Amor de Gurú.
"...Siento una alegría infinita al dirigirme a vosotros. Un no sé qué, que me hace olvidar cuanto me rodea. Quiero adentrarme más y más, en un ABISMO cuyo límite desconozco. Pero es un abismo de Luz, de Gozo, de Bienaventuranza, de Paz, de Amor.
Entro en mí mismo. Yo siento a cada uno de vosotros, mis queridos estudiantes, a cada uno de vosotros distintamente y a todos al mismo tiempo. Yo os veo tan cerca, tan cerca; tan unidos a mí que no sé: si soy yo mismo en cada uno de vosotros, o vosotros en mí.
Mi espíritu se hace grande, muy grande; adquiere contornos de infinito. Hay una fuerza secreta, tremendamente poderosa que me une a cada uno de vosotros y me encadena. Pero no con esas cadenas que significan esclavitud, sino con esas cadenas que hacen verdaderamente libres: las del AMOR. Pero de ese amor que viene de Él, del Bendito Dios, de su Bendito Hijo, de su Santa Vibración Omnisciente y Omnipresente que nos da la conciencia para saborear el gozo inefable de nuestra comunión con Él.
A Él, le pido para cada uno de vosotros sin excepción. Para los que estáis más adelante en el sendero, para los que recién habéis comenzado. Para los débiles, para los turbados, para los inquietos, para los atormentados, para los tristes, para los enfermos, en fin para todos, una ESPECIAL BENDICIÓN. Especialísima bendición como la que descendió la Noche aquella de la Venida al mundo del mismo Hijo de Dios..." Padre CÉSAR A. DÁVILA G.

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La felicidad depende de ti.
El concepto de felicidad es muy diferente de unas personas a otras y
aunque hay cosas y sensaciones que pueden ser comunes, los gozos de
unos pueden ser la pesadilla de otros; así, el escalador es feliz
arriesgando su vida para vencer a la montaña, mientras que una persona
normal sentiría pánico por verse expuesta a esos riesgos. Algunas
personas son felices llevando una vida tranquila y segura, mientras
otras se mueren de aburrimiento si no hay en su vida cambios,
novedades y fuertes excitaciones. La felicidad depende más de lo que
ocurre dentro que de lo que nos sucede fuera; de las ideas que tenemos
sobre nosotros mismos y sobre la vida. Como dice Nathaniel Hawthorne:
"La felicidad es una mariposa que sale volando cuando la persigues,
pero que puede posarse a tu lado, si te sientas tranquilamente a
mirar."
Anónimo.

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El camino para el amor
Sólo cuando estás bien contigo mismo puedes estar bien con los demás. Sólo cuando aprendes a vivir en soledad puedes vivir una relación. Necesitas valorarte para valorar, quererte para querer, respetarte para respetar y aceptarte para aceptar, ya que nadie puede dar lo que no tiene dentro de sí. Ninguna relación te dará la paz que tú no tengas en tu interior. Ninguna relación te brindará felicidad que tú no construyas. Sólo podrás ser feliz con otra persona cuando seas capaz de decirle... no te necesito para ser feliz. Sólo podemos amar y recibir amor, si somos personas autónomas que no necesitan manipular ni controlar a los demás para sentir que aman o son amadas. Sólo se puede ser feliz cuando dos personas felices se unen para compartir su felicidad, no para intentar hacerse felices la una a la otra.
Anónimo.

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Amar no es fácil
Si amar fuera fácil... No habría tanta gente amando mal, ni tanta gente mal amada. Si amar fuera fácil... No habría hambre, ni guerras, ni gente sin apellido. Si amar fuera fácil... No habría niños solos en las calles, no habría orfanatos, hijos no deseados, ni esposas maltratadas, ni prostitutas, ni divorcios. Si amar fuera fácil... No habría policías, ni cárceles, ni ejércitos. Que difícil nos resulta amar, en parte porque pensamos que amar es un sentimiento sobre el cual no tenemos control. Pero eso no es así, amar es una decisión personal. Una decisión a la que se va añadiendo sentimientos, pero que nunca depende de ellos. Jesús, la persona que más auténtica y redicalmente ha amado, nos indica que en nuestro corazón no debe de quedar ningún rincón donde el odio, el egoísmo y el desamor puedan anidar. De hecho nos animó y desafió incluso a amar a nuestros enemigos. ¿Estás listo para este nivel de amor?
Anónimo.

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¡No te rindas, amigo!
No te rindas, aún estás a tiempo de abrazar la vida y comenzar de nuevo, aceptar tu sombra, liberar el lastre y retomar el vuelo. No te rindas, que la vida es eso, continuar el viaje, perseguir tus sueños, abrir las esclusas, destrabar el tiempo, correr los escombros y destapar el cielo. No te rindas, por favor, no cedas, aunque el frio queme, aunque el miedo muerda, aunque el sol se ponga y se acalle el viento, aún hay fuego en tu alma, aún hay vida en tu seno. Porque la vida es tuya y tuyo también el deseo, porque lo has querido y porque yo te quiero, porque existe el vino y el amor es cierto, porque no hay herida que no cure el tiempo.
Abrir las puertas, quitar los cerrojos, bajar el puente y cruzar el foso, abandonar las murallas que te protegieron, volver a la vida y aceptar el reto.
Recuperar la risa, ensayar un canto, bajar la guardia y extender las manos, desplegar las alas e intentar de nuevo, celebrar a vida, remontar los cielos.
Porque cada día es un comienzo nuevo, porque esta es la hora y el mejor momento, porque tienes alas y puedes hacerlo, porque no estás solo y porque yo te quiero.
Anónimo.

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I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends!


1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE...

1. Do we know each other outside of L-J?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you re-post this so i can fill it out for you?

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Religions
Comparative analysis of world religious philosophies

Taoism......................Shit happens
Confucianism...............Confucius say "Shit happens"
Buddhism...................If shit happens, it isn't really shit
Zen..........................What is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism...................This shit happened before
Islam........................If shit happens, it is the will of Allah
Protestant..................If shit happens to me, it's because I didn't work hard enough
Catholic....................If shit happens, you deserve it
Judaism.....................Why does this shit always happen to us?
Atheist.....................Shit happens for no apparent reason
Jehovah Witnesses.....Let us in, and we'll tell you why shit happens
Scientologist...............Feces occur
Hare Krishna................Shit happens shit happens shit shit happens
Pagan.......................Shit is part of the goddess, too!
Rastafarian.............Let's smoke this shit.

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Happiness
"I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth, and its glittering dreams. But I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled for better, for comfort and for use, than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling discontented people. I know those miserable fellows, and I hate them, who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith. But power dwells with cheerfulness; hope puts us in a working mood, whilst despair is no muse, and untunes the active powers. A man should make life and nature happier to us, or he had better never been born.''
Emerson

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Samadhi
Vanished the veils of light and shade,
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,
Gone the dim sensory mirage.

Love, hate, health, disease, life, death:
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.

The storm of maya still
By magic wand of intuition deep.
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I everywhere.

Planets, starts, stardust, earth,
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,
Creation's molding furnace,
Glaciers of silent X-rays, burning electron floods,
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,
Each particle of universal dust,
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,
I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being.

Smoldering joy, off-puffed by meditation
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.

Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever-new peace.
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!

Not an unconscious state
Or mental chloroform without willful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in Me.

Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid!
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
Aum blows upon vapors, opening wondrously their veils,
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,
Till, at the last sound of the cosmic drum,
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays
Of all-pervading bliss.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Ocean of mind, I drink all creation's waves.
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.

I, in everything, enter the great Myself.
Gone forever: fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory;
Spotless in my mental sky--below, ahead, and high above;
Eternity and I, one united ray.
A tiny bubble of laughter, I
Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself.

Paramahansa Yogananda.

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Vida
La vida es una fiesta que nos ofrece diferentes ritmos para ser bailados y
sentir así que todos los momentos buenos o malos los hemos asumido y gozado.

Hay días en que la melodía nos lleva a hacer derroche de alegría, marcar los
pasos que damos con energía, bailando sueltos o agarrados, sintiéndonos
confiados; contagiando de ritmo a todo el que está a nuestro lado. Otras veces
la música nos llena de melancolía y escuchando la canción que nos toca el alma,
hasta lloramos; ahí preferimos bailar abrazados, para no sentir miedo de caer,
ni experimentar soledad en esos momentos que estamos pasando.

Hay que tener presente que esta canción no es eterna, tarde que temprano llega
a su final, y en la fiesta de la vida, cuando menos lo pensemos, otro ritmo
diferente nos va a sonar.

Hay sonatas que nos llevan a reflexionar, nos motivan a encontrarnos con
nosotros mismos, para conocernos más; hay otras canciones que sintonizamos para
huir de la realidad; son demasiado estruendosas y aunque quizás no entendemos
lo que traducen, no nos deja escuchar todo aquello que nos duele y nos ha de
atormentar.

En cualquiera de estas tandas o etapas de la fiesta, quizás por perder el ritmo
o dejarnos llevar por la emoción, podemos dar un mal paso y caer; pisar a quien
está a nuestro lado o bailar descoordinado, asumiendo un ritmo diferente, al
que la vida nos quiere tocar, sintiéndonos perdidos y prefiriendo muchas veces
mejor renunciar y dejar de bailar; sentarnos a ver como lo hacen los demás,
para criticarlos, reírnos de ellos o simplemente aburrirnos y no darnos la
oportunidad de gozar; cuando esto pase, lo mejor
que podemos hacer, es detenernos un segundo, respirar profundamente y empezar a
bailar otra vez, para intentar coger el ritmo y no dejarnos perder.

Muchas veces decimos que la fiesta estuvo mala porque no supimos o no quisimos
bailar, no pareciera que estamos celebrando la vida, sino siendo testigos de
nuestro propio sepelio, aunque seamos concientes de que el corazón nos está
latiendo.

No es la fiesta, ni la música, ni lo que nos brinden en cada lugar, lo que hará
que la pasemos bien o mal.somos nosotros quien le ponemos el ánimo que le
queramos dar. por ello simplemente hay que lanzarnos a la pista y bailar con
alma, vida y corazón, el ritmo y la canción que nos regalará la vida hoy.

Anónimo.

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I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

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http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp
You entered: 6/19/1968

Your date of conception was on or about 27 September 1967 which was a Wednesday.

You were born on a Wednesday
under the astrological sign Gemini.
Your Life path number is 4.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 6 & 7.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 3, 5 & 9.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2440026.5.
The golden number for 1968 is 12.
The epact number for 1968 is 0.
The year 1968 was a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/30/1968 and ending 2/16/1969.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 14 April 1968.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 21 April 1968.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 28 February 1968.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 2 June 1968.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 9 June 1968.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Monday, 23 September 1968.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Saturday, 13 April 1968.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 27 February 1968.( Read more...Collapse )

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http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp
You entered: Your full name

There are 25 letters in your name.
Those 25 letters total to 104
There are 12 vowels and 13 consonants in your name.

Your number is: 5

The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.

The expression or destiny for #5:
The number 5 Expression endows with the wonderful characteristic of multi-talents and versatility. You can do so many things well. The tone of the number 5 is constructive freedom, and in your drive to attain this freedom, you will likely be the master of adaptability and change. You are good at presenting ideas and knowing how to approach people to get what you want. Naturally, this gives you an edge in any sort of selling game and spells easy success when it comes to working with people in most jobs. Your popularity may lead you toward some form of entertainment or amusement. Whatever you do, you are clever, analytical, and a very quick thinker.

If there is too much of the 5 energy in your makeup, you may express some the negative attitudes of the number. Your restless and impatient attitude may keep you from staying with any project for too long. Sometimes you can be rather erratic and scatter yourself and your energies. You have a hard time keeping regular office hours and maintaining any sort of a routine. You tend to react strongly if you sense that your freedom of speech or action is being impaired or restricted in any way. As clever as you are, you may have a tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again because much of your response is glib reaction rather that thoughtful application. You are in a continuous state of flux brought by constantly changing interests.

Your Soul Urge number is: 1

A Soul Urge number of 1 means:
Your Soul Urge is the number 1. With a Soul Urge number of 1, you want to lead and direct, to work independent of supervision, by yourself or with subordinates. You take pride in your abilities and want to be recognized for them. You may seek opportunities to display your strength and usefulness, wanting to create and originate. In your desire to manage the big picture and the main issues, you may often leave the details to others.

The positive 1 Soul Urge is Ambitious and determined, a leader seeking opportunities. There is a great deal of honesty and loyalty in this character. If you possess positive 1 Soul Urge qualities, you are very attainment oriented and driven to success. You are a loyal friend and strictly fair in your business dealings.

The negative side of the 1 Soul Urge must be avoided. A negative 1 is apt to dominate situations and people; the home, the spouse, the family and the business. Emotions aren't strong in this nature. If you possess an excess of 1 energy, you may, at times, be boastful and egotistic. You must avoid being too critical and impatient of trifles. The great need of the 1 Soul Urge is the development of friendliness, and a sincere interest in people.

Your Inner Dream number is: 4

An Inner Dream number of 4 means:
You dream of being a very solid citizen that people can depend upon. You strive for organization and predictable order. You want to be recognized as a person with a plan and the discipline to make that plan work like clockwork.

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Worship
If by bathing daily God could be realized
Sooner would I be a whale in the deep;
If by eating roots and fruits He could be known
Gladly would I choose the form of a goat;
If the counting of rosaries uncovered Him
I would say my prayers on mammoth beads;
If bowing before stone images unveiled Him
A flinty mountain I would humbly worship;
If by drinking milk the Lord could be imbibed
Many calves and children would know Him;
If abandoning one's wife could summon God
Would not thousands be eunuchs?
Yogi knows that to find the Divine One
The only indispensable is Love.

Mirabai.

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América
¿ Soy bueno o Soy malo ?

Hace un cuarto de siglo, quise viajar a los Estados Unidos
por primera vez. Fui al consulado, pedí la visa. El formulario
preguntaba, entre otras cosas: ¿Se propone usted asesinar al presidente de los
Estados Unidos de América? Yo era tan modesto que ni siquiera me proponía
asesinar al Presidente del Uruguay; pero respondí: sí.

Estaba seguro de que la pregunta era una broma, inspirada por mis
maestros Ambrose Bierce y Mark Twain. El consulado me negó la visa. Mi
respuesta era una mala respuesta. Yo no había entendido.Y han pasado los
años y, la verdad sea dicha, sigo sin entender. Discúlpenme ustedes, por
favor. Estoy confundiendo esta convención de libreros norteamericanos
con un confesionario de mi infancia católica.

Pero, ¿ante quien podría confesarse un escritor, mejor que ante un
librero? Y para muchos pecados, ¿no se requieren acaso muchos libreros?
Cada mañana, para empezar el día, desayuno noticias. En los diarios leo,
por ejemplo, los frecuentes escándalos que acosan a los candidatos
presidenciales.

Y confieso que no consigo entender por que los políticos
norteamericanos son malos si tiene amores con bellas mujeres inofensivas, y en cambio
son buenos si tienen amores con las grandes empresas que venden armas o
veneno.

O leo sobre el envío de militares norteamericanos para luchar contra
las plantaciones de droga en América Latina.

Y no hay caso, no me entra en la cabeza por que son malos los países
que producen drogas, y malas las personas que consumen drogas, y en
cambio es bueno el modo de vida que genera la necesidad de consumirlas.

En las páginas de economía, leo que los Estados Unidos han importando
35.292 corpiños mexicanos durante 1991. Ni un corpiño mas, porque a
35.292 llegaba la cuota de corpiños autorizada por el gobierno y entonces,
ni modo: no entiendo por que las barreras proteccionistas y los
subsidios son buenos en los Estados Unidos, y en cambio son malos en América
Latina.

Neblinas del Bien y el Mal.

En la prensa norteamericana veo los avisos que exhortan a comprar
productos nacionales, Buy american!, y entonces tampoco entiendo por que son
malos los productos japoneses que invaden el mercado norteamericano, y
en cambio son buenos los productos norteamericanos que invaden América
Latina.

Y no solo los productos :
Imaginemos que los marines de México invaden Los Ángeles, para proteger
a los mexicanos amenazados por los reciente disturbios. ¿Bueno o malo?
Y hasta me pregunto : ¿Y yo mismo? ¿Soy bueno, yo? ¿O soy malo? Me
atormentan las dudas sobre mi identidad : dudas muy de nosotros, los
escritores, bien lo sé. Para nadie es un misterio que los escritores tenemos
el alma condenada al infierno de la angustia incesante : en el centro
de ese hervidero, nuevas dudas responden a cada certeza y nuevas
preguntas responden a cada pregunta. Pero mi angustia se multiplica en este
fin de siglo, fin de milenio, porque yo también se que los Estados Unidos
andan en busca de nuevos malos que combatir.

Nostalgias del Imperio del Mal: allá en el Este, los malos se han
convertido en buenos, y el resto del mundo esta siendo dramáticamente
incapaz de producir los malos que el mercado militar demanda con urgencia.

Yo todavía no entiendo por que eran malos los soldados de Irak cuando
se apoderaban de Kuwait, y en cambio eran buenos los marines cuando se
apoderaban de Granada o Panamá; pero hay que tener en cuenta que Saddam
Hussein, que fue bueno hasta fines de 1990, viene siendo malo desde
principios de 1991.

Evidentemente, un solo malo no alcanza. Siempre se puede echar mano a
los malos de larga duración, como Muammar Khaddafi o Fidel Castro; pero
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Questions
Courtesy of mykinmissouri

I must keep my word(s)
Hey...
If you leave comment requesting a quick analysis, then I will respond to you about the following...

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.

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Ronald Reagan & Astrology
Courtesy of http://evil-genius.livejournal.com/evil_genius

Astrology worked great for Ronald Reagan:

1. When he was getting shot by John Hinckley. I wonder what his horoscope was that day???

2. It worked great when he was sending Oliver north to sell arms to Iran, and then give the money to Nicaraguan rebels (Which caused Reagan to suffered a greater one-month plunge in public support (from 67 to 46 per cent) than any president before or since.)

3.Astrology surely allowed Reagan to see the effects slashing the social safety net would cause. Reagan cuts in social spending exacerbated a policy of intentionally raising the unemployment rate. The result was a huge surge in poverty. With homelessness skyrocketing, Reagan defended his administration's record: "One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice."

4. Good thing the Gipper's tarot cards came up right or we could all be living in a glass floored self lighting parking lot. Taking the world to the brink of nuclear war. Reagan's supposed contribution to the downfall of the Soviet Union was a military spending contest that drove the USSR into economic collapse. Neglected in most present-day reminiscences is that this military spending spree nearly started a nuclear war. Development and deployment of a host of nuclear missiles, initiating Star Wars, acceleration of the arms race -- these led the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move its Doomsday Clock in 1984 to three minutes to midnight.

5. I guess his astrologer must have told him targeted tax cut for the rich were a good idea. The 1981 tax cut was one of the largest in U.S. history and heavily targeted toward the rich, with major declines in tax rates for upper-income groups. The tax break helped widen income and wealth inequality gaps. As David Stockman admitted, one of its other intended effects was to starve the government of funds, so as to justify cuts in government spending (for the poor -- the cash crunch didn't restrain government spending on corporate welfare).

6. Firing striking air traffic controllers. Reagan's decision to fire 1,800 striking air traffic controller early in his term sent a message that employers could act against striking or organizing workers with virtual impunity.

7. Deregulating the Savings & Loan industry, paving the way for an industry meltdown and subsequent bailout that cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.

8. Perpetrating a bloody war in Central America. The Reagan-directed wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua submerged Central America in a climate of terror and fear, took tens of thousands of lives, destroyed a democratic experiment in Nicaragua, and entrenched narrow elites who continue to repress the poor majorities in the region.

9. Embracing South Africa's apartheid regime (Said Reagan in 1981, "Can we abandon this country [South Africa] that has stood beside us in every war we've ever fought?" He followed up in 1985 with, "They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country.") and dictators worldwide, from Argentina to Korea, Chile to the Philippines.

10. Undermining health, safety and environmental regulation. Reagan decreed such rules must be subjected to regulatory impact analysis -- corporate-biased cost-benefit analysis, carried out by the Office of Management and Budget. The result: countless positive regulations discarded or revised based on pseudo-scientific conclusions that the cost to corporations would be greater than the public benefit.

11. Slashing the Environmental Protection Agency budget in half, and installing Anne Gorsuch Burford to oversee the dismantling of the agency and ensure weak enforcement of environmental rules.

12. Enabling a corporate merger frenzy. The administration effectively re-wrote antitrust laws and oversaw what at the time was an unprecedented merger trend. "There is nothing written in the sky that says the world would not be a perfectly satisfactory place if there were only 100 companies, provided that each had 1 percent of every product and service market," said Reagan's antitrust enforcement chief William Baxter.

13. Kick-starting the era of structural adjustment. It was under Reagan administration influence that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank began widely imposing the policy package known as structural adjustment -- featuring deregulation, privatization, emphasis on exports, cuts in social spending -- that has plunged country after country in the developing world into economic destitution. The IMF chief at the time was honest about what was to come, saying in 1981 that, for low-income countries, "adjustment is particularly costly in human terms."

14. Silence on the AIDS epidemic. Reagan didn't mention AIDS publicly until 1987, by which point AIDS had killed 19,000 in the United States. While the public health service advocated aggressive education on prevention, Reagan moralists like Secretary of Education Bill Bennett insisted on confining prevention messages to abstinence.

Reagan was a disaster of a president. The American people as a group are perhaps the worst judge of character in all of recorded history. They re-elected George W. bush for pete's sake.
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Fortify your will & everything would be simple.
The greatest sin is to lie. You can trust a drunker or even a whore, but a liar. Lying is the darkest of sins.

Never look for your neighbors' failures nor criticize them. That is dangerous for yourself. By thinking about sins of everybody, those evil will be recorded on your mind, and that will destroy your goodness.

Play with God, sing its glory, enjoy its game! Why do you criticize other people? Be freely together with everybody. Be happy with them. Don't speak without self control. Only one with a selfish heart is busy finding sins on others.

Keep yourself pure and go ahead following your own goals. Learn how to see goodness on others. If a person has something good, then help him/her to culture it. Honor everybody.

Do the above, and your sympathy for everybody will grow. Whoever honors everybody, he/she will be honored as well. Never despise nor neglect any mate. Give them your love as you love yourself and always help them to get goodness.

Persons are made of goodness and evil. It's easy to see evil on others, but a saint is who doesn't care sins of others, instead he/she helps them to get holiness.

You should be calm, gentle, humble, and speaking with tenderness. Goodness and purity have to flow in every word you said, in every act you made/did, and through your behavior and all your movements.

What is chastity? Be always veracious. Control yourself. Check your speaking. Never envy anybody. The heart has to be purified. The world is full of traps/tricks. Keep your guard on every little desire from your mind, and control them. Fortify your will, and everything would be simple.

Swami Brahmananda.

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