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If the probability of an event is greater than zero, and does not decrease over time, the event will occur. The world's population cont...

"What if the sages and saints are right?" I asked. "What if working for mammon worshippers really does make us complicit in t...

No spirit like you has ever come into the world before. No spirit like you will ever come into the world again. Remind yourself of this ever...

Parents, teach your children to be free. Don't sell them into slavery. Teach them how to resist the urge to buy things, so they will be ...

So long as we continue to respect human beings who live in luxury while their neighbors suffer, who use their resources to impress others ra...

The rulers of this world are coming to nothing. Paul of Tarsus 1. On Perfect Virtue If you had to wait for the world to stop being corrup...

The mindset of conspiracy theorists, who are thoroughly convinced their rulers are corrupt, is actually very close to that of first-century ...

I'm part of a culture of greed destroying our planet in a suicidal frenzy of consumption. My sermons often include such confessions of c...

A mind with integrity thrown into world of systematic cruelty and injustice is faced at every moment with the impossibility of its continued...

The aristocrat of matter accepts nothing but fine accommodations and sumptuous meals. The aristocrat of spirit accepts nothing but perfect h...

The mammon worshippers don't prepare their own food. They rely on decent human beings to do this for them. And the moment the decent hum...

We play half our lives and work the other. What time remains to think? Invincible armor of rationalizations and obfuscations legitimize...

I make a habit of pointing out things that people would really prefer not to think about, of asking questions that people would really prefe...

FDR and other genuine liberals recognized there is no way to have large concentrations of wealth without them influencing politics. The 90% ...

The Romans left us three legacies that endured for centuries. First, the Romans believed human beings who claimed to possess other huma...

Mircea Eliade in 1933 Reading Mircea Eliade’s Yoga: Immortality and Freedom puts me into a meditative state. I devote my full attentio...

Georg Simmel in 1914 Are you making progress toward understanding yourself and your world? Or are you trapped in a cycle of repetitive ...

A mind that spends its life in pursuit of wealth may achieve at its end what many undisciplined minds have at the beginning through no effor...

I can conceive of a perfectly straight line and reason about it even though all the lines I have ever actually seen are not perfectly straig...

Those who benefit from the arbitrary privilege of inherited wealth are eager to pass on a privileged life to their biological children. The ...

Suppose a monk offers to help you care for your soul. Unlike the psychologist, he seeks no reward. His needs are modest. His needs are met. ...

The foremost requirement for success in the world is not intelligence, but rather the firm and unquestioning conviction that intelligence is...

Happiness comes from serving our highest ideals with all our mind and all our strength. For most of us, work is tedious and repetitive, and ...

The realm of ethics has been secularized. We make our ethical decisions on the basis of law and self-interest, not on the basis of any highe...

There are several things which alter our behavior by altering our state of mind. One such thing is a book. Marx’s manuscripts cause criminal...

The world is trying to crush your spirit. You must fight with all your mind and all your strength to save yourself. The soulless market is t...

Axiom A1: A = A The axiom of identity is one of the fundamental axioms of logic. How does this identity work, exactly? Can I substitute an...

When I see a homeless man, I assume he deserves his fate. This sets my conscience at ease as I walk by without offering help. I don’t rely o...

"Have the courage to use your own understanding without the guidance of another!" This is the profound and liberating advice of Ge...

As the boys began to organize the game, I was sure there must have been some mistake. Why on earth would boys deliberately set up an artific...

I don't recall what principles I was talking about that particular day. I only remember the conclusion of our conversation. "You ta...

You are the chosen one. But all you do is obey. How can you fulfill your unique mission if you do nothing but obey? Cultivate self-discipli...

How many people are there out there who value the intellect for its own sake, and are lost in a world that sees the intellect as a value onl...

One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to free us from the same worries, anguish, and disqui...

The two fundamental premises on which commerce is based are: 1. Some human beings own things. 2. Only those human beings who offer me thin...