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Simplicity And Courage
We live in a society that is set up in such a way; that it actively attempts to make people dissatisfied with what they have. Our culture is fundamentally toxic. This culture is making people sick, anxious, and depressed. It is making people unkind to others and also unkind to themselves.
— Gabor Maté
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“When you change your perception of the events you experience, you also alter the way these situations live within you.”
— Alberto Villoldo, PhD., The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power and Grace of the Earthkeepers.
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This is my message to the Western world — your civilization is killing the earth.
— Nemonte Nenquimo
We live dissatisfied and cluttered lives because we’re taught to by c a culture that wants us to keep buying. We are a race of hungry ghosts. We want, endlessly, yet real satisfaction escapes us. Few people get off that treadmill.
Even if we’re not running at top speed just to survive, we still feel a strange lack of something essential. Something’s missing but we don’t know what it is, so we chase diversions and shiny objects. We keep tossing possessions into the empty place where our souls should be but the palliative effect is only temporary. The newness always wears off; we’re soon hungry…
