The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers. . . Restlessness and discontent are vital things. . . Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.
Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.