12 Of Life's Proverbial Lessons Through MetaphorCheryl's Birthday Logic Word ProblemUnity Consciousness #186

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Life Lessons

1. Study & practice to recognize when you're being misdirected and distracted.

2. Each person has at least some portion of truth.

3. Don't let words confuse you when actions have already told you everything. This also applies to what you tell yourself. Knowing yourself clears up confusion because it defragments and unifies understandings separated in memory.

4. Not all choices are answers and not all answers are solutions.

5. Problems can be made more difficult by how they're presented and stated.

6. Problems can be made more difficult by having different contexts, meanings, definitions and understandings than that presented in the problem. Know yourself is the main context for the meanings of life and existence.

7. Understanding and assumption (false notion) can impersonate each other.* They are easily found out by testing their logic. Test understandings against understandings, assumptions against assumptions and understandings against assumptions. Critical mistakes occur in life when periodic logic testing is not performed. These tests are not scheduled but should take place as they come up through experience because that's where understandings and assumptions are born, developed and verified.

8. Although problems contain the solution, do not allow problems to dictate the solution. If you allow the problem to control the process, you will leave out solutions because the problem, representative of the lower self, does not want to go away. The solution must be brought out through study, which is often not a lengthy process.

9. The process to reach solutions often goes down many roads to be explored but ultimately must be abandoned. This is for wisdom. Yes, there must be a will in order to find your way. When you are ready to take the necessary steps, that is the quickest and the shortest path.

10. Word problems test listening, reading, comprehension and analysis skills. You use these talents all the time. Life's problems are word problems and logic problems, just to name a few types.

11. Just like word problems, life problems are sometimes not straightforward and contain erroneous and misleading information, intentional or not.

12. For some of life's most seemingly difficult problems, sometimes there is more than one possible solution because Maat is both fixed and variable.

Through all available languages, you are being told what you need to know to help you solve life's problems. You are being told personally and separately so you don't have to rely on secondhand information about basic needs that are spiritual. The Spirit of Truth is calling from everywhere your attention is. You are again atop the horizon, in position to step onto the other dimensional side. This di-side always exists where you decide.

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Asante Sana Nun/Ptah/Atum-Ra, Sš3t (Seshat), Tšw8t (Tehuti), Nsamanfo, Heka, Hiao, Ashe

*Impersonation is less possible as we move closer to unity consciousness on the return journey home to oneness wholeness.

Companion Planting: Three Sisters, Oh Bother!

Planting corn, squash and green beans together is a symbiotic relationship recognized long ago. The corn provides a support for the climbing beans and squash's broad leaves shelter the soil from sunlight, thus preserving moisture and retarding growth of other plants. I'm sure there's more to it but the potential of the Three Sisters to help use limited space more efficiently was enough for me to try it out even though sharing the same soil is at the basis of what an ecosystem means.

First experiment, first results

The corn matured beautifully but by harvest time, the green beans had coiled themselves so tightly around the stalk and the ears, it was difficult to pick the corn without damaging the green bean vine.

Also the green beans were both adventurous and amorous. They traveled over to other stalks and met in the air above the corn and entwined themselves into several multi-vine groups. These masses were higher than the corn and thus each weightier and weightier group, with nothing to cling to, bent over and over taking corn stalks with it. Add whipping about in strong winds and the risk of vines breaking increased.

Mind you, I didn't plant the beans until the corn was in the shin to knee high range.

I did plant the squash at the same time the corn seeds went in but used squash plants. The corn overtook the squash, casting its low-lying sister into photosynthesis reducing creeping shade.

At my house, the Three Sisters did not work or play well together. Perhaps it was the space allotted and/or the varieties chosen but with lessons learned, there's hope.

Next experiment, what might work

1. Start with more overall space for the trio.

2. Plant squash on the outside rows of corn only, approximately one squash for every 8 to 12 corn plants. Getting to the squash, corn and beans without acrobatics should then be easy.

3. Plant squash on the outside of the corn facing the strongest sun, otherwise the squash will get “sun-squashed.” Seeking light beyond the corn's shadow, these sun-starved plants started to spill outside their allotted space.

4. Don't cheat on the suggested plant spacing.

What else might work to bring the Three Sisters back together in an average city/suburban space? You tell me.

30 Lessons from Warren Buffet & Bill Gates

As earth turns clockwise, I ease into a counter move for the day as the promise of rain is close to returning to watering duty. The phone rings. I am pointed towards a program where I discover some useful lessons from an unlikely place - two of America's diehard capitalists.

Quotes, paraphrases and pieced together comments from the April 22, 2011 CNBC program, Keeping America Great, A Town Hall Event With Warren Buffet and Bill Gates facilitated by Becky Quick on the campus of Columbia Business School. [My comments are in brackets].

1. Marry the right person. Who you marry will change your aspirations. Who you marry will change all sorts of things. [Everyone you have relations with, affects you. Every person you interact with regularly will definitely have a significant impact on your life for better or worse. If you can't tell which it is, it's for the worse.]
2. Hold enough cash so no one can determine your future. [After that, invest the rest.]
3. Best place to learn ethics is in the home.
4. Do what turns you on. Do what you have a passion for. Figure this out as early as possible. You should choose your first few jobs that can expose you to the most to help figure this out, then pour yourself into your passion.
5. Try to live your life so nothing keeps you up at night.
6. From a long-term investing standpoint, a crisis can provide value opportunities.
7. It is a mistake to decide whether or not to buy or sell an investment based on what's happening today only. [Look for the long-term value potential.]
8. If you're a long-term investor, a terrible market is your friend. [This includes real estate and any other asset.]
9. K-12 education has not improved.
10. K-12 education is important to our economic strength. [To graduate a steady flow of workers to do the grunt work for capitalism.]
11. It is good for the world that some countries are not as dependent as they were on the U.S.[The U.S. has always been dependent on other countries.]
12. With great wealth comes great responsibility. [Remain aware of the true source of your wealth.]
13. His parents let him buy as many books as he wanted. [This is a good way to give your child a better life than you. Give them access to a means of learning so children can get their own better life.]
14. The most important thing to do everyday is to learn.
15. A mentor helped him gain confidence. People that believed in him provided a tailwind in life. [A mentor is anyone with your best interests at heart.]
16. He was lucky in terms of some of the people he met. [Meet, people.]
17. Every life is equal in value.
18. A group decision is to look in the mirror. [Look into yourself.]
19. Do what you would do without regards to money. [Money is just one of many resources. Most of us get money by trading one or more of our other resources to get money.]
20. Don't chase where the last dollar is being made. [Beware of making choices based on articles about the fastest growing careers or the best paying jobs. This leads you deeper into the neck of the capitalistic funnel. There is no light at the end of the funnel.]
21. [If you must work for someone,] work for someone or company you admire and that turns you on. [You agree with what they're about.]
22. Active investors, those willing to spend time learning, should look at as many things as possible to uncover opportunities and when value is found – act. [This applies to stocks, real estate, self-employment, someone else or any type of appreciating, life-freeing asset.]
23. You must find great investment deals yourself. The world is not going to tell you.
24. Don't pass up anything attractive today hoping there will be something more attractive tomorrow. [A bird in the hand...][Don't keep waiting for stocks and especially real estate to go lower. Don't keep waiting for next year, another election, political decisions or the unemployment rate to go down. Don't wait for those around you to agree with your decisions.]
25. If the reason for doing something is everybody else is doing it, you don't have a good reason.
26. Do not allow yourself to be influenced by what other people think. [Unless they are like-spirit driven.]
27. Have great people around you, think long-term and read a lot. [Read mostly what benefits you not simply entertains you.]
28. Seize the moments when you can. Doing so will significantly shift your life because not many of these moments come along.
29. Having sound principles takes you through everything.
30. He is able to make quick decisions now because of years of preparation. [Sooner or later we should be able to make quicker and better decisions due to experiences, continuous learning and greater reliance on the intuitive self. You can make better decisions by bettering yourself.]

A soft light rain nurtures the living. Some, long asleep, are being resurrected.

Learning & Knowing: The Difference

Knowing seeks to acquire information.
Learning seeks understanding from information.

Knowing is an accumulating-type existence.
Learning is about growing and expanding.

Knowledge informs.
Learning transforms.

Knowing and knowledge signify.
Learning and lessons edify.

Knowledge stops with itself, is its own end.
Learning continues by itself until the end.

Knowledge is not power
because power is constantly being redefined by learning.

It's not who you know or who knows you,
but what you learn about yourself.

Many of the things we know about ourselves, holds us there with them.
When we learn things about ourselves, nothing can hold us. We have the choice to let them go and move on.

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