Who knows

Maybe you're not a Highly Sensitive Person, 
maybe you are a neurotic person.

Maybe you're not laid back, maybe you're just lazy.

Maybe you're not outspoken and straightforward, 
maybe you're an asshole.

Maybe you're not awake, maybe you're a space cadet.

Maybe you're not neurotic, maybe you're a Highly Sensitive Person. 
Maybe you're not lazy, maybe you're not an asshole, 
maybe you're not a space cadet.

Maybe you're sometimes lazy, sometimes laid back and harmonious.
Maybe you're sometimes awake, someimes an asshole.

Know thyself

To get to know yourself, you need to observe yourself. You need to observe yourself in action, closely. What you're telling yourself, your explanations, rationalizations and ideas about yourself are quite uninteresting. It's when you do something that you have a chance to catch a glimpse of yourself, when you refuse to call her back, when you suddenly decide to go to the pub, when you stuff yourself with pancakes, etc.

To get to know to yourself can be very unpleasant. It can be like trying to make friends with a pisshead on a park bench or a priggish little jerk in a lunch room. 

You think that you're sensible, but you're not. The sensible part of you is just a part of you. You are not just one person. You consist of several personalities, much like a small family business that is run by a family. Sometimes is your father at the helm, sometimes your mother, sometimes your uncle.

Hello!

How are you?

What's wrong with you?

Have you received your diagnosis, and a prescription?

Who are you?

What do you think?

Who are you, really, ultimately?

Electron swarms and quarks?

And what is an electron?

A particle or a wave?

A particle or a wave in what?

What is matter, really?

Energy? Condensed radiation?
Isn't materialism an outdated idea?

What is the soul made of?

Fantasies, delusion, spirit?
How do you define the word soul?

What is consciousness made of?

Electromagnetic fields in brain tissue?

What is outside of our universe?

Where is the universe situated?

Why did all the questions arise in the universe?

 

Jump off the bandwagon

It's immoral to send Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan. It's also immoral to send back refugees from Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Syria. There are millions of people in the Middle East, Asia and Africa who are escaping religious terror.

Religions create terrible misery in the world. And it's not just Muslim extremists who are on the war path. Jewish fanatics fight for their Greater Israel and  the evangelical christians in the US voted for Trump. They want more and better nuclear weapons because they want to be well prepared for the final battle.

The Muslim terrorists are often social misfits. But behind them are religious teachers and imams who have influenced their worldview. And behind the fanatic imams are powerful religious leaders in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. For decades they have spread their extrem form of islam across the world through religious schools and mosques. We can not criticize them. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are important trading partners and, moreover, religious beliefs are not something to be criticized.

But it is not just religious ideas that create problems in the world. Political ideas and ideologies can also make us mad. Both politics and religion can make us completely crazy.

We ought be many more, who clearly rejected solid beliefs. We ought to be many more who stopped following political and religious leaders. We ought to be many more who jumped off the bandwagon.

Worldviews

You are holding on to your worldview, 
like a two year old to a security blanket. 

Don’t be ashamed of your attachment. 
Have a tolerant approach.

Abrupt removal of the blanket is likely to backfire
and make the transition process take much longer. 

Identities

It's difficult for Jews and Palestinians to get along.

The same goes for sunni muslims and shia muslims,

right-wingers and left-wingers, born again christians and atheists,

religious fundamentalists and pluralists, bigots and liberals,

spiritualists and materialists, rich and poor, extroverts and introverts, 
educated and uneducated...

Our identities divide us.

But, what is an identity, really? What is it made of?

Ideas? Thoughts? Vivid imagination?

Identities seem so extremely solid and unshakable even though they're not.

Left-wingers can change and become right-wingers,

religious people can become atheists and an atheists can become religious. 

Nothing is written in stone.

Illusions

If you are sitting on a beach, watching the sunset,

you can clearly see how the sun is sinking down under the horizon, 
how it is moving.

But it's not the sun that is sinking, it's the earth that is turning.

The movement of the sun is an illusion.

You can be fully convinced about something that is completely wrong.  
You can't always trust your senses. You can't always trust your self.

However, sunsets are wonderful even if it's not the sun that is sinking. 

What difference does it make to you, in your life,
if the earth revolves around the sun, or if the sun revolves around the earth?

What difference does it make if there are tons of universes out there,
or if this universe is the only one?