We all begin life as a vacuum [see photo]. Then we proceed to cram-in every vacuous idea we can find that might enable us to better sit on a shelf with others who started like us but are now full to the brim with group think and nonsense. The exceptions to this pattern are rare but we may encounter one or two in our lives.
Remember... How you go about filling your individual vacuum is the only story worth telling about your life.
Most folk fill their vacuum the same way commuters fill a train headed downtown during peak hours in Tokyo. They cram-in more and more and more. There is always room for just one more before the driver slams the doors shut tight, right? We tend to fill up our vacuum with inanities; or with tribal nonsense, or with mind-numbing group think, or with the naive notion that we are serving The Greater Good. The idea that we are serving others on this planet is a boldfaced lie. If we fully commit to others there will be no homeless in the world.
The truth is that homeless is being treated as if it is a vacuum inside a bottle that is bobbing around in an ocean of goodwill and empathic karma. There is no goodwill towards the homeless. There is no empathic karma in a world where dispossessed people increase in numbers each and everyday. There is no rubric that can convert this human problem - an addiction to a homeless life - into a social issue to be resolved by those who profess to care deeply for addicts while trumpeting a virtuous empathy for vagrants.
Most people have no room left inside their vacuous life to even begin to understand their core needs let alone the genuine needs of others. They have become mindless pawns within a system that continues to shove commuters into a vessel which is routed to a place where dreams go to die. Dreams die when they are crowded-out by the banalities of group think and tribal rituals. Group think and tribal rituals are merely mind-based versions of "trick or treat". These curated sessions of deception will never lead a boy or a girl to the promised land of fulfilment, joy, and a sense of a job well done with their life.
Richard
The mind of a minimalist is developed on a unique sense of you which, in turn, is based on individual needs not collective wants. For instruction on how to establish your sense of you: go to minimal-you.com and hit the "become a minimalist" button in the banner heading. This will take you to a payment scheme for a 10 day programme that will teach you how to design, enforce, and live with mind filters: these help you to be the best person you can be.
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