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The Single Most Important Thing About You.

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It is quite an awe-inspiring legacy, viewed from a grand perspective. You have such a rich history encoded in your unique DNA . I wish that we could actually read that book together, chapter by chapter, from end (today) to beginning (the first murmurings and grunts of our species). It took such an amazing journey to bring you here. And now that you have arrived, no one other person in the world could take your place or assume the amazing work of being you. You were bred for being something unique. And you are instilled with such amazing genetic memory . Draw upon your instincts, intuition and dreams to draw this memory forth. --------------- Let us simply look at the math regarding Bearers Of The Torch who participated in the amazing process which brought it to you. Bearers Of Your Torch - The Number Of Torchbearers (Genetic Predecessors And Contributors To Your Genetic Composition) Leading Up To The Miracle Of Your Birth: Parents        2 Grandpare...

I Will Teach You Nothing - You Will Learn Much From Me

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Image via Wikipedia  - Rene Descartes : philosopher, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a fellow with an unkempt but nonetheless fascinating hairstyle. Most individuals don't actually understand the distinction between teaching (a third-person exercise) and learning (a first-person exercise).  When a wise philosopher [ most philosophers are assumed to be wise -- this is principally out of respect, I believe, for any person with the wondrous ability to a ) survive without actually having to either earn a living by some sort of work, or b ) with the good fortune to be leisurely whittling away at a substantial familial inheritance while pontificating about whatever happens to be on his or her mind ] said to one of his disciples ( every successful philosopher worth his weight in either hemlock or horse manure must have disciples ): " I will teach you nothing. And you will learn much from me," he was not even stating a clever paradox. There actually is no puzzle o...