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"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well."
-L.P. Jacks

The de-conditioning is made much easier when the aspects of self agree on a desired direction and that can be as simple as understanding what feels good and what doesn't. it is our disconnecting from our innate guidance system - our will and feelings - that has made the needed changes seem impossible. We are like a tense, knotted body - with the right understanding of massage and the right timing, healing can take place.

“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”
– Terence McKenna

Our society gives its economy priority over health, love, truth, beauty, sex and salvation; over life itself. Whatsoever is given precedence over life will take precedence over life, and will end in eliminating life. Since economics, at its most abstract level, is the religion of our people, no non-economic happening, not even as potentially spectacular as the Second Coming, can radically alter the souls of our people.”
-Tom Robbins

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” -What Gandhi REALLY said...