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"Hope is like a road in the forest. There never was a road, but when many people walk that way, the road comes into existence." Lin Yu-Tang
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When We See Through the Narratives
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “COVID-19 is a human tragedy but has also created an opportunity to build back a more equal and sustainable world.” Can we take the opportunity this crisis forces on us, and rewrite our society’s stories? Continue reading
Who Would You Be Without Yourself?
Freedom is often a question of letting go of the stories that chain us down. Continue reading
Posted in healing, spirituality
Tagged acceptance, freedom, narrative, psychology, self-care
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Gaslight for America
Remember, the goal isn’t to convince people of your position. It’s to make them doubt themselves, doubt reality, and ultimately to give up and say, “Whatever.” Continue reading
Without Stories
Let go of all your narratives — Capitalism and Socialism, Left and Right, Science and Religion, Good and Evil. Notice how beautiful the world can be Without these stories Continue reading
The Dragon and the Bug
Soon, most of the businesses, jobs, entertainment, and schools that made up Sam’s inner world lay in broken heaps. People who could still work, worked for less, slept in the street, ate what they could. It got harder for Sam to stomp around the world or pretend to be great when its insides were in so much pain. Continue reading
Midnight in the Imperial City
The walls of the imperial city look magnificent
Impenetrable, eternal, stronger than God.
But look closer; they are only video images
Projected on tattered cotton screens. Continue reading
Not Going Back
Scarcity is a lie the rulers tell us to justify their own wealth. Continue reading
Posted in Reasons to Live, Uncategorized
Tagged courage, COVID, revolution, shutdown, wilderness
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Rewriting the Rules of Money
Money puts a number on the worth of all things, on our work, on animals and plants and people. It turns all of Nature and all human talents into commodities. How much money can we get for this forest? How little can we pay these guys to bulldoze it? Continue reading
Shutdown Forever
People would still have to work, but not to survive.
They could help others, grow food, create beauty.
Fix pipes and cables and roads, build things
Like the youth painting murals on boarded up windows. Continue reading
When Can We Stop
It shouldn’t be automatic that you’ll bear any burden and pay any price to extend life. Nobody lives forever. Continue reading