A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Sheriff's Deputy.
He thinks that he is smarter than the Deputy because he is sure that he
has a better education. He decides to prove this to himself and have
some fun at the deputies expense.

Deputy says, "License and registration, please."

Lawyer says, "What for?"

Deputy says, "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."

Lawyer says, "I slowed down, and no one was coming."

Deputy says, "You still didn't come to a complete stop. License and
registration, please."

Lawyer says, "What's the difference?"

Deputy says, "The difference is, you have to come to a complete stop,
that's the law. License and registration, please!"

Lawyer says, "If you can show me the legal difference between slow down
and stop, I'll give you my license and registration and you give me the
ticket, if not - you let me go and no ticket."

Deputy says, "Exit your vehicle then, sir."

At this point, the deputy takes out his nightstick and starts beating
the ever-loving sh..t out of the lawyer and says: "Do you want me to
stop or just slow down?"
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ARE YOU SAD?
-- by Chief Joseph

You live in a world today where there are many distractions, dramas,
and traumas. All of which can, if you let them, take you from the focus
you intended to have when you were born into your current physical body.

Friends, you have heard us say this many times over the years, but it
bears repeating. You did not come into this lifetime to suffer through a
sad, dreary existence, only to have it end painfully and without
purpose. That was the farthest thing from the intent you (at your soul level)
held when you chose to be born again.

Your intent was to be a joyful creator. To immerse yourself in the vast
and endless sea of diversity that is your planet at this time in your
human history. You (the soul "you") did not intend to live a joyless
life in your body only to be buffeted, tossed about, and torn by all the
forces and energies you experience on the earth plane today.

Instead, this "soul you" intended the human you to find joy in the
diversity, to find pleasure in the passing of time, to find excitement in
the expressing of your free will, your freedom of choice.

And here, friends, we come to the heart of today’s discussion.

You have free will. You are always free to choose a different life in
every present moment.

Where you are now is the result of all the choices you’ve made in all
your past present moments. But all the choices you make in all your
current present moments will determine all your future present moments.

Our point is this: All your power is in this present moment. All your
power is NOW!

Do you get that? All your power is right here in this present moment --
exactly where you are as you are reading this -- this very powerful,
all-powerful present moment.

Whatever choices you make today will create your tomorrow.

And so let us return to the point from which we started today: Do the
forces around you (cloudy days, sunny days, etc.) determine how you will
live your life?

Or do you determine how you will live your life?

Do the clouds and the sun have more power over you than you have over
you? We are not saying the environment in which you live has no effect
on you. We are saying you have far more power over yourself than your
environment does. And that includes the other people in your environment.

Which leads us to our final point today -- and that is your connection
to your higher self, your soul.

When you are fully and consciously connected to your higher self, you
live in a state of bliss, joy, and power.

And how do you achieve (and maintain) that fully conscious connection?

By remembering who you really are.

You are not a victim of circumstances -- or the weather, the clouds,
the sun, other people. You are not a pawn buffeted about by the "powers
that be." You are not lost, and you definitely don’t need to be saved.

You are you -- this divine being of incredible power and wisdom who can
do and have and be whatever you choose.

Life is good. You are good. And you are free to choose -- or not choose
-- whatever good you want to bring into your life.

All is well, friends. You cannot get your life wrong -- it’s
impossible! For all paths lead Home.

And Home is back to the full remembering of who you truly are.
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VIBRATIONAL WISDOM

As a woman passes her daughter's closed bedroom door, she heard a
strange buzzing noise coming from within. Opening the door, she observed her
daughter giving herself a real workout with a vibrator. Shocked, she
asked: "What in the world are you doing?"

The daughter replied: "Mom, I'm thirty-five years old, unmarried, and
this thing is about as close as I'll ever get to a husband. Please, go
away and leave me alone."

The next day, the girl's father heard the same buzz coming from the
other side of the closed bedroom door. Upon entering the room, he observed
his daughter making passionate love to her vibrator. To his query as to
what she was doing, the daughter said: "Dad I'm thirty-five, unmarried,
and this thing is about as close as I'll ever get to a husband. Please,
go away and leave me alone."

A couple days later, the wife came home from a shopping trip, placed
the groceries on the kitchen counter, and heard that buzzing noise coming
from, of all places, the living room. She entered that area and
observed her husband sitting on the couch, downing a cold beer, and staring at
the tv. The vibrator was next to him on the couch, buzzing like crazy.
The wife asked: "What the hell are you doing?"

The husband replied: "I'm watching football with my son-in-law!"
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WISDOM - ONE FACE
--by Nataani Guthrie

The original meaning of the word “vocation” means “the voice within.”
Many cultures have ceremonies and rituals as to how to get in touch with
this voice.

While this voice tends to emerge during our adolescence, it can speak
to us at any stage of our life. The Huichol Indians tell us that there
are two kinds of human beings. Those who listen to their inner-voice and
those who ignore it.

The ones who listen to their inner-voice move in harmony with the flow
of life, which is represented by a magical deer, “hicuri.” They also
drink from the magical waters of “teacata”, the place of wisdom. This is
the invisible river from which the Monarch butterflies drink in order
to find their way in their migration from Canada to Mexico. This is also
the water that the Salmon drinks in order to find his way from rivers
to the sea and back to their birthplace. To know without being taught.

The Huichol Indians tell us that when we ignore our inner-voice we
become ghosts of ourselves. Our mind is in one place, but our heart is some
where else. Then, since we have lost our integrity, we become “beings
of duality”, and we enter the world of restlessness and perpetual want.

But no matter what we do, and how much we may ignore our inner-voice,
our heart never gives up on us. The Mayas tell us that within it lives a
Quetzal, the bird of life, and the Quetzal goes on talking to us. The
voice becomes more clear during the night, as we sleep and dream. It
becomes clear also when we take time to be in silence, when we fast, or
when we spend time in solitude. At times it may even assault us when we
deal with pain or suffer a breakdown.

Our sickness may be an attempt of our heart to straighten our life.

When we are rooted in our hearts, our faces bear no duality, no
concealment. Mexicans call a face with a heart “rostro” because the face is
rooted in nature and in truth.

However, when the face is not connected to the heart, it cannot be a
“rostro”, and it is called “cara”. In English we only have one word for
both of them, “Face”, although, there is a world of difference between
them. If you happen to have a rostro, keep shining brightly in this
world. And if you happen to have a cara, your heart is out there calling
for you. They say that when you find your voice the whole Universe sings.
Make the Universe sing!
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THE WONDER of IT ALL