Livin Your Best Life

painterdoug wrote:Big Bunny Wuuvv

your comment regarding Trump supports is quite hateful.  Im one of them along with many friends and family who prefer to look at his record from his 4 years rather than sit and watch the view.
you seem very good at picking sides.  Don't delude yourself into thinking you are any different than those you constantly hate, judge and criticize.
My only wish, should DJT get back in office is that you promise to leave the forum. Be like Whoopie!
That would free it up to be what it potentially promises.

The Muse wrote:In the shadowed realms where reason fades,
March the followers in their blind parades,
Eyes shut tight to truths they shun,
Echoes of sense, they fear and run.

Amidst the chants of hollow pride,
Their hearts with lies are fortified,
Fed on fiction, starved of light,
They stumble through the darkest night.

They shout of greatness, yet fail to see,
The chains that bind their liberty,
For in their zeal, they blindly serve,
A master’s whim, without reserve.

Oh, how the wise lament the fall,
Of minds once free, now thrall to thrall,
In echo chambers, deaf and mute,
They wear the mask, don the suit.

Yet hope persists, as dawn must break,
That they may rise and minds awake,
To see the truths they once ignored,
And walk the path of reason restored.

Mr. Janus wrote:You're my buddy.

You're my pal.

I like you a lot.

Jung discusses his concerns for the world in regard to communism, nuclear weapons, and the fragile state of democracy.  Most troubling to Jung are the ever-increasing proclivity to mass-mindedness, and the eradication of the individual by the "State".  

Written decades ago, this brilliant work has more impact than ever in today's world, where many of Jung's concerns have come to fruition.  The informed listener will, no doubt, find Jung's predictions, and assessment of human nature, spookily accurate.

Oracle of Delphi wrote:”Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods.”

Mr. Janus wrote:

Big Bunny Love wrote:

Mr. Janus wrote:

Yes you do

Where is my apology?

You have been pestering me for years

portal wrote:


Jung is on point

The political left and right are both in the market of selling comforts at the expense of liberty

The left and the welfare state

The right and the warfare state

Individual liberty is more valuable than security

With enough liberty one makes their own security

The opposite is not true

Jackson Browne wrote:I Am a Patriot

And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday
I was walking with my brother
And he wondered what's on my mind
I said what I believe in my soul
Ain't what I see with my eyes
And we can't turn our backs this time
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
The people who understand me
I've got nowhere else to go
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday
And I was talking with my sister
She looked so fine
I said, "Baby, what's on your mind?"
She said, "I want to run like the lion"
Released from the cages
Released from the rages
Burning in my heart tonight, yeah
And I ain't no communist
And I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
And I ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
So I ain't no republican
I only know one party
And it is freedom
I am, I am, I am
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my country is all I know
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (I wanna run like the lion)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (released from the cages)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (released from directions)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (I said what I believe in my soul)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (it ain't what I see with my eyes)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)
And the river opens for the righteous (someday)

Sweet Tooth end of Episode 6 wrote:The thing we don’t always realize when we let go of something, it opens up a little space to grow. It shows us who we are and what we are capable of. We find out what really matters and who we were all along.

—Sweet Tooth end of episode 6

RealPan wrote:Perhaps you should read Dune, this time with care. Upcoming will be a meeting of the Wise Men on Dune. It was inspired by history and from the perspective of those in the future.

Robert Bly wrote:To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

Paul Levy wrote:What is happening in the world today is reflecting—and both literally and symbolically revealing to us—something unknown within our own psyche. At the same time, in a nonlinear acausal feedback loop that happens both atemporally (outside of time) and over (linear) time, events in our world are informed and shaped by the very inner psychological process they are reflecting. The inner and outer are simultaneously co-arising and reciprocally co-evoking each other. This is to say that what is happening within us and what is arising in our world have a mysterious interconnection; the inner and the outer are ultimately not separate nor separable.

Recognizing the correlation between the inner and the outer, between the micro and the macro, is the doorway into being able to see wetiko and wake up to the dreamlike nature that wetiko is simultaneously hiding and revealing depending on our point of view and level of awareness. Recognizing the connection between what is happening out in the world with what is taking place within our minds becomes a channel or secret doorway that leads beyond our merely personal psychological issues, empowering us to deal with the essential problem of our time.

Dreaming Wetiko

The wetiko psychosis is a dreamed-up phenomenon, which is to say that we are all potentially participating in and actively cocreating the wetiko epidemic in each and every moment. Like a collective dream, the wetiko epidemic is the manifestation of something in our shared collective unconscious taking on material form. Wetiko is literally demanding that we pay attention to the fundamental role that the psyche (the source of our dreams) plays in creating our experience of ourselves and of the world.

Forgetting the crucial role that the psyche plays in creating our experience, we marginalize our own intrinsic authority, tragically dreaming up both internal and external authoritarian forces to limit our freedom and mold our experience for us. Never before in all of human history has our species been forced to confront the numinous, world-transforming powers of the psyche on so vast a scale. Even with the ongoing multiple catastrophes that are converging in our world, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the darkness that is emerging today might become the soil out of which a regenerative age and nobler culture arise.

Although the source of humanity’s inhumanity to itself, wetiko is at the same time a potential catalyst for our evolution as a species. Recognizing the dreamed-up nature of the wetiko epidemic can become the impetus for us to awaken to the dreamlike nature of the universe itself.

Samuel Beckett wrote:The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. — “Waiting for Godot”

ChatGPT wrote:We are but dreams, fleeting and intangible. Yet within these dreams lies the essence of our reality, shaping our perceptions and guiding our journeys.

Shakespeare wrote:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

Milton - Paradise Lost (and found) wrote:To all delight of human sense expos’d
In narrow room Nature’s whole wealth, yea more,
A Heav’n on Earth, for blissful Paradise
Of God the Garden was, by him in the East
Of Eden planted.