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loneliness is almost baked into the cake
as far as a modern society with the kind
of social setup and infrastructure that
we have today the people that you look
at every day the people in the house
across the street even may not even be
people that you know or maybe at most
you know their name but you don't know
their story you don't know where they
came from the hardships and triumphs of
their life we're not involved in each
other's stories anymore and we also
don't depend on each other in the way
that most people did for most of human
history when your well-being depended on
the health and gifts of the people
around you
gifts create relationships whereas a
money transaction does not create a
relationship I paid you man like you
don't have anything on me I'll have
anything on you we're done
when all of our relationships become
mediated by money then we have again a
feeling of being alone feeling of not
being connected and we live in an
economy that is moving more and more and
more toward the totalization of money
transactions on a deeper level I think
every human being has a need to be
useful a need to do more with your life
than just being secure having enough
money feeding your family we need more
than that we need to contribute to
something that's beautiful to us that we
care about for real
certainly on one level if you are just a
cog in the machine replaceable by
somebody else and you're gonna feel not
needed but but I think even more than
that you might be doing something
irreplaceable to your company but still
if your company isn't doing something
that fills your life with meaning that
makes you say yeah doing what I was put
here on earth to do then you're still
not going to feel fulfilled on the other
hand if what you're doing is something
very humble if it's part of a cause that
you believe in and if you can see that
what you're doing is actually necessary
for that cause to be manifested on earth
then you'll still feel good about what
you're doing
probably
the key isn't necessarily in finding
work that's challenging where no one
else could replace you it's really more
about where do I put my life energy
because my life time is a gift my life
is a gift what am I going to do with
this but I have that sneaking suspicion
that I'm not doing what this gift is for
then underneath it all I'm gonna have
unease disquiet and a yearning that
pushes me off time to find what is it
that I'm here to do
there's this fear if I give generously
what about me what's gonna be left for
me who's going to take care of me
because we don't see a world where the
giver is taken care of too so therefore
we want to be financially independent we
want to not need anybody's gifts we want
to be able to pay for everything and
that leaves us alone this paradise of
financial independence means that you
don't need anybody and they don't really
need you either now actually that's an
illusion
you're still depending on people on the
Sun on the water on the soil you still
in total dependency it's just dependency
on strangers dependency on distant
beings that you're not in any other kind
of relationship with that is where our
civilization has taken us
and we're pretty well lair
for the lonely person who's not lonely
because they don't have friends but
maybe feels lonely even with all those
friends
begin to orient toward the perception of
gift meaning to see it your life as a
gift to see your purpose as being to
give to understand that you have to
receive in order to continue giving and
to evaluate situations like what am I
meant to give in this situation and what
am I meant to receive
if you can get in touch and this is not
a to do it's a invitation maybe even
listening to this you'll receive that
gift which is oh yeah I am a beautiful
being I have been generously gifted life
and breath and son and love
party
I didn't earn this but here I am and I
know why I'm here
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I know that I yearn to continue to a
beautiful world
when you are in the gift you will no
longer feel moment
and deep connections will grow with
other people as a result of this
orientation toward gift
you