What makes you calm, angry, happy, or sad? What you judge in others is what you judge in yourself. What excites you. You are not meant to take these emotions personally. You are meant to use them as a way to look deeper into yourself.
Observation is the highest form of intelligence. The material is everywhere.
The Anatomy of Human Control.
Every motion is set by the Divine; within a given nurture, nature has its set course and destiny. Our experience is partial, and no one possesses absolute power or knowledge.
Yet, we surround ourselves with modern-age luxury and comfort to blind ourselves to this truth. The rest is deception.
Conclusion:
Fear and greed drive every human to act and respond. Knowing ourselves is our greatest challenge.
Thus, we all lie to ourselves under the influence of fear and greed, letting our conscience sleep so we can control our fellow humans.
To rule others, we must first successfully deceive our own soul.
'Yes, you must be here, and also, millions of light-years away. All at the same time…
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[The mystics] I like their burning illogicality – the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.'
— Beckett, Conversations with Charles Juliet
personally i think it's bad to live in a world where one country can just randomly murder the leader of another country based on false pretexts and with no legal authority of any kind and get away with it
Here's one theory for why the online right is growing increasingly fascistic (and thus, why our government -- which is run by reactionary social media addicts -- is too) https://t.co/g13zOsJSqz