Ourselves, at our deepest, most profound, at the center of the very truth of that which we are…are illusions. Therefore only illusions can sustain us. With this knowledge we knowingly choose fictions to live by. We now exist in irony — acting only under the God of Sarcasm. *** It’s…

The moon was behind a faint cloud and the cloud was illuminated through its timid white opacity. Suddenly the world was without words, just movement and color and some still and some there vibrated. Around me with no names for them and no reasons for their doings. I became a…

Have you seen my morality? I can’t find it anywhere… Watch your daily life closely, when was the last time you were faced with a moral decision? “If you are like most people, you think of ‘morality’ as something special, a set of values that outweighs all others. No doubt…

Humility in the realm of ones personal assessment of their own life is the recognition that tomorrow will not be better than today in some utopian and final sense, that life in the end is arbitrary and you are not the center of anything. Not in the sense that your…

There is an implicit sense of disappointment as life continues to move forward. Nobody tells us we will be special, great, renowned, yet we expect nothing less. It seems as though there is a natural predisposition towards aims of great heights and the eventual failure in our reaching of these…

Human Beings in Time “Time is the most unknown of all unknown things” — Aristotle God is Time. Human beings are animals; distinct from others in their perception and fundamental preoccupation with time. Whether or not time truly exists outside our consciousness (the question of quantum mechanics) does not dismiss…

This morning I was thinking about how consciousness is an inversion of reality — the reality we observe. I can’t explain this intuition yet. But in learning about Locke and his conception of the self and Gray’s (political philosopher John Gray) explanation of how Christianity was the seed that brought…

Thoughts from this week. Seek disillusionment. — — — - I wonder if some lives are entirely caught up in desire and actions that are not truly authentic, a life of a non-reflecting reciever. A product of their time (inescapable?). This is what I am afraid of. — — —…

A person and his perception and his actions A person perceives the world to be one way and acts in accordance with that perception. Because he acts on the basis of his subjective point of view and adjusts himself in relation to the world as he sees it, he makes…