Painted Cake
You cannot eat a painted cake.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
A Despairing Situation
With the right understanding, it is impossible to despair. With the wrong understanding, it is inevitable.
Friday, February 16, 2024
A Tempting Offer
The desire to teach other men how to live would be laughable if it were not so pitiable.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
An Insane Proposition
It would be insane not to desire Mystical Union while at the same time Mystical Union can never be the object of desire.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Growing Pains
Suffering deepens the roots of our compassion and is as necessary for our growth as is the rain to the mighty trees of the forest.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Red Alert
We cannot become wise by reading. Repeating a truth we read in a book is not the same as understanding.
In fact, it might be worse because the repetition of the insight of others might deceive us into thinking that we know.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Mentally Unbalanced
If an egotist is, by that very fact, a madman then there is no such thing as mental health.
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A Despairing Situation
With the right understanding, it is impossible to despair. With the wrong understanding, it is inevitable.
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The desire to teach other men how to live would be laughable if it were not so pitiable.
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Enlightenment is the shocking realization that you exist.
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It would be insane not to desire Mystical Union while at the same time Mystical Union can never be the object of desire.