“There is no one else living in this body, and there is no one seeing life through my eyes. Your beliefs, and your beliefs alone, belong to you. You are the only one who is with you for your entire life. Imagine if you didn’t like yourself.” 

— Don Miguel Ruiz   

There are a range of cultures with a range of lifestyles (diversity is great).

Here in the USA, people are addicted to attachments. 

They attach themselves to their country. To politicians. To their physical characteristics. They attach themselves to other people who are not themselves. 

In the USA there is such a desire for people to escape their own lives – so they learn to escape themselves. 

They learn to repeat information rather than critically think about it. 

They learn to react & not to respond.  

A reaction is fear based. A response is based on understanding & intelligence.  

But when everyone around you is only reacting – & when they are all attaching themselves to people outside of themselves, they become disconnected with themselves & begin living in illusion.  

It’s a very foggy illusion too – since all clarity fades as your attachments grow stronger.  

Be in the world but not of it.  

Don’t lose your mind trying to fit in with everyone who’s lost their mind.  

Don’t be a parasite. And don’t allow any parasitic people to get in your mind (what a miserable life it must be to be a parasite!!)   

Be patient with yourself as you learn to let go of attachments that were never meant for you to hold on to.  

The powers that be & marketers of the world love people with attachments – they want people attached .. but liberation comes from detachment – detaching from all that is not you.