Living from the inside out
where true happiness lies
where true happiness lies
Much of modern life is characterized by "borrowing and spending" in pursuit of endless cravings/desires in the misguided belief that such activity will bring us happiness.
The accumulation of wealth and possesions becomes the gaol of life!
But the more we borrow ,the more we enslave ourselves. (borrowers are in bondage to lenders; creditors draw people into indebtedness in order to make slaves of them)
We end up on an endlessly moving treadmill that takes us nowhere fast.We need to wake up to the realization that what's already available in the "here and now" is sufficient for us to be nourished and to feel fulfilled and happy.
We exspend so much of our lives focusing our attention on and pursueing what we don’t have and ignoring all that we do have—such as life and breath!
Stop to tell yourself that you already have everything essential—that you are already great!You are a marvellous and extraordinary creature.
Give yourself the respect and affirmation you deserve!
Everything you need to feel complete and joyful--you already have!
It's already in you!
All things are already complete in us.
There is no greater joy than to be conscious of the goodness and beauty within you/us.
If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, one shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
Indeed the compulsive pursuit of desires only robs us of our sense of contentment and peaceby replacing our sense of joy (gratitude is the mother of joy) with a feeling of deficiency and discontent.
Greed is like drinking salt water--it makes you more thirsty.
If we buy into the "consumption frenzy" we become compulsive shoppers,obsessive consumers--pursuing an endless sequence of desires.
Instead of being their master ,we become their slave.Such behavior is self-sabotaging to both ourselves and our planet.
The competitive pursuit of finite resources and material possessions , engenders distrust and conflict, poisons all social interactions,and places immense pressure on the environment.
If everyone is in perpetual competition with everyone else ,this generates an environment of distrust.The erosion of trust destabalizes the social fabric.
Trust is the necessary foundation of all healthy human relationships.
In the absence of trust, all relationships disintegrate!
But you say..."desire energizes and motivates one!"
And this is true, but at some point they become destructive when they become our master and we become their slave!
see "The manufacture of desire"
THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH DECEPTION(dishonesty) AND COVER-UPS TRANSPIRING ON THE WORLD STAGE
Your present life is a slavery, a heavy prison.
Understand your situation and liberate yourself from it.
Throw off your yoke, and exit from your prison!
It is sad to see so much deception, so much suffering, ...so much incapacity to understand where one’s true happiness lies.
This is the verdict:
ReplyDeleteLight has come into the world,but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light,and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light,so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
--John 3:19-21
Growth in a capitalist e conomy is achieved by increazing
ReplyDeletedemand for goods and services.
In the short term demand and spending are stimulated
through advertising and marketing strategies.
In the long term this is achieved by creating a "culture of
consumption" -- a society in wch a person is valued according
to his wealth and material possessions.
We are immersed in the materialist delusion that happiness/fulfillment can be gained through more consumption and
by acquiring more "things".
It is the nature of industrial society to make people feel
needy/deficient in order to instill a desire to purchase more
goods.
Such a society needs people to value and want/seek to acquire
external possessions.
Promoting the valuation of intangibles such as love, friendship, a sunset, and other non-marketable commodities
as a viable alternative source of happiness
does not stimulate demand for consumer goods.
Indeed encouraging people to find their happiness internally
within inside themselves undermines the foundations of a
consumption-driven economy.
We have embraced the collectively accepted delusion that "standard of living" is equivalent to "quality of life".
ReplyDeleteDo not sell yourself into slavery!
DeleteThe government and the banks want you to owe...
so off to work you'll go.
They entice/tempt you into borrowing money by lowering the interest rate and once you've fallen for the bait, they've got you hooked (indebted =enslaved).
Then they jack up the interest rate to get their pounds of flesh!
Banks want you to be in (their) debt !
ReplyDeleteSpending what you don't have places one in servitude to a lender.
In our culture (consumption-driven economy),buying on credit (incurring debt) is encouraged and rationalized as "growing the economy"
Until you are your own master,..someone else is your master!
A "debt prison" may not have bars,..but it is nevertheless a prison!!Reply
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DeleteSave more...and borrow less!
ReplyDeleteBy paying interest you impoverish yourself and enrich the moneylenders!
the evil of usury:
"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender" -- Proverbs 22:7