The foundation of my journey through life. I was 20 at the time, having a weed induced humourous discussion with a friend about life, the universe and everything. In it I had a profound moment of deep inspection and noticed I really didn't know much about myself. I vowed that day to embark on a journey to discover more. I was 47 when I had the huge transformation from sorting all my soul shit out, and gaining a wealth of understanding of the human avatar that I'm responsible for. "We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles." - George Gurdjieff This is how I live now... "If you want to follow me to freedom, be prepared to swim upstream, against the river of conditioning. Be prepared to grapple continuously with the fierce flow of negative mental currents. In time our strokes will become effortless and our sense of purpose irresistible." - Buddha "Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." - Thich Nhat Hanh "The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal peace." - Bhagavad Gita
"Flight occurs on the wings of awareness. One becomes aware through transformation. One transforms through insight. And insight, often discovered through the healing of the heart, is the eternal wisdom of the soul." - Heather O'Hara "Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom." - M. Scott Peck "Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn." - Barbara Rose "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils. It is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." - Bertrand Russell "Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu "Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment." - Leonardo da Vinci
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. - Henry David Thoreau
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." - Miyamoto Musashi "Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help." - Miyamoto Musashi
I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism—all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them. - John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold
"I'm not against the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance." Amy Farrah Fowler, Big Bang Theory. Season 3, Episode 23.
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth, don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." - Aesop "Philosophy is the science which considers truth." - Aristotle "A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune." - Henry Ward Beecher
If it was mathematically proven that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God Id still have faith in Jesus . Shatov in The Devils by Dostoyevsky.
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." - Arnold Bennett "A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life." - Winston Churchill "If you think you know it all, and what you have learned is "the only truth", you cut yourself off from all the truth grander than the one you currently know." - Alan Cohen
Yet in horror movies, that's always the cliche phrase that is said right before the person gets killed.
Better to take your own life than to murder someone else just before you take your own life. (sorry but I needed to share that depressing thought)
