One of the things I find myself struggling with is the fact that you can’t always combat violence with passivity. One of the reasons for this is the obvious fact that violence can end the life of the passive, who therefore no longer has the opportunity to defend or express his position and ideas. And [...]
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
The Ego is a Wily Trickster
Posted in Life, tagged conditioned existence, courage, ego, love, process, truth on December 10, 2011 |
When one talks about ‘changing the world,’ he or she is really talking about people, and the effects that people have had on the environment. The way to ‘change the world’, then, is to change people. And wise people will understand that that really means that the way to change the world is to love [...]
How Selfless Can Be Selfish
Posted in Life, tagged life, love, relationships, self, selfish desire on November 8, 2011 |
One of the complexities involved with “love” and relationships is that often “selfless” acts are done for ultimately selfish reasons. For example, the way —— was with certain men she had encounters with. The things she did may seem selfless and “for him,” but they were really all about her, they were for her, to [...]
Self Precludes Love
Posted in Life, tagged ego-self, illusion vs. reality, love, self on October 31, 2011 |
I wonder about how and why people fall in love with each other. It seems to me that, more often than not, the reasons why one person falls in love with another person are more about him/herself than the other person. I think that this speaks, very much, to what real love is and what [...]
Freedom Fighter
Posted in Life, tagged reality, society, truth on October 22, 2011 |
The tools that people use against people like me are many, and they are often subtle and complex. They make you feel that you are wrong, stupid, arrogant, that you don’t get it. By the means of their conditioning—that they do not understand the way things really are—they are unable to really love, and so [...]
One of the things I need to resist, and I think I have been doing it very well lately, is the pressure to jump into the system. People want to push you into the system, even if they realize that you may not fit in it well. It is hard for me to trust most [...]
