Power makes animals feel safe; unfortunately, the human mind sponges power and moistens the ego with visions of supremacy.
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Author Archives: T.E.S
Our Degree of Care Extends Only as Far as We Can Relate
Acknowledging the enormous spectrum of emotion faced during existence connects us to our fellow sapiens. Joviality to sorrow, excitement to boredom, relaxation to arousal, these sensations signify we are living and unite us with others through shared experience.
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The Depreciation of The Paperback
The greats remain alive in their work and allow the trivialities of modern life to be seen naked. If one spends less time compulsively scanning a screen and more developing reading as a skill the heat of intellect will grant warmth in a world gone cold.
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Would it be of Benefit to Western Society If Paganism was Still Prominent?
In Pagan societies mysticism was imbedded in the understanding of life’s operations, like a lightning bolt from a contemptuous Zeus or a calm sea indicating Poseidon’s sacrificial contentment, engendering devout reverence to nature as an extension of the gods. The adherence to nature as a deity is a far cry from our current civilizational creed of use and abuse, continuing to double down on the lubeless degradation of a bleeding planet.
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Occupy Your Time and Space but Leave No Trace
At the core of this maxim is an all-encompassing effort to make yourself the person your essence urges you to be, to listen to the great voice inside and become an active creator in reality.
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Leave the World Better than When You Found It
Everyone has the opportunity to become more than themselves by acting in the interest of the planet’s current and future inhabits. In this symbiotic reality if one believes they don’t owe the world anything vanity prevents them from attaining anything of substance.
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When You Trust The Cosmos, The Tao Helps You Out
The impartial cosmos cannot be controlled, yet we can arrange action to flow with it. When one follows the path of the Tao they attain awareness of the enduring interrelatedness of everything. When one doesn’t hubris hones attention to the self.
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Home is Anywhere One is Completely Comfortable Being Themselves
The majority of us will eventually loose the place we called home, yet the sensations encountered there never fully depart us – feelings of safety, freedom and complete comfort are not merely found in the walls of a house, but also within the composition we call ourselves.
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Once The Beacon of Curiosity is Lit it Can Never Be Extinguished
As Plato’s allegory shows it’s not always easy to be in the sunshine while others linger in shadows, but if one is able to accept their auspicious burden as a right of passage their strain will build a bulbous muscle, an intellect pulsating with lust for life.
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Nature Doesn’t Look Back in Melancholy
The present is all we have at disposal and is ensured by the continual succession of moments, each fading as fast as they arrived. Holding onto the past means the time one has to enhance their future is instead concentrated on fruitless nostalgia.
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The Contemporary Human 