Love is
like a
poisonous
mushroom --
you don't
know if it
is the real thing
until it is too late.
We love to love
in spite of its possible consequences.
The world revolves around love and a good balance
of love of self, love of family, love of a special other,
and love for your fellow man will make life most enjoyable.
Some of us are born with broken pickers, and it appears
to be both hereditary and learned.
If Mom and Dad have been married and divorced multiple
times, the children are likely to do the same.
To break the cycle of broken relationships, try staying out of a
relationship until you learn how to pick healthy mushrooms.
Use a friend, hopefully an expert, to help your pick your mushrooms.
Rely on friends who have survived and grown into a loving
relationship and seek their advice.
Most importantly, when good advice is offered, take it.
"I am... a mushroom;
On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then." ~ John Ford
If you really love someone you would be willing to eat
poisonous mushrooms for them, but if they loved you back,
they would never ask you to.
Have faith, your Higher Power knows that human nature
is to have a man and a woman love, live and grow together
into old age, and he will not abandon you.
If your picker is broken, go to a good place recommended
by the butcher, the baker, the preacher, the rabbi, the teacher,
the Indian chief, or the candlestick maker and start by
choosing to be a friend to one person of the same sex as you.
Talk to your new friend about love and feelings.
Learn that a relationship is a two way street, no hostages allowed.
Have your new friend help you grow your circle of mushrooms.
When you have a circle of love, the poisonous mushrooms will
stand out in the crowd and you can learn not to pick them.
Do not be deceived by appearances, by hidden ulterior motives,
sex, money, things, or any of the other traps that
bad mushrooms use to deceive their intended victim.
Stop picking mushrooms, mushrooms are a fungus that thrive
on the remains of their victims.
Pick your friends among the flowers and the trees
that grow on natures love.
"To love and to be loved
is to feel the sun from both sides." ~ David Viscott
Stay in the sunlight, only mushrooms grow in the dark.
Do not smother your love, let it breath and let it shine.
Love is a peck on the cheek, a squeeze of the hand,
and a quiet "Thank You."
Happiness is helping someone help themselves.
ME and the Boss
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have a
God,
of their
understanding,
that they
worship
on a
regular basis.
The rituals of most who worship a Higher Power include a
request to be forgiven for any wrongdoings.
Wrongdoings are usually evil thoughts and evil actions
which are not of service to self, others or your Higher Power.
Lying, cheating, stealing, character assassination, greed, and
the list goes on, are some of the more common moral errors.
The penalty for not living a moral life or not admitting when you
have made a mistake is to live a life filled with guilt and shame.
A life filled with remorse can never be happy, joyous and free.
"There is no person so severely punished,
as those who subject themselves
to the whip of their own remorse." ~Seneca
You must have faith that a Higher Power will forgive you
of your past moral lapses, if you can forgive yourself.
To forgive yourself you must clean house and let go and let God.
Admit to yourself, to God, and another human being, the
exact nature of your wrongs.
Priest, preacher, teacher, friend, mentor, stranger or anyone
who speaks the same language as you will be a satisfactory
choice to listen to your story. (Notice: No Family)
Pets, the Chinese laundry man, or the Armenian taxi cab driver,
do not qualify unless you speak their language.
To look at ones self and take a honest moral inventory
may seem impossible, what an order.
I can't go through with it, should become,
I must do it.
"It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see." ~Henry David Thoreau
You can do it.
Millions of people do it as a daily,
if not as an every Friday, Saturday or Sunday routine.
If you want your religion to be different, pick a different day.
Most people take their moral inventories and make them a part of their prayers.
"Repentance is accepted remorse." ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
Clean up the wreckage of the past and learn to live in today.
Could have done, would have done and should have done,
are not islands that need to be visited if you want a happy vacation.
Ask your Higher Power or a friend and they will gladly
provide you with a boat to get you off those deserted islands.
Staying close to the will and the course of your Higher Power
is the best advice to avoid being lost at sea.
Today, may your ship be blessed so that you will not
run aground on any hidden immoral reefs and sand bars.
Today, may your course be a smooth sail towards your happy destiny.
Happiness is helping someone help themselves.
ME and the Boss
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