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11/14/2025

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11/08/2025

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”- Lao Tsu

11/03/2025

"Man is free at the instant he wants to be." ~ Voltaire

This quote suggests that true liberation lies not in external circumstances or societal constraints, but rather in the individual's own will and desire for freedom.

In essence, it implies that as long as one remains unaware of their own desires and aspirations, they remain bound to the whims of others. However, when a person becomes conscious of their own wants and needs, they can break free from external influences and forge their own path.

This quote invites us to reflect on our own relationship with freedom.

What are some instances in your life where you felt truly free, and how did that feeling relate to your desires and aspirations?

Artist Unknown

10/29/2025

Better It Is To Light One Candle...
...Than It Is To Curse the Darkness.•●

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Carl Sagan
"The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark" (1995)