{"id":3255,"date":"2008-06-22T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:43:59","slug":"the-world-you-find-is-the-world-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3255\/the-world-you-find-is-the-world-youre-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The world you find is the world you&#8217;re looking for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has a story this morning on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080621\/ap_on_re_us\/out_of_control\" target=\"_blank\">on how weak and powerless people feel<\/a> when they spend too much time obsessing over the news and not enough time pursuing their values.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share with you a photograph that seems to me to be a perfect expression of how weak and powerless humanity <em>really<\/em> is:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/NASApix.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Many more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasjim.com\/NASApix\/NASA%20pix.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The universe, by definition, is everything there is. But your every experience of the universe starts and ends inside your mind. Your experience of life will be precisely as splendorous or as squalid as you want it to be. Do you want to change the universe, forever, for the good? Start by changing the way you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has a story this morning on on how weak and powerless people feel when they spend too much time obsessing over the news and not enough time pursuing their values. I thought I&#8217;d share with you a photograph that seems to me to be a perfect expression of how weak and powerless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18547,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18547\/overnight-news-little-boy-toys-mediate-powerlessness-canceling-them-is-how-you-get-more-powerless-men\/","url_meta":{"origin":3255,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Little-boy toys mediate powerlessness. 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United States citizens not wanting to purchase a home have been powerless to resist Mr. Lereah's announcements that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lereah persuasive","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Lereah%20persuasive.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2394,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2394\/what-tricks-pay-off-in-the-searchable-universe-seth-godin-argues-the-best-way-is-the-long-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":3255,"position":2},"title":"What tricks pay off in the searchable universe? Seth Godin argues, &#8220;The best way is the long way&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Seth Godin has a new ebook, yours for free. What's the catch? Getting the value out of it is going to take work.There's an enormous amount of superstition about what makes some pages rank high while others languish. When you look at the actual figures, though, much of that fades\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1606,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1606\/ask-the-universe-are-two-corporate-identities-better-than-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":3255,"position":3},"title":"Ask the Universe: Are two corporate identities better than one?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This came in as an \"Ask the Broker\" question, but it's really a general business question. I'm hoping that people reading here will have some good ideas:I am a small real estate developer in NC. 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