“When you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little me.’ And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume you’re all in the process of waking up. " Alan Watts
I was born awake and never was put to sleep by dogma. I never had that rude awakening to find out that God, the divine and everything else was just a story. Stories to help me learn how to be a better person and contribute to my chosen society but stories nonetheless with some truth and lots of garbage.
My society is relatively demanding, one must think rationally and independently, one must constantly be aware of the mores of the society and comply with them intelligently rather than dogmatically, and problems must be resolved reasonably for all involved. The stories are there to help, even the religious ones, but none of them can tell me what is right or even what to do.
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