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The Arson of Our Own Archives

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The Arson of Our Own Archives We keep begging external institutions to teach us how to build wealth, while our greatest financial, cultural, and spiritual institutions are dying of neglect on our living room couches. We’ve been conditioned to chase paper, titles, and material flexes, thinking that’s what makes a nation strong. But true wealth has never been defined by dead green paper. It is defined by living Axe' —the tactical codes, spiritual technology, and institutional memory carried by our Elders. The old Malian proverb warns us: “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.” Yet, we stand around distracted by cheap digital novelties while whole wings of our collective library go up in smoke. Today, under the radiant Green Flame of Ujamaa , we run the true Ancestral Algorithm: "Abundance is my natural state; scarcity is a false simulation." The system infected us with the scarcity virus so we would fight our own brothers and sisters for crumbs instead of buil...

How Your Feelings Stop You From Growing - Daily Toast 611171

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Peace FAM: On this powerful day of Imani, I was hit by the thought of feelings. I know the power of feelings when they are properly directed, but I have been held hostage by them as well. Often times we find that how we feel about some task will freeze us up, and stop us from doing certain task. We have to learn to push past how we feel on some of our quest, because our feelings are helping to hold us back. It is human instinct to want to stay comfortable, we seek comfortable position, and we thrive in predictable situations. Even if the thriving is moving us on  a long train ride to destruction. We hang on to old habits even though we can see that they are making us obeist, lazy, sick, miserable, and etc.. We have to be willing sometimes to jump over how we are feeling and get things accomplished. This is a tough process but often for us to make break throughs we have to do this. Our feelings are a guidance system, not a ruler that should command our lives and limit our actions....