Being

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“We can imagine a situation far back in time in which nothing in a person’s life could be singled out as one’s profession or line of work. If you had to grow or catch your own food, make your own clothes, dream up your own metaphors for the night sky, heal your own injuries, make your own love matches, concoct your own stimulants and sedatives, and in every way imaginable take care of yourself and amuse yourself, you had no profession or line of work. You were simply living; you were simply a human being.” (Eric Maisel)

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Sunday debate

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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

― Richard Buckminster Fuller

Let this sink in for a little while and note how it makes you think and feel. Then ponder my questions below or make up your own.

• Do you find the idea repulsive, a lazy person’s manifesto?
• Attractive but an impossible dream? (after all we need a roof over our heads, and somebody must collect the trash etc.)
• How many people do you think enjoy having a steady employment vs. those who thrive on “having ideas” regardless of income but feel miserable in “some kind of drudgery”? Would it in fact even out without much hassle or would everybody want to be artsy fartsy useless buggers?
• Would you feel exploited if you did in fact enjoy your day job, to finance the artsy fartsy buggers? And why, if you’re actually enjoying it and they wouldn’t?
• What, in your opinion gives a person the right to exist and be happy (and have a roof over their head etc.)?
• How could we even implement this without becoming a population glued to the tv and smoking weed 10 hours a day? Let’s pretend there was just food for everybody, what would happen?
• Wealth distribution – can we rethink and redo, or are we doomed and determined to do what we’ve always done?
• Which questions didn’t I think of and how would you reply?

I’d love for you to share your sentiments below and feel free to discuss amongst yourselves too. Just keep it civil, please.

Spotty

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Be weird, be random, be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.

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Garden of thoughts

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“Your existence has many doors, and each serves a purpose
that ultimately helps define who you are.
Sometimes it is hard to open these doors.
Often you would think it just won’t work.
It takes patience and perseverance, but you must believe
that you already have every key for each door you encounter.
Imagine your heart as the keychain where all the keys you will ever need
in your lifetime are dangling, waiting for you to use.”

~ Dodinsky

Thursday thought

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“Life is like a camera, just focus on what’s important.
Capture the good times and focus on them. Develop from the negatives
and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
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Cats know how this works – while the rest of us struggle 😉

Quote of the day

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“You don’t have to be great to get started,
but you do have to get started to be great.”
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The Wisdom of Allowing Things to Happen

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Apparently this reblog thingy doesn’t quite work. Anyway, something to ponder on a Sunday morning:

The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.
~The Daodejing

Post written by Leo Babauta.

This has been what I’ve been learning over the past couple of years. Allowing things to happen.

It goes counter to our usual instincts in Western society — we are doers, creators of our destiny, we make things happen … we don’t wait for it to happen! That’s what I was taught from an early age, in school and by every motivational sports movie I ever watched. So allowing things to happen is not my normal way.

Quote of the Day

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“Cultivating a regular daily practice of actually showing up and creating is the only way you will ever progress your talents, your ideas and you ambitions in creating.”

“The energy required to bring a pan of cold water to the boil is far greater than if the water was already simmering.

In creating, if we create nothing for days or weeks, then expecting to be instantly on the boil and creating at our peak, we’re like to be continually disappointed.”

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