Tag: inspiration

The ironic thing is that most worthwhile journeys seem to point out that we never needed to look outside us; what we were looking for was within us, all around us, the whole time we were looking. The doubly ironic thing is that most of the time, it seems we need to go on these…

When you leave someone alone and give them the luxury of time and resources, will they seek indulgence or fulfillment?  Enabling someone to choose “fulfillment” in that instance seems to be a principal goal of every philosophy I have thus far come across.  And yet ironically, most people I’ve met twist teachings/philosophies to go the other way—to…

“At a certain point in one’s development, the dualistic concept of one teacher and one student must fade away.  In its stead will be the infinitely more organic idea of an autodidact:  one that absorbs knowledge from all angles, from all venues, regardless of how society judges these sources of wisdom.  Instead of one teacher, now there is an infinity…

Nature often follows the course of least resistance.  As humans, we can do that as well.  But as humans, we are offered an infinitely more tantalizing possibility: To follow the path of most fulfillment.

Using knowledge to rediscover wisdom is something that we humans never seem to get tired of.  (We also seem to never get tired of using knowledge to justify our foolishness).

Much like the Spartans balked at the use of arrows and the Samurai balked at the use of the gun, humans in general seem to balk at anything that questions their established rituals/beliefs.  In order to create art, however, I believe the artist must demonstrate detachment from external systems/structures.  It is PERCEPTION that must be structured—not…

The hell of order is just as bad as the hell of chaos.