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likes
- FIRST AND FOREMOST, I LOVE MYSELF! Out of my self-Love emerges my love of many things, some of which are listed here.
- I love all things made with quality of workmanship!
- Nature
- Sex - I really love sex when it is coupled with love. Without love, sex is only masturbation with another’s body.
- I love music. By that I mean music and not the sounds coming from most gyms. This is the noise that so confuses rats that they can’t find the cheese! Music is also not the stuff that resonates with the children born to parents who didn’t love each other and who tried to glue their unhealthy relationship together with some poor unsuspecting Soul. To be such a child and to be attracted to such noise as they call music causes me to carefully reconsider my theories alternative to Karma!
- I love to exercise, for it is only through exercise and the foundational health principles I teach that one can truly develop a rational mind.
- I love God. I don't mean the God of organized religion, for he is but a human being without a mailing address. The God I love is amazingly humorous and completely non-judgemental, free of dogma. This God may best be described by one of Rumi’s poems in which he says, “…beyond judgement, there’s a field, I’ll meet you there.” In fact, Rumi may be one of the most Godly forms of expression that walked this earth! Therefore,
- I Love Rumi!
- I love organic, free range, natural, unadulterated FOOD!
- I love water too - yes, clean water of an artesian source.
- I love thinking and I love not thinking. Not thinking allows my thinking to be clear and precise. I choose to balance these two activities such that the thinking is always productive.
- I love improving myself. When I’m done, I’ll stop my heart from beating and my lungs from breathing and dissolve into God. If he calls me back before I choose to return, I will leave my dream to you!
- I love OSHO, Rudolph Steiner, Paramahansa Yogananda and his masters, Krishna’s concepts as portrayed in the Bagavad Gita, Spinoza and all the great philosophers.
- I love Plotinus who, of all philosophers, sings loudest in my heart.
- I love to debate on God and philosophy with the most developed minds I can find! That is Soul food to me!
- I love good books, documentaries on DVD or VHS and audios of all types.
- I love studying alone, in isolation, particularly as I exercise.
- I love Electra, my hand made Italian espresso machine and her matching grinder. It is She that has produced a reliable stream of the very best espressos in the world, and believe me when I tell you, I’m qualified to say that!
- I love my Mother. If you ever get to meet her, you’ll probably say what most people do, which is, “Wow, that’s your mom? She’s Cool!” She is! In all my childhood, whenever I was doing anything that most children were afraid to tell their mothers, I could and most always did tell her. My mother was as much a friend to me as she was a mother. Now, as an adult male, I can cherish the value of that and only wish everyone had the offering my mother gave me! My father died when I was eight and left my mother when I was very young so my only memories are faint, but I do cherish his jeans!
- I love that now, at 44, I’m learning to fully realize myself. I’m learning to BE, simply to BE. I’m leaning not to push, just to allow. Out of that, I’m learning now to truly be a father for my son.
- I love my son Paul Jr. He is a warrior on the path to enlightenment. “Paul, please don’t bang your head where I’ve left skin for you to see!”
- I love my brother Dusty and my sisters Kim and Barbara and hope that my life serves as an example for them. I hope my life provides materials from which they may pick and choose the parts they wish to incorporate into theirs as they see fit.
- I love the few great friends I keep. They know who they are, for they know I love them too!
- I love Sam Patterson, Doug Hetrick, Chris Maund, and my wife because they all just tell it like it is. No BS!
dislikes
- Dogma
- Poor quality
- Poor integrity
- Being in a hurry!
- Cigarette smoke! Imagine if every time I wanted to fart, I just came over to your table and shared that with you! Now, you can imagine how I feel when I have to breath repulsive cigarette smoke as I try to eat fine food and think good thoughts! I promise, I won’t ever ask you to consume my poisons.
- Those that lack a sense of humor.
- Those that choose to be idiots for the sake of getting attention when all they need to do is simply ask for some attention without the theatrics! Really now!
- Times when I know I’m acting against my own evolution.
- Riding on subway trains.
- Traffic jams
- Airport food
- Poorly made espresso, particularly from poorly maintained espresso machines.
- Animal cruelty
- I’m saddened when people write me letters after my lectures and complain about my statements, philosophy, actions, yet did not have the intestinal fortitude to be honest with me then and there. I can only hope such people can get out from behind their own shadow-self one day. It feels so good to be upfront with people! It is liberating and any person of any salt always appreciates it too!
- I’m saddened by people that get married and/or have children because of family or social pressures and not because they truly love the idea of a meaningful relationship or being a parent.
- Stupidity secondary to lack of effort or simply being apathetic. I must admit this really gets under my skin!
- Excuses - my First Sergent in the 82nd Combat Aviation Battalion said it best with the big sign on the front of his desk (a picture of an archery target with the arrow in Bullseye position). Anyone walking through his door could read the caption, “The maximum effective range of an excuse is 0 meters!” Most excuses are just bullshit anyway so just tell the truth and save us all, including yourself, A LOT OF TIME!
- Taxi drivers that get lost in their own town! On more than one occasion, I’ve had to get out of a taxi on the way to a lecture because the driver didn’t know where the hell he (never has a woman done this to me guys) was going! The London Black Cab drivers are, hands down, the best in the world! Hell, they even know where to find “The Ecologist” magazine! Seriously!
- Airline tickets that aren’t upgradable!
- People that piss on the toilet seat and leave it bring the worst out of my personality!
- Men that don’t know how to love and value a woman. Women that don’t know how to love and value a man. This isn't for not knowing, but because they are too chicken to actually experience a great relationship!
- People that keep a double standard. I find one of the worst mostly in men who like screwing every chick they can get their hands on, but who would try to kill any man that had sex with their wife! If you are one of them reading this, all I have to day is this, “Grow up!” Love is never love until you can give everything you love for yourself to another without reservation. Maybe if you’re lucky, my wife can teach you. She’s the personification of a true woman!
- People that expect a tip even when they give poor service! Don’t get me started here!
- People that don’t tip when they’ve been given exemplary service! Again, this is a dangerous topic to start me on.
- People that bang on my door and try to convert me to their own religion and have no answers for my questions, like, what day was Jesus really born, or, do you know what date they took all reference to reincarnation out of the bible? Or, What was Adam’s first wife’s name? Or, why was there a gap of about 70 years between the time Jesus was crucified and the emergence of any writings about him? Or, why is there over 2,000 variations of Christianity, when there was apparently only one Jesus Christ? Or, if the bible is inspired scripture, the word of God, why are there entire books written on the contradictions God makes in the bible, about himself and others (yes, I have lots of these books in my library!). Or, how many other of the world scriptures have you read? Oh Boy, that one gets a look like deer staring into the headlights of an oncoming Amtrak train!
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