Miscellaneous Aphorisms and Epigraphs

The meaning of life is Beauty, Truth, and Love, therefore we should do Art, Religion, and Philosophy in life. 

        Even though most people may not be able to experience god or may not have the divine spark within them as Eckhart put it or they may not have the most profound part of the soul which is Brahman or God within them they still may study or be attracted to their creator which is God and which they are a part of. One way is by attending a religious organization.  This is like moths being attracted to light, though they may never experience oneness with God.

        Why  must scholars today think that the pursuit of knowledge is never ending and there is no end to knowledge? They are skeptics, relativists, and positivists. They do not realize that the ultimate questions have already been answered such as the meaning of life. People discovered the meaning of life thousands of years ago. Maybe even before then.

       We are done waiting for Godot. Godot never showed up; so we are moving on.  Likewise we are done with postmodernism and moving on to better systems. And most people don’t pay attention to Godot and postmodernism at all; and live according to their own systems!

Oh how dishonest, insecure, and petty many people are. Those with problems cannot come to be honest and tell the truth about the way they feel and their problems. People in society are petty towards one another. 

On behalf of theocracy and the Islamic State. They are trying to create the best state they can.The ideal state. They were reacting to the Iraq war and justified contempt for the United States.

The only justification for imperialism is to make the conquered people a better people and that the ones who conquer are greater than the one’s conquered.

Once one obtains enlightenment of ultimate sacred reality one has reached the end and purpose of 

life.

We find grave acts of injustice being punished to be beautiful.

It is the nature of politics to be morally tragic.

Why teach students to write a three part essay? No published writer ever writes in that format.

You say life doesn’t matter, I say the One and the Many are the same. 

The shadow of nonsense always hangs over those who try to ignore it.

Face the darkness; and begin the odyssey to overcome it.

Wealth is the fuel of power.

The mind uncensors everything.  

There is only one universe.

There is no need for secret societies and mystery schools because the secret is so difficult to discover.

We find the punishment of grave acts of injustice to be beautiful.

It is the nature of politics to be morally tragic.

Because we are not the One, but individual instances of creation in and by the One we are deceived by our perception when things seem dual but are really not, appear good and evil but are really not, seem only all or only One but are really not, The way we live does matter as our individual perception will change from pain or pleasure, from Hell or Heaven, depending on how we act. It is all One and One in All but as an individual creation and not the One, our perception is distorted of not living in accordance with the One and in accordance with multiplicity. The way we live influences our perception of living; in terms of moving closer to the One or moving and living further away from the One. 

Greed is a mirage with dissatisfaction at its end.

The demons are perceptions, concepts, and experiences of the mind; the same as the gods of ancient mythology perceived in a different time and culture.

Music, especially classical music, is an expression of feelings and states of the mind in the form of music.

A circle represents the structure of the mind and universe with God as a dot in the center. God creates the universe  emanating from the center Intelligence which further emanates Matter. The mind lives in a material body and can contemplate the Intelligence and God. 

The circle can also represent the mind in its gradations from the thought of matter , abstractions and associations of the mind, and spiritual contemplation to contemplation of God. Our minds can wander all around the circle in associations of ideas. 

Most of the time you’ve got to burn with the demons before you can fly with the angels.