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The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
- Cornel West, author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953)
Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us or don't sound like us or don't pray like we do, that's an old playbook. It's as old as time. And in a healthy democracy it doesn't work. Our antibodies kick in, and people of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fearmongers, and work to compromise and get things done and promote the better angels of our nature.
- Barack Obama, 44th US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)
“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle ~ German author and philosopher
To be, or not to be, is not the only question. For acting nobly has nothing to do with fortune. We are awake only when we realize we are not the only one who is. Our cognition belies itself dissonantly when it separates us from those who make us who we are.
When we experience things in the world, our consciousness transcends itself as there is a tacit agreement between other conscious beings of a collective objectivity. In this, we are not only of the world, we are in the world, as each one of us is a part of the experience as it is happening right now.
But as the question entails, it could all be gone in an instant. The moment we are in will be all some have left, and yet, that doesn’t mean something cannot be left behind. The best objective is the collective good of each individual who make up the community.
This, however, is not internal. An outward gaze is what allows us to see responsively. It is our inward selfishness that holds us back into thinking we have only two options. But we don’t. We have been given life when others have not. We have an opportunity others will never have.
Certainty will always be fleeting, things are meant to come and go. How conscious we are of today will forever be tied to how vigilant we are for those around us. We must be mindful so as to not get caught up in only our own.
At the end of it all, we know where we’ll be. But what we know not yet, is how our being helps others exist in a world where so few never can.
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QuoteoftheDay 'If you take revenge, you are causing great harm to yourself because it will strengthen your Ego.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff.
- Lewis Grizzard, humorist (20 Oct 1946-1994)