The Game

If people knew how powerful books were, they’d all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just like me!

If life is a game, and we forget how to play games... what chance do we have of succeeding?

Parents aren’t so different from us kids; they just want some help from us when we can give it. I think kids would have better parents if they were better at being kids.

If you can watch someone else’s life and be drawn into it, you can escape your own for a time.

Earth" is an acronym, which stands for Educational Avatar Reality Training Habitat. A clever, albeit nerdy, description of our intention for the virtual school yard we created for our children.

all of our lives would be better if we stopped expecting the world to hand us it’s treasures simply because we asked for them…

The extraordinary is simply that—a little bit extra than ordinary. There is great power in that little bit extra.

Belief is a remarkable thing. If we believe that we can do something, we can. If we believe that we can’t do something, then we can’t. Our belief system limits us, shaping our entire lives, as well as the lives of those around us.

Trust as much as you can, knowing that the gift of trust will likely be the thing that ends it all for you someday.

When you encounter the happy, live in that moment for as long as you can. Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed. When you encounter the bad, don’t live in the moment. Let it pass as quickly as it can, don’t focus on it, and whatever you do, don’t grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.

Chapter 22 If life is a game, then I've done a poor job of playing it. My time on Earth has been boring and uneventful. I've wasted my youth, sitting around doing nothing when I was full of life and energy. Playing video games, working at simple jobs, trading my time for just enough money to pay the bills and survive; not really learning anything or traveling anywhere.

Don't make it so complicated, children. The simplest answer is the answer.

it wasn’t as satisfying as he’d imagined. Growing up never is.

it doesn’t matter why. That’s just the way it is. If you want to breathe air, then you can’t lay on the bottom of a pond.

We as a race have never done well with mysteries; our minds want an explanation for everything. If we can’t rationally explain a curiosity, then, given enough time, most will accept an irrational answer. Science has helped solve many difficult questions throughout our history, but most remain unanswered.

This game we play is full of contrasts. It has to be. Being warm is much better if you have known what it is to be cold. The light is a welcome break from being surrounded by darkness. Earth is contrast. Nothing is bad nor good; things are just on one end of the spectrum or the other. Some periods in a person’s life are full of confusion, peril, and pain. Other periods are filled with times of clarity, safety and pleasure. I advise you to slow down and enjoy yourself when things are good. It can go on for years, but don’t waste one precious moment of the good times. Because the bad times come, and if you haven’t built up your reserves during the good times, you may not make it through the bad and into the next session of good.

This is one of the most powerful gifts a person can give to another, focused attention.

Games can be real. They can affect the outcome of everything a person is and everything they do.

Chapter 25 Magic, true magic, is safe and secure in the world for one simple reason: no one believes it exists. … We explain it away as luck or call it coincidence. … Magic does exist. It could be easily observed if only people were looking for it in the right places. … The extraordinary is simply that—a little bit extra than ordinary. There is great power in that little bit extra.

Chapter 24 Are Earthlings more primitive than we are, or more evolved? Whichever way you choose to argue, giving credit to their God seems to enable them to move on to consider more difficult questions and answers. Earthlings have progressed far more than we have in their timeframe.

Chapter 57 “Sounds like a strange grouping,” one marketing expert said from beside Nadine. “Cults, revolutions, and religions. All very different creatures.” “Not at all. The only significant difference is the motivator for the action. A cult is a religion that doesn’t gain popular acceptance. Revolutions follow a government or policy instead of a god. Religion centres around a god that becomes accepted by enough people to gain credibility.

Your life will improve dramatically when you stop expecting the world to hand over its treasures to you simply because you want them.

I do that a lot—study something and give it everything I’ve got until my gut tells me that I’ve learned enough. When that happens, I drop it just as quickly as I picked it up. There is a lot for me to do and see in this life of mine and I don’t have time to waste studying just one or two things for fifty years. Oh, the poor people who do that. They’re not playing the game very well, if you ask me.

When I was young, I had such plans, but I listened to the world when it told me I was silly and demanded that I grow up. Growing up made me forget how to play games and that turned out to be the worst thing that could have happened. If life is a game, and we forget how to play games, what chance do we have of succeeding?

hundreds or thousands of abandoned eggs hatch

It’s so cool when I say something out loud and it happens. I know it’s just a coincidence, but it makes me feel like I have a superpower. How cool would that be? To be able to say something is going to happen, and it does?

since December 21, 2012 came and went inside the Game. Despite popular theory, the virtual world did not end in a catastrophe predicted thousands of  Earth years earlier by the ancient Mayan civilization. So far, the only change noticed has been weather and season shifts across Earth. Hot winters and cold summers are occurring around the globe.