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It hit me while writing the previous post that what's disappointed me most about online spaces has been the lack of what I so enjoyed doing in creating a song about a Laurie based on what she presented of herself: a take on a take. I looked forward to online evolving in the direction of a sort of reciprocal celebration.
Being tracked and spammed and such was merely icing by comparison.
Why it's better not to want:
want:
- to be needy or destitute - to have or feel need - to fail to possess especially in customary or required amount "lack" - to suffer from the lack of - "deficiency" "lack"
I can't remember where this is from, but to me it goes to the heart of where world-reform focus is best placed:
"You can spend an eternity looking elsewhere for truth and love, intelligence and goodwill, imploring god and man - all in vain. You must begin in yourself, with yourself - this is the inexorable law. You cannot change the image without changing the face. First realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. attend to yourself, set yourself right - mentally and emotionally. The physical will follow automatically. You talk so much of reforms: economic, social, political. leave alone the reforms and mind the reformer. What kind of world can a man create who is stupid, greedy, heartless?"
From "I Am That" (Nisargadatta Maharaj):
Q: But what can i do here and now? A: You can be aware of your being - here and now. Q: That is all? A: That is all. There is nothing more to it. Q: All my waking and dreaming i am conscious of myself. It does not help me much. A: You were aware of thinking, feeling, doing. You were not aware of your being.