"It was during this period that I realised I had discovered one of the secrets of human existence: if I maintained a high level of inner pressure, and declined to allow my mind to collapse into tiredness or boredom, everything went well. When I didn't, they went badly. The major problem of human beings is a tendency to allow our energies to leak. And as soon as they leak, consciousness is dimmed, and we become subject to accident."
Colin Wilson
Dreaming to Some Purpose
p. 17
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
"The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen."
G. I. Gurdjieff
"Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires."
P. D. Ouspensky
“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves”
Abraham Maslow
"Anyone who fights for the future lives in it today."
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
Ayn Rand
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Brett
I subscribe most to what Ayn Rand said ie
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
Hence, why I continue to learn instead of taking to ways what many would have indulged in given the fact I may "have arrived".
In my old age, I am coming to the conclusion that the purpose of life is not to mindlessly obey a few rules, and then sit and wait for some Supreme Being to either award us with a Heaven, or punish us with a Hell.
Instead, in life, we have the opportunity to do one of two things, or maybe a little of both. We can either spend a lifetime learning to create our version of Heaven for ourselves, or our version of Hell.
Charles
Doc
Thanks!
Dave
Well thought. There is a reason they call it higher intelligence.
The fault of the biological mind is the tendency to forget.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
To the revolution.
Thanks for the comments; these are some of the writers who inspired by entry into the field of psychology--
Brett
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