what part of the human condition dictates the great gulf that exists between what you have, what you want and what you need? Our core spirit just seems to be one that is not one of peace and sastifaction... is that just the Americans? Are other ethnic origins more adapable to being content?
I'm not sure how this coneects but, the other day my wife and i were talking about how the people in genereal in the world are living without healthy fear. or rather the conviction that can come out of that. par instaunce: in the age of cathedrals people assumed if you didn't contribute to the building of the cathedral you would burn in hell. so there is your fear. yet, the conviction that came with that was the absolute assurance of those pepole that their souls were safe. Do we really have that same kind of assurance today? And i mean, people at large, not me personally. We don't fear death the way we used to, or maybe we fear it more now? In the ancient times it seems that there was actually a better grasp on the passage into the next life. These days it seems that the majority of our energies are pointed towards staving off that inevitable time.
We fear the irrational things that we cannot change and do not have enough fear of the things that we CAN change.
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