Posted on November 5, 2013 by jblasl
Community Of Equals “The solution to our global social crisis is not that the poor become rich, which is neither feasible nor desirable, but that the rich join with the poor.”
I liked this part in particular because a lot of ignorant people think that its about giving the poor the money of the rich. However, it is more about collaboration in the sense that we are all human and at a basic level no one person is greater than another. Just because you have money does not mean you are rich and just because you lack money does not mean you are poor. Everyone needs to look out for one another on a basic level of human rights, clothing, food, water and shelter. No one should be disrespected because of their finances. Every human being deserves the same treatment in order to live a life of true freedom and enjoyment. This needs to be a team effort everyone needs to connect in order to put everyone on an equal playing field, and again this has nothing to do with money but with rights!
RUMI- “Wanting wealth, power, and more tasty food have made you drunk. When you can’t have what you want, you get headaches. That hungover disappointment is proof that what made you drunk was desire. Let a more measured necessity govern the intensity of wanting.”
This is very relevant in the world we live in today swallowed by consumerism and the “need” to have “things”. This desire to want more and more has left us hungover and disappointed when we cannot get more of the more we already have allotted. We already have so much more stuff then necessary that this desire grows and feeds itself to a point where I do not think many people can ever find satisfaction, especially just within the simple beauties of life itself. We miss out on the actual “stuff” and “things” that do not leave us hungover such as beautiful sunsets, sunrises, ocean tides, stars, love and why? For what? because we need to have the newest IPhone to record everything we see or think we are “experiencing”. You cannot experience life stuck behind things that “capture” the moment. You are living through technology and with all the advertisements technology has you are beginning again the perpetual cycle of consumerism. Meaning, now you need the newer version because the old one was not good enough so you throw it out and buy again what you need. Meanwhile, you forget to just live and experience I mean actually feel and experience the world. You are left drunk in a haze of materials that you “needed” so badly.
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