Experience and reflection on experience lead to associations and connections, trains of thought and streams of inquiry, examination and realization, all of which form another level of experience, and the cycle repeats endlessly over time-- unless we interrupt it by refusing to ask the questions that beg to be asked, or say the things that cry out to be said, or see what we look at, or hear what is being said, particularly what we are saying and failing to say in light of all that we are experiencing and failing to experience, although it is right there, awaiting awareness. We keep doing the same things waiting for things to change. Our luck, for instance. Or our station in life. Transformation follows courage, which is forestalled by recurring rounds of drugs/sex/alcohol/diversion/distraction/denial, anything to take our mind off what's what and what needs to be done about it here/now and the beat goes on and on like the tides through time.
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