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History of Gem Collecting: Early Gemstone Explorers

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Gemstones History and subjects of interest

History of Gem Collecting: Early Gemstone Explorers

Did any of us need much encouragement to begin our jewel collection? Some of us devote a great deal of time completing our collection, driven by the passion for finding the next great stone. Just one more and it will be complete, right? No it won't, there will always be one more; or good heaven...let's just start another collection altogether. Oh, why not?

We may collect by species, type, color, you name it. There's no limit to the ways in which we decide how to assemble a wonderful collection of gemstones. Some people I know collect gems by the region of the world. An "all Asian" collection may have Peridot, jade, serpentine, pearl, coral, lapis lazuli, and the like. But how in the world did all this get started?

Fear; Are you running away from it or towards it?

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Fear: Are you running away from it or towards it?

We are like our four legged friends and to Survive we have got to be the strongest of Fittest

The triumph of the strongest and the achievement of the cleverest

Little is said about the splendor of merely loving

Accordingly you then join the pack and make every effort to be one of the strongest

At once if you were to see yourself as strong, fine, and most cleaver

Then, why do you see yourself as less

You then fear loss

Why, for the reason that you were told you would be less without these attributes’

Thus, as you run away from yourself, which is fear, you are carrying it with you and it is[ "oh so heavy a load"

It is attached to you, so stop and chose love in all your actions and responses

You will do much more then win

It’s like climbing to the top of the mountain; as the mountain goat was made to do

You were not meant to live a life that is meant for others, and their false illusions

So STOP NOW leave your fear and throw it behind you, allow it to fall and to crumble to the ground like dust

it's like a weak disgusting waste of trash and is meant to discarded

With love you win!

Love & Peace

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Fear: Are you running away from it or towards it?

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