Have you heard the expression:
 
“To the victor belong the spoils.”
 
In the old days, the soldiers who won a war had license to pillage the villages. The winners could take anything they wanted. They stole. It was considered that they had the right. It was considered that taking from another made the winner notable and worthy.
 
Spoils, in this case, mean the winnings. The winner gets the winnings. That makes sense only in the world because the thinking is that a winner triumphs, so he must win something. In Truth, whatever a victor’s winnings may be, he hasn’t won anything. The world says he won. What he has won may be nothing except a few pats on the back and a swelling of his ego. This is a poor profit from winning. The victor may have the wool pulled over his eyes. He has been fooled. Of course, people fool themselves. The idea of winning can become insatiable.
 
This idea of being the foremost reminds Me of Sleeping Beauty’s wicked stepmother who had to be the Fairest in all the land. She had to stand out. If she had to be the winner, others had to lose. She plied a certain kind of war. Her life certainly was made up of selfishness. In such a case, what can be won but controversy?
 
Nothing wrong with a good-hearted good-spirited playing of a game. Play well. One team won, the other lost, so the world says, yet both teams have played well. Congratulations!
 

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

As we’ve addressed before, the wisdom of the Native Americans was vast. Theirs was a culture whose values spoke to an understanding of human nature and the interconnectedness of all things with a clarity only rivalled by the Buddhist traditions of the east. Dismissing the idea of the noble savage, it nonetheless becomes clear to anyone who studies their culture that they somehow reached a very ‘high’ level– a level found in very few societies today. This list of 29 quotes from varying tribes, as compiled by Liz Olsen at infoplease.com, is but a snippet of the wisdom they attained, yet, as with many Buddhist koans, worth reading time and again. {WP} 

S. Grant, Listverse
Waking Times

Consumerism and the practice of flaunting one’s status through clothes, jewelry, and other things has existed since the dawn of civilization. Yet, the endless cycle of working to buy has never been more rampant than it is now. How did the United States, a nation founded on Puritan, non-materialistic tenants become filled with the biggest shoppers on the planet and end up occupying 29% of the World’s consumer market? As it turns out, Americans were carefully and systematically manipulated into becoming insatiable shoppers.

HJ: Your higher self will always lead you down the path of your highest success, expansion, fulfillment and growth.  It is like your compass for navigating life in a way that always leads to more beauty, peace, health and abundance.  Sounds pretty amazing, no?  It is.  And being strongly connected to your higher self is truly the only way to live.  And so, it is with great pleasure that we present this highly insightful article by the always wise Brandon West.

- Truth

Accepting Your Calling and Accessing Your Higher Self

By Brandon West | Project Global Awakening

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The only true hindrance to any individual on this planet is themselves. Yes the educational system, financial system, judicial system, and political...

Each of you has the ability to hear The Universe. It is, however, defined by how closely you choose to listen. It speaks to you all the time, are you ready to hear what it has to say to you? ~ Creator

“To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” ~ Ben Jonson

The source of expression and manifestation, the fifth chakra: Vishuddha (translates to ‘especially pure’), the throat chakra, is the purification center which gives voice to our spirit. This is where energy transforms into our manifestations in the physical world. Situated at centre of the throat, the fifth chakra is associated with creativity, truthfulness, sound vibrations, honesty, loyalty and gentleness.