You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to free themselves from the fear of judgment by others.
Russell Brand emphasizes the importance of self-liberation from the constant anxiety of being scrutinized by society. He suggests that when we detach ourselves from the perception that we are being watched or judged, we can live more authentically and seek our true selves without the burden of external validation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance and mental health.
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.
I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.
It is so easy to break down and destroy. _x000D_ The heroes are those who make peace and _x000D_ build.
Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
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