“The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.” — Carl Sandburg Recently, I have come to understand the polemic discourse that ensues when individuals become so empassioned, emotionally infused and self involved with their polarizing opinions, viewpoints and conditioned orientation [...]
“You are the consciousness through which everything is known. And that cannot know itself; it is itself.” Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks The prism through which we look is not our ego, assets, accomplishments, status, material acquisitions, social class/level, intellectual prowess or the attachment to our “stuff.” No, this identification to the ego is an illusion. [...]
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.” — Plato Over a limited period of time, I have experienced individuals who give the appearance of engaging in discourse but in reality are caged hostages of their own minds. It becomes painfully obvious, that these individuals are completely involved with the combustion of noise [...]