The Kingdom Within: Waking and Dreaming as One Creation
Michael La Pere Michael La Pere

The Kingdom Within: Waking and Dreaming as One Creation

You are dreaming right now, and every choice you make — from the way you sip your coffee to the way you speak when no one’s listening — is already laying the stones, planting the seeds, and painting the walls of the dream you’ll walk through tonight. Waking life doesn’t just influence your dreams in the poetic sense; it bleeds into them directly, turning stubbed toes into tripping hazards in dream alleys and unresolved tensions into midnight confrontations. The emotional maturity you cultivate while awake becomes your dream‑self’s compass, shaping whether those moments become healing encounters or fresh traumas. Ancient wisdom, from the law of sowing and reaping to the Gnostic call to awaken the divine spark, agrees on this: you cannot escape what you build. The present moment is the only altar, savoring is the spell, and every breath is a brushstroke on the canvas of your inner world — a world you will inevitably inhabit, asleep or awake, and one you can choose to enter not as a stranger, but as its architect.

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Peace is My Protest, Love is My Legacy
Michael La Pere Michael La Pere

Peace is My Protest, Love is My Legacy

✊ Peace is My Protest, 💗 Love is My Legacy

There are so many ways to be in the world.
We can march. We can shout.
We can run from one thing to the next, our frantic pace a loud declaration against the things we are fighting.

But what if the most powerful rebellion of all was a quiet one?

Peace is my Protest.

In a world that loves the noise, peace is an act of radical resistance.
It is a quiet revolution that begins not on a battlefield, but in a moment of stillness.
It is the courageous choice to put your phone down, to look up at the sky, to feel the rhythm of your own breath—even when your mind is telling you to be a part of the chaos.

This is a protest against the belief that our worth is measured by our output,
that our value is found in our busyness,
or that our minds must constantly be engaged to be alive.

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🌊 The River of Life
Michael La Pere Michael La Pere

🌊 The River of Life

Life is a River
A living, breathing force—fluid, untamed, and always in motion.
Not something to conquer, but something to enter.
Not something to master, but something to feel.

In the Hippy Dippy Life, we don’t ask you to control this river.
We invite you to paddle it.
To meet it.
To become it.

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The Hippy Dippy Life
Michael La Pere Michael La Pere

The Hippy Dippy Life

"Hippy Dippy Life" is not a stereotype. It's a quiet revolution.

It is not a retreat from the world, but a deeper way of being in it. It is the gentle, courageous choice to begin a different kind of journey—not an escape from yourself, but a deeper way of inhabiting it.

This quiet revolution unfolds in the smallest moments. It is the practice of:

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