How To Live In Interesting Times [updated With Pics!]
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"May you live in interesting times."
- Ancient Chinese curse
- Ancient Chinese curse
We live in a time of perpetual crisis. Wars and rumours of wars. Natural disasters. Financial collapse. Environmental degradation. These are the stuff of our everyday lives, especially if we pay attention to the news.
We are beset from every direction by voices begging to be heard. Everyone's got a message for us. The most insistent, pervasive voices are the ones trying to sell us something. A product. A service. An image. A moment of distraction. A quick fix. An answer, an explanation, a prediction. A belief system.
Hope. Fear.
"You need this," they tell us. "This is what you want, what you're looking for."
The cacophony is overwhelming.
Eventually, we become weary of it all, and desire only to tune out, to shut out all the noise. We retreat into nature, into blessed silence, where we can finally hear ourselves think.
And it is in the midst of quiet solitude that we find our truth.
Our beauty.
Our peace.
There is no purchase necessary. No belief required. No effort needed.
We realize we are free.
We are loved.
Perfection is.
All in the present moment.
And that is all that matters, right now. It is enough. Everything else seems but an illusion, far away, insignificant.
We realize that the game is to escape the game.
Play by the rules, and you will slowly lose.
Cheat, and you will only lose so much harder in the end.
Rebel, and you will be crushed.
Because you're still in the game.
The only way to win is to refuse to play.
Step outside it.
Make your own game.
But before you can do that, you have to find yourself.
Find your power.
And that's the challenge.
Good luck.
And may your interesting times be ever so much more FUN.
B)
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