See how the birds fly. How economical is grace! Why should people fly, when it costs so much to fly without their grace? Arrogance, audacity, fickleness; such unsustainable attitudes! Along with the greed that cultivates them: please eat more, fly more, burn more, etc.; and of course, work more, as if more work did not ravage more.

Why do people have to eat an amount their bodies actually resent. Why do they have to smoke, or drink or take pills? Is it so hard to love the world, to love living, to find it profound, to be fulfilled in the sane and universal way? It is not the world that bores a person so that he becomes restless and must fritter away the waking hours with familiar vices. It is the person’s upbringing makes it seem boring, which is to say, family, neighbours, teachers, preachers and the various media which bring us the celebrities from politics and entertainment. His upbringing has adapted him to ignore the profound and submerge himself in the sea of human endeavour.

If we truly mean to save the world we must obviously reinvent the civilized man and woman. We must produce a generation of people who do not miss the real beauty of living, so that they don’t have to burn up the world as an opiate.

There is not one man or woman on Earth who can truthfully say, "I believe education and upbringing should lead to people thinking the kind of thoughts that constantly run through my head each day.”. (I stress the word truthfully!) Human thought, once it has become a private indulgence (which is usually shortly after puberty), is actually an affliction. There are extremely few men and women who could even say, truthfully, that they believe education and upbringing should lead to the reasoning processes they have achieved, the conclusions they have reached. So, to be honest, we all have to admit that it has not been working. We were educated, brought up, and it was not at all done rightly.

People have made a lot of money on us, despite this failure to cultivate our humanity. When people make a lot of money on something they say, "Oh, look! It’s working perfectly!”. How does it happen that such reckless reasoning governs education and upbringing?

How does one save a child from this kind of education and upbringing? By not subjecting him to the words and devices we produce from our thoughts! Thought gives us things to say and do. Don’t say and do them. The younger he is the more horrid the offence of thinking about what to say and do to him.

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