A sight:
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is guilty in not providing education, and it must answer for the night it produces.” – but care for the known that some are unlearnable. Use respect in all cases.
“Justice has its anger, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress.”
“hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. That would imply a hatred of the arts.”
“This me of the infinite is God.”
“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion.”
“men like advancement. A saint addicted to abnegation (renunciation) is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening of the articulations necessary to advancement, and, in fact, more renunciation than you would like; and men flee from this contagious virtue. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu. We live in a sad society. Succeed – that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men. To the masses, success has almost the same appearance as supremacy. Success, that pretender to talent, has a dupe – history… Prosperity supposes capacity. Win in the lottery, and you are an able man.”
“The common herd is an old Narcissus, who adores himself and applauds the common.”
Do not fool yourself that because you can follow the rules of the civilization that you are doing good work. You are not. You are thwarting the work you were incarnated to do. Do not allow yourself or others to be judged based on how they can or cannot follow the rules. The same, do not judge yourself or others on how they can discover to be successful outside of/besides the rules. Think of human experience. Feel by human experience. Let a rain of reality wash over you and welcome it from the seasons and by the beds of rivers who wanted to deliver prosperity and life before we presumed we could control their flow. Hold not up civilizations like Maya and Egypt and Atlantis and call them not alien. Look to them as incarnations of our own possibility and question why we haven’t reached similar blessing
see how its all wrong and try to make it right.