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A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What's the point? There's nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. life.

The election of President Barack Obama has proven to me that nothing is impossible. I grew up in a suburban Southern community wher I was the token Black kid and was the brunt of terrible discrimination, violence, threats and abuse. "Everybody hates John" should have been the name of the show. Being that I wasnt a good athlete, average looks, and a very average student as I suffered from severe learning disabilities I am grateful that these struggles lead me to search for another way to find for the meaning of life and my place in it. This journey has taken over 50,000 miles 40 US States 4 Continents, and about 25 countries.

Ultimately my personal philosophy is that I believe there can be a world without limits, where anything is possible, in a world in which everyone has the power to shape reality, to manipulate the neo-materialist world which we find ourselves. For this world to exist, it is neccessary that egotism be overcome, that we rise to an understanding of our essential unity with one another. In this understanding of our essential unity with one another. In this understanding we find our freedom, our intrinsic connectionwith the divine power to realize our highest ideals, and our ability to transcend the fear of lonliness, loss, and death.(citation tba)

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, And we never know we have the key.

- The Eagles

The beginning of freedom is the realization you are not the thinker. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher leverl of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelilgence. You realize that the all the things that matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken