Quotes Along the Murdock VIII
Quotes Along the Murdock I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII
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Do not be confused by the state of our government, but by the state of those we have chosen to elect to run it. Of late, that would apparently be into the ground. Something the GOP has been trying to effect for decades.
There is no greater fool than the fool who denies his foolhood…and as the greater fools, we believe him, praise him, and raise him on high.
Mindfulness doesn’t take extraordinary effort. People make it sound like scaling Everest barefoot, when really it can be as simple as noticing your breathing or grounding yourself for a moment.
I get where this is coming from. "McMindfulness" is absolutely a problem.
Turning something deeply human into a branded lifestyle hack misses the a very good point.
No one needs mindfulness turned into fast-food spirituality, quick, cheap, easy, and stripped of real substance. Except as a profit center.
Mindfulness isn’t hard, and real practice isn’t about branded calm. It's about taking a moment to allow greater clarity, to "see" and see more clearly, understanding more deeply, and moving toward a fuller experience of reality. Of Life.
Unless one is pushing it past that into capitalism, then oddly naturally further into toxic capitalism, while all or any of that commercial fluff is unnecessary.
Genuine mindfulness is not exotic, nor elite, and it doesn't require a Himalayan trek or a guru. It's simply paying attention without judgment, a few seconds at a time, letting that awareness flow into the rest of your life.
Naturally. Without any payment necessary.
The hard part isn't actually the practice.
Its cutting through all the hype and noise people pile onto it, usually just to be noticed themselves, if not to profit from it.
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With time, I’ve come to see how easily cleverness can be mistaken for intelligence...and how excessive responsibility can be mistaken for maturity. Both can look impressive on the surface, yet neither always holds up under experience. True intelligence questions; true maturity balances. But true intelligence doesn't just question, it also listens, adapts, seeks to understand, and often does. Worth remembering before we judge either in others…or ourselves. This epiphany came to me through a therapist when I asked how I could have so mistakenly thought someone was mature and all seemed to point against that. It was then pointed out to me that sometimes we mistake excessive responsibility for maturity. The rest came of its own volition, shortly thereafter.
Silence buries its own history
Ignorance is noble, we all begin what way. But selective ignorance is stupidity. - While I've said that before but now there's a meme of it.
"How can anyone become so desensitized to the cries of the majority that they hear only their own voice and the echo of their group—their political cult—while shutting out the reality around them?"
Elect an idiot, you get idiocy.
How a country is treated once defeated, shapes in part, what it will become.
praised & adored, so long as they strike
for the right cause, in the right way.
The greatest lowlife is not the tyrant himself—
but those who kneel at his feet,
hearts hollow, hands raised in worship.
America, one country divided by a common language. (January 20, 2025)
Today in America, 'They' & 'Them,' the ever-distant 'Other,' dwell merely in the sickened hearts & poisoned minds of those who cast others as shadows—'They,' 'Them,' the 'Other'—enemies conjured to close ranks for some, to divide for others, in pursuit of petty aims of power.
What's so ironic
about the socialism
the communism
is people
like Donald Trump
like Vladimir Putin
like Kim Jong Un
why it never works
can never work
because that human
those human's
natures
so vile
so prepped
to damage
for only
the great Self.
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