Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The End of the Road

Without true humility, we would all commit suicide if Death did not first intervene.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A Tripping Hazard

The road of Truth is one of slowly increasing self-knowledge where we are forever in danger of being tripped up by our own vanity and ignorance.

Mark of Nobility

We must search for the Truth and bring down on ourselves noble ruin.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Too High a Cost

The price that we pay for our coldness, our rudeness, and our indifference is the missed opportunity to love.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Meditate on This

Meditation is nothing more than an affirmation, moment after moment, of the Truth.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

An Infamous Proposition

Infamy: The inevitable result of the transmuting of our vanity into a violent impulse.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Monstrous Truth

The blasphemous ego is a monstrous perversion that usurps the will.

Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?--from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Friday, December 10, 2010

A Lost Cause

An unconscious instinct for survival combines with our vanity and with our attachment to pleasure to produce in us, against all reason, a willingness to fight for an imagined existence full of only misery and sorrow.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

A Foolish Belief

If a man thinks he is wise, let him become a fool; for a wise man is a fool and a fool is a wise man. A wise man is wise because he knows he is a fool while the foolish man is a fool because he doesn’t know he is wise.

A Question of Morals

Moral degeneration is a downhill slide. Moral regeneration is an uphill battle.