One of the most deceptive ideas in the past 50 years is thought for the sake of thought. We’re stuck in cycles of “distillification.” Of pretending thought is action, when only action is action. You cannot think your way to purpose or clarity, simplicity or peace. Every thought must be followed by some outwards attempt to either create the condition or to find the conditions necessary to create. One cannot move the earth with their mind. They must literally try and move the earth.
Much of middle age in the United States is some sort of a race of clearing the mind of old cobwebs and traumas and all in the interior sphere. In reality, the outside is screaming for attention, and the world demands action, and through that repetitious action, a speck of impermanent peace may be found.