get up there
The “truths” we’re taught to believe from birth - whether nationalistic, religious, or cultural - should be the ones treated with the greatest skepticism if we continue to embrace them in adulthood, precisely because the probability is so great that we’ve embraced them because we were trained to, or because our subjective influences led us to them, and not because we’ve rationally assessed them to be true. …
That doesn’t mean that what we’re taught to believe from childhood is wrong or should be presumed erroneous. We may get lucky and be trained from the start to believe what is actually true. That’s possible. But we should at least regard those precepts with great suspicion, to subject them to particularly rigorous scrutiny, especially when it comes to those that teach us to believe in our own objective superiority or that of the group to which we belong.
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Glenn Greenwald (via disobey) 100% agree! (via ohwhatevertrever) |
When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.
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| — | Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron (via cosmofilius) |
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats and I don’t intend to waste any of mine…
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| — | Neil Armstrong (via thatkindofwoman) |
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
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| — | Chief Seattle (via cosmofilius) |
