David Roel

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I am about success. I define success as:

1) Career. I am currently taking classes to improve my employability. In one year, I will be working in the emerging Integral field, working towards improvement of the culture and the environment. My effort to help the world is the expression of my heart, and supports me and my eventual family comfortably.
2) Physical health and fitness. I work out five times a week. I work on muscle strength, muscle integrity, cardio, and flexibility. My body has the energy and aliveness to support me in my efforts.
3) A healthy, committed primary relationship. I will have a stable, loving relationship with a partner I admire and lust after, who is also a friend and helpmate. To attain this, I engage in self work, improving my spiritual/emotional relationship with myself.

I am about: Personal development and self improvement, physical fitness and personal health, philosophy, art and culture, spirituality and higher states of awareness, intimacy and personal relationships, financial improvement and goal setting, making a contribution to the world.

I am about you. What do you most want out of life? What is most important to you? What aspect of your life do you most want to improve? You can transform your life, and we can help each other, if you are interested in joining me. This is the only life you're given. Play it to win.

I learn and grow, and I'm looking for colleagues in this incredible adventure of life.

I look at the three major areas of human life: body, mind (career), and spirit (relationships/emotions). I concentrate on these three because if you can stay balanced in all three arenas, you are more likely to achieve transcendence. Career, body and relationships are tangible ways to benchmark progress in the intangible. Spirit cannot be accessed without going through the body, the heart and the community. That's why the chakra system starts from the most basic human needs and progresses upwards. Trying to access spirit without having mastered the earthly disciplines is called "waking your Kundalini up backwards."

The principles of my success:

1) Honesty. I am honest with myself and others.
2) Love. Love is a perception of the divinity within us all. I tap into, express, and share my love daily.
3) Persistance. Daily work and care. Every day, I connect with career, family, goals, exercise.
4) Clarity. I know what I want. I have written it down. I will pay the price to attain it.
5) Balance. All things in moderation. Nothing to excess.

Every day, I think of my long and short term goals. They are in alignment with each other, and with my deepest values and beliefs. I can accomplish them in a loving way. By them, I increase the net amount of light, warmth, and love in the world. Today brings those goals one step closer. Every day, I learn one new thing to improve my career skills, my health, my relationship with self and others. Every week, I advance toward my goals by 1%.

My greatest gift to the world is the best and brightest human being I can be.

About me: I graduate from Cal State Fullerton in Winter 2009. I have worked in radio, theatre, film, writing/journalism, graphic design. I work out. I meditate. I read a lot. I've explored many different spiritual and philosophical systems. I'm calm, easy-going, open-minded, passionate. I don't criticize, I'm not angry or violent, I'm not possessive. I'm stable and healthy. People say I'm a good listener, and an enriching, positive influence in their lives.

I'm interested in many different subjects, from health to politics to spirituality to science. I'm always willing to help others, when and where I can. I like reading. I love learning. I love good conversation with good people. I try to live in balance in mind, body, and spirit. I think honesty, and a strong ethical sense cannot be over-stressed.

I'm interested in Eastern philosophies. Some of my favorite spiritual authors are Ken Wilber, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Caroline Myss, Pema Chodron. I meditate and I embrace all faiths and religions as having some part of the Truth.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs. (But I don't preach to those who do.) I have uncommon views on politics, spirituality, health, etc. My idea of a fun event is a really interesting lecture, or attending a yoga or meditation class, or seeing a good documentary, or joining a book discussion group. I enjoy good conversation with smart, knowledgeable, informed people. I value the play of ideas and working on improvement, personal and social. I think it's important to try to improve self, culture and nature. I'm not dogmatic or argumentative. While I plan for the future and work on improvement, I still try not to take life too seriously. :)

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. -Hindustani proverb

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Heraclitus

Live dangerously. -Nietzsche

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance. -Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

What you take in by visionary experience you must give out by love and intelligence in daily life. -Aldous Huxley

Only the shallow know themselves. -Oscar Wilde

Energy is the only life. -William Blake