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The One Person Who’s Not Upset About the Media Coverage of Trumps Affairs is Donald J. Trump

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do not be misled by any coverage that says Trump is upset by the shitstorm of media coverage of his affairs. He’s not. Trump is secretly or not so secretly proud. He’s patting himself on the back that now everyone knows he can bang beautiful porn stars. He’s stewing in the soup of his narcissism and unfortunately, now so are we because he is our President.

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Evolve

You Will Lose Everything

Reading Time: 2 minutes Allowing the intensity of impermanence is the only way to be truly alive to what is, to fully appreciate it, and ultimately to truly love. Do not be fooled by the lie that anything can last forever. To take someone for granted is a choice to wait to love them fully, but not to love them fully right now. It’s careless. It’s costly. The price is high.

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Let Us All Take a Collective Deep Breath – John Bolton Will Be Nothing More than a Distraction

Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, Bolton will have a bigger stage from which he will spew his bullshit. However, in practical terms, National Security Advisor isn’t as glamorous or as powerful a position as it might sound. There is a difference between influence and power. Bolton might have influence. As a high-level advisor, he will have the presidents ear. However, he will have no actual power.

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Is Being Gay a Choice?

Reading Time: 2 minutes When love between two people happens, when all of those pieces fall in place, when two people find themselves blessed with the miracle of love, it is a miracle of fate, timing, and biology. It is figuratively, and maybe literally an act of god.and guess what, it’s always a choice, no matter who you are or who you love. To love another is always the highest choice.
Do people choose to be gay?

Who cares?

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Why Does Personal Development Fail?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Certain words get a really bad wrap. I think discipline is one of them. Most of the time discipline isn’t about doing what’s hard. It’s about doing what’s easy, even when it’s dull. Many years ago one of my early yoga instructors refused to use the words “yoga practice”. He referred to his practice as his discipline, not like a punishment, but more like something he was devoted to, as in disciple. I get that now, in a way I didn’t when I was twenty.

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