"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." One constant in the universe is change; the river, the man and everything is ever-changing. Anything to the contrary is an illusion. While no man can step in the same river twice, he can drink from it many times. A man today can remember the experiences of the man he once was and use the knowledge gained from those experiences for his own welfare. ...
The purpose of life is to have a wonderful time of it every day, to realize our potential and to help others likewise. However, some days we are distracted by difficulties and life doesn't seem all that wonderful. Then, if we step away from what's engaging us and focus on helping others, we'll have a purposeful day and at least have a wonderful time vicariously....
Life is always and all ways wonderful, though few so realize as they sleep through it or take themselves so seriously they're oblivious they're alive. However, at some point we all realize the wonder of it all; hopefully long before the end of days, allowing us to appreciate it all. That's the essence of happiness....
Happiness is not necessarily doing that which we enjoy but that which leaves us with happy memories....
There is only one mind to which each of us are connected. Those who think otherwise are disconnected from reality. The mind is a reflecting pond. Each of us is stationed at different points along the perimeter of mind. Our individual perspectives are reflections of mind from those respective points and our attitude. We each tend to take our finite perspective seriously and believe it's reality. However, reality is truly revealed when we have an amalgam of perspectives from infinite points along the perimeter of mind. This is the essence of wisdom....
"I grew up in a locker room where people from every race, every background, and every community came together and became brothers to accomplish a single goal...
Others hear mostly the sounds we make when we express our unsolicited opinions. To get them to listen, we need them to ask us questions which get their attention to focus on our views. If we arouse their curiosity by asking them questions, they in turn might ask us questions. In that process, we might both learn something. Otherwise, expressing our unsolicited views is an intellectual or emotional bowel movement; feels good but puts off those near....
Every thing is everything and nothing. Everything is all there is, beyond description; eternal; it is what it is whatever it is. Every thing is part of everything. No thing can be described as every thing is interdependent with everything and forever changing, a temporary part of everything. As every thing does not exist before it changes into and after it changes from its present form, every thing is nothing....
Our mind is like a muscle, use it or lose it. Curiosity engages our mind with questions. Curiosity identifies anomalies our mind efforts to understand which keeps our mind functioning at peak levels....
"The banality of evil." Evil is not solely the domain of Hitler and the many other monsters in history. Evil is commonplace; the lack of compassion; viewing others as others, not as ourselves which is who they are....