Bet On It! Food For Thought - 37 - Outdated World Views

To truly experience reality, get in touch with reality, feel it, flow with it, which requires us to leave behind all human created mental constructs & to be present with the experience of the moment as it occurs.

I Know You Won’t Believe Me, But The Highest Form Of Human Excellence Is To Question Oneself & Others. - Socrates

You're An Un-Measurable Consciousness, Operating An Organic Exploratory Machine, Made From The Material Of The Cosmos, Riding A Rock, Hurtling Through Space. HOW FANTASTIC!!!!

I Was Planning To Get Down With My Bad Self Today. But Then I Remembered I Have To Make Dinner & Do Laundry!

The Greatest Tragedy That Can Befall A Man Is Never To Know Who He Really Is. - James Carlos Blake

Recognizing Who You Are Is Not The Subtext Of A Life. It's The Main Point. - Kiana Davenport

My Mind Rebels At Stagnation. Give Me Problems, Give Me Work, Give Me The Most Abstruse Cryptogram, Or The Most Intricate Analysis, & I Am In My Own Proper Atmosphere. But I Abhor The Dull Routine Of Existence. I Crave For Mental Exaltation. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Know Yourself Fearlessly (Even Quietly) For All The Things You Are.- Aberjhani

I Know The Voices In My Head Aren't Real. But Man, Do They Ever Have Some Great Ideas. Right? Right!

My Favorite Types Of People Are Broken Souls Who Didn't Let Pain Turn Them Cold. Instead They Used That Shit To Inspire Others.

I Believe In Knowing Who You Are But Without Limiting Yourself To Your Own Expectation Of Who You Are. - Charlotte Eriksson

Rebels Defy The Rules Of Society, Risking Everything To Retain Their Humanity. - Joyce Johnson

“There Are Solutions To The Major Problems Of Our Time; Some Of Them Even Simple. But They Require A Radical Shift In Our Perceptions, Our Thinking, Our Values. And, Indeed, We Are Now At The Beginning Of Such A Fundamental Change Of Worldview In Science & Society, A Change Of Paradigms As Radical As The Copernican Revolution. Unfortunately, This Realization Has Not Yet Dawned On Most Of Our Political Leaders, Who Are Unable To “Connect The Dots,” To Use A Popular Phrase.” - Fritjof Capra

“Nothing In The World Is More Dangerous Than Sincere Ignorance & Conscientious Stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

The Highest Form Of Human Intelligence Is To Observe Yourself, Without Judgement.- Krishnamurti

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.” - Stephen Jay Gould

Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. - Kurt Vonnegut

“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear & is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular?
But conscience ask the question, is it right? & there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Try Being Informed Instead Of Just Opinionated!

“As the 21st century unfolds, it is becoming more & more evident that the major problems of our time -- energy, the environment, climate change, food security, financial security -- cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are all interconnected & interdependent. Ultimately, these problems must be seen as just different facets of one single crisis, which is largely a crisis of perception. It derives from the fact that most people in our modern society, & especially our large social institutions, subscribe to the concepts of an outdated worldview, a perception of reality inadequate for dealing with our overpopulated, globally interconnected world.” - Fritjov Capra,

“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, & the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.” - Fritjov Capra

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness & self-knowledge, & project mindful kindness toward everything & everyone. - Bryant McGill