Transcending the Rat Race

I don’t want to join the rat race. Not be enslaved by machines, bureaucracies, boredom, ugliness. I don’t want to be a moron, robot, commuter. I don’t want to become a fragment of a person. I want to do my own thing. I want to live (relatively) simply. I want to deal with people, not masks. People matter. Nature matters. Beauty matters. Wholeness m

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We are a culture that has made an idol of “work” to such an extent that in this culture, more than in most, people are identified with their work, their positions, and their financial security. This enslavement to society’s demands is rampant, out of perceived necessity and sometimes from misplaced ambitions. We have to acknowledge how much our ind

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The first step toward freedom is to notice when you’re falling into aversive control. In other words, you can’t stop running until you realize that you’re doing it.

For example, as you’re joining a meeting or beginning work on a task, you could ask yourself, “At this moment, am I oriented toward what matters or away from pain?” Sometimes, this quest... See more