Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Out of the Darkness, Into the Light

 

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.  It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.  If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.   To live with courage, purpose, and connection—to be the person whom we long to be—we must again be vulnerable.  We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.  There is no intimacy without vulnerability.

Accountability is very simple, three things: authenticity, action, and amends.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.  Vulnerability is not winning or losing.  It’s having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome.   Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust.  It’s not oversharing, it’s not purging, it’s not indiscriminate disclosure, and it’s not celebrity-style social media information dumps.  Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them."

Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability, 2013

"Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength — but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it."

Léon Bloy

"What is hell? I maintain it is the pain of being unable to love."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Proclaim the truth and do not be silent in fear.  We have had enough pressure to be silent.   Cry out with a thousand voices.  The world is rotten because of silence.  You know that every evil is founded in the love of self.  Self-love is a fog that takes away the light of reason, which sustains itself by the light of faith.  One is not lost without the other.

Love transforms us into what we love.  Out of darkness is born the light.  Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire."

Catherine of Siena

And so ends the month, the quarter, and the first half of 2024.

Much of the trading today was driven by this calendar event, and the rebalancing of stock indices.

Gold and silver held steady.

The Dollar chopped sideways.

Next week we will have the June Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.

I didn't watch the presidential debate last night, but the outcome was fairly predictable.

I never voted for Biden, as he was in the bloodline of Clinton, and I could never vote for Trump, because he is in thrall to the power of the darkness in this world.

So, it will no doubt be an interesting year.

A couple of countries are evidently on a gradual descent into hell.

Let's hope that people will begin to wake up and see the light. 

And let us never hesitate to look to ourselves, because we are no more immune to the allure of evil than anyone else.

Have a pleasant weekend.