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Free Advice about Life, Universe and Other Stuff from Lawrence R. Spencer
CREATION
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and “gallows humor”. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
HAPPINESS
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The Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) said “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know”. At the end of his life Hemingway was being chased by the FBI and IRS because he lived in Cuba and was a friend of Fidel Castro, a communist, who opposed the Rothschild international bankers ambition control of the world. Understandably, Hemingway, also a long time alcoholic, became depressed and suicidal. His wife sent him to a mental hospital where they gave him dozens of electric shock treatments and heavy drugs to “cure” his depression. Two days after being released from the hospital his shot himself in the head with his double-barreled shotgun! Hemingway was super-intelligent, but unhappy.
Hemingway is an example that Intelligence, alone, is not the “key to happiness”. I remembered what Krishnamurti said:
“…you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity….You have been accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, nor new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
It is interesting that Krishnamurti uses the words “development, purification and incorruptibility” to describe the “key” to happiness. Perhaps this describes the path we have can follow to discover the truth and happiness.
Perhaps it is not as important to be “happy” as it is to see the truth and not become corrupted or depressed by it. Maybe our “development” and “incorruptibility” demand and require that we become “depressed” sometimes as part of our “development”. And, as part of our progress toward Freedom, which is an essential part of Happiness.
FOOD CAN BE HEALTHY
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WHICH WAY DO WE GO?
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— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS by Lawrence R. Spencer:
“4/ WHICH WAY DO WE GO?
“Now which way do we go?”–Dorothy
“Pardon me, that way is a very nice way … it’s pleasant down that way too.”–the Scarecrow
“That’s funny … wasn’t he pointing the other way?”–Dorothy
“Of course, people do go both ways.”–the Scarecrow.
“Are you doing that on purpose or can’t you make up your mind?”–Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Everyone has a personal viewpoint about everything.
Every person has a singularly unique point of view.
There are as many universes as there are individual beings. To that degree, every subject is relative to the viewpoint of the person looking at it.
Example: How many different versions of an accident can there be?
1/ the same as the number of individuals who witnessed the accident
2/ the one version that the majority of individuals agree upon as being the “real” one.
This leads us to the understanding that there are at least two Universes:
1/ YOUR OWN UNIVERSE, which is subject to your own person viewpoint
2/ The PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, the universe each of us share in common to the degree that we agree upon “reality”.”
READ The Oz Factors to discover the 12 Common Denominators (Oz Factors) and how you can use them to improve your life.