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		<title>By: RuthSeebeck</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1617</link>
		<dc:creator>RuthSeebeck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a freeing article. I&#039;ve always felt that being &#039;led&#039; is easier and usually more productive than trying to force my life to fit a set of goals. Like the stream, my life flows toward wherever I&#039;m supposed to be, blessing whomever I chance to meet.
God does that as we trust Him to lead us. Even if we have clouds, His sky is always blue...
.-= RuthSeebeck´s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeebeckSolutions/~3/QqQTOhi3v20/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;An Inspirational Video 4 – 12 Things to Remember&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a freeing article. I&#8217;ve always felt that being &#8216;led&#8217; is easier and usually more productive than trying to force my life to fit a set of goals. Like the stream, my life flows toward wherever I&#8217;m supposed to be, blessing whomever I chance to meet.<br />
God does that as we trust Him to lead us. Even if we have clouds, His sky is always blue&#8230;<br />
.-= RuthSeebeck´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SeebeckSolutions/~3/QqQTOhi3v20/" rel="nofollow">An Inspirational Video 4 – 12 Things to Remember</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: Regina</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1618</link>
		<dc:creator>Regina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;To stop all the reaching, the struggle to wriggle out of one imagined fix and into another – but, to be here, and be me, and do just what I do without anyone else’s opinion or agenda.&quot;

I so relate with that statement.  To be authentic, true to one&#039;s own-self without pressing to be and do - or who someone says I should be (at a particular time and place).  It certainly would be a press towards a vision of what I may perceive to be right based off of emotion or anxiousness, instead of what I know to be true within me.

Success for *me* is very, very similar to what you wrote here (changed it a bit) &quot;exactly where it is supposed to be at the exact moment, and in each moment that follows.&quot;

I&#039;m &#039;anxious for nothing...&quot; --  thanks for bringing this back to my remembrance ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;To stop all the reaching, the struggle to wriggle out of one imagined fix and into another – but, to be here, and be me, and do just what I do without anyone else’s opinion or agenda.&#8221;</p>
<p>I so relate with that statement.  To be authentic, true to one&#8217;s own-self without pressing to be and do &#8211; or who someone says I should be (at a particular time and place).  It certainly would be a press towards a vision of what I may perceive to be right based off of emotion or anxiousness, instead of what I know to be true within me.</p>
<p>Success for *me* is very, very similar to what you wrote here (changed it a bit) &#8220;exactly where it is supposed to be at the exact moment, and in each moment that follows.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m &#8216;anxious for nothing&#8230;&#8221; &#8212;  thanks for bringing this back to my remembrance <img src='http://rickbutts.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1619</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant image.

I often ask myself, “am I flowing downstream?”.  Because if I&#039;m not, the chance is that I&#039;m struggling and wasting my energy on activities that aren&#039;t going to help me or others.

Where as when I let go!  And let life flow! It is amazing to watch how synchronicity happens, and my life becomes magical :-)

love&amp;gratitude
Sarah O xx




In Light and Love
.-= Sarah´s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/LiveinFlow/statuses/5395092992&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LiveinFlow: RT @TruthsCompany My good friend &amp; international bestselling author Brandon Bays launches her new book tonight: http://is.gd/4I6vy&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant image.</p>
<p>I often ask myself, “am I flowing downstream?”.  Because if I&#8217;m not, the chance is that I&#8217;m struggling and wasting my energy on activities that aren&#8217;t going to help me or others.</p>
<p>Where as when I let go!  And let life flow! It is amazing to watch how synchronicity happens, and my life becomes magical <img src='http://rickbutts.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>love&amp;gratitude<br />
Sarah O xx</p>
<p>In Light and Love<br />
.-= Sarah´s last blog ..<a href="http://twitter.com/LiveinFlow/statuses/5395092992" rel="nofollow">LiveinFlow: RT @TruthsCompany My good friend &amp; international bestselling author Brandon Bays launches her new book tonight: </a><a href="http://is.gd/4I6vy" rel="nofollow">http://is.gd/4I6vy</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr.Mani</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1622</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr.Mani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Queer coincidence?

I just finished reading the chapter titled &quot;Giving Up Role Playing&quot; in Eckhart Tolle&#039;s &quot;A New Earth&quot;.

&quot;Every role is a fictitious sense of self, and through it everything becomes personalized and thus corrupted and distorted by the mind-made &#039;little me&#039; and whatever role it happens to be playing....

If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what&#039;s left is who you are - the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

You cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.&quot;

= = =

And then I read this post!

Nice one, Rick :-)

All success
Dr.Mani</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Queer coincidence?</p>
<p>I just finished reading the chapter titled &#8220;Giving Up Role Playing&#8221; in Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s &#8220;A New Earth&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every role is a fictitious sense of self, and through it everything becomes personalized and thus corrupted and distorted by the mind-made &#8216;little me&#8217; and whatever role it happens to be playing&#8230;.</p>
<p>If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what&#8217;s left is who you are &#8211; the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.</p>
<p>You cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.&#8221;</p>
<p>= = =</p>
<p>And then I read this post!</p>
<p>Nice one, Rick <img src='http://rickbutts.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>All success<br />
Dr.Mani</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Hueina -

I&#039;m fairly astounded at the response this post has gotten. When I wrote it, I was pretty sure that one or two people would say something nice, but mostly I figured that the business readers would say &quot;fluff&quot; and wonder where the make money, list building, twitter tips would be.

I&#039;m excited to see that something soulful would matter. And, it was written by a MAN for crying out loud.

I&#039;ve been thinking of moving the business part of this site to StardustFactor.com - and continuing to write Rick Stuff here. I also own IMHBAO.com (in my humble but accurate opinion) so I could use that site for my Rick Stuff and keep the biz stuff here.

More and more I&#039;m wanting to separate things - but, maybe it should all flow through here. Like a river.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Hueina -</p>
<p>I&#8217;m fairly astounded at the response this post has gotten. When I wrote it, I was pretty sure that one or two people would say something nice, but mostly I figured that the business readers would say &#8220;fluff&#8221; and wonder where the make money, list building, twitter tips would be.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited to see that something soulful would matter. And, it was written by a MAN for crying out loud.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking of moving the business part of this site to StardustFactor.com &#8211; and continuing to write Rick Stuff here. I also own IMHBAO.com (in my humble but accurate opinion) so I could use that site for my Rick Stuff and keep the biz stuff here.</p>
<p>More and more I&#8217;m wanting to separate things &#8211; but, maybe it should all flow through here. Like a river.</p>
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		<title>By: Hueina Su</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1644</link>
		<dc:creator>Hueina Su</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Rick:

This is beautiful - remember who you are and non-striving (wu-wei). Thanks for the reminder to just BE.

Your friend,
Hueina
.-= Hueina Su´s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hueinasu.com/2009/10/stop-drop-and-roll-out-of-overwhel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stop, Drop and Roll Out of Overwhelm&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Rick:</p>
<p>This is beautiful &#8211; remember who you are and non-striving (wu-wei). Thanks for the reminder to just BE.</p>
<p>Your friend,<br />
Hueina<br />
.-= Hueina Su´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.hueinasu.com/2009/10/stop-drop-and-roll-out-of-overwhel/" rel="nofollow">Stop, Drop and Roll Out of Overwhelm</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1643</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Carrie -

I totally agree with the purpose part. I didn&#039;t mean to leave that out. I guess I just assumed (for my readers) that purpose was already in place.

But, now that you mention it, a CLEAR purpose would hopefully eliminate all that frantic hyperactivity. In fact - what IS a big year, a BIG success, BIG anything in this context but something we cobble together from our own imagination and the opinions of others.

Purpose - stream - hmmmmm.... Authentic understanding of who we really are?

Thanks for taking the time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Carrie -</p>
<p>I totally agree with the purpose part. I didn&#8217;t mean to leave that out. I guess I just assumed (for my readers) that purpose was already in place.</p>
<p>But, now that you mention it, a CLEAR purpose would hopefully eliminate all that frantic hyperactivity. In fact &#8211; what IS a big year, a BIG success, BIG anything in this context but something we cobble together from our own imagination and the opinions of others.</p>
<p>Purpose &#8211; stream &#8211; hmmmmm&#8230;. Authentic understanding of who we really are?</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time.</p>
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		<title>By: Carrie Wilkerson</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1642</link>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Wilkerson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmmm - God did awesome with streams, nature, our surroundings

I love it. I enjoy it. I take care of it.

But...I can&#039;t overlook that the stream is &#039;driven&#039; to fulfil it&#039;s purpose.

It won&#039;t be stopped.
It will go over or around obstacles.
It will do what it was created to do.

It may not have a timeframe...but it absolutely has a purpose and will not be deterred from that.

So...I see the same stream...and get perhaps a different message.

I won&#039;t be dissuaded from setting goals, implementing or being &#039;intentional&#039; -- like the stream, I feel like that&#039;s what I was created to do, to be.

I think we can be &#039;in flow&#039; and still be striving towards our ultimate direction.

Carrie Wilkerson
The Barefoot Executive


PS...hesitating to publish this -- all I see is a &#039;submit&#039; button and you know that is SO against my nature... LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmmm &#8211; God did awesome with streams, nature, our surroundings</p>
<p>I love it. I enjoy it. I take care of it.</p>
<p>But&#8230;I can&#8217;t overlook that the stream is &#8216;driven&#8217; to fulfil it&#8217;s purpose.</p>
<p>It won&#8217;t be stopped.<br />
It will go over or around obstacles.<br />
It will do what it was created to do.</p>
<p>It may not have a timeframe&#8230;but it absolutely has a purpose and will not be deterred from that.</p>
<p>So&#8230;I see the same stream&#8230;and get perhaps a different message.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t be dissuaded from setting goals, implementing or being &#8216;intentional&#8217; &#8212; like the stream, I feel like that&#8217;s what I was created to do, to be.</p>
<p>I think we can be &#8216;in flow&#8217; and still be striving towards our ultimate direction.</p>
<p>Carrie Wilkerson<br />
The Barefoot Executive</p>
<p>PS&#8230;hesitating to publish this &#8212; all I see is a &#8216;submit&#8217; button and you know that is SO against my nature&#8230; LOL</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
		<link>http://rickbutts.com/a-little-mountain-stream-has-no-goals/#comment-1621</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Markowski! Thanks for supporting my usual loud barking - and thanks to Amethyst for supporting my occasional gentle purr....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Markowski! Thanks for supporting my usual loud barking &#8211; and thanks to Amethyst for supporting my occasional gentle purr&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Amethyst Wyldfyre</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amethyst Wyldfyre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I Love you for writing this Rick.  Thank you for &quot;getting&quot; it - the connection to nature - who will show us all whatever it is that we need to know - and will always always support us - is vital to re-member now.

Many blessings as you babble along - merrily merrily merrily merrily down the stream - life IS but a Dream!

Peace and joy,

Amethyst
.-= Amethyst Wyldfyre´s last blog ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://amethystwyldfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/a-very-special-call-with-a-very-special-friend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Very Special Call with A Very Special Friend!&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I Love you for writing this Rick.  Thank you for &#8220;getting&#8221; it &#8211; the connection to nature &#8211; who will show us all whatever it is that we need to know &#8211; and will always always support us &#8211; is vital to re-member now.</p>
<p>Many blessings as you babble along &#8211; merrily merrily merrily merrily down the stream &#8211; life IS but a Dream!</p>
<p>Peace and joy,</p>
<p>Amethyst<br />
.-= Amethyst Wyldfyre´s last blog ..<a href="http://amethystwyldfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/a-very-special-call-with-a-very-special-friend/" rel="nofollow">A Very Special Call with A Very Special Friend!</a> =-.</p>
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