What if your desires are simply the seeds of who you could become?

Just like the mighty oak tree already lives within the acorn?

ARE YOU LISTENING TO THEM?

Source: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

Potential.

You have the capacity to develop yourself into who you really want to be, but unless you activate your own power — it lays dormant, dead.

Overweight? Broke? Weak? Addicted? Who’s the only one who can change this?

You need to flip the switch.

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“The real problem is inner poverty. Even rich people can live very poor lives. Their bodies are stuffed with food, but their souls are starving.

They have not yet known the song of life.” - Osho

What IS suicide, really?

Who do we REALLY want to kill if we have suicidal thoughts? Here’s the truth.

You don’t want to kill yourself, so stop kidding yourself. You want to kill your inauthentic self, the person you had to become to fit in, to be loved, to be acknowledged and accepted in your environment. Your real self, the you that you know you are, the you that you are when no one’s looking — wants to live, and live fully.

Sometimes we feel sadness or anger because the pull from our true, authentic, life livin’ self is so strong. There’s a tug of war going on inside you…

Who will you let win?

In many ways, all we have to do is give up.

Yeah, that’s right. Give up the struggle. Give up the tension of trying. Give up the seeking and searching, gently take off the mask, and don’t pick it back up again.

Alongside this, we also have to NOT give up. Life’s a paradox, isn’t it?

You know who you are. You know what you stand for. You know what’s right, and sometimes we have to fight for that. We need to express ourselves. Share our feelings, our experiences, our truth. Stand up for ourselves.

I got picked on in the playground until I turned around and cracked him on the nose. He stopped, problem solved. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, sometimes you don’t.

Sometimes you need to extinguish it with water. Sometimes that’ll make it worse, so you need a blanket. Sometimes all you need is a hug.

The real answer, and question, can only be found within yourself. 

A while back, after struggling with suicidal thoughts, I made a vow to myself — I decided that I would never be the one to take my own life. I’m not throwing the towel in. No way.

Life will be taken from me when it’s ready. I won’t be the one to pull the trigger. I will die at the right time and place, that’s now out of my hands. One less thing on my mind.

So let’s start LIVIN’ AYE!?

And I don’t mean merely being alive, I mean fuckin’ avvin’ it!

BALLS TO THE WALL.

Breathing deeply. Feeling deeply. Living like this day is the greatest gift you’ve been given. Because, well… is it not?

One of my coaches used to say to me, over and over and over again — “What do you REALLY want?”

There are currently 8.3 billion people in the world. How many of them can you sincerely look square in the eyes and know with confidence that they’re truly alive, fully doing what they want to do, because they’ve CHOSEN to do it?

Are you one? Why not? “Well I haven’t got the money, the economy is… the government are blahhhh, it’s this, it’s that…” Really? You’re prostituting your power away that easily?

FUCKING COME ON!

What do you really want? What do you really want? What do you REALLY want? WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT!?

But ahem… Excuse me. What’s the cost of entry? What’s the price? What do we need to invest in order to definitely secure a return on our investment?

YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF — nothing more, nothing less. There’s only one truth and you know it. Only you know it.

In every opportunity there are only ever two choices — fear or love. Love will most likely be more challenging. Do it anyway. Just do it.

That’s it. No half measures.

All, or nothing.