Under the banner of Democracy, cancel culture has turned democracy into demo(n)cracy, where those who are perceived by Progressives as political high-profile demons are not allowed to vote their views publicly. However, demo(n)cracy does allow freedom of speech as long as no one is listening....
A sign of intelligence is when someone has a microscopic or telescopic mind; the ability to see things beyond the range of the naked eye. A sign of wisdom is when someone can see people naked, but pretending otherwise, like the emperor who's not wearing any clothes. Intelligence makes things interesting. Wisdom makes things funny....
We are in two places simultaneously; time-place and timeless-place. Our physical being is in time-place. In time-place, there is an infinite number of finite things; everything with a beginning and an end; temporary and seemingly discrete things that are forever-changing with time. Our soul (actually, the soul as there is solely one soul) is in timeless-place. In timeless-place is where every-thing is before it is manifested as whatever it is in time-place. Timeless-place is the fountainhead and time-place is the waterfall. Everything in timeless-space is one thing, nothing. As such, in timeless-place, we are one with everything. Moreover, as time does not exist in timeless-place, timeless-place is eternal. As sentient beings, we are naturally conscious of our existence in time-place. However, as timeless-place is beyond our senses, we are oblivious of timeless-place; as we are of the place from where we came before we were born. While timeless-place is much of the universe, we rarely notice it; reminiscent of the riddle: what do we see everywhere but rarely notice? Light, as everything we see is not a thing but light bouncing off of a thing and coming into our vision. Enlightenment, being one with the light, is the realization that we are simultaneously in time-place and timeless-place. Hence, knowing we are eternal, we can simply enjoy our ride in time-place. ...
People are always funny when they take seriously the meanings and stories their minds create. But what they do to themselves and others when they take themselves seriously is often not funny....
Life is a comedy. What's funny is that most us take our mind's illusions seriously and react to these illusions as if they are real; like a drunk tilting at windmills. Life is beautiful. When we see the universe with our eyes, not as interpreted by our mind, everything is beautiful; unique, everchanging shapes and colors. Life is happy. When we are grateful for our good fortune (as however dire our circumstances, they could always be worse) and are free from karmic prisons (the generalizations and stories our mind has created that frame our experience of the now), we are happy. Life is eternal. When we love everyone, we treat others no differently than ourselves as our identity is not solely our personal self but also life itself. While each personal life is temporary, life itself is forever and so are we when life is our identity. Life is a beautiful, happy and eternal comedy. When it's not, it's an experience of mind; not life....
When truly happy, we never feels sad for ourselves. The saddest thing is seeing someone who is sad. What's sad about someone sad is not that they are sad, but that they are selfish which is what keeps them from happiness. That's pitiful. The sad focus on how they feel about their circumstances, oblivious of those less fortunate who would be happy to be in their shoes. If the sad weren't selfish, they would be grateful for their absolute or relative good fortune and in turn happy. Taking seriously and empathizing with those who are sad reinforces and encourages their selfishness. That makes us sad and pitiful....
"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness[.]'" Each of us is a unique god, one of an infinite number of the faces of God. Like God, each of us makes our world in our image, after our likeness. If we don't like our world, we can change it; only by changing our attitude....
We question the without, though the answer is within. An instructive answer to an initial question comes from the answer to a "responding question" (a question given in response to the initial question). Thus, he who asks the initial question discovers its answer when answering the responding question posed by the one who was asked the initial question. For example, to the metaphysical question of does a rock have consciousness, we can come to know the answer to this question when we try answering a simple responding question: what is a rock?...
Don't seek from your without what you feel you're without; for all without is within. The colloquial "pursuit of happiness" is a fool's errand as happiness can only be found within....
The light of the moon can guide our way. The light of the sun is the way....