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I won't disturb you with the details, because they would disturb you...

Experience is the best teacher!

"Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
and unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
but always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart,
of children in famine, of victims tortured
and of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
and I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living" - Bertrand Russell

My eclectic score is currently



"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense
of compassion between supposed lovers/brothers!"
Tool - "Schism"

"So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable."
Tool - "Reflection"

"Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift en eye to heaven,
conscious of its fleeting time here"
Tool - "Right In Two"

"For some, knowledge is a scary thing that could
tear down the walls of their little fortress they have
spent many years building and reinforcing
around themselves. So it's much easier to label
something as "evil", rather than have their security jeopardized,
and leave themselves vulnerable to infinite chaos.
I have found that courage is always rewarded when
trying to find truth and beauty forwhat it is,
rather than what someone has told you it is.
I say always trust in your own divinity and
your explorations will not go unfulfilled" - Danny Carey




"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember; We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion."
Tool - "Parabola"

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving all these opportunities behind...
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out, keep going!"
Tool - "Lateralus"





"How fragile is the flame that burns within us all
to light each passing day?" Bad Religion - "Billy"

"It's like the love I gave was good dope, all in vein/vain!" - Cormega

"Real recognize real! No, you ain't familiar!" - Cormega

"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness", but it doesn't work!"

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Who's the real thief? The one who breaks the lock to eat, or the one who holds the key?

"Diamond flooded chains the sun still outshines!" - Jeru The Damaja





"Drink, smoke, pop, sniff, thizz! Oh, what a relief it is!" - Keak Da Sneak

"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom" - Bill Hicks

"Anyone dumb enough to want to be in the military, should be allowed in" - Bill Hicks

"So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth." - Monty Python - "Galaxy Song"