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Good Morning/Afternoon Tumblrs!
How can we keep on hurting nature, yet believe that, in the end, we won't hurt ourselves?
The crisis we're now going through is a distressing yet much-needed wake-up call.
A wake-up call showing us what we've done to our planet.
The abuse of the animals.
The cutting down of the forests.
The strip mining of the mountains.
The erosion of the soil.
The pollution of the air.
The melting of the ice caps.
The trashing of the oceans.
The bleaching of the coral reefs.
Now we reap what we've sown.
Pain.
Death.
Suffering.
The question is:
How much suffering are we willing to take before we stop making all life on Earth suffer?
How much pain and death do we need to see until we realize that we are part of nature, and not apart from it?
Perhaps the virus we're so afraid of is there to remind us that we behave like a virus to our larger body.
Or maybe to remind us of the deeper part of ourselves.
Our kindness.
Our generosity.
Our love.
Maybe it's there to remind us of our humanity.
Our humanity that we have long forgotten.
By Sofo Archon
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In memory of all the life and beauty that has been lost due to mindless human activity.*
Love is a free bird and in many cases marriage is its prison. - SOFO ARCHON
Are You Truly Living Your Life? You live, but are you living the way you want to live, or the way others want you to live? You choose, but are your choices based on your own decisions or on the decisions imposed on you by society? You act, but are you acting out of your conditioning or out of your conscious will?
But what is the point of living this way? Life can be lived in a totally different way — a way that allows us to live up to our fullest potential, that helps us to find contentment and peace, that brings us freedom to be spontaneous and make the most out of our life’s journey. A way that turns existence into a celebration, filled with beautiful moments that make life truly worth living.
You Develop Your Critical Thinking Once you turn your back to the crowd, your way of thinking slowly stops being influenced by it and you start using your reason more. This works wonders for increasing your intelligence.
Most people don’t think for themselves — instead, they let others do the thinking for them. They are easily persuaded by the herd mentality and never stop for a moment to question anything that they’ve been told. They are blinded by belief and follow without doubting what is considered to be a normal way of living. Desiring to be normal, they lose their individuality, and the intellectual consequences of this are enormous: they can barely use their critical thinking, and their willpower is almost nonexistent. Not surprisingly, when faced with any problems, their only hope is that someone else will help them to overcome them. By themselves, they feel totally helpless. When you step away from the confines of the herd and start your own quest for truth, you begin to hone the art of freethinking. You don’t believe anything without evidence, you don’t accept what doesn’t resonate with your own experiences, and you try to find out what’s true for yourself. In your efforts to achieve this, you mature, become wiser, and learn to make more conscious choices that contribute to your well-being. You Drop Your Social Masks Another thing that happens is that you become honest with yourself and others. You let go of the social masks that you had been wearing to pretend that you were someone you never were and reveal to the world who you truly are. You expose yourself, unafraid of whether others will judge you or not.In the society we are living in, hypocrisy prevails. People constantly lie to one another just so that they can feel accepted by the mob, but at the same time, they experience emotional turbulence, because they never managed to accept themselves as they are. And when you don’t like yourself for who you are, what is the point of being liked by others for who you are not? You Learn to Take Responsibility into Your Own Hands Responsibility and freedom always go hand in hand, so the more responsible one is, the more freedom one experiences. People tend to throw responsibility away and hold others responsible for their lives. By doing so, however, they are also throwing away their freedom. Not only that, they also blame others whenever something is going wrong with their lives. That’s why you see people believe in saviors of all kinds and allow a few individuals — for example, politicians — to take control over their lives. But once they find out that those people don’t fulfill their expectations, they start blaming them for ruining their lives, not realizing that they themselves are at fault for handing over their power to them in the first place. ☾●•·☆~Free YourSelf From Mental Slavery~☾●•·☆