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by Gary 'Z' McGee July 19, 2024 from Self-InflictedPhilosophy Website
Dead End
by
Mikael Aldo
puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them. Once you understand this, you will find it essential to overcome your natural timidity and practice the art of audacity." Robert Greene
Whatever it is you dream of doing, whatever it is
you love to do, whatever it is that makes you come alive, do
precisely that. Life is too short. Be bold. Be daring. Be audacious.
And that's okay.
Here are five audacious ways to do that…
not a descendant. Break the cycle."
Doug Dahlen
It's the illusion of safety and
security. The longer you remain there, the tighter it will get.
Escape before it throttles your dreams. Stretch your soul before
your Ego cramps your style. Untie the anxious knot of yourself and
dare yourself to be uncomfortable.
When you are too comfortable, you become complacent, absent minded, and soft.
There's a tendency to take things for granted and to harbor unreasonable expectations.
But when you learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable,
There is discomfort in working out a muscle. There is discomfort in challenging an entrenched idea. There is discomfort in questioning a cherished belief.
But it is all worth it when the muscle, the mind,
and the soul become stronger despite.
Robert Anton Wilson
Unlearn what you have learned. Flip the script on the script makers. Question yourself - balls to bones, ovaries to marrow.
If, as Epictetus said,
... then force yourself into questioning
everything you think you know while systematically destroying what
people think they know.
Cultivate Beginner's Mind. Never allow the
Master's
Complex to dig its claws in. Honor your inner Phoenix by practicing
the life-death-rebirth process inside you. Cultivate the "skyhook"
of curiosity lest the "anchor" of certainty hold you down.
Then move on smartly with curiosity as your
failsafe...
tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it."
Søren Kierkegaard
Trickster is the ultimate boundary-crosser.
No manmade rules or laws can contain it. No gods can outflank it. Trickster laughs defiantly at all stuck-in-the-mud self-serving constructs.
Trickster cracks open your ego like an egg.
But rather than balk, the trickster laughs.
Rather than
fret, the trickster has a little dance. Rather than flinch, the
trickster integrates the darkness and makes the unconscious
conscious.
When the ashes and dust
settle, the bed of the Phoenix is made manifest, and the Self is
finally allowed to go through the painful iterations of
Self-actualization.
no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Jung
When you transcend these addictions, you get above it all.
Once you're able to see how everything is connected to everything
else, then you gain the ultimate power of healthy nonattachment.
...then it stands to reason that the root of attachment is belief and comfort.
When you suspend belief and
comfort, you suspend your religious-political-scientific sycophancy
long enough to see the big picture. You get power over the power
that your comfortable beliefs have over you.
You get out of your own way
long enough to realize that the propaganda machine of your brain and
the religio-political claptrap clapping back and forth is nothing
more than a culturally conditioned song and dance.
Let the Phoenix of
nonattachment rise out of the ashes...!
be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
Sun Tzu
As Rumi said,
Upset your settled mind...!
Then revel in the fact that you are an integral aspect of this interconnectedness.
As Alan Watts said,
And you have a responsibility to this sacred unfolding.
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