“May all your blues be "The Blue Collar Follies”
“When those of us in the academy who are working class or from working-class backgrounds share our perspectives, we subvert the tendency to focus only on the thoughts, attitudes, and experiences of those who are materially privileged.”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“They come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets.”
“Every man's got a place of worship. Mine's twelve feet tall, painted in road dust, and powered by diesel."
— Frozen Freight: Iron Reach”
Source: Frozen Freight: Iron Reach
“We need to recognize that social media is far more than just a harmless distraction or handy tool.
Rather, it has been brilliantly architected as a comprehensive net or web for the mind that can be used to alter our thoughts and behaviors, and from there redirect the creative focus of our attention, usually without our even realizing it.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Not all tugs on our attention are benign—far from it on today’s digitized High Seas. It should be obvious, even to those skeptical of most conspiracy theories, that there are individuals and entities ‘from the Deep’ who seek to manipulate our focus for their gain.
They exploit our fears, insecurities and desires, bombarding us with negativity and hopelessness, and rarely, if ever, looking on the bright side. Coincidence? I think not.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Be wary of information sources that consistently evoke fear, anger, or outrage. Be cautious also of ones that yo-yo followers between such negative states and positive ones, only to repeat this whipsaw cycle again and again.
Question the motives behind the messages you consume. I’m sorry to say it, but there’s a good chance you’ll find hidden agendas almost everywhere that don’t support you or humanity.
Ask yourself whether the messages directed your way are designed to empower you or keep you trapped in a vicious cycle of always seeing the glass as half full.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“We might think of loosh as the form of human energy consciousness adopts as it slides toward being unconscious through traumatization and other negative forms of behavioral engineering.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Look Sami, no one has died from an extra dose of hope, only those who choose to live without it. They die while they are alive,” she answered. “We all live with hope, hoping that God will give us great things, the ones that suit us,” she added. The boy did not find a single word to reply. “You have a friend because of them, I guess,” she said.”
Source: The bright side of pain : The story of a boy who wished he could be ordinary.
“When you give doomsday or other fearmongering cults your attention, just your attention, simply by listening to their words, and certainly by subscribing to them, sending them likes, shares, follows and even money, you’re offering up your precious power in promotion of Doomsday.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality