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A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? ↗
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ↗
#experience #inexperience #open-mindeness #perspective #point-of-view
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them. ↗
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. ↗
#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech
I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on. ↗
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗
#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids
