Spiritually enlightened and developed individuals suggest that we get rid of obstacles.  By overcoming the obstacles in your life, you achieve your potential, or attain the Way. Here is what they suggest: The first obstacle is the troubled feeling that comes from needing to make a living.  This doesn’t mean you abandon making a living; [...]

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The wealth of options we have to choose from today has extended personal freedom to an extent that would have been inconceiveable even a hundred years ago. Life-styles and religions are choices that are easily interchangeable.  In the past a hunter was a hunter untile he died, a blacksmith spent his whole life working on [...]

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It really doesn’t matter that much. But at the same time, it matters very much. So you have every Metallica song memorized note for note? You can play a single note with a vibrato so smooth it makes BB King sound like scratching nails on a chalkboard? Your right hand can fingerpick faster than Chet [...]

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Doubt is uncomfortable; Certainty is ridiculous. -Voltaire Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. -Kahill Gibran Doubt can only be removed by action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everyone has doubts about themselves, their situations, or other people at times.  Don’t focus on them.  Instead focus on what actions you can take to alleviate [...]

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The answer to the old riddle “What is the meaning of life?” turns out to be astonishingly simple.  The meaning of life is meaning:  whatever it is, wherever it comes from, a unified purpose is what gives meaning to life. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi What’s your purpose? Is it really guitar related or is it Broader?  More [...]

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