"The Secret of life is to have a task, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. It must be something you cannot possibly do."
"You are in a cage... a cage of your own creation. Where the hamster’s cage is designed to keep it in, your cage is designed to keep the world out, so that you can feel safe. Never mind that it really doesn’t work, and that the world can still get at you, you have the illusion of separation, and you can cling to it like a drowning rat."
In this essay Ross Bishop gives some tips for getting out of the cage and becoming enlightened.
An inspirational speaker explains how our own good intentions and self-righteousness are the cause of the big and small problems in the world and how we can transform ourselves as a prelude to transforming society.
If we view guilt as simply a natural part of our day-to-day experience, rather than shaming ourselves for feeling it or trying to fight it off, we can diminish the suffering it tends to cause.
