Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.
RECOGNITION: A function of outstanding Performance accompanied by excellent Marketing.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
If a social worker is not disturbed 24x7x365, she is merely a social service professional.
Suffering at human scale is just another process in nature’s scale.
A society where successes – in politics, business, religion – come with fundamental compromises is a decayed society. Its “successfuls” are the scum of the earth.
More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
Every sacrifice is basically intelligent selfishness.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.