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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Author Archives: T.E.S
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 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 only 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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Is Being Mature Knowing When To Act Immaturely?
Instead of buying into this banal version of an adult, perhaps the most mature among us are those who act immature when applicable and become astute when required. A human functioning this way exhibits unison between the inner-child and the adult self, the union reflected in a gregarious and capable disposition.
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The Illusion of The “I”
The human animal is a complex and fascinating creature. Being able to place ourselves in the past and future closely aligns our identity with the “I”, yet at its core there is no independent “I” other than a construct established by mind and environment.
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The Mind And Time Distortion: Consciousness and The Enigmatic Dimension
The fixed variables for measuring time are rational and extremely pertinent for society’s operations, however they are impersonal and the devices fashioned for discernment do not consider the mind’s propensity for experiencing, absorbing and interpreting
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We Will Appear to Future Generations as Those Previous Appear to Us
Each generation looks at itself with glee at the marvels of modern society yet, just as the Romans thought the Goths were heathens for wearing pants, we too will find our ideas laughed and jeered at.
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The Contemporary Human 