But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility – the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small – the world will then know peace.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.
Pure wisdom is the ‘fruit of life’; banal platitudes are the ‘bane of existence’.
But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?
That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.
History fancies itself linear – but yields to a cyclical temptation.
While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.
I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.
By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people think are educated.
Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind; as are the legacies of those who flow with them.
Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.
Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.
There are those who feel that the world is ultimately moving closer to Truth and to prosperity as the times evolve; then there are those who feel that it is ultimately moving farther away from Truth and into self-destruction. From this, and if it were really that simplistic, one might get the impression that life gravitates slightly into two types of people whom which are diametrically opposed in spirit.
Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.
So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
Because you’re always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.
How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man’s confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards – which should be its motivation to love more – however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn’t really mind it.
Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.