Once we accumulate things it is very difficult to let go of our possessions.
We appear to be rich, but our dependence on material wealth makes us poor for, as Thoreau wrote, "a
man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
afford to let alone."
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Liberation
Therapy can help you manage the disease, but only the Truth can liberate you from the obsessions, compulsions, and disorders of egotism.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
War
The spiritual journey is an all out war against the evolutionary forces which we inherited from our primate ancestors.
We must learn to tame the savage animal within us before it breaks out of its civilized cage without warning.
We must learn to tame the savage animal within us before it breaks out of its civilized cage without warning.
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Total Eclipse
The ego eclipses true intelligence.
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Every birth of a human being opens a new front in the war against the nature that is both without and within us. History is the record of ba...
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It is our vanity and presumption that compel our tongues to make the mistake of telling other people what to do or how to live.
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There but for the grace of God, go I. Although this statement appears to be an expression of humility, it is misleading. Taken literally, it...