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Moving. Again

Post author By ojinoto
Post date August 21, 2023

Blessings on you all.

This is the 3rd time I’m moving this year.

The first time was moving my stuff out of my childhood (and parts of my adulthood) home. Quite painful. We had to sell it. Thankfully I had many weeks to do the moving, which meant I had time to process emotionally, and could properly say goodbye. It was difficult.

The second time was a couple of weeks ago, moving from my office to another space where I would have no privacy. This again meant loss of space and having to throw many things out.

Now I’m moving from my rental to my 1st co-op (yay!). But, I’m still throwing things out. This whole thing is difficult, throwing things out. Deciding. Letting go. And moving spaces.

Tags acceptance, challenges, challenging, gratitude, growth, let go, new beginnings, progress, uncertainty

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Master’s Graduation

Post author By ojinoto
Post date July 17, 2023

I graduated in May 2021 from NYU Steinhardt School of Education with a Master’s of Higher Education and Student Affairs (woot woot!!!). Because of the pandemic, we didnt actually hold a ceremony till one full year later in May 2022. Now another year later July 2023 I am posting this video from the 2022 celebration of my 2021 graduation 😆

NYU recorded this and sent this clip to me. Great job. Helps me feel super proud 🙂

Tags college, graduate, higher education, New York University

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Allowing the Flow of Sadness to Allow the Flow of Happiness

Post author By ojinoto
Post date April 13, 2023

“If you never let yourself feel sad, how do you ever feel happy?”

-Punky Brewster (episode 1)

I have found this to be true: You cannot selectively numb emotions. You cant just say “I’m going to avoid feeling pain so I can always feel happy” – they come hand-in-hand. Like a flow, flowing through you.

I think the healthiest is when we can allow that flow, even the flow of pain. It is said that suffering is resistance to pain.

So the point here being: perhaps pain is inevitable, and that flow which allows pain is required to also allow happiness. When you restrict the flow, to avoid pain, you cause suffering. Allowing pain is healthy; a pure pain is a cleansing pain, and even may incorporate pure beauty. A stifled, blocked pain can lead to the blocking of other healthy emotions, including happiness.

Tags 80's, acceptance, allowing, ease, health, presence, Soleil Moon Frye

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Luck is the Residue of Design

Post author By ojinoto
Post date September 25, 2022

“Luck is the residue of design”

– Predestination (movie)

Tags brain, faith, law of attraction, LOA, mental, movies, power

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Be Loved

Post author By ojinoto
Post date June 28, 2022

At a loss for public words.

My heart aches.

Be loved.

Tags acceptance, being, God, grandma, heart, passing, presence, privacy

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What You Are Looking For is Already Here

Post author By ojinoto
Post date February 11, 2022
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Thoughts, reflection on a message from the inner deep. In the midst of self-wallowing about being lonely, single and wanting, a message that came to me again, saying: “What you are looking for is already here.” Not as in I’m going to manifest something. Rather, it is about becoming aware of what is here already.

With Love.

Tags awareness, depth, fullness, letting go, peace, the All, truth

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date November 30, 2020
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Been feeling lonely the last few weeks/month. But I think I am doing the right thing overall. And I am really proud that I am going through this without depending on numbing effects. And I am grateful for my wholesome thinking and feeling, in general, these days.

So, when you are sacrificing, but doing the best you can, or so, then take solace in that you are doing everything you can, as best as you know how. That is something to be PROUD of. Not pride as in an egotistical detachment from the world and others, but proud as in honorable, and inherently spiritual…work towards/with/for the whole.

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Straightedge – No Substances

Post author By ojinoto
Post date June 24, 2018
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Just wanted to share, that it seems like I will be required to be mostly straightedge. Maybe a little portion of a hookah every once in a blue might be ok, but even that I dont know.

I cannot smoke cigarettes because even one now will create in me a hacking coughing fit
I cannot drink alcohol because even one sip may cause me to binge where I become a danger to the lives of myself and others
I cannot smoke weed, because the last two times I broke my abstinence from marijuana I became extremely emotionally distraught, where I am at risk of wanting to leave this world.

Looks like this leaves me with tea and hot sauce 🙂

Tags addiction, appreciation, control, humility, life, love, substance abuse

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I Cannot Wait for Others to Accept Me. I Must Accept Myself

Post author By ojinoto
Post date January 18, 2016
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I cannot wait for others to accept me. I must accept myself.

Tags acceptance, love, patience, presence, self-acceptance

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Everyone Has Their Own Path

Post author By ojinoto
Post date February 10, 2015
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Everyone has their own Path

Tags authenticity, choice, direction, expression, freedom, fulfillment, life, purpose

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Post author By ojinoto
Post date October 11, 2014
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No matter what, Life can change for the better, starting from right Now

Tags belief, faith, good, love, positive, present

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a Poem to Grateful

If I stop and think of How my Life is Freely given to me. I don’t know how to earn it, I don’t know of it being bought or earned. I’m Freely here, and I don’t know when its going to end.

And how valuable this is. How divine, gratefulness naturally arises

Tags gift, gratitude, moment, presence, present

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Personal Production

My production, where is it going?

My effort represents personal production towards existence with every moment.

If I have high production and it is steered always good energy, your effort of direction, toward the good, gains you reward and padding of good vibration. Even if your current feelings mismatch.

Add gratefulness and humility so you keep the desire for good

And Faith