#tim hjersted

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[fleurmach]

tim hjersted on what we are here for

I have made a promise to this world that I will carry with me to my last days. It is my vow to lessen the suffering of the world while I am here – it is to ensure that every toxic legacy that I inherited from our culture ends with me – and, ideally, ends with all of us, in our lifetime. The task may be impossible, but I have to help. I have to do it because my true nature wants me to. When I do…

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[yes-lukewinter]

"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."

Tim Hjersted, Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

[disquietingtruths]

For the youth of today that have not responded by becoming incredibly pissed off, they have responded by becoming incredibly despondent - birthing the kind of philosophical narcissism and ironic distance that is so perfectly embodied by the modern “hipster.”

Tim Hjersted

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/people_are_waking_up/

[disquietingtruths]

You can’t buy that kind of happiness at a store. You can’t get it from beating the last level of a video game. It doesn’t come out of the end of a pipe or at the bottom of a bottle. It doesn’t come from watching sports. It doesn’t come from how you dress or what kind of car you drive. It doesn’t come from getting a college degree or from getting a fatter paycheck. It comes directly from the final and profound realization that there truly is no “self” and there is no “other.” We are inter-connected with everything. We are all of it.

Tim Hjersted

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/people_are_waking_up/