TRUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE STARS

“YOUR TRUE FRIENDS ; are not those who flatter your ego, or who help you squander your time.

Your true friends are those who actually improve you, who help you find the courage to improve yourself.

Their help may not always be easy, but it will always lead toward good.

And, looking back, they are the ones whom you will praise.” – Robert X – Helio Astro

A man must free himself from such chance acquaintances with whom he has no inner connection.

For otherwise the friends who share his views, on whom he could really rely and together with whom

he could accomplish something, mistrust him and stay away.

“Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.”

True Friends are link Angels.

They are precious and rare,

false friends are like the leaves,

found everywhere.

“..these seemingly innocent offers lead you away from your own right mind,

just when that mind was beginning to formulate something good. They take you far,

far away from your own true thought, and lead you right back into the common mind

forever peopled by the family prerogatives, superstitious religions, political insanities,

and other strange artifacts of the collective mind. Once you begin to think down in that

dead common mind again, you never know what hit you. Your bright ideas are all gone,

you feel a little tired, and you are off to the family picnic, there to add your unconscious

presence to that of the others, all so that some family idea can live at the expense of

all the individuals' lives.” – Robert XXXX

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TRUE vs FALSE Friends ( I CHING ) ; In friendships and close relationships an individual must make a careful choice. He surrounds himself either with good or with bad company; he cannot have both at once. If he throws himself away on unworthy friends he loses connection with people of intellectual power who could further him in the good.

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Be serious about your life. End your involvements with evil people. Make new friendships with those who are noble and good. Cultivate your virtue, expand your mind, keep company with the authors of great literature. Live honestly all your days. Seek to become your true and only self.

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"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?" – Jim Rohn

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Being less than beautiful (INSIDE) is --- well, ugly. And no one wants to be that.

Except for demons. Demons are beings who have fallen into ugliness, into meanness and weakness and every vice. Not only that, but they desire to do so. Not only that, but they are proud of their weakness. In addition, they think it is cute to walk down the street, giggling, letting everyone hear how powerful they are in their group profanity.

Does this sound like someone you know? Your neighbor, perhaps? Someone closer? Somebody right at hand?

This, indeed, is the problem. - Robert XXXX, Heliocentric Astrologer

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A FRIEND TO ALL IS A FRIEND TO NONE ; being friends to everyone is to be disloyal to those who merit your friendship by friending those that do not, such as those who are evil or nefarious, to the detriment of those who are true. It means you cannot be trusted to do the right thing or that you treat everyone the same just to avoid conflict rather than to stand for what is right and risk losing "friends" by doing so. if you give friendship to everyone then your friendship means nothing, making you a true friend to none It means that someone is trying to be a people pleaser and trying to be popular instead of sticking with a few close friends. They should value their close friends and stand up for them instead of trying to please everyone. Too many eggs in too many baskets....means that since everyone is different, and has different opinions, if you're a friend to all - you're two faced - and therefore not really a friend to anyone.
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A man must free himself from such chance acquaintances with whom he has no inner connection. For otherwise the friends who share his views, on whom he could really rely and together with whom he could accomplish something, mistrust him and stay away.

Nine in the fourth place means:

Deliver yourself from your great toe.
In times of standstill it will happen that inferior people attach themselves to a superior man, and through force of daily habit they may grow very close to him and become indispensable, just as the big toe is indispensable to the foot because it makes walking easier. But when the time of deliverance draws near, with its call to deeds, a man must free himself from such chance acquaintances with whim he has no inner connection. For otherwise the friends who share his views, on whom he could really rely and together with whom he could accomplish something, mistrust him and stay away.

STANDSTILL. Evil people do not further
The perseverance of the superior man.
The great departs; the small approaches.

Heaven and earth are out of communion and all things are benumbed. What is above has no relation to what is below, and on earth confusion and disorder prevail. The dark power is within, the light power is without. Weakness is within, harshness without. Within are the inferior, and without are the superior. The way of inferior people is in ascent; the way of superior people is one the decline. But the superior people do not allow themselves to be turned from their principles. If the possibility of exerting influence is closed to them, they nevertheless remain faithful to their principles and withdraw into seclusion.

INNOCENCE. Supreme success.
Perseverance furthers.
If someone is not as he should be,
He has misfortune,
And it does not further him
To undertake anything.

Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and 'furthers through perseverance". However, not everything instinctive is nature in this higher sense of the word, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting, instinctive way of acting brings only misfortune. Confucius says about this: "He who departs from innocence, what does he come to? Heaven's will and blessing do not go with his deeds."

Nine in the fourth place means:
Deliver yourself from your great toe.
In times of standstill it will happen that inferior people attach themselves to a superior man, and through force of daily habit they may grow very close to him and become indispensable, just as the big toe is indispensable to the foot because it makes walking easier. But when the time of deliverance draws near, with its call to deeds, a man must free himself from such chance acquaintances with whim he has no inner connection. For otherwise the friends who share his views, on whom he could really rely and together with whom he could accomplish something, mistrust him and stay away.

STANDSTILL. Evil people do not further
The perseverance of the superior man.
The great departs; the small approaches.
Heaven and earth are out of communion and all things are benumbed. What is above has no relation to what is below, and on earth confusion and disorder prevail. The dark power is within, the light power is without. Weakness is within, harshness without. Within are the inferior, and without are the superior. The way of inferior people is in ascent; the way of superior people is one the decline. But the superior people do not allow themselves to be turned from their principles. If the possibility of exerting influence is closed to them, they nevertheless remain faithful to their principles and withdraw into seclusion.

INNOCENCE. Supreme success.
Perseverance furthers.
If someone is not as he should be,
He has misfortune,
And it does not further him
To undertake anything.

MORE ABOUT TRUE FRIENDS ;

"Like a young, shapely girl who wears skimpy clothing because it gives her immediate easy power over boys, overlooking the fact that the beauty of her body is being gradually eclipsed by the developing lack of beauty in her character. The majority of people, of course, will neither see nor admit these things, and will prefer to share the family or social power because it gives them a seeming immediate advantage --- "

SOCIETY, THE BOY & THE GIRL - ( Quotes from: ROBERT XXXX ) : Like a nervous man, afraid of bad company, who goes to a rough bar and then gets excessively drunk in order to be comfortable there. Why didn't he simply avoid the bad company in the first place? No one knows. Mankind, who always pretends to be courageous and virtuous and entirely in control, must deny the fear and escape the fear by first escaping the intelligent awareness and sensitivity that would still be aware of the fear ---

At the same time, the girl is mistakenly giving her energy to the old clan rituals, forgetting her own divine girlishness while fear leads her to mimic her mother. In fact, humanity is terrified of this ancient mother, and has created vast social rituals to superstitiously placate her.

Perhaps you receive a phone call from Aunt Millie, who wants you to give her the address of another relative or maybe you receive an invitation to a family barbecue, What harm is there in this?

At first glance, no harm at all. The energy may seem innocent. But if you look more closely, you will see that these seemingly innocent offers lead you away from your own right mind, just when that mind was beginning to formulate something good. They take you far, far away from your own true thought, and lead you right back into the common mind forever peopled by the family prerogatives, superstitious religions, political insanities, and other strange artifacts of the collective mind.

Once you begin to think down in that dead common mind again, you never know what hit you. Your bright ideas are all gone, you feel a little tired, and you are off to the family picnic, there to add your unconscious presence to that of the others, all so that some family idea can live at the expense of all the individuals' lives.

Recently, the girl thought that she was confident about herself, and felt protected and safe. Today, she is still just as safe, but she does not exactly feel that way. This is because she has moved outside of her recent alliance with the lower mind, and is now poised on a more sensitive level of thought. Looking down and back to where she stood before, she sees that her former alliance with the world was quite negative, after all.

If she is to to be true to herself, there is nothing for it but to admit that the true self is a spiritual thing, alone in the middle of Infinity, not protected by anything at all. Yet exactly because it is a little spirit inside of a big spirit, and because its only reality is made from its own originating thought, then neither is there anything to fear, as long as it keeps its perspective away from profane ideas such as mortality, vulnerability, danger, hurt, and other figments of a distorted mind.

The girl can now look out at the social world at large --- at the world of families and conventions and of national and local taken-for-granted agreements as to what is reality --- and can realize that absolutely nothing of that unevolving mess has any validity whatsoever, and that it only keeps on keeping on because it continuously shouts more loudly than the
modest and gentle voice of the soul.

Thus does the girl remember herself, and then she remembers the boy. He, at the moment, is dreamy and vague, and would appreciate a friend who recognizes his better nature. Perhaps they might communicate now.

Positively, today can honor the spirit of family, home, and ultimate foundation while not detracting from the individual. But only a very experienced individual can accomplish this without being fooled.

The transition to an all-female power is just about complete. But there is a little more to do.

Because they are accustomed to a power that has taken untold ages to develop, and are accustomed to their mothers and their mothers' mothers doing the same thing, mothers tend to consider their power as something common, ordinary, and unremarkable. Yet perhaps now, as that power is more obvious than usual, they and others might see that this power is, indeed, extraordinary, extreme, and completely unbalanced. It is a psychic, emotional, and physical force that gathers everyone up into its plan without regard for their objections. In fact, it runs the world, and hardly anyone notices.

Yet today, the mothers might say that there is really nothing special going on. There is a family party, vacation plans are changing, someone comes to the house and is given a cup of coffee and some cookies. Yet underneath all of this, something big is happening, a great change in which individuals' wills are being ignored, even as the group spirit goes ahead and does what it wants.

This overwhelming abrogation of power in the service of the ancient mother will probably clothe itself in the disguise of peace and plenty of food and harmlessness and silliness and infantile emotions. By doing so, it seems to be as ordinary as the air, and thus escapes detection. It is a highly evolved camouflage.

The attack upon the male is really an attack upon the boyishness of life, and the attacker is simply dead wrong. Seeing the error, the girl will be shocked, and will realize the source of her error as her indiscriminate alliance with the family itself, understanding that this family nature is all about the survival of the body and its social trappings, which survival is ultimately doomed and productive of despair --- while love forgets survival in favor of the soul, which is immortal and divine, and therefore capable of great happiness."
- ROBERT XXXX

Nine in the fourth place means:
Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man
And downfall to the inferior man.

In retreating the superior man is intent on taking his departure willingly and in all friendliness. He easily adjusts his mind to retreat, because in retreating he does not have to do violence to his convictions. The only one who suffers is the inferior man from whom he retreats, who will degenerate when deprived of the guidance of the superior man.
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If only you were Half as Lovely and Twice as True
If your eyes were half as bright
They still would light my way
If your heart were twice as true
Then you'd be mine today
That's why I often wish
That you were half as lovely, twice as true

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Silence Implies Consent
WIKI ;
Dec 5, 2013 - "Silence implies consent" is a concept of social interaction, which states roughly that people tend to assume lack of response to an action as ...
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Andrew Was Valuable, and Didn’t Need to Impress Anyone
Andrew obviously had a really good understanding of his value to his organization. He knew that that his skill of securing servers from hackers was important enough that he wouldn’t get fired for showing up to work slightly buzzed and in flip flops.
The thing I thought was really interesting about Andrew, is that he was very proud of the fact that he could pull off dressing badly for work. His wardrobe essentially says “I’m so good at my job, that I can dress like a slob, and people have to go along with it.”
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TWINS IN DREAM LAND : Where Are We When We’re Not Here? Twins are known to communicate while in a dream state. It’s my understanding that they will sometimes see their twin in a dream, then later call to tell them about it. Of course, the other twin already knows of the dream having seen their sibling too.

The passion from a lost “twin flame” can also bubble up in dream land. Here’s an opportunity to say the things that were never said and to maybe even embrace one last time. Here the emotional energy is just as intense as it would be in a physical state— and sometimes even greater. There are also countless stories of wives who dreamt of their husbands while they were stationed in combat zones in foreign countries. Sometimes the dreams were foretelling of a serious incident or tragedy. Such events serve to further my sense that we can’t possibly stay in our bodies while we sleep.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/07/02/where-are-we-when-were-not-here/

Watch the Company You Keep Proverbs 13:20
A friend of fools shall become like to them .... Associate with fools and get in trouble. ... He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: Psalm 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that ... Walk with the wise and become wise;
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The people we hang out with have a tendency to rub off on us. We become like those we spend time with.
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Sunday Psalms - Watch the Company You Keep
What they mean is that generally speaking we become like the people we associate with the most. If the 5 people you spend the most time with are of a certain ...

"You become like those with whom you
closely associate - for the good and the bad.
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses."
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Often times I look at people and see so much potential. I see the people they surround them selves with and look at what they do with their spare time and am saddened by the reality of the potential waiting to burst out, but yet will never come.

Who we are now is based on past experiences and decisions that we have made and the influence we have received from others, but we can't dwell on the past if we want to accomplish great things. Sometimes we need to make tough choices and make some changes in the friendships we have. At least we have to rethink who we are getting advice from.

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You are the Average of the 5 People You Spend the Most Time With
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“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An
important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative
thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will
change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you
to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to
crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that
don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this:
Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems
with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who
never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has
a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the
bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone
who's not going anywhere.
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(ICHING) A man must free himself from such chance acquaintances with whom he has no inner connection. For otherwise the friends who share his views, on whom he could really rely and together with whom he could accomplish something, mistrust him and stay away.
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Trustworthy people act trustworthy.
They don't give you reasons to question them or their intentions.
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Nine in the fourth place means:
Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man
And downfall to the inferior man.
In retreating the superior man is intent on taking his departure willingly and in all friendliness. He easily adjusts his mind to retreat, because in retreating he does not have to do violence to his convictions. The only one who suffers is the inferior man from whom he retreats, who will degenerate when deprived of the guidance of the superior man.

INNOCENCE. Supreme success.
Perseverance furthers.
If someone is not as he should be,
He has misfortune,
And it does not further him
To undertake anything.
Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and 'furthers through perseverance". However, not everything instinctive is nature in this higher sense of the word, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting, instinctive way of acting brings only misfortune. Confucius says about this: "He who departs from innocence, what does he come to? Heaven's will and blessing do not go with his deeds."
Nine in the fourth place means:
Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man
And downfall to the inferior man.
In retreating the superior man is intent on taking his departure willingly and in all friendliness. He easily adjusts his mind to retreat, because in retreating he does not have to do violence to his convictions. The only one who suffers is the inferior man from whom he retreats, who will degenerate when deprived of the guidance of the superior man.
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Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

King James Bible
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

True Friends are link Angels.

They are precious and rare,

false friends are like the leaves,

found everywhere.