Don't judge your insides based on other people's outsides.

This excerpt from the Hound of the Baskervilles sounds like it was written directly to me in reference to my life so far:

"Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that these foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing."A ( Read more... )

"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk ( Read more... )

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example
of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.
Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62Last night I was having a discussion with my roomie about how the ( Read more... )

In this biography I'm reading of C.S Lewis I was struck by an excerpt from a poem of his, which I shall now share:

Lest we forget we were born divine ( Read more... )

"Television is the opiate of the masses." I firmly believe that is what Marx would say if he were alive today. Television is the ubiquitous, insidious (beguiling, but harmful), battery of the capitolist machine ( Read more... )