| Living a Life of Constant Total Amazement
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| | The best way to explain this is for you
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| By: Dave Cole
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| | to begin watching your thoughts. You'll
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| In the movie, Joe vs the Volcano, Joe
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| | see that some of these thoughts aren't
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| Banks played by Tom Hanks is a loser.
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| | very nice at all. You may be having a
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| His life is despicable and the news is:
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| | fight with your boss at this very moment
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| Joe is selling his soul to his boss for a
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| | while reading this. You may have found
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| measly 300 bucks a week.
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| | yourself a thousand miles away.
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| Joe is also a hypochondriac which leads
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| | Many of these thoughts we have are unkind
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| him to a doctor that tells Joe he has a
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| | and detrimental to our well being. How
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| terminal brain cloud and only a few
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| | many times have you found yourself
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| months to live.
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| | putting yourself down for something you
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| So this is the wake up call Joe needs to
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| | didn't do right, or found yourself
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| start living. He quits his job then runs
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| | getting angry or upset over some event,
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| into an eccentric billionaire played by
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| | or even found yourself in a mental fight
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| Lloyd Bridges who promises to give Joe
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| | with someone?
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| the lifestyle of a king if he will end
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| | Someone cuts you off on the freeway and
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| up jumping into a volcano.
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| | you immediately go spastic and begin to
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| Joe agrees and it's fun to watch him go
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| | shoot mental bullets at them.
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| on the shopping spree going around in
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| | Those thoughts put you in a state of
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| the white limo. Then he is transported
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| | sleep and prevent you from being fully
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| first class by air to Los Angeles, where
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| | aware of the present world around you.
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| he meets up with the billionaire's
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| | In the beginning of the movie, Joe was in
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| daughter Patricia played by Meg Ryan, who
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| | a constant state of psychic slumber. He
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| is going to transport Joe to a remote
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| | had no amazement, no awe, no wonder of
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| island on her yacht.
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| | life. His life was despicable.
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| One night on the yacht with the breeze
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| | When Joe began waking up, his life began
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| gently blowing, Joe and Patricia are
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| | to turn to a state of amazement and awe
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| talking and Joe says that Patricia's
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| | and wonder at what was happening in the
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| life..... and life..... seem so
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| | present moment around him. Just watch the
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| unbelievable to him.
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| | scene where he is with DeDe at dinner
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| Patricia responds:
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| | and you'll see the difference between a
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| "My father says almost the whole world's
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| | man at sleep and a man that is awake.
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| asleep. Everybody you know, everybody
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| | In fact DeDe says, "What's happened to
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| you see, everybody you talk to. He says
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| | you. This morning you were like a lump,
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| only a few people are awake. And they
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| | now..... You're So Alive."
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| live in a state of constant total
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| | It is in this state of amazement that you
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| amazement."
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| | often find children playing. They are
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| The whole world's asleep.....think about
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| | having fun with life because they are not
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| that for a minute.
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| | lost in thought about some fear, they
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| Why was that put in there?
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| | are totally within and alive in the
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| If you watched the move, did that strike
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| | present moment and awake to what they
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| you as being unbelievable it was even
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| | are doing.
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| there?
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| | These unkind thoughts we have draw us
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| What being asleep and what waking up
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| | farther away from the awe and amazement
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| means is what we are going to explore
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| | that life really is.
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| for the rest of the article.
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| | And as you begin to wake up and live in
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| Waking Up that's what it's about. It took
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| | the present moment, amazing things can
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| a death sentence for Joe to begin waking
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| | and do happen.
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| up. When he did, he found himself
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| | Which way would you rather live?
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| entering into a world that was
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| | In a world where you are lost in painful
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| unbelievable and a world that most folks
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| | thoughts or a world where you are in a
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| don't even know exists.
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| | state of constant total amazement?
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| Let's flash forward in the movie to the
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| | Go watch a cat. Cats are fully awake and
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| scene where it's night and Joe is on a
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| | aware in their own present moment. What
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| raft and the moon begins to rise
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| | creature is there that more lives a life
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| overhead.
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| | of amazement than a cat?
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| The moon seems so huge and awesome to Joe
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| | Cat's don't get lost in thought like we
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| that as a movie watcher you become so
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| | do, they are fully aware of themselves
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| caught up in the vastness of the moon
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| | and their environment all the time. Now
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| and the drama of the movie that you
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| | a cat may stare intensly at a predator,
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| almost become one with the entire
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| | but it is not lost in thought.
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| experience.
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| | To be fully awake to the present moment,
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| Before this in the movie he is asking
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| | begin to watch your thoughts. Some of
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| himself and others the question does God
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| | them may be ugly. When you practice
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| exist. Joe is awestruck, and in that
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| | watching your thoughts, you'll begin to
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| moment of realization, he just knows that
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| | see yourself going off in all different
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| God exists and becomes so grateful for
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| | kinds of directions over nothing, it's
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| his life. The moment is one of total
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| | these thoughts that keep us asleep and
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| amazement for Joe and the movie watcher.
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| | away from a state of wonder and awe.
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| In that moment when Joe becomes one with
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| | Don't try to change them, don't begin to
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| the experience, he now
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| | put yourself down for having them, for
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| understands.....the need for questions to
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| | now, just watch them and see how you
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| be answered isn't there.....he wakes up
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| | react to them.
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| to the present moment and all the
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| | Next work on being present in the now.
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| present moment is trying to convey to him
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| | Watch yourself as you do everything.
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| and finally the understanding he has
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| | Become aware of where your arms are,
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| been seeking comes.
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| | where your legs are, what temperature is
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| Most of us are lost in thought. Now we're
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| | it. As you read this, watch yourself
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| not talking about practical thought,
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| | reading and be aware of where and who you
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| those thoughts you need to drive a car or
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| | are doing this.
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| solve problems, we're talking about all
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| | Become fully awake to you and the
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| those thoughts which aren't needed for
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| | experiences of this present moment and
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| life - thoughts that are painful to us.
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| | you will begin to see the amazement and
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| Being asleep means being lost in painful
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| | wonder of your life as it should be.
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| or unwanted thoughts.
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