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( Disclaimer: I’m not really a spiritual guru, nor should I be; I just sometimes like to play one in real life. ❤ )

The TEN COMMITMENTS

from Mister Lonelyhearts, with love.

1. I shall not seek revenge.
2. I shall forgive without forgetting.
3. I shall be honest about emotion.
4. I shall see opportunities in disappointment.
5. I shall challenge my fears.
6. I shall amend misunderstanding.
7. I shall move to defend, not to offend.
8. I shall admire where I might envy.
9. I shall love; never hate.
10. I shall recognize myself in everyone.

These are not COMMANDments for you, they are COMMITments I vow to role-model for you.

After I made these pledges to myself, I began to realize my capacity for love and happiness. If everyone in the world followed these guidelines, the Greatest Happiness would be achieved.

What is the GREATEST HAPPINESS?

• a theoretical moment in which every conscious mind will be relieved of fear and unnecessary suffering, at which time humanity’s ultimate potential will be made manifest; the physical realm’s approximation of Nirvana.
• While only one human generation will experience this future moment of Attainment, the hope of its existence should serve as the motivation behind every human action.
• It will most likely not be achieved during our lifetime, but the pursuit of it brings reason for living – which is reward enough for our part in working towards it.
• The concept was inspired by “the Powerful Goodness” that Benjamin Franklin addressed every morning, for which he drafted a prayer: “O powerful Goodness! . . . Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.” Of course, many believe that “address Powerful Goodness” served as his codeword for sparking a doobie to wake n’ bake.

Benjamin Franklin documented his daily routine in a 1791 autobiography.

And what is LONELY HEARTS CHAPEL?

• a spiritual meeting-place, not mutually exclusive with any religion
  • I like to believe that we’re all of us born Lonely Hearts.
  • When L.H.C. began, I would’ve described myself as “spiritual but not religious,” whereas now I identify with Catharism. (Think Christianity meets Buddhism.)
• REASONS TO LIVE (that work for me, at least)
  • Come peruse my therapy journals, so that you may feel better about yourself!
  • Join a Book Club with me, or partake of my reviews if you’re stuck on what to read next!
  • Worship at the altar of Cinema, here at WOODSBORO HIGH CINEMA CLUB!
• the NEW MEDIA TESTAMENT (a project that combines poetry and storytelling)
  • LONELYHEARTS 2016, a novel about “a bipolar pansexual at the end of the world,” which I started writing ten years and three presidential elections ago, only to abandon it after reaching Chapter 13, page 230-something. But methinks it’s high time for Miss Lonelyhearts to rise again. . .
  • DIGIMON and SAILOR MOON fanfiction (because it’s paramount to remain a child at heart!)

But WHY?

Hatred is nothing but miscommunication, with ourselves and with each other. I created this meta-fictional platform and persona to study and improve the ways people express themselves in the modern world.

love always,

Mister L.

P.S. — Should you find yourself in need of somebody to listen, about anything, please let me know. Even if you’re just lonely or bored, or most importantly if you feel you can’t tell anyone else in your life what’s on your mind. I’m here if you need to talk. LonelyHeartsChapel at g mail. Many have told me over the years that I give excellent advice, I’m grimly hilarious, and I’ve missed my calling as a psychotherapist. Just sayin’.