If YOUR TAKE on reality doesn’t bring you joy, choose one that does.

If YOUR BELIEFS cause you pain, choose ones that do not.

(If you actually knew the truth, you wouldn’t have a ‘TAKE,’ and or ‘BELIEFS,’ to begin with).

If the world ISN’T your playground of the most magnificent kind, then your take on reality and your beliefs are screwing you, and no one knows better how to torment and torture you as exquisitely as you.

The BEST WAY in the entire history of the universe among thinking-self-aware-conscious beings to become unhappy, upset, stressed, angry and violent–in a most undelightful and debilitating way–is to WANT something different than what has just happened.

It’s normal to WANT something different than what just happened that you do not like. But it’s illogical, unreasonable and insane-crazy to not ACCEPT AND BE AT PEACE with a reality that cannot be changed in the moment because it just happened.

Use the energy of your WANTING IT TO BE DIFFERENT to create a better NEXT-TIME.

FAILED EXPECTATIONS KILL.

Expect the best, be at peace with the rest.

Don’t set your heart on your expectations. Put your heart INTO it, but not on it.

There is a greater work afoot than the path your feet walk (though your feet, on your path, make up the whole that is greater).

Being at peace in troubled times, means you know something that others who are not at peace do not know. And if you know, it is because you have either never had, or do not now have, a TAKE, or BELIEFS, about the reality you are living in.

WHAT IS IT YOU KNOW?

Perhaps it’s buried deep (perhaps not so deep) but EVERYONE KNOWS that they are intelligent energy-beings experiencing realities and matrixes for fun, adventure, challenge and growth, and that THOSE THINGS bring them joy, peace, happiness and pleasure, which are the prime motivators of self-aware, conscious and self-willed intelligences. And, you are one of them.

If you think or believe you are not one of them, then ask yourself, “What am I?”

If you come up with something other than that you are part and portion of The One, that you are on a magnificent and challenging adventure–a journey through time and space–of learning and increase (for the sole purpose that you might experience greater joys through greater challenges as you grow and expand) you do yourself an injustice by thinking or believing you are less than you are.

Life was never meant to be easy, and it’s not, and it’s perfect exactly the way it is, day in, day out, and hereafter.

The challenges that are mounting daily, and the coming storms of strife-filled adventures, in all their varieties, are of more value to you than all the gold in Fort Knox that disappeared.

You are on a journey and a quest. Enjoy it if you can.