now one might ask, what does my inner needs or world, have
to do with anything? It won’t make me rich or famous or
powerful or give me the titles I so desperately desire…
No, no it won’t…
but take an honest look at the world and at yourself…
the world/people are full of anger and despair and disconnected
and alienated from each other and themselves and yet,
we can safely say, we have the highest GDP the world has
ever seen, but, but that is the problem…
we focus on money and profits and the Gross domestic product
and the stock market and suffer from it… with anger and despair
and disconnection and alienation even thou we have tremendous
economic wealth…the failure lies with us for we have
given priority to the well being of our pocketbook and have
forgotten the well being of our soul and who we are……
and as long as we remain focus on our economic or political self,
we shall not, in any form of the word, be happy…
you want to become whole, you have to begin with who you are internally,
who are you within you, is the question… not how much you make or
have in retirement or how much your house is, but the wealth that must
be cultivated is within us…
the world inability to be happy is directly tied into our failure to seek
that which is inside of us… to become who you are is the basis of
being contented or happy or full of life…it isn’t wealth or profits
or titles or how many houses you own, but the path to becoming, lies
within us, not outside of us…
you want to end the drug culture or end the opioid “epidemic” the answer
isn’t wealth or titles or fame or profits… no, the answer lies within us
we have forsaken the inner world to enrich the outer world…
and how is that going for you, or for the world?
we see the rise of bigotry and ignorance and intolerance and
hatred and anger and lust and greed and these are the results of
our failure to seek the inner self of who we are…
the outer world, the external world is a reflection of our inner world
and the outer world doesn’t look so good in relationship to what
may be possible and what has been…
we begin within us and then, and then that is reflected into the outside world…
and what I see of the external world is chaos and confusion and despair
and severe unhappiness… and that is due to our misapplication
of our resources into making us wealthy instead of making us wise…
to seek is to devote time, effort, resources and plan old hard work
and people don’t want to take the time or effort or commit the resources
to seek that which is much more fundamental to our being, the inner self…
we would rather engage in shallow game of wealth and prestige and titles
because it takes less work then to make an honest pursuit of who we
are and what we might become, of what is possible for us…
and we are making choices and by the looks of things in the world,
we are choosing wrong…
to choose wrong, as people have is to choose against autonomy
and possibilities… the basic freedom a person can have is to
make a choice toward becoming an autonomous person…
and choosing to be the shallow possibilities of wealth or power
or fame or titles is to walk away from any autonomous possibilities
we might have…
if we play the game of seeking wealth or power or titles or
fame or prestige is to abdicate your autonomous self…
it is to choose what society wants as oppose to what you might want
or need…
if we honestly see the world with its desperate people seeking
their desperate agendas which has nothing to do with what is truly
important which is to seek that which is inside of you… to seek internally,
not externally…
once you have solve the question of who you are, then and only then
can you begin to reenter the world but this time you are a butterfly
and not a caterpillar and that makes all the difference in the world…
one might be blunt and ask, why are you unhappy?
I can say, just as bluntly, you are unhappy because you seek the wrong thing…
you seek external glory instead of doing the hard work and discovering who you are…
the world is also unhappy because it seeks the wrong thing…
it seeks wealth and power and fame and titles and those
trinkets are worthless… see the misery of the world to know
that……
forsake those worthless trinkets that we busy our days with…
seek that which has value, today and forever… seek the inner soul
which lies within you… and then begin the true journey to become
who you are…
that is the only journey worth taking and the only journey that doesn’t lead
to unhappiness and despair and the angst that dominates our world today…
to be saved… to be redeemed… one must first
begin by forsaking the trinkets of the modern world,
fame, fortune, titles, power… and the journey
toward who we are begins……
Kropotkin