Sunday Evening Ponderable

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.  They don’t mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them.  Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

--T.S. Eliot

Yep

Pretty much...

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Tuesday Afternoon Ponderable

"The dark night of the soul is a profoundly good thing. It is an ongoing spiritual process in which we are liberated from attachments and compulsions and empowered to live and love more freely. Sometimes this letting go of old ways is painful, occasionally even devastating. But this is not why the night is called ‘dark.’ The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding. It happens mysteriously, in secret, and beyond our conscious control. For that reason it can be disturbing or even scary, but in the end it always works to our benefit."

--Thomas Moore

Yep

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Indeed

Funny how that works...

Nice

"Suffering helps us learn the needed lessons to grow in intelligence and consciousness because unless we suffer we don’t see the need to come out of suffering. Suffering allows us to change how we perceive reality and to recognize how our ego struggles to keep its will and self-identity alive."

--Eliza Mada Dalian

Sunday Afternoon Ponderables

"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas."

--Alan Watts

"The truth is always good, isn’t it, even if it is uncomfortable? And lies, real lies, can’t ever be good in the long run, can they?"

--Thrasymachus

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"Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries."

--Osho

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Wednesday Evening Ponderable

"You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it."

--Ken Keyes Jr.

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Saturday Afternoon Ponderable

 

And a bonus quote, in a similar vein of thought:

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

--Marcus Aurelius