Unconditional love is loving everything. It is the peace of being one with the Everything. Conditional love is loving some things sometimes and not others. It is an intense physical and emotional state as it's preceded and followed by other emotional states....
All emotional states, other than love, are a form of selfishness. Love too is selfishness when it connects us with some things but not every thing. Soulful love is love of one thing: the everything....
No one is getting out of here alive, but those who realize they are the Everything....
Many a thank you is heard in the Rewards Department. Many complaints in the Complaint Department. God runs the Rewards Department and the Devil runs the Complaint Department....
Before and after the now, we are the eternal soul. In the now, we are the self; a temporary expression of the soul. The soul simply is, asking for nothing. The self is selfish, demanding all our attention. As the self denies the soul's existence, we lose touch with the soul. Ironically, the self will inevitably no longer exist and we will surely die if we lose our connection to the soul....
Those who rejoice at reflecting the brightest light are often oblivious they cast the darkest shadows....
Praise takes little effort to create, is risk free to distribute and rewards those who dispense it. Valuing praise at its cost of production, praise is worthless. Yet, most people love being praised and pay handsomely those who praise them, who often appear in the role of salespeople. Criticism takes thought, effort and is a thankless job; often received as umbrage. I feel those who criticize me love me and my criticism of others is given out of love. Maybe that's why I was never much of a salesman....
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche...
Fake artworks are real, but real artworks are often fake. Fake artworks are forgeries or facsimiles of real artworks. For most, the experience provided by a fake or real artwork is the same. As the prices of real artworks often more than 100x the price of fakes, the prices of real artworks are fake....
The now is the everything, yet contains no things. The now is eternal, yet ever-changing. The now is real, yet an illusion as what is now is now no longer. The now is unpredictable. The now is overwhelming. We are the now, yet don't know the now. All we know is our reactions to the now. When we observe the now from before and after the now we can we know the now....