Too High a Cost

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

Timeless Advice

The spiritual journey requires time to realize that no time is required.

Meditate on This

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

An Infamous Proposition

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

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

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.

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.