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Whatever you do, don’t look at life and the world beyond the systems, patterns, and ways in which you were taught. If you look outside of the systems, patterns, and ways — which were poured into you, forming your consciousness — you may be a danger to all that is false, fragmentary, and distorted. Keep looking at things just as you were programmed to. Don’t question anything. Be sure to accept (and cling to) everything that they poured into you.
Continue to observe things from behind a self-made psychological wall supporting separation and isolation. Continue to mindlessly escape into endless forms of entertainment, travel, drugs, and amusement. Continue to have opinions based on how you were raised and taught. Worship the dollar. Grow out of that youthful, magical wonderment concerning life and turn into a fusty adult who sees little of life’s newness and magical beauty. Get dreadfully bored while seeing and thinking the same old patterns. Think only of yourself and have no feelings for others. Continue to worship the dollar. Never stop endlessly chattering with mental symbols, patterns, and words. Look at everything through a maladjusted psychological screen (or curtain) of separation and division. Be very afraid of sweet and refreshing mental silence. Seldom look at (or visit) nature. Do not fundamentally change on the inside, but make your body look very unusual and different on the outside. Continue to worship the dollar. Go through existence being narrow-minded, selfish, and opinionated. Blindly cling to a lot of manmade patterns that were concocted in the distant past, and never look at reality without old, dusty, iron-clad beliefs. Keep your lawn looking perfect, but remain disorderly and a mess inwardly.
Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog 
Our loveable cat disappears for hours on end to a place in our garden similar to your ‘where the fairies live’. Then he comes in and nudges us. Perhaps he’s trying to tell us something? 🐈⬛ 🐾 🐾
Margaret, he may be trying to tell you to enjoy the magical beauty of nature. 😉
I think you may well be right Tom. But here in the UK it’s cold and damp and I’m still in partial hibernation until the beginning of March 😀 I come out in Spring like many other flowers!!
It’s cold and wet here in Illinois and i’m not out much either. I’ve got plenty of aquariums and critters to attend to inside. 😉
What can I say? BRILLIANT – wish you could put this on FB or some social media because this diatribe will HOOK people… that you juxtapose that stunning photograph of live nature the home of imagination and fairies with your writing is just PERFECT.
Thanks very much, Sara. 😊 I don’t belong to facebook, thank goodness! What the CEO, Zuckerberg, says seems like it is designed to “look good.” Does he really care about people? Sadly, probably not in the least. It’s ludicrous how some people are not really human beings (though they appear to be). And kids are dying as a result.
I do post little nature doings on FB because I am always hoping to hook some people into ‘seeing’ what’s outside my back door…It is interesting that she people do respond – enough to keep doing it… and because I don’t have tv listen to radio or read newspapers a skim through FB every now and then is revealing to say the least….I don’t think FB cares about people at all – but that doesn’t;t mean it can’t be used as a vehicle for informing others.
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No Facebook for me. Zuckerberg likely stole the whole idea for Facebook and he is not running it with integrity. It’s all about $.
Rigid thinking never has been an asset and even more in this day and age. Your peaceful picture wipes out all the bad in the world in the blink of an eye.
Thank you, Linda! Yes, rigid thinking is dead, not alive. Notice, in the picture, how the green Lichen has thin, pipe-like rhizomes between the clusters. That is surely how the lichen spreds. Really neat to see! 😉
This is what endless consumerism and capitalism do, some are more prone than others to get lost in the vicious cycle. Good observation, Tom.
Thanks, Susi. 😊 Yes, according to the current brainwashing of many… ”He who dies with the most toys wins.”
You’re welcome. Yes, they seem to think so. 🙂
So true!
Thank you, Mollie. 😉
I like it