I'm at a spiritual retreat. Listening to a speaker clad, for a change, in camouflage pants and white t-shirt.
A religious man willing to fight for peace.

As if peace could be obtained by fighting for it.
As if virginity could be achieved by screwing for it.

You can make soup of goldfish, but the other way 'round doesn't work. Maybe he doesn't know.

Anyhoo, he's telling me it's war out there.
War between good and evil, God and the devil, light and dark, and so forth.

Maybe so.

We sure did use war to get rid of the Brits.
But in India, Gandhi used love.
We sure did use war, civil war at that, to fight slavery.
But to end slavery, Martin Luther King Jr. used love.
We sure did use force to impose apartheid in South Africa.
But to end it, Nelson Mandela used love.

Clearly, they're both out there - love and war.

They are ours to choose.

Then, why choose war over love?

The speaker says it's for the love of God and country.
I say it's for the love of war.
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PS. Oh, by the way, mirror mirror on the wall ... There are three religions that last forever - faith, hope, and love. Of these, the greatest religion is love.

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Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it - and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. "My job is to awaken possibility in other people." Give yourself the twenty minutes of this video and you'll find, to your own benefit, he's a master at it.

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Thanks to Chris Brogan over at http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ I stumbled upon a little big video on the topic of sharing. The people at Red Hat don't just share in an everyday kind of way, they've made sharing the cornerstone of their business model. With impressive results, which they happily share with - you guessed it - their shareholders. Indeed, sharing their product (for free) has allowed Red Hat to become a billion dollar company – billion as in a thousand millions - proving again, as if proof were needed, sharing your passion can be profitable business.

Sharing is a good idea any time. For example, share your dreams of an own business or for a career change with a couple of friends and see whether it touches, moves or inspires them. If not, revise. Sharing dreams and passions leads to spending more time with people who share your desire to succeed. Focus on the sharing, leave the marketing at the door, see your business grow. See your happiness grow, too (the state of mind in which your thinking is pleasant a good share of the time). For a stark contrast to sharing, try keeping it to yourself. Travel alone to a wonderful location that offers breathtaking scenery. You're by yourself, so the scenery only takes your breath away. No-one around to share it with. How does it feel? Makes the Red Hat people look even brighter, doesn't it?