๑۩۞۩๑ hideaway ๑۩۞۩๑

i’m finding myself doing a lot of cleaning up these days. messes of all shapes, forms and sorts have found their way into my life. so i weed ‘em out.

workstation? done. i’ve cleared out my office to get ready for the move. trash from the past 2 years of my professional life have found its way into a black plastic bag. some have been shredded to bits and pieces. (interesting work, shredding, i should say. it can be therapy, methinks.)

then, when i was going through old files, i saw one of allan’s emails. it was about this:

The Wizard’s Rules

• Wizard’s First Rule: People are Stupid. Given the proper motivation,
  people will believe anything because they either fear it is true, or
  because they want to believe it is true. People’s heads are filled with
  knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is not true, but they
  think it is true. People can rarely tell the difference between the
  truth and a lie, yet they think they can, so they are fooled more
  easily. People want to believe, so they do.
• Wizard’s Second Rule: The greatest of harm can result from the best
  intentions. Kindness and good intentions can sometimes lead to horrible things.
• Wizard’s Third Rule: Passion rules reason. People will let their
  feelings get in place of what is right or wrong.
• Wizard’s Fourth Rule: In forgiveness we grant, and more so forgiveness
  we receive. There is magic in forgiveness…magic to heal.
• Wizard’s Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say,
  because deeds may betray a life.
• Wizard’s Sixth Rule: The most important rule there is, the Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
• Wizard’s Seventh Rule: "Life is the future, not the past."
• Wizard’s Eighth Rule: Deserve Victory
• Wizard’s Ninth Rule: A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy — to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were.

although i don’t agree with some, i do nod my head on most. and with the things that struck me in the above list, i pray for peace and kindness in my heart, wisdom, a perfect balance of passion and reason, forgiveness, vigilance, heart and substance, appreciation of yesterday, today and the future, the strength to overcome, and the grace of silence. amen.

this was the best part of cleaning up.