Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

I suppose some would call me a humanist. But, I am not a very good one. Human nature causes me to be rather pessimistic about our future. I am, however, a humanist in the sense that I believe that when it comes to the human condition all things begin and end with us ( Read more... )

Each one of us has a 7lb obstruction between our ears that prevents us from getting what we want out of life - our brains! By the time we wake up to the fact that life isn’t exactly what we hoped for we are deeply entrenched in patterns of being that are counterproductive to our best interests. When someone tells us that we can change the ( Read more... )

 
Angry red letters dripping like blood covered the bed sheet hanging out the window of the run down brick apartment quad. The wind blew the yellowed with age fabric twisting and whipping it around making it hard to read. Yet the message was clear if you chose to be patient and stand a moment.

TRAINING FOR THE COMING CLASS STRUGGLE

TONITE

8:00 PM

My ( Read more... )

No doubt you have heard the metaphor that within each of us is a good wolf and a bad wolf and we only have enough to feed just one. The outward expression of our lives show the world which wolf we choose to feed. However, very rarely do we run across someone who feeds only the good wolf or only the bad wolf, although it often seems that more people ( Read more... )

How much easier is self-sacrifice then self-realization?

~Eric Hoffer

Conditions are the reflections of our meditations and nothing else.

Science of Mind, p291

Imagining is like feeling around

In a dark lane or washing

Your eyes with blood.

You are the truth

From foot to brow. Now,

What else would you like to know?

~Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks

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This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and it signifies the beginning of the Lenten season the 40 days prior to Easter that is generally associated with fasting, abstinence, sacrifice and prayer. It is interesting to note that the word Lent is of Teutonic origin and was simply used to denote the season of spring. However, we are not concerned here with ( Read more... )