Mind On trust Last Tuesday before the actual lecture begun, the professor started talking about trust. He told us that he has to walk quite a detour from his office to the lecture room… 11/04/2014
![Okay. More thoughts on my previous post. Thank you for all your reactions. It seems I’m not the only one feeling like this. I realized however, that if I feel aggression towards these nazis, insulting them and actually wanting to hurt them physically, I am just like them. I am like these people I despise. If I don’t try to understand them, however disgusted I am by their opinions and acts, this outrage will lead to nothing. Then I am simply another person being AGAINST something. I don’t want them to be here just like they don’t want black people, jews or homosexual people to be here. Why? Because we all feel threatened. We feel threatened by different things yet the underlying motive is the same: fear. And fear disconnects.
There are many systems dropping subtle lines of racism, homophobia etc. and when you grow up entrenched in those systems, is it really a surprise you act upon them? I am not taking away the responsibility of these people, I am really trying to develop a more compassionate outlook on this situation. But a compassionate outlook won’t change them. I can’t change them. There you have it, I don’t believe anymore that I can be anything I want. I have a lot of potential, just like everybody, I can be a lot and reach many people with my message (which I’m not a 100% sure what it really is yet) but I cannot get rid of all the fear-based actions in this world. I cannot be the saviour for all victims of injustice - no matter how much I want it. There are already a handful of smart and compassionate people in the world with a much bigger reach and much more resources than I have (think Bernie Sanders, Russell Brand, Peter Pilz for my fellow Austrians) and yet the majority of people don’t vote for them, don’t support them. So since I won’t quit the city and go live in an alternative eco-enclave in the near future I have to find a way to act within these systems that I am living in. Sometimes I feel awful for not „having a solution“, for not being able to save the world. It can be an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. That’s when my yoga practice steps in. [continued in the comments]](http://scontent-frt3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/20766864_1307250162733843_5796956125786013696_n.jpg "Okay. More thoughts on my previous post. Thank you for all your reactions. It seems I’m not the only one feeling like this. I realized however, that if I feel aggression towards these nazis, insulting them and actually wanting to hurt them physically, I am just like them. I am like these people I despise. If I don’t try to understand them, however disgusted I am by their opinions and acts, this outrage will lead to nothing. Then I am simply another person being AGAINST something. I don’t want them to be here just like they don’t want black people, jews or homosexual people to be here. Why? Because we all feel threatened. We feel threatened by different things yet the underlying motive is the same: fear. And fear disconnects.
There are many systems dropping subtle lines of racism, homophobia etc. and when you grow up entrenched in those systems, is it really a surprise you act upon them? I am not taking away the responsibility of these people, I am really trying to develop a more compassionate outlook on this situation. But a compassionate outlook won’t change them. I can’t change them. There you have it, I don’t believe anymore that I can be anything I want. I have a lot of potential, just like everybody, I can be a lot and reach many people with my message (which I’m not a 100% sure what it really is yet) but I cannot get rid of all the fear-based actions in this world. I cannot be the saviour for all victims of injustice - no matter how much I want it. There are already a handful of smart and compassionate people in the world with a much bigger reach and much more resources than I have (think Bernie Sanders, Russell Brand, Peter Pilz for my fellow Austrians) and yet the majority of people don’t vote for them, don’t support them. So since I won’t quit the city and go live in an alternative eco-enclave in the near future I have to find a way to act within these systems that I am living in. Sometimes I feel awful for not „having a solution“, for not being able to save the world. It can be an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. That’s when my yoga practice steps in. [continued in the comments]")
