Another Suzi Memory comes to the surface

[alobar]

I awoke from my nap with anothr memory of Suzi which has impcted my life in a very positive way.

Sometime between when Suzi and I met at SPiRaL and when I visited her in Florida, she came up to the Humm for a long weekend.  Suzi was not a happy camper.  Partly because she was a coke-head with no access to coke.  And partly because upstate NY was far

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[nemo_49]

Most folks are trapped by what they believe about their situation in life. They don't realize that they can walk away whenever they want. I think sizing things up and taking a hard, long look at the situation as it is rather than how we fantasize it to be inevitably leads to the conclusion that human beliefs are about as meaningful as the bleating of sheep. Most cases of deep depression and misery are nothing more than the suffocating awareness of reality versus fantasy. That waitress needed to hear what Suzi said, and in that way, if you ask me. Maybe it planted a seed...a nagging itch in the brain that grew into a "rabid, feverish, clawing madness to stop being a lie, regardless of price". Then again, maybe she went further to sleep. The Law may be for all, but very few bother to do anything about it.

"Where are the people that chose their lives?
... maybe a life of drudgery and carrot-chasing is exactly what we would chose if we did chose, but we don't. That's what it means to be unconscious; to be asleep within the dream. We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the clothes their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default. We play the roles we are born to. We don't live our lives, we dispose of them. We throw them away because we don't know any better, and the reason we don't know any better is because we never asked. We never questioned or doubted, never stood up, never drew a line. We never walked up to our parents or our teachers or our gurus or any other formative presences in our early lives and asked one simple, honest, straightforward question, the one question that must be answered before any other question can be asked:
What the hell is going on here?"
~ Jed McKenna