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    The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life
    The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life
    The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life
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    The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life

    By Amadeus

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    Let your horizons expand as you and your friends spend time enjoying the art of conversation and the nurturing of ideas. Amadeus begins the conversation as a good host shouldby recommending wine, cheese, and a song to accompany the evenings short vignette on an irreverent and humorous look at a truth of life.

    Each story contains both wit and a profound analogy that touches the human condition in way that engages the heart and mind. The fun really begins after each chapter, because that is the time to challenge Amadeuss viewpoint with your own understanding of the moral of each story. Very soon new ideas emerge, and the excitement of new thoughts swirls to the beat of an energized dialogue and a higher plateau of vision.

    I love it! Love and light.

    - Anke Otto-Wolf, author of Give Your Soul a Gift

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateNov 11, 2013
    ISBN9781452585352
    The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life
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    Amadeus

    Amadeus is an author, educator, relationship counselor, researcher, lecturer, workshop facilitator, motivational speaker, and a jazz and classical pianist. More information is available at amadeuspublishing.org.

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      The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life - Amadeus

      Copyright © 2013 Amadeus.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Author photo credit: Craig Stuart

      Balboa Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-8534-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-8536-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-8535-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013919468

      Balboa Press rev. date: 11/8/2013

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Prologue

      1.   The Meaning of Life

      2.   If You Can’t Drive in Your Own Lane…

      3.   Buddha Lives in a Dog’s Smile

      4.   Don’t Bark if You Won’t Bite

      5.   Three Point Five

      6.   If You Think You Are Special, Then You Aren’t

      7.   I Choose Not to Participate

      8.   It’s Just Going to Take a Little While

      9.   LMAO, and You Should Too

      10.   Eyes Work Only When They Are Open

      11.   Coincidence? I Don’t Think So

      12.   Take Out the Garbage

      13.   Inventory Yourself

      14.   An Infinite Number of Monkeys

      15.   Poetry, Songs, and Butterflies

      16.   Breathing and Kindness Are One in the Same

      17.   A Slapped Cheek Is a Past Event

      18.   Even When I Was Broke, I Was Rich

      19.   Incomplete

      20.   Boy Meets Girl

      21.   Figure It Out

      Acknowledgments

      T o every happy moment and to every hurt experienced, I say thank you. There, I have satisfied karma. Now let me thank the good hearts who shared time and input to make The Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life a reality.

      Bill Barns, good friend and very talented musician, thank you for the input on songs selected for each chapter. I learned a little bit about my own writings from the material you chose.

      Josh Weber, wine connoisseur and the chosen one of cheese selections, I say thank you. Your words of support (and wise wine dedications) have meant a great deal to me.

      And truly, in this case, the last shall be first. My beautiful wife, Lanna, endured many years of my fits and starts as I accumulated the bruises that have led to this diatribe of humor and philosophy. Thank you for being the patient soul who is always there with such a gentle and loving touch.

      Truths is dedicated to Yona, my best fur-covered friend, who left my side July 1, 2013. The cover art work is a Spirit totem painting of Yona by artist extraordinaire Sioux Storm. Understanding who Yona’s Spirit guides in this life were brought the two of us closer as fellow travelers on the same plane. Thank you Sioux for sharing your special gifts and thank you Creator for placing all of these wonderful beings on the same playground at the same time with me.

      Much love to all!

      Prologue

      T he Twenty-One Irreverent Truths of Life is intended for those who like to laugh as they pursue a course in the basic building blocks of how to take life head-on.

      There are only three topics of discussion in which we ever engage. The first is people. We spend a lot of time digging into other people’s motives, peculiarities, and blunders. Humans normally look out across the landscape, and the first items they see are people, and that is what generates the basis of our conversations.

      Certainly when we discuss the beauty and wonderments of our own individual endowments, we are still on the plane of talking about people. For the most part, our opinions of others (and ourselves) are based on emotion, with varying degrees of objectivity. Gossip resides at one end of the scale and empirical performance reviews lie at the other. Either way, we are talking about people.

      Second comes the topic of things. Things are physical manifestations that can be red, shiny, fast, green, soft, or sweet smelling. Things can delight us, serve us, or make us frightfully agitated. In any case, things (for the most part) do not meet the standard of anything found beyond three-dimensional boundaries.

      Things can be quite wonderful, and without things we would certainly perish. Banish the thought of banishing things! Understand

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