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My Friends Are So Depressed
I want to have children of my own so that I can teach a human being how to learn from the day they open their eyes. My son or daughter will be whomever they choose. I will only help them … Continue reading
Posted in Choice-Based Life
Tagged beauty, bond, choice, Choice-Based Life, Choice-Based Relationships, connection, emotional bond, emotional clarity, emotional development, experience, family, kevin carlstead, learn, Love, marriage, mental clarity, mental development, mental health, mental health awareness, my friends, purpose, reality, red hot chili peppers, reflect, reflection, self-worth, understand
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“Purpose Determines Outcome”
We drove by a grocery store parking lot. I caught a glimpse of a shopping cart in the middle of one of the spots. My mind immediately went to “let’s pull over and move it out of the way.” Being … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, animals, awareness, beauty, black or white, change, character, clear direction, comfort, details, direction, emotions, exercise, experience, explore, Fact, Facts, freedom, fulfilled, gray, gray reality, grayness, grow, henry david thoreau, human beings, irrational, jack johnson, kevin carlstead, life, life-purpose, live, Love, Meaning, mind, motivation, not black or white, park city, paul hatherley, personality, perspectives, practice, purpose, quiz, ralph waldo emerson, rational, reality, reason, Respect, respectable, satisfaction, self-reliance, selfless, student of life, survival, test, they do they don't, thoughts, truth, vague purpose
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Park City-My Visit Back
Life touches me so deeply and my mind is wired to take it all in, reflect, and learn all there is to learn from it. My mind, in the back of all the stimulation of society, screams for this. … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, beauty, deer valley, housekeeping, housekeeping manager, kevin carlstead, Love, mdv, moment, montage, park city, presence, present, survival, touch life, truth
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Response Struggle
We respond to our fear of failure and vulnerability, our fear of death, our fear of emptiness with ideas of IMAGE and POWER and ENTERTAIN AWAY FROM THE FACTS OF LIFE. There are other ways to respond to this scary adventure here on earth. Breathe and read what I have learned here in this blog post. Continue reading
Posted in Control is an Illusion
Tagged alone, anxiety, beauty, black and white, black or white, bob dylan, breathe, change, character, chess, contradicting, contradiction, control, curiosity, curious, death, deny reality, depth, direction, distraction, distractions, education, ego, empty, equitable, facade, fake, fear, fight fire with fire, fragile, freedom, gray, honesty, humble, illusion, innocence, integrity, journey, kevin carlstead, learn, lonely human, Love, lyrics, maggie's farm, manipulate, manipulation, mask, no rewind, noble, open, oppression, pawns, Perfection, plastic, power, present moment, purpose, relax, responsibility, still, struggle, understanding, vulnerability, vulnerable, wasted time, we are small
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Imagine
Every time I have a conversation with someone where I explore the depths of experience and future options that clear up and open up life and my direction, I say to myself, “the conversations (the direction-defining explorations) that I … Continue reading
Posted in Learning From Pain
Tagged anxiety, beauty, change, depression, explore, freedom, grow, Love, Meaning, mental health, relationships, tense, uncomfortable, what if
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A Story from “Hey Arnold!”
The boarders assign each other a Secret Santa, and Arnold has to get a present for Mr. Hyunh. He hears his story about his lost daughter Mai, and decides to search the city for her. Arnold attempts to locate Mai … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold, arnold's christmas, beauty, care, character, courage, distractions, effort, focus, go for it, grow, helga pataki, hey arnold!, humility, important, jazz, jim lang, learn, Love, mai hyunh, Meaning, mr. bailey, mr. hyunh, nancy spumoni, passion, pleasure, Respect, satisfaction, success, understand, warmth
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In Response to “Fault in our Stars”
I like to listen to this from the Fault in our Stars soundtrack while I read these words: Among the pains transitions and realities all filling up our perspective…we try…we try our hardest to keep the beauty in sight…to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Learning From Pain
Tagged beauty, care, death, Fault in our stars, happy, life, look around, Love, pain, reality, transition, understand
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Adding the Extra Step
– Allow myself to think how I naturally do in every situation – – Allow myself to feel how I naturally do in every situation – If I lived like this and only this, my actions would end up based on … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, conscious, crazy, direction, Facts, feelings, fulfilling, impulsive, impulsive life, internal, life-affirming, Love, Meaning, meaningful life, mumford & sons, natural, organizing, pain, passion, passionate, pleasure, purpose, reality, self-consumed, simple-minded, The Cave, thoughts, truth, wisdom
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Dealing With Pain
#1: Do your Normal Routine Activities – CONSISTENCY Just do them no matter how bad you feel, because the next time you doubt your ability to do it because of how bad you feel, you will have that last experience … Continue reading
Posted in Learning From Pain
Tagged bear's den, beauty, Consistency, fulfillment, kevin carlstead, life, Love, Meaning, no control, pain, pompeii, Respect, self-esteem, self-worth, Utilize pain, Value
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