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Jim Carrey said: “I’m 64. If I could be 25 again, here’s what I'd tell myself” 1. “Sadness is often a result of circumstance.”

Meanwhile in NYC, what do NYPD cops do when their tasers are deployed and do not work? Also who is teaching these young cops tactics like this? @NYPDPC @NYPDDCPI @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCCouncil

There is a phase on the spiritual path that no one talks about. The phase where nothing seems to happen. No visions. No inspiration. No revelations. Only disciplined effort. Most people expect spiritual development to feel rewarding. They expect signs of progress, confirmation that the work is paying off. But often the opposite happens. The old sources of satisfaction begin to lose their power, while higher perception has not yet awakened. The student finds himself between 2 worlds. No longer fully nourished by the old life. Not yet able to perceive the new. The ego immediately begins asking: Am I progressing? Is this working? Why am I experiencing nothing? Yet this is often where the deepest work begins. Dr Steiner repeatedly warns that impatience has a deadening effect on higher development. Why? Because impatience always demands. It wants results. It wants certainty. It wants the spiritual world to reveal itself according to its own timetable. But the student can prepare himself without being able to command the result. Like a farmer preparing the soil and planting seeds, he can create the conditions for growth, but he cannot force the seed to sprout. Spiritual development follows the same law. The task is to study, meditate, observe, and refine oneself without constantly asking what will be received in return. Eventually even the motivation must change. The desire for experiences must give way to a genuine Love of truth itself. Patience is not simply waiting. Patience is remaining inwardly awake when nothing appears to be happening. It is continuing the work when life feels completely ordinary. Many abandon the path here because they mistake the absence of stimulation for the absence of growth. But a seed underground appears inactive. A tree in winter appears lifeless. Yet both are undergoing invisible preparation. The soul is not different. The silence is not necessarily the absence of development. The absence of reward does not mean the work is without value. Higher faculties cannot be forced into existence. They emerge gradually as the soul becomes capable of bearing them. Do not mistake the desert for failure. Sometimes the most important work is the work you cannot yet perceive.

Sinatra and Jobim. The coolest two minutes in television history.

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The greatest poverty of the human soul is the loss of faith. Not faith we remember only when we are afraid, suffering, or desperate. Faith must become a living force in everyday life. Consider what happens when faith dissapears: Why would a person strive to become better if he no longer believed in his own development? Why seek knowledge if you no longer believe that truth can be discovered? Why endure suffering without deeper meaning? Without faith, the human being increasingly loses the ability to orient himself towards the spiritual world. And with this comes fear. When a person experiences existence as meaningless, he loses one of the deepest sources of inner stability. Spiritual meaning -> inner stability -> courage to endure suffering and uncertainty. Meaningless existence -> loss of faith -> fear and insecurity. Faith does not remove difficulty. It transforms our relationship with difficulty. In the Gospels, Christ calls upon faith before healing. Through faith, the human being becomes an active participant in the relationship through which spiritual forces can work. It involves an inner receptivity to spiritual reality. For this reason, faith must be consciously cultivated. Have faith in your capacity to overcome your weaknesses. Have faith in the moral significance of your actions, even when you cannot see their consequences. Faith should never become an excuse to abandon thinking. It should inspire us to seek truth more deeply. Without faith we become prisoners of the visible world, unable to direct ourselves toward the greater possibilities of human existence. Cultivate faith. Strengthen it through knowledge and action. "Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well." — Luke 8:50

"Never went to college. Don't believe in college for writers. I think it's very dangerous." Ray Bradbury, Day at Night, 1974. #DeadWrongHistory

POWERFUL HEALING PRAYER ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT PADRE PIO Heavenly Father, I thank You for loving me. I thank You for sending Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save and to set me free. I trust in Your power and grace that sustain and restore me. Loving Father, touch me now with Your healing hands, for I believe that Your will is for me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit. Cover me with the most precious blood of Your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Cast out anything that should not be in me. Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus’ precious blood. Let the fire of Your healing love pass through my entire body to heal and make new any diseased areas so that my body will function the way You created it to function. Touch also my mind and my emotion, even the deepest recesses of my heart. Saturate my entire being with Your presence, love, joy and peace and draw me ever closer to You every moment of my life. And Father, fill me with Your Holy Spirit and empower me to do Your works so that my life will bring glory and honour to Your holy name. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

I think I may have watched this video at least 100 times now.

Love is one of the greatest protections against demonic influences. To understand why, we must first understand what happens within us. Most people do not think as independently as they imagine. Our thoughts are constantly shaped by fear, desire, public opinion, and the environment around us. We believe we are thinking. Often, we are merely reacting. Dr Steiner therefore placed enormous importance on learning to master one's own thinking. Choose a thought deliberately. Hold it steadily. Follow its inner logic. Do not allow the mind from wandering. Why does this matter? Because an uncontrolled mind is easily influenced. When entering an environment filled with dishonesty, cruelty, selfishness or destructive behaviour, we can unconsciously begin adopting the thoughts, emotions and attitudes around us. The answer is not to withdraw from the world. The answer is to develop an inner life that does not merely reflect its surroundings. Love turns our attention away from ourselves and toward another being. Instead of asking what we can gain, we become genuinely interested in the other person's existence. This transforms how we perceive reality. When someone wrongs you, fear sees an enemy. Pride sees an insult. Anger sees only faults. But love allows you to see the whole human being. You can recognise their weaknesses without becoming consumed by hatred. Love is a force of cognition. It allows us to enter the reality of another being rather than viewing everything through the lens of our own desires. This is the deeper meaning of the Christ impulse. Not simply belief. Transformation. The gradual overcoming of selfishness through freely chosen love. As Scripture says: "Perfect love casteth out fear." - 1 John 4:18 But love must be strengthened by disciplined thinking. Let daily meditation shape your thinking, feeling and actions. Over time, inner order replaces inner chaos. Consciousness replaces reactivity. Freedom replaces compulsion. The goal is not to become afraid of darkness. The goal is to become so inwardly awake that darkness no longer determines who you become. Do not focus on protecting yourself from the world. Develop so much love, clarity, and self-mastery that you no longer become like what surrounds you. "The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." - John 1:5

What a dumb thing to do. Woman with an umbrella decides to mess with ICE agents…then finds herself face-first on the pavement. Some people really just can’t help themselves. 🇺🇸

Teddy Roosevelt was born 168 years ago today, and his life reads like someone made it up. As a kid his asthma was so bad he sometimes had to sleep sitting up in a chair just to breathe. He was too sick for regular school, so he was taught at home and spent his time collecting dead animals. At 9 he opened the "Roosevelt Museum of Natural History" in his bedroom. He taught himself taxidermy and the maid complained about the smell. His father told him he had the mind but not the body, and that he had to make his body. So he did. Boxing, rowing, hiking, lifting, for years. He went to Harvard, then wrote his first book at 23, a naval history of the War of 1812 that the Navy actually used. He'd go on to write around 35 books and was known to read a book a day, sometimes more. On Valentine's Day 1884, his mother died of typhoid and his wife Alice died after giving birth to their daughter. Same day. Same house. In his diary he drew a large X and wrote "The light has gone out of my life." So he went to the Dakota Badlands and became a cattle rancher. Locals mocked the glasses and the Harvard accent until he knocked out a drunk who pulled two pistols on him in a saloon. Later, when thieves stole his boat, he built another one, chased them downriver in the freezing cold, captured all three, and marched them to the nearest jail. He read Anna Karenina while guarding them. Back in New York he became police commissioner and would walk the streets at night in disguise to catch cops sleeping or drinking on duty. In 1898 he quit his job as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead the Rough Riders in Cuba and charged up Kettle Hill under fire. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for it in 2001, making him the only president to receive one. At 42, after McKinley was assassinated, he became the youngest president in American history. Weeks in, he invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, and much of the South lost its mind over it. He didn't apologize. On a hunting trip in Mississippi, guides tied a black bear to a tree so he could shoot it. He refused. A cartoon ran, a toy maker made a stuffed bear, and that's why it's called a teddy bear. He put around 230 million acres of land under federal protection. He went down in a submarine. He became the first president to fly in an airplane. He kept boxing in the White House until a punch left him blind in his left eye. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Russo-Japanese War. In 1912 a man shot him in the chest outside a Milwaukee hotel. The bullet went through his steel glasses case and a folded 50 page speech in his coat pocket. He coughed into his hand, saw no blood, decided it hadn't hit his lung, and went on stage anyway. He told the crowd "it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose" and spoke for roughly 90 minutes with a bullet in his chest. Doctors left it in. He carried it the rest of his life. Two years later, in his mid 50s, he went to map an uncharted river in the Amazon called the River of Doubt. He got an infected leg, a raging fever, and lost about a quarter of his body weight. He nearly died. The river is now named Rio Roosevelt. When WWI came, all four of his sons went to fight. His youngest, Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France in 1918. People who knew him said he was never the same. He died in his sleep a few months later in January 1919, at 60. His son Archie sent a telegram to his brothers: "The old lion is dead." Vice President Thomas Marshall said death had to take him sleeping, because if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight.

Jordan Maxwell explains why the Statue of Liberty, isn't on American soil, and it’s no accident. Under Maritime Law, it had to be placed in water. Why? Because it’s not the Statue of Freedom… It’s the Statue of Liberty.

Robert Downey Jr. explains why he refused to stay in the same budget hotel as the rest of the Oppenheimer cast. “I jetted in in a G650 and stayed at a place called the Inn of the Five Graces. And while Cillian was at the Comfort Inn, I was getting shots… I knew that my dry cleaning budget exceeded my salary and I was going to have to come out of pocket. So that’s the real I mean, that’s why you get into the Marvel business, because you don’t have to stay at the Comfort Inn.”

Norm Macdonald explains comedy genius using one brutal Kojak line. A rookie sees an innocent woman. Kojak sees reality: “Mama’s apple pie, the 4th of July, she was a hooker!”