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    Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age
    Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age
    Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age
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    Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age

    By James Hilgendorf

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    A Handbook of encouragement and inspiration for the youth of America and the world today. Short insightful writings of the author, combined with quotes of famous international figures, provide a roadmap of hope for the youth of today, who have it in their power to create a new world and a new civilization. From the book's cover: "Youth of America and the World -- At a turning point in all of known and unknown history, the world needs you. You are the fulcrum by which history can be leveraged and changed. Nothing is as powerful as one person drawing upon the vast powers of the universe. This has to be you. This book is a book of voices, my own among them, urging you on. Be an instrument of overcoming and victory and change."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Hilgendorf
    Release dateMay 11, 2014
    ISBN9781310578434
    Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age
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    James Hilgendorf

    James Hilgendorf is the author of nine books - "Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective", "The Great New Emerging Civilization", "The New Superpower", "The Buddha and the Dream of America", "A New Myth for America", "Poems of Death: Time for Eternity", "Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age", "Maybe We Need a New Religion", and "Forever Here". He is also the producer of The Tribute Series, a series of highly-acclaimed travel films that are in homes, libraries, and schools all across the United States, several of which have appeared on PBs and international television.

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      Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age - James Hilgendorf

      Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age

      by

      James Hilgendorf

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      Published by James Hilgendorf at Smashwords

      Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age

      Copyright 2014 James Hilgendorf

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age

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      Prologue

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      Ours is a time of immense disruptions:

      The world is fracturing along cultural, ethnic, racial, and national lines

      wars seemingly endemic to our species

      droughts and winds, polar caps melting

      rising waters, hurricanes, angry heavens

      another deadly incurable epidemic threatening around the corner

      falling incomes

      loss of faith in governments

      unbelievable poverty

      the center of everything about to spin out of control

      politicians locked in power struggles and greed

      students and the future loaded down with debt

      no jobs

      suicide bombers

      terrorism

      fanaticism

      defamation of women

      lock downs at schools

      aimless gunners

      religions at one another's throats

      bombs so big they annihilate a country.

      thousands of atomic and hydrogen bombs on hair-trigger alert built to save us from the madmen who roam throughout the world on wild horses and subways...

      This is our world in a muddied age.

      Youth, this is your world, your age, your stage.

      Time to stand up. There is nothing you cannot do. Believe it.

      We are at a turning point in all of known and unknown history. The world needs you. You are the fulcrum by which history can be leveraged and changed.

      Nothing is as powerful as one person drawing upon the vast powers of the universe.

      This has to be you.

      This book is for you. This book is a book of voices, my own among them, urging you on. Be an instrument of overcoming and victory and change.

      You are the one all of history has been waiting for.

      In small ways, in large ways, in the way you challenge your own demons to grow beyond your yesterday self; struggling to reshape your own destiny to add to a larger vision of humankind; to the transformation of self and the transformation of society into a world of justice and compassion and peace; each moment impelling our universe into new and heretofore unexplored realms of the heart.

      This is your task.

      Remember everything that has come before. Remember these voices.

      They show you the way.

      __________________

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      Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - President Barack Obama.

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      Born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller was a normal child, until, at age 19 months, she contracted an illness which left her both blind and deaf for the rest of her life.

      After several terrible, lonely years, she met her lifelong teacher, Anne Sullivan, who, through immense patience, guided Helen and taught her to communicate with the outside world through language.

      Despite enormous handicaps, Helen Keller went on to become one of the most admired women of her century. She published 12 books, and encouraged audiences around the world. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and, in 1999, was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

      Here are some of the things she has to say to you:

      Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

      Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

      "Many persons have a wrong idea of what

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