Believe what you see, not what you’re told

This is why Western thieves seek to maintain their control over resource-rich Africa

The saying is 'as above so below, as below so above; as within so without, as without so within' is the principal of correspondence, the second of the seven hermetic principles. It postulates that the laws and physicality of things are the same on all levels of existence.

'The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God.' ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

We are brainwashed by marketing, advertising, and propaganda to think that happiness comes in the form of material possessions.

If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.
Carl Jung

People teach you to stand up for yourself and fight for what you believe in until what you believe in is different than what they believe in.

Humility becomes easy once we realize that even our most complete knowledge is only ever a fragment of all knowledge.

Psych 101: One of the most basic signs of emotional immaturity is operating on the assumption that you’re right about whatever you believe, and that anyone who thinks differently is wrong.

Highlighting other people’s failures becomes one of your own.

Be mindful that your impatience with others says significantly more about you than it does about them.

Two things justify the existence of man on earth: love and creativity.
Joseph Brodsky

...everything was overthrown - everyone raging in a wild, deranged dance of life....

But I could not set myself free from my fear of life and thoughts of eternal life.

~ Edvard Munch

📷 Antigone Kourakou, The Shadow of Things

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob M. Braude

In their misfortunes people tend to blame fate, gods and everything else, but not themselves.
Plato

'A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.'
Flann O'Brien

لماذا تعيش الشعوب العربية في الماضي؟. الإجابة مع كارل بونغ: 'إن الفرد الذي يتعرض لصدمة يفقد توازنه لفترة ثم يستجيب لها، إما بتقبل الصدمة ثم التغلب عليها، أو بانطواء الفرد على ذاته أو رجوعه لفترة طفولته وماضيه ليعيشها في مخيلته، وهكذا يستعيد الماضي متمسكاً به كتعويض عن واقعه المر'

Life is what people most of all strive to preserve and least of all cherish.
J. La Bruyere

'It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.' ~ Buddha

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire