These two outcomes are influenced by the choices made every day, every minute, every thought. Let life squeeze all meaning from you.  Become a procreating tube that eats with one end, excretes with the other.  Or: You squeeze all meaning from life.  And in the process touch on something greater.

That great river of time and life will wash over all souls, eroding them into mud as it strips off their coating of talent and luck. Some rarefied few, however, will be revealed as having cultivated a gleaming core of awareness and focus, and these few will shine throughout the ages.

The evolved mind will inwardly laugh, perceiving the Cosmic Joke that is all of existence… But will outwardly be able to perform with the sharpest focus; the utmost seriousness.

Common are the intellectual bullies; the ones who use detail and minutiae for petty dickering, to have the last word, and say “I told you so.” Rare are those who know semantics but don’t indulge in them, realizing that words only point to truth and may be changed to fit context, so that they illuminate/unite, rather than…