There is far more to this world than taught in our schools, shown in the media, or proclaimed by the church and state. Most of mankind lives in a hypnotic trance, taking to be reality what is instead a twisted simulacrum of reality, a collective dream in which values are inverted, lies are taken as truth, and tyranny is accepted as security. They enjoy their ignorance and cling tightly to the misery that gives them identity.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over ignorance.

Knowledge is the key to unlocking our potential. It gives us the self-​determination, responsibility, and power necessary to cast off the chains of covert oppression. Knowledge is therefore the greatest protector, for it also gives us foresight to impeccably handle the challenges of life and, most importantly, to sidestep the traps on the path to awakening. The more you know of higher truths and apply what you know, the more you begin operating under higher laws that transcend the limitations of the lower. -Montalk

Redefine your perceived notion of common sense.

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You are label-less. Your being cannot be reduced to a word whether it be a noun or adjective. Your being is beyond words. It is vast, formless, and infinitely fluid.

You are label-less. Your being cannot be reduced to a word whether it be a noun or adjective. Your being is beyond words. It is vast, formless, and infinitely fluid.

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Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
Timothy Leary  (via thisisyourmaverick)

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Plato, 427-347 BC (via skieratsa)
A plant is not thinking: Tomorrow I will put a new leaf to the north and then next week when it rains I will grow a metre taller. Its existence is just unfolding out of itself spontaneously, naturally, unplanned. Similarly, your true life unfolds in the same way but you are unaware of it because you allow your mind to imagine fanciful ways of being and then pursue your projections. Like this, you began thinking and strategising your existence rather than simply experiencing your natural being. We cannot breathe tomorrows, breath today. Therefore, knowing this, leave your existence to existence and start enjoying your cosmic play. Best of all, don’t try to be anything at all. This is a secret few recognize.

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Getting high is misunderstood. For me it was forced contemplation on the riddles of our world. A tweaking of the mind to break patterned and limited thinking. It reveals what we take for granted. It is a philosophical tool. It brings expansion in our relationships with others through shared laughter and honest dialogue. It makes us ‘real’ for just a moment, to temporarily display the beauty of a calm and loving state. Because of your experiences, you take them with you into your sober state and slowly integrate each realization you discover and eventually, do away with it and just be. And lastly, the side-effect of impaired memory is actually a benefit because it helps you forget about the dreadful past and allows you to sharpen your views onto the present.

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job | High Existence

The language in here is somewhat in-your-face. But we need to be shaken up. I’m not saying follow it word for word. Instead contemplate on it and let it process. The article has confirmed several of my long-winded notions of the 9-5. Most will be content with it - and that’s perfectly fine - as long as your genuinely happy. But for others, the format we’re used to might not be the kind of success we’re all seeking. Initially it was fulfilling and secure. I was compelled by all the corporate embellishments. Jobs are necessary. And it was a corporate system built to sustain the economy. However, as we’re seeing today, financial struggle is prevalent, and our ‘way out’ was to find a job, maybe land some benefits, and let the system take care of us. Well - we’ve become dependent and have shared our potentiality to the corporate world while sacrificing our true desires to achieve, and possibly, to actualize what we’re really here for. Personally, I’ve been in this predicament for a few years now - attempting to exit my job with style experiencing lots of fears and unknowns as well. Luckily, many blessings and opportunities have arrived and things have been cooking in the back end. My transition has been gradual, with lots of serious emotions to come with it - but I believe that the future is burning bright.

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Power Structure of Oppression

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La Cosecha / The Harvest (2011)

“Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat.  Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive.  The Harvest / La Cosecha profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida’s tomato fields to follow the harvest and provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of these children who struggle to dream while working 12 – 14 hours a day, 7 days a week to feed America.”

just goes to show you that not consuming animals does not mean you are supporting a system that is cruelty free 

Wow. Never thought of it that way…

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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses — our reality-tunnels — will become. Resistance to new information, however, has a strong neurological foundation in all animals, as indicated by studies of imprinting and conditioning. Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to “ignore” certain kinds of information — that which does not “fit” their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this “conservatism” or “stupidity”, but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan.
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The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don’t want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it’s this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says—well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It’s measuring nothing.
John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via loveyourchaos)

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You say you are happy. Are you really happy, or are you merely trying to convince yourself. Look at yourself fearlessly and you will at once realize that your happiness depends on conditions and circumstances, hence it is momentary, not real. Real happiness flows from within.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1)
For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.
 Yohji Yamamoto (via thatkief)

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