As a loving concession to ignorance, after decades of suffering, guilt, shame, blame and pride:
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What is our Collective Sickness?
It is not about blame, doing or resisting, but to effortlessly know the unbroken peace that is always here and now prior to the arising of mind.
We are in an important time of insight and change:
In the past it was easier for words to separate us than to unite; I trust yOur maturity in examining even the "I don't like this"...
Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn't understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this.
The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), "We have never seen a completely sane adult human." No one makes it out of this life alive. It's not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving – these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.
"Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being."
Robert Anton Wilson