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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that...

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the
green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Now existence you see is something that is spontaneous, the Chinese word for nat...

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Now existence you see is something that is spontaneous, the Chinese word for nature (Tian ran), means that which happens of itself. Your hair grows by itself. Your heart beats by itself. You're going to be constantly trying to do what can happen healthily only if you don't try. But we have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere than it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble."

http://www.consciousness-evolution.org/?p=562

The human game by Alan Watts | Consciousness Evolution
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The human game by Alan WattsPosted on March 20, 2013 by admin"Now existence you see is something that is spontaneous, the Chinese word for nature (Tian ran), means that which happens of itself. Your hair grows by itself. Your heart beats by itself. You breathe pretty much by itself. Your glands secr...

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It's alright to get lost. It's alright to stumble upon an intersection and wande...

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

It's alright to get lost. It's alright to stumble upon an intersection and wander straight into a cul-de-sac. How would you otherwise know what road to take? Go back to the intersection. Take another direction. Follow it and see where life leads you.

http://www.consciousness-evolution.org/?p=427

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Life's pathPosted on February 3, 2013 by adminIn these modern times, there is a constant pressure on people on how we would like that the world and humans in our surroundings perceive us. Who we are. How we are. We would so eagerly like to find our place, or rather, give ourselves a place in today's...

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Tony Samara explains very clearly on how important breathing really is for our o...

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Tony Samara explains very clearly on how important breathing really is for our own being, in every moment of our lives. This is something that most of us tend to forget due to the distractions from today's world and the result has created a shallow & unhealthy breathing pattern, which is actually the root and beginning of most health problems, mental discontent and emotional disorder.

http://www.consciousness-evolution.org/?p=28

A very wise guide on BREATHING and how it works. | Consciousness Evolution
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A very wise guide on BREATHING and how it works.Posted on January 2, 2013 by adminTony Samara explains very clearly on how important breathing really is for our own being, in every moment of our lives. This is something that most of us tend to forget due to the distractions from today's world and th...

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