“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, from The Journals of Kierkegaard.
The good news is that it's none of my business what others think of me, just like it's none of my business what I think of myself. When I get out of my own way, life goes great. For me, God-Esteem goes farther than Self-Esteem. When I surrender, I align with my Higher Power and we become One.
I posted the following on facebook last year:
The mainstream media keeps people stupid and docile because 'bread & circuses' are where the money is. Follow the money. It's not a new idea. Presidential elections are circuses and the team you vote for feeds you YOUR bread. Feed yourself. The bread is already yours and the people in power are middle-men insurance agents and media prostitutes 'protecting' you (for a fee) to keep you from taking care of yourself.
Think for yourself. Let freedom of individual rights be your platform. Individual rights are the only means to guarantee the Greater Good. Collective rights emanate from individual rights.
Community Standards come from Individual Standards, not vice-versa. Forcing solutions, imposing harmony, and all the outside-in stuff is useless.
Ancient Greece made its greatest strides when they were free to do both good and bad things. My greatest single regret I see coming from Ancient Greece is how they made the human psyche divided against itself. They over-focused on the mind and left the heart out of balance with the mind. One manifestation of this illness came from the idea that "Feelings are not facts." Truth is, the mind and the heart are One.
The mind is the thinking part of the heart, and the heart is the feeling part of the mind.
Einstein said imagination is more important than knowledge and pointed out that his leaps of higher ideas came suddenly, intuitively.
The 'dictionary' of Einstein's life exploded like a bomb in a printing press office, and the letters of the dictionary flew everywhere BUT came back together in a beautiful order.
After all, the dictionary and the Bible both contain the same words, albeit in a different order. The EGO exists as an illusion in the mind. The heart is not so deluded, and that's why the battlefield is in the mind and not the heart.
The mind is supposed to protect the heart, for once the heart goes, our destiny goes. A poisoned heart is a most tragic state of affairs, with forgiveness and peace defying all explanation and knowledge rushes in to save the day (if we surrender to the Holy Spirit).