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How We Were All Conditioned to Worry About the Future

  ''There is too much 'go-go-go' and not enough just 'sit and be', especially in the western world, a culture that has created a population of stressed-out neurotics both chasing and at the same time dreading their collective futures.''  —Michael Corthell   ''We have an absolutely extraordinary attitude in our culture, and in various other cultures, high civilizations, toward the new member of human society. Instead of saying frankly to children, "How do you do? Welcome to the human race!" we are playing a game and we are playing by the following rules: we want to tell you what the rules are so that you know your way around, and when you understood what rules we are playing by when you get older, you may be able to invent better ones. But instead of that, we still retain an attitude to the child that he is on probation; he is not really a human being, he is a candidate for humanity. And in just this way, we have a whole system of prepar

Born Again!

 Rejoice! Each and every morning, we are all born again. What we do in this present day is what matters most. Everything has a beginning and has an ending. Accept that truth and all will be well. Peace, my friends! Michael Corthell

NOW is the Time

  Time is a concept of the human mind, that can exist only within the mind. Outside of our minds and its multiplicity of concepts and theories, there is only the ever-present, continuous, and uninterrupted present. (The ensō I used in this meme symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and mu (the void))