed. Enjoy it. Maintaining Joy throughout every situation (good and bad) is the great challenge and a purpose of life.
    • To process pain and suffering, like a bivalve filtering the energy of this plane through a Divine connection.
  • Your meant to move things forward. “Put the world right again.” Create progress. Grace is your byproduct/reward. Create the perpetual ripples of light.
  • The Divine is for you. And conspiring all the time to utilize you– in spite of yourself, and for your benefit.
  • You’re not obligated to be great. But it is within your grasp.
  • The only thing that limits you is your pride / ego.
  • Want to leave a legacy? Write letters, Create Art.

Internal Values:

Internal Values / Operating Principles

  • Loving Kindness
  • Show Up-ness
  • Decisiveness
  • Explore the Fullness of Life

Four Foundations:

  •  Life is Precious
  •  Cause & Effect
  •  Acceptance
  •  Impermanence 

Three Poisons:

  •  Attachment
  •  Aversion
  •  Ignorance

Common Snares:

  • For love of people you alter your path
    • By drinking more than you ought
    • By staying up later than you ought
  • Over committing.
    • Sometimes the natural flow of life changes. Over rigidity to your former plan is reflection of ego.

Favorite Quotes:

“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.  //  And stand together yet not too near together:  For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.” -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.” -Terence McKenna

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“..gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” -Henry Miller

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

From the Bible:

Love One Another

John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love… 12 If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

You are the light of the world.

Matt 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Do Not Worry

Matt 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 

See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Ask and it will be given

Matt 7:9 Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 

True Vine & The Fruit

John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.”

Fruit of the Spirit

Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law

Set your sights on things above

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is [a]lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

On Discipline

2 Cor 4:17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

Heb 12:11 No discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Divine’s Plans for You:

Jer 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

John 15:11: “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.”

John 10:10: I came that [you] may have life, and have it abundantly.

Phil 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.

Other Quotes

Matt 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

John 15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 

Manifesto Purpose:

A manifesto closes the open loops on purpose and vision. While it evolves overtime, it is used as a day-by-day guide to stay the course toward deeper, more meaningful existence. It concisely bridges the gap between existential belief and purposeful action.

Disclaimer: 

I hesitate to write anything. The more I understand the further I get from simply being. Being a simple mind is a simple route to happiness. 

Keep your mind simple.  If you do endeavor to understand,  know that you begin a sisyphean climb. Instead of up the mountain it’s in circles, with momentary stops touching that Enlightenment is empty of thought. So there you go.