We are always getting ready to live but never living.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In an evolutionary context, development has no end. That means we can always develop more, further, higher and deeper. In Traditional Enlightenment, it’s possible to become ‘fully enlightened’. In Buddhism, they call it ‘cessation’ or ‘the end of becoming’. Evolutionary Enlightenment is about infinite becoming for eternity.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-Karl Marx
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
-Criss Jami
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler