Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The Citadel

We live our lives within the fantasies that we have woven. That is not all bad because some level of illusion is psychologically healthy, serving a filter, allowing only so many harsh rays of ultimate reality to enter our atmosphere at any one time.

Beyond deploying this basic filtering mechanism against incoming reality, there is no fastness, no barrier that will hold the world out for very long. The inevitability of onrushing reality reaching us makes it imperative that we exit our citadel of comfort, and walk out into the world where we at least can meet the world on our own terms. We then have the activist's advantage of seeking out directly what we fear most. Embracing it openly and immediately, we can make rational, honest assessments of what we are up against, contrasting it against our character, abilities and resources to combat and shape what we are faced with. In the open field we have maximum room to maneuver and correct our course as need be.

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