Doing what I love

   For the last little while, my focus has been not on searching for a higher path, or following one.  It has been for the most part selfish instead of selfless.  To a point.  I have stepped away so as to focus on some other things that I have either put off or left unfinished.  I have spent time with my family, focused on my actual job and the most selfish of tasks, worked on getting my music out on the web.  Does this in any way mean that I have fallen away from my journey?  No, in fact these things are very important parts of my journey.  I have since I was young had music in my life and always had the dream of having it recorded and out there for others to listen to.  Now with how technology is I have that opportunity.  It may have, if I had focussed more on music happened earlier, but I took the practical course and ensured that I had a job, was happy in my relationships with family and friends and put my want of music as a second to that.  Now although it is still a second to family and work and friends, I have more freedom to creativly express myself.  I have never believed that my purpose was soley to work my job, be married and be happy.  But niether did I believe that it would be a life without my music filled instead of sharing my learned wisdoms.  I have had to balance these things as they came and for the last while I have reconnected with the creative musical side instead of the side following an unmarked course and sharing my lessons.  It is just as important to share your passions with others as it is to share knowledge, so I have been sharing my passion.  Soon I hope to be able to proudly say that I had a song that touched someones life, and also say that someone was touched by my blog.  Selfish yes but sometimes one needs to be a little selfish.  In any case I have been doing what I love with music and my family, and have found the love in what I do at work and with my blogs.
I hope you too can do what you love and find the love in what you are doing
In peace and happiness
Mark

P.S. I preform as BONISH

Over the last few months I have been neglect on this site, as I have found it to be less than friendly to operate on at times.  I have however been blogging on my my space page which can be found at  http://www.myspace.com/mystilodicheart .  On there is also a song which was written and recorded by Dark Pirate and the MysticWarrior.   I am one of the vocalists and guitarists for this band, as well as co-writter of all the songs.  They may not meet the peaceful warrior, or "mystic" type of outlook that some might expect, but it is honest expression from myself and Sean.  Just as a note the song "3:30 Blues" was written by my good friend and recording artist Jack Harlan.  For those that go I hope you enjoy the songs and the blogs on the other page.   Once in a while I may still blog here but, just in case head over to myspace add me as a friend and leave a message that you are comming from here.

 

In Peace and Happiness

The Mystic Warrior:

Mystilodicheart

Before I get to the meat of this blog I would first like to sned out my sincerest whishes and regrets to those who have recently lost friends and family in both Myanmar and as of last night China.  Both are incredible catastrophe's of which we are unable to prevent and so we all must move on through this. 

  That being said I myself have to wonder if maybe these events aren't so random.  Not that they were caused by govenrments or terrorists trying to make a point as you would see in the movies, but maybe mother nature just trying to keep the world in balance.  With the exception of natural disasters man has been able to if not stop, at least make great strides to preventing many of the illnesses that have arisen throughout our time here on earth.  Only twenty years ago AIDS was brought to light in main stream conversation, and although we haven't found out how to cure it, there are so many ways that we have to treat a person with it, that even though it is still a death sentance, the life expectancy  of a person with it has increased greatly.  the same can be said for most life ending illnesses out there.  Cancer is no longer veiwewd as an automatic death sentance with all the treatments out there, although not 100% more and more people are saved daily from it than twenty years ago.  Cystic Fibrosis (which my older brother does have) used to mean not only death but a life span of less than twenty years(In my brothers case it didn't show up untill he was 18).  And now ten years after his transplant my brother who had less than 6 months to live is still healthy and has many years left.  twenty years ago that would not have been.  These are only a few examples of things were man has altered the course of life and changed the natural balance against natuer.  We, as humans have the need to survive and save our own but in doing so what are we really changing?  Every year a new more deadly strain of flu seems to arrive, or a new disease that didn't affect humans has made the jump from animals.  Is this because of something we have done to the planet or rather nature just trying to thin out our population since we have no natural predators anymore?  If we notice we are about to make an animal species extinct, we can actually bring that species back to a healthy number or kill it off.  We haev the power that used to only be held by the natural balance, but who or what really keep us in check?  As tragic as natural disasters are, could it be that it is just a natural thinning of our ever growing population?  I once read that ever 2 seconds a person dies, but every one second a new baby is born.  With a statistic like that we as humans possibly do need something other than other humans to slow down our groth and bring the number of people in the world down, other wise how long could we really survive?  I do not wish to sound incensitive about these things, if I had lost my brother I would have been devestated and am thank-ful everyday that is is still around, but could we be doing to much to save those we love now and possibly stting the stage for another huge global natural disaster to thin out our population?  Earthqukes, typhoons, hurricanes and torrnadoes seem to be getting more and more distructive and volcanoes around the world are starting to again errupt.  I am not saying this is the end of the world comming but maybe just nature trying to restore some balance and ease the burden cause by mankind.

   Just something to think about

In peace and happiness

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart 

    Time has once again, been my an ally and an enemy.  While I made the choice to to pusue other options for my blogging since my old reliable computer is to slow to effectively use spaces live, time interfered with those plans.  Just as I started to find a rythm that fit into my schedule, time opened up a little and I discovered "Facebook" I then invested my time and energy in finding old friends from school and linking my blog from myspace to it.  Soon  I was overwhelmed with applications, requests, and responses.  My free time for blogging was soon eaten up with buying my friends with owned and building my castle in knighthood.  Time as an ally as I found my friends.  All to quickly though time reared it's enemy head that so often kept me from posting here when my old cpu was faster, and even blogging and resopnding to friends on my space and face book became memories of things I only do once in a while.  What is the lesson?  Value what time you have to do the things you enjoy, or want to do, but also appriciate the time that you may not be doing those things because everything we do is important and has it's own purpose.  We just don't always know the reasons and may never find out.

 

  Hoping you have enough time, and wishing you peace and happiness,

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

 

 

 Stolen from my "myspace" blog (as was the previous)

I think I am either rusty, lazy or just dont see the point of two different blogs always with different info.  Plus I am finding that since I switched to the live version my old computer has issues keeping up.  Oh well enjoy the blog

 

Random thoughts
Current mood: good
Category: Life

Unto us all, we shall have grief and happiness,

Truth, lies and doubt about who and what we are and where we are going.

The answers we seek are not always in plain sight, but sometimes within they are closer than we imagine.

And with one small act of kindness we can selfishly make ourself feel better while doing the same for another.

Pay attention to the little details that go on in and around your life and the small kind acts you preform and ssoon you will see that your life has a grander meaning.  Maybe not exactly to you but in some lucky strangers life who may one day repay you through an act they preformed to someone else.

In Peace and Happiness

The Mystic Warrior:

Mystilodicheart

To become comepletly full, one must first become empty.

        -Loa Tzu

   Although I do follow the toaist teachings to a point, I find as with any religion or phillisophical practice that there are times that maybe the answers aren't to be found in what you are following.  Sometimes one must just let go for a moment and trust what they feel inside and not what they have learnt form others or their experiences.  I have never been a religious man, yet at the same time I have studied a little of many religions.  All have there merits and yet from the outside one can also finfd faluts with each of them. I do not wish to start a huge discussion on wich religion is the "right" one and wich beliefs are wrong for many reasons, including the fact that I am in no way qualified enough to pass a judgement on any of them, and for that matter I also believe that no-one else is.  I do however believe that no matter what we practice or believe or follow, we can at least learn something, if not about the beliefs , but about the people themselves that have different views from us.  One doesn't have to look to deep to see that all of us in this world are very simiilar.  We hurt because of the same things.  We find happiness in similar things, and we sraw our strength from similar places when we are weak.  And if we observe and watch all of this is done without once uttering an ill word towards another or what another follows.  It is only when we focus on the differences in others, what we see as negative intheir lives, beliefs, race that we build the walls that seperate us and try to make ourselves look better than them in the eyes of our friends.  If each and wvwry one of us completly emptied our minds of our own beliefs, and then were able to look at anothers without the predjudice of our own, we would be able to see that their beliefs, although may or may not be quite different, mean to them what ours means to us.  Then if we can fill ourselves up with that knowledge as we refilled ourselves with our own beliefs I think that all of us would have the greater understanding of why we truley are here and where we are going.  Wars don't change minds, wars kill people.  These people are our friends, families, and protectors.  On the other side of the war those people are friends, families and protectors.  Whose job is it to say who or what is right and wrong.  We are all only human and deemed to make mistakes.  All we need is a little more understanding  (on all sides) and I think that the world as a global community can start moviing forward together instead of in fragmented pieces as we have done since the first clan fought another for whatever the reason was.  No one person is any greater than another.  Yet all our lives we try to prove that we are.  Understanding, humillity, love and the courage to admit we may not be totally right or even out right wrong is all we need to better not only ourselves but our global community.  As the "Peaceful Warrior" Dna millman has said, "We are all in this together".

 

So in peace and happiness, and hopefully the ability for us all to understand a little better

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

    "The light is magic daddy", my youngest son said to me as I opened the door to our van one night and the light came on.  In that instant I was taken away from my mortal realm, out of my body and away from the world as we know it.  I became,  for lack of a better word, enlightened.  I was one with everything around me and I had no fear, anger or even happiness.  I just was.  In less time than it took my mind to process all of that, and to realize what had happened, I blinked and was brought back to reality.  I t was litterally only in the blink of an eye that it happened and as soon as it was over I started to forget, and remember.  I started to forget the experience, and remember where I was and who I was.  But that is not what was important.  Niether was the overall experience.  While not everyone has had the chance to free their mind of the earthly burdens we all endure, and some may never do so or realize they have, it is not the experiences we have that are omportant.  Nor is how we have them.  What is important is the lessons we take from all we do.

  The lesson that I took from it however was a reminder to myself that not only is the world full of "magic" from the right point of view,  but it is our children that may hold the answers to a better life for us all.  The world is full of magic and innocence.  As we grow and learn, understand how things work we lose sight and touch of the magic that makes thing happen and our innocence in believeing in this wonderfull magic.  There are explanations for all that we have in the world, but the magic comes from the imagination to create these things we have, and the children that blissfully unaware enjoy life as beautiful, happy biengs, loveing just to love, and being happy because it makes them feel good, not to gain personally from it.  If we all just take a few more moments to observe how children just love life, and see the "magic" that is all around us maybe we can start to change the world into a better place for us all.

 

May you find peace and happiness and a little magic

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart 

      Like the turning of a wheel, continuosly round and round so goes life.  Never stopping and always in motion constantly returning from whence it started.  The seasons change yet always repeat, spring to summer, to fall to winter and back to spring.  Although what happens during the transition may be different in the end it is just a cycle.  We are created from nothingness and everything, we grow and live and change, and eventually die and return to nothingness and everything.  So if we are only to return from where we came why purssue and go on?  So that we can live, enjoy and learn and as we do, try to be as balanced and caring and accepting as we can.  Learning from ours and others mistakes as we go.  The world may be ever changing, but it is the same cycle that has be repeating itself since the dawn of time.  So as the sun rises and sets, always from east to west so shall we all go on.

 

 

     So in peace and happiness, alwayscomming back to you

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

   When I first got internet many years ago, and started surfing and looking around, I signed up for classmates.com in the hopes that I might be able to keep track of some of my old friends from high school.  Now being that I didn't have a lot of money, and sure that  even if I did contact anyone, very few would reply (I had a rather low self esteem then).  I never cancelled my free subscription and once in a while would glance over it just to see who had signed up.  Fast forward a few years to yesterday.  I recieved in my one inbox a notifacation that one of my former class mates left a message for me.  Now this friend of mine was always very bright and always worked hard to get top marks, I admired that but was never anything like that but my friend had a kind soulo back than and if I needed would always help if I asked.  So I replied to the messagewith a very brief update as to my whereabout's and my life now.  I figured that I wouldn't hear from them for a few days.  Upon checking my E-mail this morning I found out I had a reply to that.  My friend has gone on and has a doctorol in neurosceinces and has applied at universiteis and collages across the U.S. and Canada for a proffersor or sceince position.  I would like to send mine and my families congrats to one who proved that hard work is all that is needed to find ones dreams.  Now in reflextion I realize that of those who I have been able to keep track of (and second hand reports of others) have all done what they whished to do.  I now know a sceintist (maybe one day famous) a musician, and actor in Califonia, and one who is working their way up the legal ladder (in an office not behind bars), and then myself who got all he ever wanted with his family and more by being able to write for my own enjoyment and you to read. So we really have come far.  So with that I deciede to restart the Ask Mystilodicheart e-mail account.  My appologies to all of you who did try to write me and I had the wrong address or you found out that I stopped it.  So the address again if you have questions, comments or just wish to say "Hi" is askmystilodicheart@hotmail.com .  Feel free to write.

 

   Peace happiness and hope to hear from you soon

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

You are The Star

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised

The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

    In a recent article I read while waiting for the family to get their hair cut (since mine was done not that long ago I just had to drive), it disscuused the end of the world.  Well the world as we know it, when armagedon strikes and almost all life as we know it perishes.  12/21/2012.  This is based in the maiyan calander (it has been a few days so I may be a little off) but according to all researches and studies they had the most accurate astronomical studies not just for their time but also including ours.  On the date listed above their calander stops counting, no dates follow it.  That is the millenium date according to their old calender.  Now with all the doom-sayers who claimed that the world would end at the millenium,  predictions from psycics, astrologers, and crazy folks happening anywhere from the last  seven years, till fifteen years from now, and looking at the science that says we are either at the begining, or end of an ice age (depends on how , what and who you read studies from) but all claiming that one way or another be it within the next ten to two-thousand years our world will change so drastically we will all die out as the dinosaurs did 86 billion years ago one has to think.....When and who is right.  Before anyone writes ,e off as a nut job for thinking any of this, or on the other end of the scale starts to panic and worry that they only have five years left in their lives let us first think about a few facts of our lives. 

     :We are all going to die one day.  When our time comes, no matter how it happens we all die.

     :As long as we are able to breathe (in theory) we are alive.  Yes some states of life may not be considered much like living but it is still life.

     :Right now you are reading this so you are alive and well so you do not need to worry at tis moment.

     :The only time that matters is not the future, nor the past.  The present moment is truely all there is and the step we are taking at this exact time is all we live.  Be it five years or two-million right now is the only thing that affects us.

 

 

 

   So am I worried about the mass destruction of the entire world as fortold cryptically by phillosephers,psycics, ancient cultures, prophets and crazy's.  Yes because one of them may be right, but at the same time how often has the world been at the zero hour of destruction and the sun set and rose in it's endless cycle withou missing a beat?  One day I will die and hopefully it is at a ripe old age, but if it is not then until then I will live as best as I can, as close to the princeples of both the Toaist beleifs and the Peaceful warrior life, as happy as I can with my friends and family around me. 

 

    So until next time may you find peace and happiness and as little worry about when we may or may not cease to be

The MysticWarrior

Mystilodicheart

    A new acomplishment I have achieved....and at the same time I have a slight immpending sense of..."What have I gotten myself into?" and the first part of a saying, "Best not begin..."

 

    What am I exactly talking about one might ask and I am sure you have.  I am talking about books.  Not just haveing or being in possesion of but actually reading.  Currentley I have four books on the go, plus my copy of the Toa Te Ching which I read a verse or two at least every other day, sometimes daily, and one book in waiting that my wife just finished.  Not to mention the Garfield books that I got for christmas that I haven't finished reading either.  Normally I only read one book at a time but a cosmic shift and change in the natural order of things, along with the proper alignmeht of the sun, stars and moon and the placement of our galaxy has aloud this un-occurable event to take place.........Actually it is because I became a procrastanator, and then snowballed to trying to catch up and then getting two more.  I am not counting any of the books I use for the Lwas of Spirit sections on here since I only need part of a part each time...(Part of a part?  )Any way I have the Chopra book that I started before the Christmas season and hit an impass of time and want to read.  There is the Dan Millman book, "No Ordinary Moments" That I started when I mis-placed the Chopra book after I stopped reading, and then found but became preoccupied with other things beside reading.  So we fast forward past the season of cheer and I am on break at work and wonder into the book store.  After finding nothing of interest in any section I wonder over to the dicount section.  I am instantly drawn to one that reads "The Healing Handbook - A Guide to spiritual healing" by Tara Ward and then right beside it "Mind, Body and Spirit" by Mark Evans.  A few days later and a most generous employee and I have both those in my hands.  I started into the first one instantly, and then opened the cover of the second one.  The first not only clarifies alot of what has been glanced over in various books I have already read, but delves deeper into many other aspects of what I have already been trying to acomplish with my self teaching on my spiritual path.  The Second is filled with natural and homeopathic cures, as well as a detailed section on meditation, Ti Chi and massage.  Then I glanced at the two previous books and realized I was now over my head.  That is when my wife told me she had finished reading a book that I wanted to read as well.  What am I to do?  I don't have the time to practice what I am learning in the one book let alone copy some key points down,  and I am trying to get through four, five with the one I just got....Oy Vey!  Oh well life is full of challanges and everything can only be done one step, or page, or book at a time so I will do what I can as I can.

 

Hoping that your problems are as minor as having to many books on the go and that you find peace and happiness

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

 

P.S.  It may be a little while till I can return to these pages since the two new books are going toneed some actual time to absorb, learn and get through.  And as for the previous blog aboutnot always relying on books...Sometimes they are the only way that one can get the needed info to progress their personal journey.

 

All the best

M. 

    The law of action is exactly what it says it is.  Taking action and doing.  No matter what the intentions, or ideas.  The whishes and hope behind those thoughts and ideas only "doing" leads to comlpletion.  And only in doing do we gain the knowledge and wisdom of our actions.  Only in doing can we fully understand what we have accoplished.  A person can read ten books on how to drive, watch many videos and study another person driving, to learn.  But only in doing does one fully understand all there is to driving.  This same principal applies to all things in life.  Intentions of doing are not enough.  For whatever the process is the final step is always doing in order to bring to completion.  To quit smoking/drinking or any thing one must eventually quit taliking about it and actually "Do" the thing they are talking about.  When going to face a fear one must do what they fear in order to face it.  Words eventually run out of power and steam to carry a goal or deram or hope through so it all does come down to the act of doing and getting done.  On the flip side of that one should also be aware that as with every law there is a kernal of it's opposite and soemtimes the best action to take is to have the couraged or strength to do nothing.  I will go more into that at a later time

 

Until them may you find peace, happiness, and knowledge from all actions you do

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheartl

     Driving to pick my wife up from work this afternoon (we had a fairly large blizzard and I didn't think that she needed to wait for a bus that was going to be late) and listening to the radio it was a discussion about the new apple I-phone started.  Well not really about the              phone but about how we as a society keep developing new and wonderous ways to tune out the world.  In a time when every few weeks somewhere in the world mother nature seems to find a new way to re-enforce her power over all of us, be it the huricanes and tsunami's of the last few years, or the devistating weather currently on Canada's west coast that has uprooted numerous trees in Vancouver' beautiful Stanely park, or the sever blizzard that has just settled in on Alberta and Saskatchewan.  She has kept her thumb over all of us to remind us that she is there.  Now when we think that ancient wisdom says to "listen" to mother Earth and relax and enjot the silence, yet we invent another way to cover it up beneath random noise.  Maybe there is something to this?

 

   I am not syaing that the green house effect isn't at work, nor am I saying that we haven't done damage to the world we live on (maybe even some damage that we may never be able to fix).  What I am saying that maybe if we did take the time to slow down, stop trying to blend out the natural sounds of our world, and listen to ....nothing, nature just natural sounds, we would find that not only do our lives slowly start to balance themselves, but also maybe that nature would slow down and join us. 

       Sure there are many things to help immitate the sounds of nature, fountains, CD's and DVD's that play "nature", but none of them can come close to matching the silence that nature can seem to play full volume above all else when we open our ears to it.  There is peace and stillness in silence. Why do you think that most meditations are done in silence.  Not only does it help us avoid distractions, but it slows us and in the time it slows itself so we can become closer to one.

      So we can buy all our gadgets and toys, carry the latest and greatest entertainment in the palms of our hands let us not forget that all of us need to enjoy the value of nature's natural symphony, full of sound and silence.  Just listen to what you can hear above and beyond the cacaphony of everyday life

 

 

In peace and happiness, and silence

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

As we progress into this new year that has already started off quickly with news that has been enough to shake the world, we all must take a moment to reflect on the less violent and "good, beautiful, things in the world." A new start to a year, a fresh crisp morning air, a new fallen snow or the first emerging clear streets before spring thaw comes.  Find hope and beauty in this glorius, wonderous world we live in.  Not all dark things are bad so enjoy all that you can and know that the in the end all works out for our better.

 

In peace and happiness

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

Well as it is close to christmas and I have a little time while I re-set things on the computer (runs faster and better now but lots left to do) I thought I would share this story with you that I received from my mom and dad earlier today.  Copy it, share it and let as many people as you can become touched by it. 

 

P.S. before you read it, a huge I am sorry for all of you who have been waiting for something new to come from me.  But got one for the holiday season, enjoy in peace happiness and in whichever beleif you have for this season,

The mysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

 

 

 

 

"Gold Wrapping Paper"

I received this from a friend who had a choice to make. It said that I had a choice to make too.

I've chosen. Now it's your turn to choose.

The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her five year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and she became even more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said,
"This is for you, Momma."

The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her anger flared again when she opened
the box and found it was empty. She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner.

"Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something
inside the package?"

She had tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Momma, it's not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full."

The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold
box by her bed for all the years of her life.

Whenever she was discouraged or
faced difficult problems she would open the box
and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have been given a Golden box filled with unconditional love
and kisses from our children, family, friends
and GOD. There is no more precious
possession anyone could hold.

It finally happened, the computer died so now that it is fixed "hopefully" be able to post a new blog soon. 

Peace and happiness and smooth running computers

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart

    Again it has taken time to be able to draw myself back to the computer with enough time to actually write, and this really isn't a problem.  We just returned home from camping with my parents and after the move and unpack we needed the break.  Nothing extrordinary was done or accomplished before during or after the trip, however my eyes seem wider open to certain things.  Most noteably to me was on my last trip to the book store on Saturday.  I recieved gift cards for myt Birthday to use at the book store, and I had delved through the small one in the mall I work in and decieded not to use them there.  I looked in another small one in the mall by our house and almost spent them, but again I haeld off.  A trip out to the second biggest one in the city yeilded the same results as did the trip to the city's largest freestanding one.  Finnally the day after we got back from camping my wife and I headed out to the last one In the city I really wanted to look at before spending my gift cards, and even though I was getting a little excited about the possibility of getting more reading material a sense of dissappointment seemed to linger about me.  After looking around for almost an hour (This was the biggest mall location after all) I had only found three books that really interested me and one that I was slightly curious about (it was about bigfoot and I have always been curious about bigfoot).  I then dragged my willing wife over to see if she couod help me deciede. With her hand in mine I picked up the second book I had found and said this one for sure, and we will get the game we passed at the front (hold it, I said to myself, a game instead of books? oh well) and we turned and then I saw a section I had walked by twice and missed.  I scanned the authors looking to find out if they had something by Dan Millman I hadn't already read.  Great luck they had one, and to my wife's dismay I picked it up to read it.  Then my sense of dissappointment and excitement all vanished and were replaced by a clairity about me.  

    For many months now reading has been more of researching and learning for me, when it used to be made up of novels both fiction and fantasy mixed with a little sci-fi.  I would always throw in a non-fiction one here or there but aver the years slowly it changed balance and about five months ago I realized that most of the series of books I had read or been reading before A): not only didn't hold as much interest for me as before butalso B): were so progressed in their story or had been so long since I last read one I would never be able to follow it.  As for other books there wasn't any interest.  I shelved this in the back of my mind andhadn't thought about it again until we were in the book store my wife and I.  That's when it all became clear as I was thubming through the Dan Millman work that I was feeling less and less like buying.  I used books as a temporary escape from the real world, even if I could find some little life lesson inside (Terry Goodkinds "Sword of Truth" series is filled with little bits of wisdom and a good story comes to mind) and now I was beyond that.  I knew I would still enjoy reading but not for the escape purposes ( I have come along way since alcohol was also my escape).  It would be as an enjoyment occasionally.  Or it would be something to help broaden my mind as much of my last books have been but they also would not become my only source of ideas, wisdom and knowledge, nor would only one author for I realized as I was putting down the book that although yes there were some different things inside of it but the overall was going to be using what I have already learnt and read how to use before.  Maybe when I have travelled a little farther on my journey and will get more out of the hidden meanings and understandings than I can right now I will buy it.  But then again maybe not, for now I will read when I can, what I feel like reading and not rely on books for my knowledge or escape.  A book is more like a sign post on your journey, it can point you towards adventure, or towards understanding, but it can not live your life for you nor you throughit, and unless you actually do what you learn in a book it really is not even a sign post, just a stump for you to rest from your normal routines.  Not that once in a while it's not nice to take the rest, just not always.  As for the book and Game I choose..... The game was Trivial pursuit pop culture 2 dvd (All my usless knowledge and some useful stuff to can get used(not that my wife is thrilled with that idea)) and by Deepak Chopra "The Book of Secrets".   One person cannot have only one teacher their entire life, and life is sometimes the best teacher a person can ever find

 

  Wishing you good reading, peace and Happiness

The MysticWarrior:

Mystilodicheart