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‘Nother Long Post About Other Worlds Lmao

Was talking with someone last night about things I like in fantasy and things I wanted to see more of, and one of those was underwater cities on the backs/bodies of giant creatures (such as the island on the Lion Turtle’s back in Avatar or the city on Eldradimon’s back in Digimon). 

So let’s assume that this is another world where there are massive oceans everywhere to support this kind of life, but imagine giant sea creatures everywhere, and since it’s fantasy let’s go ahead and have merpeople. Well, these people need a home somewhere, amiright?

People who live in the body of a massive great white, with scales made of diamond to let the light shine on its people. The Shark people would be fierce hunters and great strategists, and I imagine they would be protective of their people and their home, so if there is any sort of  threat, you can guarantee they will protect it.

A small group of stragglers, exhausted from their journeys, settle on a rocky outcropping for the night, setting up camp. In the morning when they wake, they find that their surroundings have changed completely. It seems that their “outcropping” was really a giant octopus. The people remain, building their village on the tentacles of the giant. These people are wickedly intelligent, being able to see right through plots and lies, being able to escape any trap their enemies have set for them, having watched their home do so all these years. They’re also a very artistic group, using corals and octopi ink to make paints.

Cities that settle in the quills of sea urchins and sea cucumbers, safe and protected from outside threats. Cities that hide in the tops of jellyfish and swim amongst its tentacles, gathering food or playing hide-and-seek, having grown tough skin to avoid being shocked or poisoned. Adventure-seeking tribes that travel beneath the dolphin’s bodies, curious of the world around them and unwaveringly playful. Large, gentle people who tend to the scratches the whales have sustained from boats, growing the barnacles like gardens and singing long into the night. 

Tribes and cities of people passing and colliding, fighting or trading culture. Languages with different dialects between the same people, so two Octopus people can speak but still occasionally be confused, misinterpreting what their companion is saying in silly ways. Dolphin people who know several different languages and dialects from their travels, giggling when they talk to other tribes in different languages and insult them.

Seabed-dwelling cities using shells and coral as plates or jewelry, using one type of shell to say “I love you” and another to say “You’re my best friend”, or a way to say “I wish the oceans would swallow you whole.” Giving someone a “We welcome you!” shell and offending your visitor, because in their city that shell is used to convey dislike. Creating clothes and weapons and armors from scales and old crab shells. 

Okay so that got a bit longer than I thought it would but it was worth it. I just love this kind of thing and I wish there was more of it. 

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Staying Strong 365 Days A Year: July 14th 2014

Gratitude is the key to happiness.

Goal: Today make a point to thank everyone around you for being in your life, especially the ones who've stuck by your side through tough times.

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This series is, as you guessed it, posted every single day until December 31st 2014 so keep coming back to check out the new insight and goal of the day.

I’ve been taking the daily goals from Demi Lovato’s book ‘Stay Strong 365 Days A Year’ and then applying it to my life/adding some insight.

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Ten Sages with 10 Inspiring Messages

Throughout the ages there have been a few notable luminaries of humanity that have experienced a transformational harmonization initiated by the vectors of human becoming: love, beauty, and truth. We can look up to these sages for inspiration that cultivates courage, will, and determination to experience an inner transformation as well. Although there are quite a few individuals that we can look to for sage-like guidance, 10 will be focused on here, each with a message they streamed into the global mind in their own unique way. Let these words spark a shift within that will change the very way to see reality.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for  reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.

Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.

That is my experience.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

  Huang Po

The approach to it  (Mind, Absolute, Void, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment)  is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity.  If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.

Those who seek the truth by means of the intellect and learning only get further and further away from it.  Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

    Bodhidharma

The fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don’t believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage.

The sutras say, ‘Mind is the teaching.’ But people of no understanding don’t believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

  Heraclitus

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to reason, and to confess that all things are one.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

  Lao Tzu

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don’t lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

    Ramana Maharshi

The attempt to destroy the ego or the mind through practices other than self-inquiry is just like the thief pretending to be a policeman to catch the thief, that is, himself.

Self-inquiry alone can reveal the truth that neither the ego nor the mind really exists, and enable one to realize the pure, undifferentiated being of the Self or the absolute.

Having realized the Self, nothing remains to be known, because it is perfect bliss, it is the all.

    Sri Aurobindo

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.

Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

     Mohandas Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Osho Rajneesh

Pleasure is momentary, of time, for the time being; bliss is non-temporal, timeless. Pleasure begins and ends; bliss abides forever. Pleasure comes and goes; bliss never comes, never goes — it is already there in the innermost core of your being. Pleasure has to be snatched away from the other; you become either a beggar or a thief. Bliss makes you a master.

Bliss is not something that you invent but something that you discover. Bliss is your innermost nature. It has been there since the very beginning, you just have not looked at it, you have taken it for granted. You don’t look inwards. This is the only misery of man: that he goes on looking outwards, seeking and searching. And you cannot find it in the outside because it is not there.

   Jiddu Krishnamurti

We seek happiness through things, through relationship, through thoughts, ideas. So things, relationship, and ideas become all-important and not happiness. When we seek happiness through something, then the thing becomes of greater value than happiness itself. When stated in this manner, the problem sounds simple and it is simple. We seek happiness in property, in family, in name; then property, family, idea become all important, for then happiness is sought through a means, and then the means destroys the end.

Can happiness be found through any means, through anything made by the hand or by the mind? Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them…Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming it our problem.

To find out the true meaning of happiness, we must explore the river of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is not an end in itself. Is there a source to a stream? Every drop of water from the beginning to the end makes the river. To imagine that we will find happiness at the source is to be mistaken. It is to be found where you are on the river of self knowledge.

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