Quote:
Originally Posted by tabs
GOD
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I'll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dream weaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You just have to carry on
The dream is over
John Lennon
On felt this was an appropriate beginning. One is not a follower of anything nor anybody. One does not subscribe to any ideology, particular religious view, political affiliation nor even ones own family story, one in which we all grow up with One that shapes our world view and how we fit into that world.
One can not be transcendent until we break the chains that bind us to that family story. Then we are able to see the larger rather than smaller picture of the world and the reality of it. Until then we are bound like Prometheus to the rock of acting out our role as proscribed by ones family story.
The only way to break the bonds that bind is to confront that family story and that is to risk ostracization by ones very own family. A very difficult thing to do.
One has previously commented that Lincoln to be his own man had to confront his fathers view that Abe should not try and be more than his station in life dictated, that he be a poor, illiterate dirt farmer in Illinois. From that beginning Abe was able to be his own man and chart his own course in life.
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Translation:
1. Step out of the box of mediocrity even if it means you shun your own family?
2. Be something. Don't accept mediocrity. Even if mediocrity is the family business?