Wisdom of Ages

I suppose it is inevitable that all of us must someday face a moment that we have to look in our own face and smile. The kind of smile that you get when you listen to "I would do anything for love". To realize that someday all of us must reach a point where we can acknowledge our self, not for what we convince in others, but for who we are. And in that realization grasp the truth that love can lead to utter alienation or total loss of self. It is at that point that we realize the power of love. It is there that we find our own forgiveness. The moment during which we communicate brings with it the full knowledge of the potential in the meeting. it is then that we discover the depths to which love can sink

There are many things that we need to grow, and shackles is something that we don't need. The one is called the less but truth be told it is. To think you're that means nothing more. The other see itself as more and if it is than how can such be us. Us the score forevermore.

The concept of Yin and Yang as a basic universal truth has been revered in the West since we started grasping the meaning of its power. What many people do not fully realize is that this is a universal principle and as such can be used as an easy tool to examine the validity of our personal and/or social constructs of opposites. Concepts such as love and hate that many people believe to be opposites can be tested for validity by comparing it with the known principles as illustrated in this ancient symbol. But as soon as we try we begin to see that our presumption may not be as solid as popular opinion suggests. As a child I remember going to the cinema to watch Kung Fu movies, and I am almost sure that one of those Chinese Grand Masters expressed it in this way when he shook his head in disbelief at what he had heard: "You and your limited Western beliefs about love and hate..." He was obviously in disbelief about me, because I really could not unde...

Most people can recall someone in their lives who had a nose for trouble, be they the motherly figure that knew when mischief was brewing, or the fiend that always knew when trouble was afoot. The nose is also linked to various other expressions, all with the implication of some "higher" purpose or greater knowledge. Take for instance the expression: "Being led by the nose", or describing someone as noseying around. It now seems that all these expressions are supported by scientific discoveries that there is a very good reason that the nose knows. In a range of experiments towards understanding the human brain and how it works, scientists have found that our noses play an important role in a wide range of human experiences. Findings that our sense of smell and emotions activate the same areas in our brain begs the question whether there is any link between our emotional well being and where we have been poking our noses? Questions like this are supported by facts li...

Now don't stop there my child, your responsibility towards reality is yours and yours alone, and I will have nothing of it. Now where was I, oh yes... The cats? You must at least know something dont you know? Something about the cats and that nasty pleasant kind of whine in low gear sound. And I'm not talking about the high gear wine you get when they demand milk. That is a totally different sound and also quite another story. Do cats whine is all thats left to your interpretation. Do cats purr I wonder. And the reason why is just because we know that they have feeling, but less than no emotion. This is obvious if you care to look and see that they have pain, even though it doesn't hurt. Which is of course quite the opposite in dogs. In dogs you see, by some wierd freak of nature they were blessed with more than enough emotion, but very little feeling. They always hurt much more than what they pain. Why you can ask any dog around if they have ever been in the pound and ev...

In the world of science and technology there has been many discoveries that have made mankind cringe at the full realization of the impact of those discoveries. The most famous example is probably the discovery of the devastating power that can be released when we split the atom. In response to the shock and horror following the use of that discovery the inventor of the atom bomb started the Nobel peace prize. Another of these discoveries, that of genetic manipulation, resulted in a public outcry of such a magnitude that international legislation had to be put in place to ensure that man never used the power to give life. As with the atom bomb, this discovery was just too good to leave alone, and the birth of Dolly the sheep, who was created through genetic manipulation still make people fall to their knees to pray forgiveness. But like the atom bomb, it seems as if this discovery may redeem itself in the eyes of us, the people that push technology to the limit of our own conscience. T...