Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
– Eckhart Tollie.
consciousness
words
class taste
I’ve recently been watching a program about class taste…and it’s been so interesting.
I’m profoundly middle-class ! and my (middle-class) taste is what I omit, rather than what I include.
…so I have a very ‘Zen’ taste.
…minimal, no dark colours, no nick-knacks, and lots of white…less is more.
I dress down, (working class) mostly, but it’s deliberate, not unconscious. The working class clothes are an attempt be less conspicuous in public.
My taste in music is very exclusive, rather than inclusive….once again, omitting popular music.
My taste in art is very Jeffrey Smart/Edward Hopper/Mark Rothko etc.
My taste in films is horror/foreign/art-house/odd/R-ated/Si-Fi etc.
One of the hallmarks of the middle-class is very much a self conscious ness, which includes a lot of anxiety about sending out the ‘right’ messages. The anxieties of getting it ‘right’ are very pronounced.
Years ago I knew a woman (very middle-class), who was obsessed with all things ‘organic’. Everything had to be organic, even her clothes. She would look down on me if I didn’t buy organic, which made me laugh.
She used to think she was working class, because she had tattoos. LOL. but everything about her taste was completely middle-class, right down to the organic chicken she fed her dog!
I once lived with a woman (for two years) who was upper class, and she hated my working class partner and friends. Ouch!
And her friends also hated my working-class partner and friends. Which was very difficult to deal with and cope with.
It’s funny that Australian soaps is always middle-class, and American soaps is always upper class.
Says volumes about our different countries.
I’m primarily attracted to my own class…even though often feel I’m not worthy of my own class.
I grew up in a mostly working class (rural) town and stood out like a sore thumb!
If I had lots of money, I would still (and always) be middle-class, as my education has been rather poor.
I once did a rehab for alcoholism and there was only one other person there who was middle-class, so we really stood out from the group.
I’ve heard it’s possible to change class through education, but I used to have a friend who came from a working-class background. He got a university education but is now obese and rather antisocial. So, for him nothing has changed, and everything has changed. Before he got his education, he was warm and friendly. Now he is educated and very bitter. What I’m saying is he didn’t escape his class by getting and education.
sedge808.
Quote
I believe that the word: ‘ justice’ and the word: ‘fairness’ should be taken out of the dictionary, because they no longer exist.
– Gavin Kerslake.
Quote
‘Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed. Before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot’.
– J W Goethe.
Quote
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“My aim is to bring about a psychic state in which my patient begins to experiment with his own nature, a state of fluidity, change, and growth where nothing is eternally fixed and hopelessly petrified.”
– C.G. Jung
Quote
Instead of celebrating diversity, let us celebrate inconsistency.
– Gavin Kerslake.
(Something I’m learning from ‘the dice man’)
modern
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and our world – and at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are… To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, “all that is solid melts into air”.
Marshall Berman (1982) All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, London: Verso, p15
sedge808.
quote
Water, what is that ?
This is what a fish would say if it had a human mind.
– Eckhart Tolle.
This is my ‘all time’ favorite Eckhart quote. It’s used to describe ‘being-ness’. If you don’t ‘get it’… sorry…even trying to explain it, I’ve found some people still don’t understand it.
The thing I like so much about quotes, is, they cut through the mind’s noise, and get us to the truth.
Eckhart Tolle is one of three, of my ‘spiritual’ teachers.
the other two are: ACIM & David Hawkins.
hate = free speech?
hate = free speech?
the answer is: YES
ignorance = free speech?
the answer is: YES
it is only a problem when people (of the same opinion) get together and form a group, and things can sometimes go from free speech to action/behavior.
groups are and can be very powerful…so a group of people who hate the same thing, has the potential to become a group of action, not just of free speech.
there is only one thing in my life that i use the ‘H’ word…and most of that has been self-inflicted. so i’m very much responsible for my own behavior and actions. (and i’m not going to say what it is, because it’s too complicated).
John Meints was tared and feathered.
humans have been ‘hating’ ever since humans have existed.
in reality hate comes out of a fear of something…
i could mention all the fears, but there are too many to write them all.
the ‘hate’ that i spoke of earlier (about me), is connected to a fear of loss of control of myself and behavior that is very harmful to me. that is the reason i feel so strongly about it.
at the moment we are hearing a lot about ‘hate’ in the news. all of it is based in fear, and all of it is not a problem until it turns into behavior or actions.
i once saw a poster saying: ‘No haters here!’
if you hate the haters, you are no different to them…you are the same.
sedge808.
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