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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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Prisoner now

We are prisoners, all of us, to reality. We are not able to give full vent to our passions. There are many who would say we can, and yet if we truly could, we would quickly be prisoners in the literal sense, or prisoners to unnecessary poverty, or prisoners of psychopathy, or perfectionism, or some other form of shackling of the soul.

Indeed, the more extreme a person's opinions, the more you shall find that they are a prisoner to their habits, or perspectives, or sudden uncontrollable actions. Living on an even keel instead of burning brightly then, is a praiseworthy thing indeed.

Most things, one could argue, happen on the middle road. There is very little raw material to be accrued, very little to be learned from a permanently extreme existence, except of life in the extremes. 

To live with temperance is to shield oneself from a world that is already extreme in all possible dimensions.





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