A mark of civilization....

A mark of civilization besides 

many other things is

Tolerance and Diversity.

Emerson "Self-Reliance"

Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist

He who would gather immortal palms 

must not be hindered by the name of goodness, 

but must explore if it be goodness. 

Nothing is at last sacred 

but the integrity of your own mind.

-- Emerson 

Freedom from past....

Acting....

Acting now....

To do now... 

Acting now must be free from the past.

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Conflict not only destroys the mind 

but also human sensitivity.

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-- JK.

To make a virtue.....

If one were to make a virtue of something or anything 

One has began to undermine everything else, and 

by which one has opened an arena for devils play. 

When the poor ones speculate...

Speculation among the poor and impoverished is

Akin to superstition and myth building.

Quote of the day...

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,and

I’m not sure about the universe...

~Albert Einstein.

Do they know not what they do....

First they say it is the right thing to do

For the good of humanity and

In the name of humanity...

They use every excuse to do

what they have been wanting to do...

Then, as the people are moved by their humanity

In witnessing the gruesome nature of those acts

Some begin to say it was the wrong thing to do,

Saying, we in the first place should not have meddled

Then they go on saying....

It has become a problem and headache

Which we must and should deal with (obviously)

For the good of humanity, and

Then they continue doing...

What they always wanted to do.

Identities....

Any entrenched identity is

An unbreachable irrationality.


All rational identities are distinct and universal 

In essence they are homosapien and 

One and the same.

Quote of the day ..."Spiritual Freedom".........

I call the mind free which jealously guards

its intellectual rights and powers,

which calls no man master,

which does not content itself

with a passive or hereditary faith...

-- William Ellery Channing(1780-1842)

Source: Spiritual Freedom, 1830

To Care....

It is not easy to care for others

It calls for true compassion that 

which is free from any attachment

and is a quality of one's humanity.

Indeed it is very difficult 

to truly care for others...

Even the best among us either pretend or

unknowingly believe that 

they truly care for others. 

Quote of the day.....

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit 

all he has for Peace sake, to him 

who will lay violent hands upon it, 

I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace 

there will be in the World, 

which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and 

which is to be maintained only for 

the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

-- John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. 
Source: Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690]

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"You can’t, in sound morals,

condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity.

It is his clear duty.

-- Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)

To respect Others....

One that had no respect for other's faith or tradition

Has very little respect for any faith or tradition.

Quote of the day....

We, the famished, ragged ragamuffins of

the East are to win freedom for all humanity!

We have no word for 'nation' in our language.

-- Vishwa kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
Nobel laureate.
His reflections on pre-independence India's
 contribution to the first world war.

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Author of the greatest anti-war poem in the

English language, Dulce et Decorum Est.

The great British poet Wilfred Owen

was to return to the front to give his life

in the futile First World War, he recited

Tagore's Parting Words to his mother

as his last goodbye.

When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed,

Owen's mother found Tagore's poem copied out

in her son's hand in his diary:


When I go from hence

let this be my parting word,

that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus

that expands on the ocean of light,

and thus am I blessed

---let this be my parting word.

In this playhouse of infinite forms

I have had my play and

here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

My whole body and my limbs

have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;

and if the end comes here, let it come

- let this be my parting word.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33317368

Quote of the day....

Absolute, arbitrary power

over the lives, liberty and property

of freemen exists nowhere in a republic,

not even in the largest majority.

-- Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2
also found in the Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7

Quote of the day..

Ever since the beginning of modern science, 

the best minds have recognized that 

"the range of acknowledged ignorance will 

grow with the advance of science." 

Unfortunately, the popular effect of 

this scientific advance has been a belief, 

seemingly shared by many scientists,that

the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and

that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and 

deliberate control of all human activities. 

It is for this reason that those intoxicated by 

the advance of knowledge so often become 

the enemies of freedom."

-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

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"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729-1781) German Dramatist

Quote of the day..........

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:

it assumes its own correctness.

-- Walter Bagehot.
(1826-1877)

Towards a Right action....

Lacking in any kind of principle is 

One's inability to define oneself.

Self identity...........

Say religion,faith,and one's identity etc

is not defined by inheritance, 

or even  by a tradition, where 

All life forms are one and the same.


It is in one's conscious efforts and 

becoming aware of the self that which is 

in constant realization, One gets to 

define one's identity....


Where one's identity is nothing but 

To be responsible for Who one is 

To begin with.

To know / Who are You....?

The most enlightened revelation 

One can ever have is to know 

the nature of one's imperfections.

Quote of the day.....

On May 25th, 2012, Biden spoke to families of 

fallen soldiers and described the appeal of suicide.

"I probably shouldn’t say this with the press here,

" Biden said, "but no, but it’s more important, 

you’re more important. 

Just when you think, 

‘Maybe I’m going to make it,’ 

you’re riding down the road and 

you pass a field, and 

you see a flower and it reminds you. 

Or you hear a tune on the radio. 

Or you just look up in the night. 

You know, you think, 

‘Maybe I’m not going to make it, man.'

For the first time in my life, 

I understood how someone could 

consciously decide to commit suicide. 

Not because they were deranged, 

not because they were nuts, because 

they had been to the top of the mountain, and 

they just knew in their heart 

they would never get there again."

-- Joe Biden.

47th Vice president of United States.