Some lessons only arrive after exhaustion. After years spent rushing toward purpose, survival, or success, there comes a moment when the noise begins to lose its authority. Slowing down is not surrendering ambition; it is returning to the only place real understanding can emerge. In stillness, we begin to recognize what constant motion was costing us, and what quiet truths had been waiting beneath it all.
Tag: spirituality
Today’s society is governed by a generation of “leaders” who seek to cultivate hatred. It’s no coincidence that we have the most ridiculous, feckless morons in the highest offices of the land.
Most of the things we fear will happen are entirely products of our minds and imagination. Symptoms of our accumulated patterning, programming and conditioning make for fertile soil within which our minds can quickly and repeatedly generate worry, fear and stress. Unfortunately, the world around us (that is, the unnatural, man-made world) has a bent toward reminding us perpetually about the threats that exist to our health and safety, our money and security, our planet, our rights and freedoms, and more.
The threat is enough. Given these conditions, the mere suggestion of terrible futures and outcomes there could be, for many, is enough to trigger latent energies, traumas and unexamined toxic beliefs that continually redirect, fragment and consume our time and energy on a daily basis.
The world is a funny place, isn’t it? Who could possibly come to terms with this level of perpetual chaos?
I’m angry. I’m angry because I love you, and care about your future — rather, our collective future and our wellbeing — and I feel powerless to protect you from those strange, delusional few who are out there: those whose aim is to foment and to feed off your fears, your need for emotional expression and creative satiety, your need to be seen, to be held, and to belong…to control your every move, to make you believe you’re fragile and weak, and then to profit from your self-induced illnesses.
I’m angry because I don’t know if there’s anything I can do about it.