Most of us are searching. We feel like something is not quite right in our lives, and we search blogs, books, religions, and philosophies in an attempt to find It. This It is the ultimate answer – the thing that will cut through all the pain, suffering, and frustration of life. This It will make us truly happy . . .
Here it is. The answer to the big question.
I Googled it, just to see what would come up. Naturally, Wikipedia had a fabulous write-up that is educational in many respects. I searched through it for the meaning of life, however, and just couldn’t find it. Steve Pavlina tried to tackle the […]
When we leave the wild lands and come back to civilization, we discover something curious inside our minds. We discover that we have a peculiar way of considering civilization to be the ‘real world’, and the natural world to be a sort of ‘escape’.
It’s all fine and well to escape into the woods for a month, but it’s definitely an escape. Sooner or later we have to go back to the realities of paying our bills, meeting our social obligations, and putting money into our retirement fund. Our families, our jobs, and our life’s desires all dwell within the world of civilization.
Consider for a moment how you, personally, view the above ideas. Does the civilized world hold this aura of ‘reality’ for you? For most of us, it does. And this is an important thing to notice.
It displays to us the light in which we consider our natural selves and the natural world.
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