There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
               Erich Fromm

Life?

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.”
       Viktor Frankl

I DO NOT DREAM........

 

Dreams fueled by hypocrisy and false truths about my resolve, my motivation and inspiration.

A point to ponder

  

“To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?”
                                               (Charles Fuller)

Vampires suck

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

It's the mind that sees, not eyes

Behind the veil of life, beyond the look of eyes

Some Quotes About Masks

“Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.”
― nopain

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

“A mask is not to disguise who you are but to show who you really are.”
― Chloe Thurlow

“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”
― Simona Panova

“The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth

“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face..”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“You are a mask; behind the mask there is the universe! When you are enlightened, mask goes, you go, you disappear and people does not see you anymore, they see the universe when they look at you! They talk to universe when they talk with you! You are a mask till you are enlightened!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

Acceptance Total

Many people have thought that total acceptance of all things would reduce them to a state of total passivity, so that they would be a mere piece of flotsam on the infinite ocean of life. In fact the contrary of this is true. Total acceptance gives total adjustability.
When we accept anything into our consciousness, we do not lose our capacity to adjust our actions to it; rather we gain increased ability to deal with the elements of the situation we have accepted. A parachuter committing himself to a free-fall in the presence of gravity, air-resistance, and laws of physical body-balance, etc., does not lose control of himself; rather he finds new ways of self-control unknown to those not yet committed to the laws of the free-fall.
Every acceptance of new conditions discloses new possibilities of adjustment. Therefore infinite acceptance of the infinity of possible new conditions reveals an infinity of possible new adjustments. This is what is meant by the "infinite transparency of the sage".
To be mentally opaque is to be deprived of information. To be transparent is to be open to all information offered to us by total reality. To be opaque is to be closed to reality. To be transparent is to be open to reality and to all its contents. The stupid man is opaque, the intelligent man is transparent.
                            * Quote from the book 'Through the Bible' by Eugene Halliday

Peter and his brother repeater

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

Emotion without reason or reason without emotion?

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”