Personalized Thoughting Distorts Reality. In Wholeness is Clarity

Garin Samuelsen
3 min readAug 2, 2024

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personalized thinking distorts reality

War is a traumatic, violent delusion

Egoic Power is corruption

Environmental destruction and poisoning is insanity

Beliefs are prisons

hate is taught and arises from fear

separation, psychological fear, and fragmentation arise out of dysfunction and isolation

Delusion and corruption are conditioned by a deeply dysfunctional hierarchical system

Love needs nothing
Wholeness is
peace is stillness
compassion lies in looking underneath and asking why
in the simple lies the profound
community is in taking care of the whole, everyone, not just a few of the parts
Love is unconditional and has no bounds

love is love is love
love is wholeness
come dance with me
in love

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Nature has no need for a personalized want for power.
Seeing one’s wholeness and connection to all that is — is a beautiful life.

Egoic power is corrosive.
The irony is that the more power one has the less joyful one is and the more entrapped by the illusionary power one becomes.

As long as one is escaping, one is in conflict. That equals discontent.

Our educational and family system does a great job of forcing us into roles and shutting down wonder and curiosity. This is a violation of human integrity. Because I am conditioned to think that I am not truly safe, that I am not okay, that I am rooted in insecurity, I live in dysfunction and ignorance. From here, there is a want to cling and to find power and security instead of leaping into the real journey, discovering oneself.

It is not in power, wealth, or violence that I will find wholeness, freedom, and love.

Slowing down, listening, connecting, flowing, and building community with one another is more important than hate and fragmentation. Love and interdependency are the keys to discovering joy and wholeness.

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I sit in a bed of flowers
The petals and colors
are wondrous
insects hum and drink
from nature’s elixir
clouds drift and dissolve
a warm, soothing breeze
dances through the meadow

I need little
want nothing
emptiness is mind
joy flows ever so gentle
love suffuses everything

here one sees
hate, greed, and want for power
arise out of ignorance
out of conditioning
out of suffering
this ignorance
spreads more ignorance
until countries are built
out of this ignorance
everyone believing
in its conditioned way

Hierarchy, oppression
and violence
are the ways of the state
pushing down and violating people and nature

I am done with that drama
I live for no state or country
no flag indoctrinates me

all people
Young and old
black and white
queer and straight
women and men
immigrants and Indigenous
all genders
No matter one’s station
no matter one’s religion or belief
I love

all creatures
the earth
the universe
I love

in stillness
I am
no division
just wholeness
immeasurable
Wholeness in all
all in wholeness

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Garin Samuelsen
Garin Samuelsen

Written by Garin Samuelsen

I am a transpersonal therapist, a teacher, and love wonder. I have explored many wild places. Wholeness and love is what it is all about for me.

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