Take Actions with the Active Voice

When the sordid, uncertain, or fear-based moment arises we frequently turn inwardly. Phobic fear causes us to focus in on ourselves. Most importantly it turns us into passive beings. We are not intrinsically, authentically, naturally passive beings. When we go "passive" we begin seeking outwardly for guidance, advice, forms of faith or knowledge. This is the basis of the enormous self-help genre in bookstores. Now granted, those books are incredibly worthwhile and poignant and offer insightful messages. But you have the capacity to write the same material you read, but accessing your active inner voice. If you're in financial troubles, why not "write" instead of "read" books offering financial wisdom? You're fully capable of doing so. If you're in relationship doubt and confusion, "write" the best script to say to your loved one, don't passively look for it! With the active voice engaged, you have the capacity to offer incredibly illuminating insight all the time.

Evil Contradictions

James Carse, author of "Finite and Infinite Games" writes, "the contradiction inherent in all evil is that it originates in the desire to eliminate evil. 'The only good Indian is a dead Indian.'" (Carse 33).

This fascinating twist onto the self-perpetuating nature of evil reveals the eradication of evil to be quite simple: stop excluding and start including.

Define interests, social groups, health choices, and every little life preference not through "exclusion" and "dislikes" throughout life, but through inclusion. Commence framing the scope of your life parameters by manufacturing a channelled focused commitment to your interests, while neutralizing your focus on the dislikes. Unconditionally nurturing only your interests, while disregarding your dislikes, generates an optimistically light and certifying personality cohesion.