Key Elements

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

@DizIzMikey There's always at least two sides to the same coin when someone says something. Some of us took it as positive and hilarious when you said, "I'm a monster." The other side of the coin is take action. "Actions speak louder than words." In part 2 of Leo's morality clip, Leo did say that if you have problems with certain people like the Nazis, then go to war with them. Another way to create/contribute to peace in this world is through our life purpose.

I used to watch this cartoon when I was a child...this is my thought on this. I thought of myself as Casper the Friendly Ghost.

No...not exactly...I'm saying had I knew what my life purpose was at the time of my studies, I would have known what to major in and what courses to take and gotten excellent grades too. The life purpose helped me with things falling into place. In other words, what I'm saying is...I would have matched the courses up with my life purpose and majored in that. What do you love to do with your life? How would you make that marketable? Did you know there are 3 main ways of making money-job, self-employment, and passive income? That's why I recommended you that book-a very easy read.

Hello..After I graduated from my university, I did not find grades and academics useful at all toward work life. After I got in touch with what I am good at and how to market it did I find my life purpose. Then so many things started falling into place. I thought if I had found my life purpose a lot sooner, I would have gotten better grades. The little diagram map below helped me a lot. It's from the book Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki. This is just the surface level of the journey. Once I dug deeper into my journey, it became much more clearer and clearer as I went along. Hope this helps. I'm just speaking from my experience. Take care & don't forget to have fun.

Ralph @ Infinite Waters looks like he's explaining Spiral Dynamics in a different way--the drone, the artist, the alchemist, and the wizard. He is interested in psychology, and I've always wondered why he's wearing a turquoise necklace.

Hello... I find the two clips below useful. The first clip is Ralph at Infinite Waters speaking about his vegan diet. At times, I do think about not eating animals at all so that I don't have to kill them--peace of mind. I love pets too. You get the point. I've tried being completely vegetarian for 2 yrs, but when I took a blood test, vitamin B-12 was lacking. I googled it and discovered that this vitamin is found in meats. I wondered should I take B-12 vitamins? I rather not take vitamins and do this diet naturally. I have a lot more to research on this. Secondly, I'm working on a bilingual educational startup while being a bilingual schoolteacher full-time. Startups, as you all know, earn passive income, which in the end means financial freedom. The advantage of a bilingual language startup is, with any language, you could talk about anything of your interest, including profound topics like enlightenment. However, I like the clip below. Their passive income is the harvest. According to the speaker, they live a peaceful lifestyle, instead of a hustle and bustle lifestyle like most people in cities live and run into health issues due to stress and pollution and other things. The disadvantage of this lifestyle is that hospitals are not nearby. Maybe you want a certain school for your children. Anyway, just wanted to share my thoughts...any helpful info are welcomed. I still continue to research. Happy Journey...btw...if you want to get into a good university, finding the life purpose is a huge advantage. Make sure you write about it in your application.

@Leo Gura Just getting out a few more ideas before I go...

"Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense." --Buddha

@Leo Gura @Key Elements Hey Leo, just wanted to say, have fun with the foods and other things...im not brute forcing anything.

@Leo Gura All that you've said here reminds me of the story of Buddha and Angulimala, the cerial killer. He cuts his victim's thumbs off after murdering them. I'm posting a version of the story below. However, that's not the version I heard. The one I heard, Buddha decided to give Augulimala a second chance at living with society and dresses him in simple yellow robes. The society (villagers) welcomed Augulimala not knowing who he was. Augulimala, while living as an ascetic, started feeling really bad that he committed all those murders. When he confessed openly, the villagers killed him.

True...unless you make the base of the pizza naturally with wheat dough. It depends on how you make the pizza.

Create an educational startup online and try to grow it. That's yellow stage on the surface. Your choice. Best of luck.

This is a clip from Ralph from Infinite Waters trying to answer this question. I find him very informative. He answers all kinds of sensitive questions in a pleasant way to show that "we don't have it as bad as we think." That's the message I'm getting from him. At the same time, I also look at him as another startup, and I noticed that he attracts many subscribers by his pleasant style of speaking. It makes me think about how to approach my startup.

@Wouter I already watch Ralph's clips sometimes. He's awesome. If I subscribe and 10 clips come in my e-mail in a week, as someone said, I wouldn't be having time to watch all 10 within the week.

I was about to subscribe to him, but you're saying he makes 10 videos a week? I probably don't have time to watch that many videos, but looking at it from another perspective: he is so full of energy and spirit put into his work. It's play to him (and not work, no struggles), and that's great. I also look at him as another startup, and I'm an educational startup - different from self-help. Looks like people tend to go easy on startups that have pleasant vibes and say that mistakes are ok - have a look at his comment areas.

Nice story. I always thought that flies are cute in their own ways. I love animals, but after watching them for a minute I wave them off. I like their eyes; I like how they see the world, although I wouldn't want to be one of them. They are very useful in keeping our environment clean by their process of eating cadavers. That's what I think of when they land on me.

Tell you something else, Leo. I felt that the ah-ha moments with your clips were really huge and not minor at all. It got me to look for more ah-ha moments elsewhere, but at the same time, as of now, I train my mind to be more into the flowing/egoless state to do my startup (life purpose). What an interesting process and how we run into so many things along the way. It will always be the process and ah-ha moments.