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There are those who understand certain things are not to be touched. Then there are those who insist on getting their grubby finger prints all over my computer screen when pointing at the images.

Say only the truth and whatever you say will come true.

Government officials should be humble, efficient administrators who serve the public - not all-powerful leaders. We are mature enough to lead ourselves.

Arrogance and meekness are at either ends of the arc described by one swinging pendulum.

The more you can slow down and enjoy eating wholesome food, the less you will try to find enjoyment snacking on junk food.

Fussy parents stifle
the joyous swagger of their children.
Let your children get messy. 
Let them make their mistakes.
Don’t doom them to a life of worry.
Let the children play.

If you practice Magic with goodness and devotion, you will become Magic.

Mystic Pete, 2/06
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Today’s topic: O B S E S S I O N!!!

Face It
Baboons are obsessed with bright red, swollen rear ends. Good thing we have evolved beyond such primitive behavior. Our obsession with pretty faces is far more sophisticated.

Like rewinding and re-watching the same confusing section of a DVD, our psyche loops over and over the places where it is perplexed, the places where it is in pain - to try to understand, to try to find relief. So routine is this repeated viewing, it becomes a forgotten presence. A numbing trance descends. Thus, obsession is born. What section of your life do you keep replaying?

Obsession evolved as a learning technique to help animals understand a complex and, at times, overwhelming world. That crude method is obsolete. We have better learning technology.

Want to know how much obsession there is in this world? Go to the ocean and look at the water. That’s how much.

Make peace with obsession. For God’s sake, it’s everywhere - sex, money, addiction, appearance, accomplishment, status, etc., etc., etc. OK, now expel it from your life.

Art is the opposite of obsession - creative, not habitual action. The former flows from inspiration, the latter, predictability.

Obsession simulates companionship. Even if it is a sham, some prefer it to the sharp icicles of loneliness.

Obsession leads to arrogance. Assuming an attitude of superiority protects the ego when it can’t obtain the object of its obsession.

Copyright 2/06, Mystic Pete
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You’re nobody until somebody who’s somebody says you’re somebody.

Music can only enter into silence.

I think we should put musicians in charge of the country and make all the politicians wait tables. The trains may not run on time, but life will be a hell of a lot more fun.

The real question is, “Why do good things happen to bad people?”

You find evidence that your Path is a crooked one. Enter: existential crisis. Years of your life have been wasted. Do you let Pride goad you into continuing your wrongful ways? After all, you have condemned others for not following your path. Or do you say to yourself, “I made a mistake - perhaps a profound one. Who would have thought, just like everyone else, I too am human.”

Mother; don’t smother.

Drinking the juice from inside pepperoncinis is reputed to impart great spiritual blessing.

Copyright 2/06, Mystic Pete
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Spoken properly, just one word can destroy a teenager of the opposite sex: “eech.”

We didn’t fall in love until … the first time we met.

Balance between Yin and Yang, feminine and masculine, is found at the boundary line between the two.

Forgive yourself for hating your Self. What horrible thing did you do to make you think you deserved such punishment?

Sex and self hatred: everyone has a story with these two characters.

Self-hatred: a senseless act of violence.

The left side of your heart hates the right side for being a poor protector and provider. The right side of your heart hates the left side for not being more loving and supportive. Can either side see past its own hurt and offer an apology? Like man and wife, only when your heart is One, and filled with love, can it effectively support life.

Do you measure your self worth by how much other people like you?

The “Whether to Get Into a Relationship” Test:
Would you still care about that person if they lost their physical attractiveness?

“The experience of war makes one feel like they don’t want war no more.” - Bruno Beine, as a child, survived the bombing of Hamburg, Germany during World War II

There’s love in The Haight.

Copyright 2/06, Mystic Pete
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SEX, SEX, SEX

New S and M Trade Union: The Spank and File Workers of America

What’s a big thing when you don’t have it and small thing when you do have it? Sex

Can good sex make up for a bad personality? Perhaps if it’s really, really, really good sex.

When you don’t have sex for awhile, it becomes a great myth. It turns into the Holy Grail. You commence a desperate search - which just makes it harder to find.

Sex is great and wonderful and important, yet it never has and will never provide the big answers to life. It always ends up being … well, sex.

Imagine the one you are obsessing about is at the bottom of a hill of better mates.

“Sex as a substitute for intimacy” - lecture by Dr. Doofus

We ping pong between sexual obsession and sexual revulsion. Such emotional swings suits the mating habits of wild baboons just fine, but doesn’t dignify the human species. There is a middle way, a balanced way: Universal love bounded by deep respect.

Note to women: you don’t need to tell us how beautiful your breasts looked years ago; then adding a detailed description. They look wonderful right now just the way they are.

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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My house isn’t actually messy, it just looks messy.

Homelessness shames us doubly, for we allow it in a world of plenty.

It sure is miserable to be sick. Being homeless, sleeping in filth, in the cold, and being sick, is about as miserable as it gets. How can we allow this great sorrow in our thriving cities?

Acting rightfully even when nobody else knows is the hallmark of spiritual maturity.

Sue someone. You may as well point a gun at their head. Don’t expect much courtesy from them thereinafter.

Handle conflicts graciously and confidentially. Don’t force your adversary to surrender their dignity. “Saving face” is often more important than equity.

The most painful wound is the bloodless one in your heart.

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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GOD AND GODDESS

The God: Birth and Death Cycle

1) Insecurity: we feel vulnerable and needy.
2) Dependence: we seek His protection and support.
3) Enslavement: we accept His demand for servitude in exchange.
4) Rebellion: in time, we revolt against His domination.
5) Chaos: without His protection and support, life becomes disordered.
6) Start over.

Stopping This Wheel of Karma:
Seek Him not in another, and not externally. Rather, find His support and protection inside of your self.

The Goddess: Birth and Death Cycle

1) Worship: we yearn for Her limitless love and beauty.
2) Objectify and Obsess: love and beauty are not experienced internally and we seek Her outside of our self. She appears to be an external object. We crave Her and get desperate.
3) Possession: we try to confine Her because She seems scarce - only “out there.”
4) Annihilate: in our quest to forcefully unite with Her we abuse and ultimately destroy Her.
5) Lamentation: we are shattered by the loss of love and beauty and mourn Her.
6) Start over.

Stopping This Wheel of Karma:
Seek Her not in another, and not externally. Rather, find Her love, beauty, pleasure, art and wisdom inside of your self.

[Note: try substituting all of the capitalized pronouns (She/Her, He/Him) with she/her, he/him and I/me/my]

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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This primate thing is getting old. I am tired of being a clever, hairless monkey. Ready for the Wings.

Power is never given. Power must be taken.

The gentle folk of this world have for too long been under attack. That’s over. Don’t mess with us anymore.

Suffering is a tool that the Almighty uses to spur animals to evolve. Not a nice procedure. Couldn’t there have been another way? What was God thinking?

Suffering is a cosmic aberration confined to our small section of reality.

Compassion is the goal of this school of learning called Earth. Suffering is the teaching method used to show us the consequences of not being compassionate. Graduates of the program demonstrate their spiritual maturity by treating everyone (including self) with kindness and respect. Thus, suffering will end when we take the initiative ourselves to be compassionate. Then we will no longer need such a forceful technique to learn rightful action and it will be dropped from the curriculum.

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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Sushi. Raw fish. For the prices you pay, they could at least throw it on the grill for a minute.

The money and power balance has to be right for any relationship to be right.

Sexual, financial and political abuse by persons in authority shames those who do it and shames our entire species. This behavior will no longer be tolerated.

Requiring clergy to be celibate is just plain stupid. Humans are way too sexual. If sex can’t be expressed in a straightforward manner it gets hidden behind the alter with those who won’t tell: children.

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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Overheard today, “He’d be perfect - if only he were different.”

Give your heart only to those who will treat it very carefully.

We are all compassionate beings. The only reason we allow suffering and poverty in a world of solutions and resources, is our deafness to the cries of those in pain. The problem is not a lack of caring, it is a lack of hearing.

A beautiful face does not mean a beautiful heart.

Talk nicely to yourself.

On the top of the “Not New, But Still Potent Techniques For Self Empowerment” list: Ask yourself, “What am I feeling right now?” Then, let yourself really feel it.

5 simple words could solve all the misunderstandings between individuals and between nations: “Let’s hear from you now.” Say these words often and listen carefully to the response. They are the key to harmonious relations and the cornerstone of democracy and justice.

Questionable advice: “Have sex with every person who wants to have sex with you. Think of their needs.”

Copyright 1/06, Mystic Pete
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