I am excited about striking out on my own, but I’m also a bit scared. Just now, the thought occurred to me that I was sort of hiding in that relationship, hiding from the world, from getting out there and being myself, of living life without fear. What was it about S, or the way [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Striking Out on Your Own
Posted in Life, tagged control, courage, happiness, illusion, reality on March 19, 2011 |
Predictability of People
Posted in Life, tagged assumption, change, conditioned existence, ego-self, illusion, life, reality on February 24, 2011 |
I find the predictability of people to be very interesting—how easily you can predict what one person will do, and how hard it is to predict what another will do. Even though, for example, we may be able to predict a co-worker’s behavior in “the office” every day—and we probably make assumptions and judgments about [...]
The Struggle Between Reality and Humanness
Posted in Life, tagged conditioning, happiness, reality, religion on February 17, 2011 |
The other night, I was watching The Last Temptation of Christ, and (probably because of the inherent religious overtones) I was having some trouble understanding the struggle between what some people call “the spirit and the flesh.” The yearning to be divine, while at the same time being all-too-human. And I finally understood it, but [...]
The Unloaded Gun
Posted in Life, tagged attitude, belief, control, freedom, philosophy, reality, religion on February 8, 2011 |
(See “Hypocrisy in Morality” for the first part of this discussion.) Most people have it backwards—morality does not determine motivations and values, values and motivations determine morality. This is why organized religion has it wrong, because it functions on the former—false—principle. And it is why societies which attempt to function based on this backward logic [...]
The Need to Sanctify or Vilify Others
Posted in Life, tagged assumption, belief, love, reality, religion, values on November 20, 2010 |
The tendency of people to sanctify the dead illustrates their inability to accept and grapple with the complex realities of human life. It is an avoidance of reality. It betrays the discomfort people feel with honestly and courageously facing themselves with an open mind, of challenging their beliefs and assumptions. Is it wrong to kill, [...]
Sanctifying the Dead
Posted in Life, tagged death, morality, reality on November 13, 2010 |
I find it interesting, and a bit annoying, that whenever someone dies, usually a young adult, they are effusively sanctified by the people who knew them. They were the most amazing, extraordinary, kind, brilliant, promising person you could ever meet. The dead person is purified, made out to be a saint, an extraordinary example of [...]
Opportunity
Posted in Life, tagged illusion, life, opportunity, reality on November 5, 2010 |
It is funny how so often in life something happens which acts as a trigger, or a catalyst, or a puff to blow away the fog, which helps or allows us to see what we should do. For example, [my recent] job ending helped me to see that I should be doing what I said [...]
