The Lone Crusader

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.--Albert Einstein

Like the crusader of medieval times, like Don Quixote himself, vow to live your life courageously. Hold high the banner of Truth as you set out to reclaim the world as your own.

Culture Wars

The difference between high culture and pop culture is that high culture is rooted in a lively and curious interest in reality as it is while pop culture is driven by a desperate need to escape that reality.

Do You Know The Way?

Instead of inquiring what is intelligence, let us discover for ourselves what are the hindrances placed upon the mind which prevent the full awakening of intelligence. If I were to give an explanation of what is intelligence, and you agreed with my explanation, your mind would make of it a well-defined system, and through fear would twist itself to fit into that system. But if each one can discover for himself the many impediments placed on the mind, then, through awareness, not through self-analysis, the mind will begin to liberate itself, thus awakening true intelligence which is life itself. —J. Krishnamurti

Homeward Bound

The true road to home has only two rules: begin and continue.

Until Death Do Us Part

It is a strange truth that the Angel of Death is more merciful than most of humanity. For the Angel of Death comes to put an end to human suffering while humanity often increases it.

Beside Oneself

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”—Albert Einstein

The above quote is best understood in conjunction with Donald Hoffman's observations on the phenomenon of human consciousness: Do We See Reality As It Is?

The Exception to the Rule

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticizing, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

"They find themselves born into a certain place in society, and they accept what each day brings forth, without any effort of thought beyond what the immediate present requires. Almost as instinctively as the beasts of the field, they seek the satisfaction of the needs of the moment, without much forethought, and without considering that by sufficient effort the whole conditions of their lives could be changed.

"A certain percentage, guided by personal ambition, make the effort of thought and will which is necessary to place themselves among the more fortunate members of the community; but very few among these are seriously concerned to secure for all the advantages which they seek for themselves.

"It is only a few rare and exceptional men who have that kind of love toward mankind at large that makes them unable to endure patiently the general mass of evil and suffering, regardless of any relation it may have to their own lives.”—Bertrand Russell

Strive to be the exception rather than the rule.