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Prescription.

The majority of our actions can be traced back to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in conflict with habit, an obedience to inherent fatalism which hangs on "good and bad" actions already committed (in past existence) against a preserved morality and whose reaction gives expression as spontaneity, involuntariness, autonomy, the deliberate, etc., as the chance arises.
-Spare

Austin Spare, Jacob Moreno, Robert Wilson, the cabbage/robot fallacy, the archer's target fallacy, Apple's advertising (if not their policy), Jesus, the Dalai Lama, etc. All suggesting that maybe, perhaps, sponteneity (breaking habit, think different, desire for freedom, and so on) plays a key role in improving the quality of life among individuals and groups. All hinting that the things we believe (and for what reason? because we haven't been taught to believe any other way) need to be examined.

Think about everything you DON'T think about. This is what you do habitually while you're thinking about other things. Everything from how you sit, through the tone in your voice when you speak, what brand of toothpaste you buy, who you seek for legal of medical advice, to what you accomplish in your dreams, and what you do for your livelihood. Of all of these things you do, how many of them were intentionally created by you? How many did you accidentally create through not-considering? How many were intentionally created by someone else?

How many do you like?

None of these are necessarily wrong, mind you.

These are the things that are literally running your life while you're busy with other things.

I would suggest, as your lawyer, doctor, therapist and life coach, that you should think about these questions for no less than ten twenty minutes each. Then practice being different.

You are what you practice every day. -Ghandi

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