It’s a mirror of our inner economy.
Every day we borrow against the present, spending our true capital — consciousness — as collateral for a future self we will never meet.
Like Washington, we keep raising the ceiling: with consumption, with distraction, with ambition.
Each increase makes the next one more costly. Each trade reduces the value of the very freedom we’re chasing.
And just like the government, a shutdown always comes.
Only this one looks like burnout, collapse, emptiness.
The bill always comes due. But it's not a mistake or a failure... It's the awakening you scheduled the moment you mortgaged your awareness.
Your true capital is consciousness.
It is available uniformly to everyone.
Formless, nameless, genderless, universal, undivided, eternal.
Peaceful. Content. Whole.
We have become habituated to feeling we’re separate individual conscious entities, but that is a mistaken concept masking our true universal nature.
You are what I am.
I am what you are.
The rest is just noise masking what's true.
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