Sublime

(5) But the Real is much more than this “reality”! The real refers to the endlessly changing stream of life, “the unbroken wholeness,” to use Physicist David Bohm’s wonderful expression, out of which everything comes, including the Planet we all share. As the Manifesto puts it, the real is characterized by radical open-endedness and becoming. In

The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse.

Be honest. Your own life experiences have been far from ideal. But what you have experienced is what is real, not what you would like to experience. In short, the nature of reality is this:

Life includes pain and adversity.

The future is uncertain.

Accomplishment of any kind requires discipline.

You are not special. No matter what you do, you cannot

That’s how you build worlds. All worlds, if you’re going to have a world, you’re going to have to have societies. And every society has laws and rules to protect people from each other and also to protect people from themselves. Otherwise, you have chaos, you have anarchy, you have blood in the street.

The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying.

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