Heart over smart
Heart of Gold Bear is my pretend totem animal. That’s why I ran him back to headline this piece.
Lower-minded problem-solving can be clever, but it’s never intelligent because it always produces outcomes that elevate the ego over the greater good. When the lower mind drives how we engage with the world, our behavior resembles that of apes and other beasts.
The higher mind exists outside the body and allows us to navigate the spiritual realms of existence. It’s associated with the upper three chakras and is responsible for all high-vibrating, positive emotions rooted in the present moment, such as love, joy, gratitude, compassion, altruism, and empathy. The higher mind always puts love first and drives all intelligent behavior.
We unite the lower and higher minds by opening our hearts and awakening the fourth chakra.
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One of the reasons I quit lawyering was that I wasn’t smart enough. I’m a bad man, but I couldn’t get down with all the big words, legal mumbo jumbo, perpetual paperwork, fancy formal fonts, finicky formatting for fee filing forms, and so on. All that egghead stuff overtaxes my brain.
I didn’t know I wasn’t smart enough for the law when I quit. I just knew I was done. It’s been over a year since I left the law game, and with space around it, there’s no doubt in my mind that I lean way too meathead to be a lawyer.
These days, when I’m around my old lawyer buddies, and they talk shop, I can’t keep up. This isn’t a situation where “I could do it if I wanted to,” which I don’t. I just can’t hang. When I take it back to lawyer mode, it triggers intense headaches and nausea, and I need to shut it down. Smoking weed usually helps me get my mind right after rough trips back to Lawyertown.
It’s a minor miracle that I not only kept it together, but hard-rocked the law like a Ruff Ryder for 15 years—especially given that I didn’t smoke weed for most of those years.
I routinely took on the coldest of cold-blooded corporations and their armies of ice-cold, supersmart lawyers as a solo. More often than not, I got the best of them because I have a big heart full of love. The other side didn’t stand a chance when I led with it.
