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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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All of this talk of swine

 Do you know, all of this talk about swine puts me in mind of the saying of John Stewart Mills who was famed to have said "A man satisfied is better than a pig dissatisfied."

But even if that is the case, I feel much more compassion for the man of intelligence because true intelligence is the ability to acknowledge suffering. And the truly intelligent person knows the true depth of suffering, not only in others, but in himself. 

He is rather like the surgeon and the one being operated on. That is very different to the person of low intellect who sees himself to be a rubber hunk of meat being cut open, fixed and sewn back together. Life being, in essence a form of ongoing operation.

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