Living between the extremes, between the contradictions, between the dichotomies, between the contraries, between the mutually exclusive polarities... takes all the fun out of being alive. And so, denial. In the form of diversion, distraction, dismissal, disregarding, denouncing, delaying, postponing, rejecting and refusing to consider anything we don't want to think about. The entertaining pastimes-- money, sex, drugs, alcohol, video games and all the spectator sports-- come to our rescue, delaying indefinitely the unwanted realities of our life. Can you imagine the dreadful existence of someone like the Buddha, say, or Jesus, Gandhi, the Dali Lama and all of the saints in light-- who just faced straight-up life-as-it-is every day? What a dreadful way to live! Doing nothing than what needed to be done, when, where and how it needed to be done, from get up to lights out? Who could live like that? No TV? No commercials? Nothing to take their mind off whatever was at hand? WHY??? We don't wait around for the answer. The idea alone is more than we can bring ourselves to consider. There has to be a beer around here somewhere...
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
So true, as members of the program have been telling me for years. The truth should hurt a bit, but we’ll so anything to avoid the sting.
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