So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let’s teach our children to be thinkers.
We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it’s very easy for science to make a substitute material. There’s no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn’t have to answer to anyone else.
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don’t know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.
It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know, you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.
If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That’s love.
You don’t need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
If you remain conventional and don’t change, you’ll get along. You’ll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You’ll never be able to keep a marriage together, you’ll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn’t together.
If you had a free society you couldn’t get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.
I don’t want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.
LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.