X: It has come to my attention that you're planning to kill yourself.

Y: What business is it of yours?

X: Suicide is bad. If I can stop you or get you to change your mind, that's good.

Y: So you believe.

X: Yes, that is my belief.

Y: It is… Read full post »

How can I live with Desire? It's impossible. Desire seizes me by the throat, twists my arm, pushes me, pulls me, entices me, promises me, and gets ugly when I resist. It is the blind determination of devious calculation. It is evil itself. I'd cast it out if I could, but… Read full post »

You don't know you've been out of your mind until you're back in. Being and knowing are two totally different things. Spend too little time out of your mind and you'll never know what your mind is. Spend too much time out of your mind and you'll never catch up with… Read full post »

When a body of water is placid, it reflects accurately. Likewise a mirror. But when the water is disturbed, or the mirror's surface is curved or uneven, the reflection is distorted and unrecognizable. What we call "the mind", the uniquely human ability to reflect perception via conventional symbols,… Read full post »

... having expectations it can neither meet, compensate for,  nor see the absurdity of. Read full post »

Most people keep making the same mistakes over and over again because that's what most people do. Spend enough time away from people and you become acutely aware of how mistaken you are about everything, and how everybody conspires to perpetuate this mistakenness because nobody identifies the cause a… Read full post »

Science tells us how little we know about reality, and how much we think we know is mistaken. Thanks to science, we now know that we know nothing until science tells us. It used to be this way with The Church. And before The Church, this is the way it was… Read full post »

"When mindless chatter passes for meaningful speech, everyone has something to say"      Ching Dao

You do what you can to provide the necessities of life, and you do what you must to escape the drudgery. You believe there's more to life than continuity, so you play wit… Read full post »

When you don't have enough money

You worry about everything

Until you have enough

To worry about nothing

But having none

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I do what engages me...that is, when I'm not doing what I must do or believe I should do. Physical dependency compels me to do things that are not necessarily engaging but are necessary. Psychological dependency compels me to find out how well or how badly other people engage, with what… Read full post »

I recently read someone's definition of self-awareness as, "observing your life in relation to obtaining what is truly important to you".

Life, as we know it is our pursuit of what we want, be it power or understanding, and we measure our lives by how successful we are at getting what… Read full post »

There's always an answer

So prick up your ears

It makes no sense

But it quells your fears

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You can't take it with you

It stays behind

The story of your failure

To find your mind

It doesn't carry over

It weighs a ton

If you haven't read it

There's nothing to be done

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"This is life",

you say,

as if you understood,

while demanding a handle

on what's handling you

When the wheel of history stops turning, the Earth's rotation can be felt

HAPPY TALK

Since we can know more about other people than they care to know about themselves, other people's lives can be more meaningful for us than for them. A man who spends his life doing what he's told, for reasons he never questions, knows less about himself than the outside… Read full post »

There's a line not to cross

if you won't suffer loss,

but temptation is great

and you know you can't wait,

so you go for the wins

and the losing begins

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Satan enabled Eve

And ever since that act

Eve has enabled us

With The Devil to form a pact