The Material World is Bound to Fail You
A person should so live that their happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things
Epictetus
The outer trappings of your life are insignificant. For what are you searching in all your frantic activities that put you in a state of inconscience where there is no light? Become intoxicated with Spirit not with alcohol. Take one more inner trip, not one more outer trip. Renovate His house, do not buy a larger house. These are mere compensatory activities which leave you feeling apathetic. You are spinning out of control with all your activity. Your nervous restlessness and fitful use of materialism and alcohol consumption is your soul’s indicator that it is still craving a connection with that which is not transient.
You are over filling your cup by being around others constantly. Your frequent social gatherings, often with the same people, are most likely filled with alcohol and intoxicants for escape, and will switch you off if only temporarily; poor music and mindless chatter which leave you more unfulfilled because nothing of depth has taken place due to having checked your prefrontal cortex at the door with your first alcoholic beverage. Alcohol and drugs distort the mind making it impossible to have any clarity. You will have no insight of any measurable value as long as alcohol and drugs are in your life. Furthermore, alcohol is pure sugar and sugar is a cancer magnet making it one of the reasons we have such a high rate of cancer in our nation. Today’s non-artistic low-quality music should be of concern to you and to parents. Today’s empty music is about money and stardom not about art. All this useless noise does not allow you to listen with your spirit. Although meaningful relationships, community, and friendships are very important in our lives, “empty” gatherings begin to lose their vitality and become your dope because you have become addicted to numbing your senses through them. When you must be with people all the time in idle chatter, these relationships become stagnant. These times for “chilling” then fill you with toxic energy rather than nourish you. You are numbed and neurotic by these gatherings because they create a painful division between your higher and lower self. More often than not, you are consuming energy that is unhealthy for your central nervous system. It leaves you feeling lonely and more isolated.
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