The purpose of The Reality Creation Project is to change the world for the better by changing ourselves for the better. How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality. Therefore, it is important to challenge our old beliefs of who we are and what reality is because how we see ourselves, and the world around us, determines how we treat ourselves and one another.
There is nothing we have to do – only what we want to do. Take what you like and leave the rest.
What’s going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? As citizens of a democracy, these are questions we need to filter our decisions through, politicians especially.
A “competitive” public option does not go far enough to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare for everyone. Single Payer Healthcare is the only way to accomplish this goal. We cannot let leaders in Congress and private healthcare corporations control the narrative. America is being torn apart by the forces of separation, selfishness, fear and greed. In effect, government controls the poor and serves the rich. This is why, to many Americans, the word “government” is a bad word and why it can be used against us so effectively to stop meaningful change.
Government IS bad when it uses public money to benefit the few and oppress the many! To keep government from effectively serving all the people, wealthy and powerful insiders insist on privately funding political campaigns so they can exercise control over politicians and the legislation they write. It doesn’t help that corporations have been given the status of personhood and that lobbyists, business leaders and politicians have easy access to one another. When we are hungry for money, power and privilege it’s easy for us to form relationships with others who seek the same. In the process we forget our promise and responsibility to the public at large. Perks (favors, bribes?) in the form of product and service discounts, jobs for family members and players themselves, contribute to an incestuous relationship that breeds destructive policy and threatens the very existence of a democratic America.
I know I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know and I’m not saying you have fallen into this trap but I think it is important for the public to educate itself and get its head out of the ground. We are all responsible for this sorry state of affairs and it is time for all of us to stand up and set it right if we care for our children and the future they will create. It’s not what we’ve done, it’s what we do from now on that counts!
EVERYONE deserves affordable healthcare and Single Payer is the most cost-effective way to provide it. We need to do the right thing. We need to make government work for ALL of us, not just the few who hypnotize themselves and their friends with the Darwinian mantra that “life is about survival of the fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.”
Responsibility (accountability and self-development) is the price of freedom.
Please let your friends and constituents know that T-shirts, signs, hats and buttons with the Single Payer design on them are available at The LifeSong Store: http://www.thelifesongstore.com. We have removed our mark-up from this product so customers can purchase items at our cost, what Café Press, an Internet company, charges us for buying our own products.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Visit The LifeSong Store often. It’s where the world comes to shop for inspirational and life-changing ideas on T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hoodies and more. Change the world for the better with POTS! (Philosophy On T-Shirts)
View Michelle Obama’s speech at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, April 2009, in London, England. It’s an extraordinary story of transcendence, a triumph of spirit over the mundane.
Excerpts:
Michelle: “Nothing in my life’s path would have predicted that I (the First Lady of the United States and a descendent of slaves) would be standing here. I wasn’t raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. I was raised on the south side of Chicago. I was the product of a working class community.”
Referring to many excellent family values, she noted one that seemed particularly interesting to me: “…and we all had admiration for each other’s unique gifts.”
Her first date with Barack was a community organization meeting in Chicago: “He talked about two concepts, ‘the world as it is and the world as it should be.’”
Quoting Barack further, she added, “All too often we accept the distance between those two ideas and, sometimes, we settle for the world the way it is even though it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations. We all know what fairness, justice and opportunity look like. We all know!”
Michelle: “And he urged the people in that meeting to devote themselves ‘to close the gap between those two ideas, to work together to try to make the world, the way it is and the way it should be, the same.’”
Yes, too often we accept the world the way it is instead of trying to make it better. This is true of ourselves as well! Too often we accept ourselves the way we are instead of trying to make ourselves better. It doesn’t matter who we think we are right now, what we’ve done in the past or where we’re starting from. It doesn’t matter whether we have outside support or not. What does matter is what we do from this moment on!
Michelle and Barack Obama, by word and deed, reflect what we can all accomplish when we invest our energy into becoming what’s best in ourselves and the world instead of giving in to what’s least in ourselves. As Barack says, “There is the world the way it is and (the world) the way it can be.” If we focus on creating the world the way it can be, at some point the world the way it is and the world the way it can be will be the same.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Visit The LifeSong Store often. It’s where the world comes to shop for inspirational and life-changing ideas on T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hoodies and more. Change the world for the better with POTS! (Philosophy On T-Shirts)
In actuality, who is ultimately responsible for what you do? Who is ultimately responsible for what I do? And who is responsible for what we do in groups we choose to be part of?
Do you support universal health care? Some people in America don’t. These folks say that "only those who can afford it should get it", even though these same people are eliminating jobs in America and the cost of health care insurance is rising so fast fewer business owners and working people can afford it. Ironically, some people against universal health care have publicly funded health care plans themselves. They might even represent you in Congress! What do these people think? That the uninsured should stop complaining, lie down and suffer or die if they get sick? You hear them talk about life being a matter of survival of the fittest; it’s "eat or be eaten, kill or be killed", they say. Is this the America we want to live in? Is it the America we want to create? If you say "No!", the question is, what are you willing to do about it?
As members of society we need to make our voices heard by the people we elect to represent us in Congress. We can call, write, email or fax our representatives to push for Universal Health Care. We can also wear Universal Health Care products to show support in our communities (T-shirts, yard signs, buttons, magnets and more).
As owners of The LifeSong Store (http://www.thelifesongstore.com), my wife and I have decided to remove the profit margin from our Universal Health Care line of products. The price you pay is what Cafe Press (a non-union company) charges us to print and ship these items.
Stand up America! Our strong sense of community tells us to care for everyone and common sense tells us to pool our resources to moderate and control the runaway cost of health care. Do what works best for ALL of us!
Roger (Pete) and Sandra Peterson – send this article around the web!
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Visit The LifeSong Store often! It’s where the world comes to shop for inspirational and life-changing ideas on T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hoodies and more. Change the world for the better with POTS! (Philosophy On T-Shirts)
Together we can make the change we want to see.
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Thought you’d like this excerpt from a book advertisement in the Simple Truths newsletter. The title of the book is: Learning to Dance in the Rain, written by Mac Anderson and B.J. Gallagher.
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain!"
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