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Destiny Bends Toward Wisdom
I would say that I can’t hide from another human being at any moment. I’ve got to be really present in shared awareness and in love. Where they are is their problem, but I’ve got to be fully available in every moment.
Now the question is, is that a burden?
It’s only a burden if you hold onto the stuff, otherwise, you’re just sitting in emptiness all the time…
Our culture is so obsessed with personality and individuality. We have two places we gotta go, one is to awaken to the fact that we’re a part of the system — we’re a part of families and communities, and an ecosystem, and that’s a fundamental identity for us, as much as our individualism, and if we don’t awaken to that, we basically don’t survive. Humans get done in.
The other is that we have to go out of our separateness into the place that I’ve been talking about. Those are the two jobs we have on Earth at this moment. — Ram Dass
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it.
To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.
With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy,
our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will…
