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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 20:22:04 EST Strypey

   > Susan would complain that the present, the life she was living moment to moment, felt unreal to her. Only the future really mattered, for that was where her ideal life resided. “If I just wait a little longer”, she would remark in a tone of wry despondency, “there’ll be this magically transformative event and everything will come right.”
   - Josh Cohen
   https://www.1843magazine.com/features/minds-turned-to-ash

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 20:26:03 EST Strypey

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      This! 1000 times this! This is what attracted me to revolutionary politics, new age spirituality, and the obsessive pursuit of liberation and enlightenment (in both the secular and spiritual sense of the word). Everything has someone gone wrong, in the world and in my life, but the revolution, the millennium, the #AgeOfAquarias, or achieving nirvana, will fix it in a single glorious Second Coming.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 20:31:44 EST Strypey

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         It took me years to realize although there are real things that have gone wrong, in my both my life and the world, there's no magic wand I (or we) can wave to fix it all. The change that's need is a transition. A gradual, life-long evolution towards greater self-awareness and clarity, and in the world, a #GreatTurning (to quote Joanna Macey), that requires a slow, patient commitment to an ongoing process of collective change.

      2. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2019 20:32:04 EST Strypey

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         It took me years to realize although there are real things that have gone wrong, in my both my life and the world, there's no magic wand I (or we) can wave to fix it all. The change that's need is a transition. A gradual, life-long evolution towards greater self-awareness and clarity, and in the world, a #GreatTurning (to quote Joanna Macey), that requires a slow, patient commitment to an ongoing process of collective change.
         https://www.activehope.info/great-turning.html