Isn’t that how self-interests keep you feeding yourself to the insatiable business-as-usual (BAU) beast?
“We live in a society that demands addiction. The person who is best adjusted to this society is not dead and not alive because if you were fully alive, you couldn’t support the system.” Anne Wilson Schaef
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” Oscar Wilde
“Perception is not reality, since it is subjective, meaning that everyone interprets this world differently based on the experiences that they’ve had, and the belief system that they’ve developed. Only Truth is reality, all else is ignorance, deception, distraction, distortion, limitation, indoctrination and the elaborate mystery and illusion, that we call ‘life.’” Gavin Nascimento
“There are forces that affect people in the world that you must comprehend. You must gain an understanding of why people all think the same, why they have the same attitudes, why they use the same words and phrases, why they have the same responses, responses that do not come from Knowledge, why they hold to the same assumptions without question, why they follow one another blindly around, why they act mindlessly and foolishly and why they hurt themselves and other people.” Tom Christoffel
“Throughout our nervous history, we have constructed pyramidic towers of evil, ofttimes in the name of good.” Maya Angelou
“As soon as you follow a leader you cease to follow truth.” J. Krishnamurti
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John F. Kennedy
“What I’ve endeavored to say in all my books is that the flaw in our civilization isn’t in the people, it’s in the system. It’s true that the system has been clanking along for ten thousand years, which is a long time in the time-scale of an individual life, but when viewed in the time-scale of human history, this episode isn’t remarkable for its epic length but for its tragic brevity.” Daniel Quinn
“One of the strangest features of previous studies of naked-ape behaviour is that they have nearly always avoided the obvious. The earlier anthropologists rushed off to all kinds of unlikely corners of the world in order to unravel the basic truth about our nature scattering to remote cultural backwaters so atypical and unsuccessful that they are nearly extinct. They then returned with startling facts about the bizarre mating customs, strange kinship systems, or weird ritual procedures of these tribes, and used this material as though it were of central importance to the behaviour of our species as a whole. The work done by these investigators was, of course, extremely interesting and most valuable in showing us what can happen when a group of naked apes becomes side-tracked into a cultural blind alley. It revealed just how far from the normal our behaviour patterns can stray without a complete social collapse.” The Naked Ape
“We are on our guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.” Carl Jung
“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination, you see it for what it’s worth.” Terence Mckenna
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” Rich Cook
“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble […]
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation […]. Fools don’t claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs. They offend all the rules of conversation, and when they really offend, they’re magnificent […]
Morons never do the wrong thing. They get their reasoning wrong. Like the fellow who says that all dogs are pets and all dogs bark, and cats are pets, too, therefore cats bark […]. Morons will occasionally say something that’s right, but they say it for the wrong reason […]
A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars […]. There are lunatics who don’t bring up the Templars, but those who do are the most insidious. At first they seem normal, then all of a sudden …” Umberto Eco
“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility. For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” Neil Postman
In a world legally more tailored for corporate persons (especially Big Business) than real humans and our well-being, and where they have all the power to fund and orchestrate how they can continue to maximize profits and power, does the following resonate?
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei
“‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.” Brene Brown
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.” Morrie Schwartz
“The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. […] Complex problems do not have simple solutions … It is (also) far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.” Russell Ackoff
Isn’t it insanity to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect very different results?
“People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.” Unknown
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure” … “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” Victor Frankel
The opposite of a Scarcity mindset is NOT Abundance but realizing that you are enough as you are.
“Each of us has the perfect gift to give the world […] if we are able to each give what’s so uniquely ours — won’t we be able to create magic for and with each other?” Betty Lim
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J. Krishnamurti
“Our whole task is to make ourselves understood, and understand others as they wish to be understood, and not as we wish to understand them.” Terence McKenna
“The world we see through our senses is very different from the world we see through our essence. Senses perceive the world of appearance. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. “Understanding” has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.” Petek Kabakci
“All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. What will bring peace is inward transformation, which will lead to outward action … What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.” J. Krishnamurthi
Since you will not learn something you are not ready to understand, have you embarked on your voyage of self-discovery to understand your innate gift(s)? Because, as Carl Jung said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” Paul Farmer
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