Knowledge For Its Own Sake

“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”

~ Michel Foucault

”Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

~ Michel Foucault

“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”

~ Mark Twain

The observer is the observed.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage… If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

~ Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.

~ Brene Brown

~ Art by Tim Cantor

“The keepers of Infinite Truths to hold the books of eternity is to carry the weight of all that was, is, and will be.”

“The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality — the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. It is part of the kaleidoscope of life that these feelings are not only happy, beautiful, or good but can reflect the entire range of human experience, including envy, jealousy, rage, disgust, greed, despair, and grief. But this freedom cannot be achieved if its childhood roots are cut off. Our access to the true self is possible only when we no longer have to be afraid of the intense emotional world of early childhood. Once we have experienced and become familiar with this world, it is no longer strange and threatening.”

~ Alice Miller

~ The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Man’s status in the natural world is determined by the quality of his thinking.”

~ Manly Palmer Hall

“Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.”

~ C.G. Jung