Maxim #207: choosing Friends
Conventional wisdom tells us to “Be slow in choosing a friend, and much slower in exchanging her”, and yet the Soul knows that a true Friend is chosen immediately & completely — and never ever traded …
Maxim #208: on danger & deLight
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Danger & delight grow on the same stalk”, and yet the Soul knows a very different Truth — that it is transcending our apparent dangers (not removing or avoiding them) that is our only true Delight …
Maxim #209: laughing longer
Conventional wisdom tells us that “He who laughs last laughs longest”, and yet the Soul knows that he who laughs at others cannot Know true Happiness at all …
Maxim #210: the path to Here
Conventional wisdom tells us that “To wait for luck is to wait for death”, and yet the Soul knows that — whether we are hoping for good fortune or worrying over potential downfall — it is waiting itself that is our ultimate demise …
Maxim #211: our only dis-ease
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Often the cure is worse than the disease”, and yet the Soul knows that it is the yearning for cures that underlies all our dis-ease … (pictured: Howie & Laurel Borowick … 34 years married; both diagnosed with terminal cancer)
Maxim #212: no tarry, no toil
Conventional wisdom tells us to “Follow the river to get to the sea”, and yet the Soul knows that the river and the sea are actually One — and that applying this Truth to everyday living allows all our struggles to fade into the mist …
Maxim #213: Living on Time
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Things done at the wrong time remain undone”, and yet the Soul know that anything that needs to be done “on time” is exactly the thing we needn’t be doing …
Maxim #214: the smile that returns
Conventional wisdom tells us that “The smiles we beam to others are the ones that return to us”, and yet the Soul knows that the only smile we ever truly receive IS exactly the same one we freely give away …
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