Writings
Business and Communication
Chapter 1 – The Lesson of Evil The first step in overcoming the struggles of life and securing a permanent and abiding happiness is to understand and accept that evil is an experience found only in your own heart. Evil is a passing phase and all of your pains, sorrows and misfortunes have come…
Part One – Fundamental Techniques in Handling People Principle 1 – Don’t criticise, condemn or complain Never criticise or blame anyone for anything. People dread condemnation as much as they thirst for approval. People are creatures of emotion not logic. They’re bristling with prejudices and motivated by vanity and pride. Rather than condemning, try to…
Chapter 1 – The Law of Attraction in the Thought World The universe is governed by one great law, the law of attraction in the thought world. When we think we send out vibrations of energy just as real as those of light, heat, sound and electricity. Our thought vibrations have a magnetic power…
Inspirational and Personal Growth
Desiderata – Max Ehrmann (1927) Go quietly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid…
Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus – Selected Extracts Book II 1. Say this to yourself in the morning: Today I shall have to do with meddlers, with the ungrateful, with the insolent, with the crafty, with the envious and the selfish. All these vices have beset them, because they know not what…
Self Reliance What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better…
The Path to Prosperity by James Allen (Audiobook)
Financial Technologies and AI
Written casually on: 18/12/2022 Minus the technicalities I found Chia Blockchain during the height of 2021’s Crypto boom – amongst all of the noise and volatility of the market it stood out as being unique. All of the other ‘crypto assets’ were basically just copies of existing technologies. Isolated because of COVID I found myself…
Understanding ‘Trust-less’ Systems Updated: 09 August, 2021 Note: Written for the average individual. Intention: To help the average individual (normal 9-to-5 people) gain a better understanding of what’s changing in finance and technology (Fintech). An attempt to simplify the complexities of blockchain technology by using plain English and drawing on real world examples. …
The Psychology of Trading Updated: 13 July, 2021 Note: Written for Professional Traders (hence the aggressive undertone). I should have? If only I had? Second only to learning the skills required in analysing price data and trading financial assets, these are undoubtably the hardest things to get your head around: Second guessing yourself Greed…
The Third Blockchain Trend – Data and Bandwidth Updated: 05 April, 2021 Hard to believe that since the last post I wrote on technical price data the entire crypto market grew over 1 trillion US dollars! First the Gamestop issue brought attention to the main issues surrounding centralisation. We first saw an influx of…
Sociology and Change
First published: Epoch (Theosophy in New Zealand April 7, 1912) Unedited Suffering leads to perfections through successive stages of know0lodge 0 not knowledge from books, but knowledge of life – and each step is knowledge means that some form of suffering has been transmuted and transcended. A particular kind of pain experienced innumerable times, at…
Covers: Society and Connection – Observation over admiration – The need for theology, nature’s progression – Concepts of gender: Constraints on identity – A gentleman and a lady: Logic and reason. Well-Being and Understanding – Meditation and medication – Psychotropics and mental health – Merging of the ‘artificial’ and indigenous. Leadership and Diplomacy – Communicating,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the world in ways which most people don’t understand, or make an attempt to understand. It’s having a profound effect on the internet and how we interact with online content and community. I suffer from ADHD attentive type and severe anxiety. For over 10 years I’ve been prescribed high dose…
Creative Works
Undated 2023 (South Australia) – Written in Calligraphy I wake up in the early morning and not a ray of sunlight from above to greet my awakening. Damp and cold – light rain reminding me to remain present, to first focus on my character before continuing. Feeling the itch, facial hair needs to be…
Poem 34: My world differs, comparatives are as unjust as the are inaccurate. I’m different. Standout unless I stay away; paid-in-full with the penalties of a poet, persecuted by expectation. Rob me of a pencil and I’ll write passages in the sand, take my right hand and I’ll learn with what’s left. Gift me with…
(Undated – 2018) In the morning, preferably before first light when it’s quiet and serene, bounce out of be for Holy Meditation. The mind must be awakened from slumber and your thoughts must be silenced. The initial temptation of the day to return to drowsy indulgence must be resisted. Make the morning meditation easier for…
Questions unanswered, remain mysteries in the minds of mankind Diaries of lives, left behind, found in libraries of former times Testimony of history’s holy, none present, all lost in time’s ceaseless rolling Symbols of star, cross and crescent; creeds carrying cultural meaning Be they Sunday sipping red wine and feasting on bread divine or knelling…
A bouquet of ballads brace dawns becoming Quill bearing creatures quell the dull night’s quietude Fauna flurry harmoniously with earth’s flourishing flora Confusion, comprehension of illusion, coalesce slumbers conclusion Illusive images disregarded, dreamers dreary delusions dismissed Dare resist the dominant desire for drowsy indulgence Excessive ease in early hours, an erroneous endeavor Energy, an essential…
Gratitude Poem by Sonnie Abdalla The single often sigh in despair of their solitude, slaves to their ephemeral fruitless fantasies. The wedded occasionally consider the sacrifice of their marital pledge, pondering the opportunities forsaken. Similarly, one of limited means yearn for the acquisition of property while the prosperous remain discontented with their lot. Why do…
Misc
I once had a very analytical friend who was in the habit of picking up litter while riding their road-bike around the neighborhood. At first they drew to themselves very little attention; however, as time progressed it must have become more obvious. One day, while waiting by the Dominoes for a pizza; they’d noticed that…
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north winds waste…
Divine Love is distinguished from human loves in this supremely important particular, it is free from partiality. Human loves cling to a particular object to the exclusion of all else, and when that object is removed, great and deep is the resultant suffering to the one who loves. Divine Love embraces the whole…
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshiper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which…
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