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• "Stay together, friends Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake." ~ Rumi
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

“We live in an amazing, amazing world,
and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots.”
~ Louis CK

The question remains the same. It is a crisis of ’sanity’ first of all. The problems of the nations are the problems of mentally deranged people, but magnified a thousand times because they have the full, straight-faced approbation of a schizoid society, schizoid national structure, schizoid military, and business complexes, and, need one add, schizoid religious sects.

We are at war with ourselves” said Amanda Coomaraswamy,” and therefore at war with one another. Western man is unbalanced, and the question, Can he recover himself? is a very real one.”  The question is all the more urgent now that it concerns not only Western man but everybody.

Can we recover ourselves? Can be become “sane” again, or for the first time?

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. 

It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. 

Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. 

The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”

~John Berger

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination.

The Seven Blunders are:

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle 

This list grew from Gandhi’s search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence. Preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself or one’s society from reaching a point of violence.

    8. To this list, Arun Gandhi added an eighth blunder, rights without responsibilities.

Nothing much to say after that, is there?

Thank you,  Wikipedia for this.

• Question everything.

  "The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~ Albert Einstein

• Kim Wolinski, MSW . . . . . . . . . . . "Dr. DeClutter"

  

• Raising our collective consciousness is our only hope.

  “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein
• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." ~ Abraham Lincoln