"You". Stoic, An Analysis of Life

INDEX

(Love) Inner peace.

My life story.

Religion.

Heaven and Hell.

Addictions.

12 Steps.

Homosexuality.

Work - School.

Body - Health.

Play - Sports.

Legalizing Drugs.

Sex. 7th month itch.

Money - Power.

War.

Death - Reincarnation.

Soulmates.

Love.

Hate.

(Extra X) Global Minimum Wage.

(Extra XX) Peace Day.

(Extra XXX) For Fun, The Sun.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank everyone in my entire life

that has had anything to do with teaching me something if not everything.

No matter how stubborn I can be. Realistically that does mean everyone.

Author of another silly self help book.

Ernst T. Wagner

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Introduction

Hello readers. How’s the weather out there today? Why another self help book you may be asking yourself? I have a quasi-motto way of looking at things these days, actually my whole life. Which has pissed off family and friends at times. So I say of course, why not. I took all the subjects that need to have a more logical and healthier approach to a way of thinking. Some I learned from an amazing selection of books and others from my own observations and opinions. If you are not opened minded please skip this book. My first name Ernst, which is the proper European nomenclature, not Ernest which many a poor soul has tried to correct me at times, actually many times. I’m from Chicago, born and raised here. I’m Spiritual with my  own Philosophy’s even though I was raised Catholic, God help me, LoL. I like to think outside the box. Seeing the way people act today, having my own Philosophy’s is the most sensible thing to do for myself these days anyway. By the looks of things, I think it’s a great decision. Although many people do not think so. We all have leadership features in all of us. I’m just utilizing mine. One hundred million people died from war in the 19th Century. Goes to show you how many people fall for false beliefs and someone else’s direction. So it’s best in my opinion to try and carve out your own way through life. Life is easier, believe me, to live with better set of beliefs. So if you have an open mind and want to go on a little Journey with me, you might just get something out of this book, I will assure you of that. Sometimes I have read an entire book just to get one page of useful information from it. That may  be your case in reading this book but I hope you gain a lot more, who’s to say. If I can help one person this book will be worth my effort. I hope I sell millions and all that, hay, I don’t mind eating. So in closing I hope to simplify life a little bit for you with this book and make people a little bit happier. Hopefully.  Love, Peace and Joy my friend.  Ernst. 5/3/2018

Prologue

I tried to pick the simplest topics but that really includes every form of thinking. So when I wrote this book I like to break it down to the simplest form of our English Language. This is something I learned also along the way. People seem to complicate simple truths that make learning harder then it needs to be and then you really end up learning nothing because your way to confused to remember anything. The simplest answer is usually the right one. I’m sure that even our modern language is also complicated if presented with an easier option but for now this is what we have to work with. I don’t pretend to be a genius at the art of thinking either. I just know that I can only add things to the dialogue. Some things should be common knowledge that at this time they are not. Everything under the sun is out there but still even people who study themselves don’t come across certain behaviors that drive us. Maybe we don’t want to know. All I know is that finding peace is a very hard thing to do. It’s a balance of all things. Any one idea can leave us hanging. This book is a book on philosophy, nothing more. And the last topic is just bubble gum for the mind. In the long run it could all just be a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, depends if my writing is up to par. I’m not a writer per say just an observer. A traveler. Passing on my knowledge base. This also is not a Religious book so think twice before you read any of this. When your finished please send me your comments, good or bad will be well received. Or maybe you have a better way or simpler way of wording something in the chapters, I can be a little one sided at times, who isn’t. This might end up being an interactive book in the long run. Life teaches us things so do books so read on my friend. You can go through life getting and growing but not analyzing yourself and not really know how you got there or you could study the mind and be consciously aware of yourself, it’s up to you. So enjoy YOU. Peace.  Ernst W.

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I read a book about a chain

of Islands that was so crappy

that I asked the writer for my money back.

He returned my letter with my writing

corrected.

This book is dedicated to him.

And to my Mom

Chapter 1.

(Love) Inner peace

(Love) Inner Peace

How does one love is the exact question?

It’s a very difficult thing to do for most people. It ties itself in with inner peace. Both I feel, have the same kind of feelings within us, they are very similar, so if you are afraid of inner peace chances are you are afraid of loving. This is a very powerful statement. People are afraid of inner peace because it closely feels like Love, it is Love. So when this is understood one can understand why being peaceful is such a challenge for most of us, not all though. People avoid inner peace like a plague. Iv’e seen this done in countless people including myself. Inner peace is such a Wonderfull feeling in itself but it feels like Love and people are definitely afraid of that emotion. Confused yet. I am, it’s a little hard to explain. I am though trying to keep it simple. Many of our feelings feel the same, example, excitement feels a lot like anxiety and for some it’s confusing. Inner peace is the exact opposite of excitement too. Test yourself, sit down in a seat and ask yourself how your feeling, chances are you can’t sit in your seat for any length of time. You can use many excuses to keep from being peaceful. One I here from others is that I like to keep busy or here’s a good one, Idle Mind Is The Devils Workshop. Who in the industrious world came up with that one? Of course for some people this may be a reality. More power to them. I know when I’m at total inner peace it feels wonderful, it’s the way we were meant to be, not 100% of the time but most of the time. Iv’e lived a stressful life so for me to learn to be calm it’s a challenge. You could of course have a few drinks and reach calmness but that is like cheating. It also trains your mind to use a chemical to get to that place which stops your mind and body from attaining that naturally. I don’t want to knock Alcohol, there are many tasty drinks out there. There’s also a lot of Alcoholics out there too. So why do people fear being calm?

Reaching inner peace and love can be a difficult road if not an impossible one, some really give up trying. The sad thing is that love is in us all, we don’t have to get love we already have it. I believe that is what all the Masters in time tried to teach us. We have a connection for love from the spiritual realm, that’s what being spiritual is all about. We can get love from our spirit. As they taught us in grammar school you have to love yourself before you love another. The part that’s hard for most is freeing the mind from all our childhood teachings which some can be very well hidden in us. There’s a lot of pain to overcome to get to a healthy state of mind, if you have stuff buried in your subconscious it can take some serious work and time to overcome your obstacles to living a better life of peace. Most people don’t want to do any of this kind of work, I don’t blame them, it’s painful. What you were afraid of as a child has the same potency now as it did when you were young, but once you face it you realize that it wasn’t that hard after all. Your still alive my friend and much stronger. You can literally eat up years unraveling all your childhood traumas. Folks don’t want to do it. There is a prize at the end though, inner peace, love etc. Being peaceful is priceless in my opinion. You can do it. Freeing the mind is a wonderful thing in my opinion, once you heal from your past you can really never go back to your old ways, certain problems will be forever altered if not eliminated. So to be able to love you have to put yourself in a place were you can love, healing the inner self is the only way in my opinion. You can’t win the Lottery if you don’t play. Same with your life. For most if you reach this place of peace, true love will be the last of the last obstacle. So here you are you put yourself in this position now you have to live it, hopefully you will be greeted with friends that will help you on your journey, you can always walk down the street and get shot at this time, life can be cruel and for some this has happened. Others have had a great upbringing and don’t need to do much past healing, I find that some of these folks have no respect for what they have. They have no remorse when they cheat on there spouses.

Those of us that have earned it are much more grateful especially knowing what it took to get there. They say that our relationships are only mirror images of ourselves especially the ones we choose to date. I mean think about it, how can you love someone if you don’t love yourself. If you reach this state of mind it would really help if you meet someone who is at the same juncture in time as you are, funny how that works but there are many who will want to drag you down if you let them. Real cowards as far as I’m concerned. O.K. I get it, you don’t want to face your problems but hay don’t be an ass and try and knock someone down who has done the work. Folks, you can always fall backwards if your not careful who you hang around with. Be weary. So true love can be a hurtle to overcome but once you do you get stronger and better at it. Take the leap of faith. Being in love can really be a wonderful thing. It can give you everything you ever dreamed of. Some folks don’t think this is a manly statement, so be it for them. You know women are just as afraid to reach that point also, they act like they are prepared but when it comes right down to it they run for the hills when they actually have it put in front of there plate. We will talk more about this later. So many things can stop us from having inner peace, our diets is a big one, most of what we consume is causing in us negative feelings, caffeine, sugar, chemicals, salt, etc, etc, etc. Sometimes I think to get clean and live a healthy life one has to go to a desert island where there is absolutely no influences. The Indians in the olden days used to send there young into the woods for a month to fend for themselves to break the bonds of society. To retrain the mind to live in love instead of being fearful is the real challenge. I would think Jesus had to somehow learn the same thing. He went off to nature for a month I think didn’t he, I would like to think he was retraining his mind. I could be wrong on this point, it’s my theory. So people want love but aren’t willing to do the work. At some point they don’t want to even see the mirror image of someone who has. It’s a sad reminder of what they don’t want to achieve for themselves.

Willing to even kill to stop this. Like I said most people don’t want to do the work it takes to attain love, they wanted handed to them. It never works that way, sad to say, I wish it did. We as a society shouldn’t be afraid of this emotion, as we grew up we became afraid of love and so to get it back into our lives we need to relearn this. It’s that simple. You cant just go from living a fear based life into a life of contentment over night it takes time to retrain. It can be done. Your not the only one with this quandary. So it’s a good idea to have a balance of all things. We are Spiritual, Sexual, Physical, Emotional human beings. When one of them is off it effects you. You may not have a choice of where you are at in life but you can change. People are resilient. There’s love  even in the worst of places. So lets take a different look at fear and how it disguises itself as worry and keeps you from having inner peace and love. This is something I notice in people, some including myself, I keep coming up with reasons why I worry. If it’s not this then it is the other. Let me try and explain. Why have any reason to feel fear why not just feel the emotion, it’s so masked by worry, worry is another word for fear in my knowledge base. People don’t usually  like to admit they live in fear, it is obviously dangerous to do that in our society, but to gain love we must understand a little bit about the way we feel. You can’t hold love and fear in the same hand, so Iv’e been told but that’s for another book. Anyway once you see fear for what it is instead of another worthless excuse to be worried, you can ask yourself why I feel fear more then love in my life. So here is where it gets interesting how do I live in love base instead of fear base. Again I would like to point out