Blog 3160 – 06.25.2025

Ways To Escape The Madness

There has always been the tumult, the storms, the noise of competing voices, the crowd. The dictionary defines tumult thus:

The tumult can quite literally drive one to the brink of insanity and sadly for too many even beyond.

How do we escape the madness? I thought you’d never ask.

Many find their quiet place in religion. Of the big five, at least three are what I call “guilt religions” and whatever peace and escape they promise comes with a price. Salvation they may claim to free but their particular brand comes with a hidden cost – nagging guilt. I recall a Roman Catholic woman saying, “Guilt, I was raised on it.” The same must be said of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Buddhism and Hinduism or religion lite as I refer to them have all the taste without the guilt.

If your religion works to help keep you sane in this maddening world far be it from me to try to persuade you to let go of any beliefs that are serving you, Just be sure that they are serving you and not the other way around.

Meditation works for some people, taking their focus off every thing else and concentrating on their breath , drinking a glass of water, or repeating a vowel seems to calm their troubled spirit or cool a heated brow. Brow reminds me of a rhyming word – now. Focusing on living in the now can keep us from carrying baggage from the past or imagining fears of the future. Jesus once said that we are always provided enough strength for the day, enough light for the way, and that we should, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Yesterday, I wrote that we never walk alone. We have a friend who is with us always, our higher best self. To unlock the power of any friendship, especially, this one requires spending quiet and quality time with your friend. What was that, Bigger Better Dave? Amen, yes indeed.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White a.k.a. little Dave and Big Dave