"Every age, every generation has its built-in assumptions — that the world is flat, that the world is round. There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true. In the vast majority of cases, these conceptions about reality — which belong to the prevailing paradigm or worldview — aren’t accurate. So if history’s any guide, much that we take for granted about the world today simply isn’t true." — John Hagelin
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein
Processionary caterpillars are an unusual species. They blindly follow the one in front of them, in their search for food. It is because of this behavior that John Henry Fabre, a French naturalist, conducted an experiment with some them.
Fabre filled a flowerpot with dirt and carefully arranged some Processionary Caterpillars in a circle around the rim of the flowerpot, so that the lead caterpillar actually touched the last one, making a complete circle. In the center of the flowerpot he placed some pine needles, which is food for Processionary Caterpillars.
Around and around the circular flowerpot these caterpillars walk. Through the hypnotic force of their habits, the Processionary Caterpillars continued in circles, hour after hour, day after day, and night after night. Eventually, they dropped dead of sheer starvation and exhaustion, one after another. They died with the food they were searching for just inches away.
Are you so caught up in your daily activities that you fail to recognize what really matters in your life? Are you blindly following the crowd, your leaders, past experience, tradition, precedent etc., doing things the way they have always been done? Are you unconscious of and limited by your habits, instincts, assumptions, beliefs etc? Are you literally working yourself to death, accomplishing nothing meaningful or lasting in the process? Are you assuming that those you are following are right? Perhaps. Or perhaps they are also following someone else, unaware of their own habits and assumptions, and you are all going in circles. Are you constantly pursuing material possessions and chasing after the latest fad while neglecting your deeper needs and aspirations?
A man without a purpose will always feel that something is missing in his life. He is like vulnerable to despair and find no meaning in life. But even more depressing is the man who is pursuing goals that do not belong to him. Spending his life fulfilling someone else's purpose.
First ask yourself what really matters to you. Affirm your intention by writing your statement of purpose and printing it with a symbolic graphic and hanging it someplace where there is high visibility. Then put in place a plan of how you will manifest these goals into reality.
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein
Processionary caterpillars are an unusual species. They blindly follow the one in front of them, in their search for food. It is because of this behavior that John Henry Fabre, a French naturalist, conducted an experiment with some them.
Fabre filled a flowerpot with dirt and carefully arranged some Processionary Caterpillars in a circle around the rim of the flowerpot, so that the lead caterpillar actually touched the last one, making a complete circle. In the center of the flowerpot he placed some pine needles, which is food for Processionary Caterpillars.
Around and around the circular flowerpot these caterpillars walk. Through the hypnotic force of their habits, the Processionary Caterpillars continued in circles, hour after hour, day after day, and night after night. Eventually, they dropped dead of sheer starvation and exhaustion, one after another. They died with the food they were searching for just inches away.
Are you so caught up in your daily activities that you fail to recognize what really matters in your life? Are you blindly following the crowd, your leaders, past experience, tradition, precedent etc., doing things the way they have always been done? Are you unconscious of and limited by your habits, instincts, assumptions, beliefs etc? Are you literally working yourself to death, accomplishing nothing meaningful or lasting in the process? Are you assuming that those you are following are right? Perhaps. Or perhaps they are also following someone else, unaware of their own habits and assumptions, and you are all going in circles. Are you constantly pursuing material possessions and chasing after the latest fad while neglecting your deeper needs and aspirations?
A man without a purpose will always feel that something is missing in his life. He is like vulnerable to despair and find no meaning in life. But even more depressing is the man who is pursuing goals that do not belong to him. Spending his life fulfilling someone else's purpose.
First ask yourself what really matters to you. Affirm your intention by writing your statement of purpose and printing it with a symbolic graphic and hanging it someplace where there is high visibility. Then put in place a plan of how you will manifest these goals into reality.
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein
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