I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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.
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.
We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.
When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys. . . ' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.