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  ''Our current global economy is based on spending billions to make people believe that their happiness and wellbeing are dependant on buying stuff.''  -- Michael Corthell

 

by Michael Corthell How much time and energy do you spend worrying about tomorrow? Do you worry about what will happen next week? Or, what will happen next year? You can plan your life out, but you still need to manage the present. ''Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.'' —Thomas Carlyle What worries you? The future? Today is a safe place.  It is a place to live securely to plan an even better tomorrow. How can you live in 'day-tight compartments' to turn the tide against worry and make yourself productive? Here are some of the basics: Love yourself. When we are worried about a big problem there are people who will support us and those who won't. Listen and feel the energy of those who support you. Reject the ones who don't.  Then give yourself a hug. Use positive affirmations and tell your subconscious mind all positives about yourself. Always keep your sense of h

  But there is danger in chronic global poverty... “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”  — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

 

 

by Michael Corthell [Short answer: Yes, by and through giving] Shining a light and talking about money management in any moral context such as creating wealth, controlling the weight of debt, and investment income can be like lighting a match next to a case of dynamite. Money is like any other tool— it can be used for good, to create something good, or used to destroy—the use depends on the mindset of the user. It is very easy to let a healthy interest in asset/money management become an unhealthy obsession with materialism. ''The love of money causes all kinds of evil. Some people have turned away from what we believe because they want to get more and more money. But they have caused themselves a lot of pain and sorrow.'' — 1 Timothy 6:10            Today we will explore the ways God wants us to view money as a means of exchange and investment, plus our attitude toward material goods. As with practically everything in life good management is all about b

Veganism is Not About “Food Ethics”: Veganism is about Social Justice for All Animals, Including the Human Ones Veganism is not a social justice issue isolated from other social justice issues. Veganism shows the reality of how racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, speciesism, ecocide, etc are all connected. In other words the 'Golden Rule'. Join The Vegan Project   

“I am never in control of what happens around me  but I am always in control that what happens within me.” ― Pranita Deshpande We are what we eat, what we think, what we believe, and what we do.

  woke : [adjective]  alert to injustice in society, especially racism. “Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.” ― Marc Bekoff

  The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.  Thomas A. Edison Practicing preventative medicine currently isn't part of the average physician's everyday routine today, but in the future, it will be.

Resourceism? Resource-Based Economy?   We are equal heirs to a global fortune. We are beneficiaries of an abundant trust fund of planetary resources, a wealth of abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until we assert our rightful inheritance of this blessed gift, it will remain unclaimed and forever beyond our reach.

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” ― Niels Bohr, Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge The Universe exists within all life, just as certainly as all life exists within the Universe. Life is the manifestation of the Universe's consciousness.  That is Oneness. “Quantum physics teaches us that we can simultaneously exist in many places, under certain conditions.” ― Amit Ray, Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence

“The most powerful predictor of the murder rate is the size of the gap in income and wealth between the rich and the poor. And the most powerful predictor of the rate of national or collective violence—war, civil insurrection, and terrorism—is the size of the gap between income and wealth between the rich and poor nations.” ― Dr. James Gilligan So, 'peace on Earth'? Share its abundance. (because we all have an equal inheritance of its resources and shouldn't compete for anything.  “Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance, and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mec

  Love for all living creatures is  the noblest virtue of humankind.  “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.”  —  Gary L. Francione

“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss Every new day is a new beginning. And things will change.

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ― George Sand Never mind money, power, and fame, it's love  —   how much you gave and how much you received that counts for anything. Love is the only treasure you take with you when you leave this world. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein

“Don't just declutter, de-own.” ― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids Unused 'precious' objects take up precious space and very precious time.

  “Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them.” ― Willa Cather When you live your life knowing that everything is a miracle, every moment then becomes something to savor and be in awe of. You are then filled with appreciation and gratitude knowing that you are indeed blessed.

  “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches No child is born with prejudice and hate in his or her heart. All are born wanting to connect with others. Just as love is learned when children are cherished and nurtured, hate is also learned by messages and cues that are both verbal and nonverbal. As hate is learned, so it can be unlearned. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” ― Benjamin Franklin The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. ― Thomas A. Edison

  “You would be enraged if after attending a barbeque at your neighbors your host said he had served you a Beagle Burger. How is a dog different than a cow?” ― Michael Corthell “I narrowed the focus of my research to examine a specific expression of the relational paradox: the psychosociology of eating animals, a phenomenon I named carnism. Seeking to understand how people who care about the well-being of nonhuman animals nevertheless consume (or kill) them, I conducted interviews and surveys, and coded and analyzed responses. I concluded that eating (certain) animals results from extensive social and psychological conditioning that causes naturally empathic and rational people to distort their perceptions and block their empathy so that they act against their values of compassion and justice without fully realizing what they're doing. In other words, carnism teaches us to violate the Golden Rule without knowing or caring that we're doing so.” ― Melanie Joy, Powerarchy: Underst