I do hope that you get to swallow a few bitter pills regarding the things that you’ve felt certain about for so long, as some tenet—belief, opinion, dogma—that’s been believed and just held onto for centuries, or perhaps even millennia.
Tag: beliefs
Why would you want to live longer?
This life can be quite difficult. With all the frailties of the body, the mind, and the fragmentation and disconnection of spirit, it’s utterly overwhelming at times.
When you finally come to grips with the idea that much of Western (or modern, capitalist/consumerist) society exists within a low-level mental cloud of illusory belief systems, you will realize that there is a lot that you need to unlearn, in an effort to reframe your world as you know it.
To me, commitment is the choice to walk the walk; the decision to own the talk. Conviction, then, is the development of an unshakable belief in the walk, while forging (or tapping into) a deeper resilience along the way.
Yes, if you keep doing what you are doing, because you believe what you believe, things will occasionally change, a little, but mostly, they’ll remain the same.