iii. What is it like to be human today?
What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
The bogeyman
The gremlin in the closet. The more I ignored it the more perilous it felt. The more threatening and dark and heavy and dangerous
In turning towards it was like the bogeyman in the closet. The terror was created by me. In looking I saw there was actually something curious and useful and fun to play with.
The important point to realise here is that our own wounds are reflected in the wounds we inflict on the earth, and each other, and that the healing of the one may (in time) bring about the healing of the other.
The systems sounds are our wounds
Healing the wounded sovereign
By John Matthew’s
“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail
out to sea and sink.’”
Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .
You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.
Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?
As Parrish shows, we may imagine we are the protagonists in the story of our lives. But the sad truth is, most of us run on autopilot. Our behavioral defaults, groomed by biology, evolution, and culture, are primed to run the show for us if we don’t intervene. At our worst, we react to events without reasoning, not even realizing that we’ve missed ... See more
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
Good summation of modern existence. We think we’re protagonists and authors, we’re really spectators and flotsam carried by our conditioning
Most people think they are their thinking. In contemplation, we move beneath thoughts and sensations to the level of pure being and naked awareness.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
“If you don't move with the land, the land will move you.”
From Sandtalk
“Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies.”
Farnam Street - Shane Parrish
Uncover the truth, don’t trust what you think and say, look for the artifacts of your actions, of how you spent your time.
The art of settling
From settling for in life to settling in.
Lögom as example
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger