"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what you love." - Colin Wyckoff

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park and when you choose to ride it you think it's real 'cause that's how powerful our minds are, and the ride goes up and down, round and 'round, it has its' thrills and its' chills, ups and downs, it's very brightly colored, it's loud, and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, "Is this real, or is it just a ride?", and other people have remembered and have come back to us and replied, "Hey; don't ever be afraid, don't worry, because, this is just a ride". And we killed those people. "Look at my furrows of worry! Look at all my money, and my family! This has to be real...". Notice how we always kill the good ones and let the evil people run amok and even take control of nations. But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride, and you can change it anytime you want. No effort, no worry, no job, no savings of money, simply a choice, between fear and love. Through the eyes of fear; lock your doors, buy bigger guns, seal yourselves off from gaining anything new. Through the eyes of love, see all of us as one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Here's something we could do to have a better ride; "Take the millions, even TRILLIONS of dollars we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor, which would many times over pay for itself, not ONE person excluded, and we could explore the universe together, in peace, forever. Thank you, you've been great. *imitates gunshot* *bang* *bang*" - Bill Hicks, 1961-1994 gone way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ soon

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and without conviction while the stupid people are full of confidence" - Bertrand Russell
my own take on this is that the intelligent are full of disappointment and are too far down the rabbit hole to realize knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing