Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. If there is a way of grasping a reality in absolute rather than relative terms, of entering into it rather than taking up positions on it, of seizing hold of it without any translation or symbolism, then that way is metaphysics itself.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.