Bet On It! Food For Thought - 31 - When Anything Fires Our Soul, Impossibilities Vanish

Birthplace: Earth (Dirt) - Race: Homo sapiens Latin: “wise man” - Politics: Freedom & Responsibility - Religion: Love - Philosophy: Do No Harm, Take No Shit!

Man Is So Made That When Anything Fires His Soul, Impossibilities Vanish.
---- Jean de La Fontaine

I Think It Only Makes Sense To Seek Out & Identify Structures Of Authority, Hierarchy, & Domination In Every Aspect Of Life, & To Challenge Them; Unless A JUSTIFICATION [Hierarchy(s) Of Competence] For Them Can Be Given, They Are illegitimate, & Should Be Dismantled, To Increase The Scope Of Human Freedom.
---- Noam Chomsky

What An Amazing Experience It Is To Feel Alive! Live With A Relentless Pursuit Of Potential! Realize The Self! If You Can't Say Something Nice ... Say Something Witty & Sarcastic.

“People are machines. Machines have to be blind & unconscious, they cannot be otherwise, & all their actions have to correspond to their nature. Everything happens. No one does anything. ‘Progress’ & ‘civilization,’ in the real meaning of these words, can appear only as the result of conscious efforts. They cannot appear as the result of unconscious mechanical actions.

And what conscious effort can there be in machines? And if one machine is unconscious, then a hundred machines are unconscious, & so are a thousand machines, or a hundred thousand, or a million. And the unconscious activity of a million machines must necessarily result in destruction & extermination. It is precisely in unconscious involuntary manifestations that all evil lies. You do not yet understand & cannot imagine all the results of this evil. But the time will come when you will understand.

The evolution of man can be taken as the development in him of those powers & possibilities which never develop by themselves, that is, mechanically. Only this kind of development, only this kind of growth, marks the real evolution of man. In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness. And ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, & ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution, of man is the evolution of his power of doing, & ‘doing’ cannot be the result of things which ‘happen.’

People do not know what man is. They have to do with a very complex machine, far more complex than a railway engine, a motorcar, or an aeroplane - but they know nothing, or almost nothing, about the construction, working, or possibilities of this machine; they do not even understand its simplest functions, because they do not know the purpose of these functions." --- George Gurdjieff

Nothing Is So Necessary For A Man As The Company Of Intelligent Women. ---- Leo Tolstoy

“In Order To Be Able To Think, You Have To Risk Being Offensive.”
---- Jordan B. Peterson

“Only The Self-Sufficient Stand Alone - Most People Follow The Crowd & Imitate.”
---- Bruce Lee

In The End, Only 3 Things Matter: How Much You Loved. How Gently You Lived. How Gracefully You Let Go.

Paradise Is To Love Many Things With A Passion. ---- Pablo Picasso

Passion Will Always Move You In The Direction Of Your Authentic Self. ---- Danielle LaPorte

Bushido - Way of the Warrior: GI - Honesty & Justice, YU - Heroic Courage, JIN - Compassion, REI - Right Action & Courtesy, MAKOTO - Truthfulness, MEIYO - Honor & Glory, CHUUGI - Duty & Loyalty

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
---- Suzy Kassem

Real Knowledge Is To Know The Extent Of One's Own Ignorance.
---- Confucius

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
---- John Burroughs

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.” ---- Vladimir Nabokov

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ---- Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” ---- Albert Einstein

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” ---- C.G. Jung

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” ---- Martha Graham

"The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires." ---- Rumi

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. ---- Voltaire

No body is perfect. Even if you achieve enormous capability, you will make mistakes. ---- Fumio Demura