[size=150]May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been
the foresight to know where you’re going
and the insight to know when you’re going too far.[/size]
[size=150]May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door.[/size]
We are not only surrounded by, but exist in, something author Dan Simmons calls “the Void which Binds.”
It has loosely been called “Spirit” and Universal Intelligence or Mind.
We are individuals connected to everything else, not only by awareness or DNA, but by compassion… or lack thereof.
We find ourselves constantly at a crossroads of terrible choice: to promote, enhance, build, honor, bless – or to destroy.
No place was ever made to house the ones who would remain indecisive in this matter.
Mind evolution forces us to choose life or death.
There are no surprises in the Void which Binds and the advertised short-cuts do not exist.
(from an essay: What Does Becoming Human Mean – by Sha’Tara)
[size=150]In real life, however, you don’t react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator? [/size]
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
[size=150]"The swirl of a galaxy and the swirl of a gown resemble one another not merely by accident, but because they follow the grain of the universe.‘’
"Hunting for Hope’’ - Scott Russell Sanders
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[size=150]I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. [/size]
G. K. CHESTERTON
[size=150]The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently[/size]."
[size=150]This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet [/size]