Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world

By ChaosNavigator

Reading time :6 minutes ( a long time in the age of ADHD/Twitter)



And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again.

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
- Pink Floyd - Time (Lyrics included) - YouTube

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and die with their song still inside them
- Henry David Thoreau


Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.…Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
- Steve Jobs, creator and founder of Apple

You can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. ....At some point, when you create yourself to make it, you’re going to have to either let that creation go, and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are. Or you’re gonna have to kill who you really are, and fall into your grave grasping onto a character that you never were.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way... So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach so we never dare to ask ...It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
–Jim Carrey The Most Inspiring Jim Carrey Speech THE MEANING
OF LIFE | MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO



Some of the most successful untraditional inspiring people in the world:

"I’m not what I think I am. I’m not what you think  I am. I am what I think you think I am.So we live in this perception of a perception of ourselves. Hence my identity is made by what my parents think I should be. Hence my identity is made by what my college or university thinks I should achieve. While you’re living in that bubble, in that echo chamber,getting to what you really want to do is impossible.
- How to Find Your Purpose - This Monk Will Change Your Worldview - A Chilling Message By Jay Shetty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfzEAEMEyY


'There's a Malcolm X quote... it's so powerful: "That which you do not hate, you will eventually tolerate" and I think that identifies most people's lives - in other words they average, becomes sort of like this slow asphyxiation, it's almost like an anesthetic and that. over time. would become kind of immune and dulled to the average...listen, you're gonna get out of your life what you'll accept. That's really difficult for people I think to understand is; look what you think you're worth and what you're gonna tolerate, is absolutely what you're gonna bring into your life and what the outward part of your lifeis gonna look like.......people think that like I'll be happy when once I get like this big amazing home or once I get this car or once I get this relationship or an amount of money, then I'll allow myself some happiness. The problem is the finish line always moves - you never arrive there ... the minute you begin to get external in your life worrying about what other people think about you, you've lost all control you, and it never fills you up, and people's admiration, people's gratitude towards you will never fill you up - it's your own, it's your own inside. And so, for me, self-confidence comes from keeping the promises I make to myself and the other part of it is being aware I'm doing it'
- What Everyone Struggling Needs to Know Right Now | Ed Mylett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7RfQ5NBC8


How to Stop Being Realistic and Shoot for the Moon | Jesse Itzler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOWjeY7XOM



This Left The Audience SPEECHLESS | This Is WHY You're Not HAPPY (An Eye Opening Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AE2j43LcR4

'The individual no more knows the point of life, of existence. He no
longer knows why he is living, what he is supposed to do, where he
is going, let alone who he is. He is in fact completely lost....Wisdom
is so important that it might be said that mankind is composed solely
of the Wise. Not only is it true that humanity consists solely of the
wise, but also, in the most fundamental sense, only the wise exist'
- A.H. Almaas, world renowned master transpersonal therapist


'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
- Jiddu Krishnamurti


'You are the product of your conditioning, you are the product of your society, the product of propaganda, religious and otherwise. You repeat what others have said. ... full of the authority of others or of your own particular little authority, of your own knowledge. You are second-hand human beings, intellectually, emotionally.'
- Jiddu Krishnamurti, Talk in San Diego, 7 April 1970



"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.'
- Bill Hicks


'Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.'
- Oscar Wilde


If you do what you always have done, following the group, you will get what you always got - in other words; a pleasant safe, but dead comfort zone...nothing authentic new, nothing individualistic. Not following your own true individuality and dream, out of fear of being seen as an 'outsider' by the group, will make you 'safe'...but anonymous, a fearful echo of nothingness, never reaching your own dream. We are our own limitation because we believe we can't do it. One can never do anything, if one is not free of the fear of what other people think....

I just heard somebody say that they didn’t want to die with their song unsung. I got to thinking about this, and wondered about how common this phenomenon is, how many people really go through their lives and never live their dreams…never really sing the song that is playing within. We go through our lives making our living, working long hours perhaps, putting off until “later” our dreams and our aspirations. Then we wake up some day and realize that there is no more time, that we must put up or shut up, and then we wonder just where all the time went and wish that we had lived our dreams and sung our songs all along during our life when we were busy making a living.


So…now, today, begin to sing your song; begin to live your life. Start in small ways if you must. Take a moment, look around, examine your senses, take a deep breath, see the beauty…the wonder of this incredible universe. And then do something that you really want to do. You don’t know what you want to do? Make a plan for your life, write down your goals and then write down how you can achieve them. Too old you say? Never! Use the time you have, take your life and squeeze the juices out…drink deep!

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'When you distance yourself from the source of suffering, when you name it as opposite to what you want to be, you lose a chance to change it. Because it continues to live inside you, as part of you, making you make many of your choices, but you refuse to recognize it, so you remain in ignorant bliss and you continue to suffer.'
- Olga Kharitidi, The Master of Lucid Dreams




Jim Carrey videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTblbYqQQag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-kaib_rXTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klQB9GCcAw4