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Source: Essays On The Media

“To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.”

Life Desire Destiny Fate Ambition Goals

Book:Seven Stones

Source: Seven Stones

“I write like the world depends on it because my voice is a human voice. For all its flaws and shortcomings it is a voice of an individual in a world filled with the sound of machinery and conformity. Too many of us only see our value in terms of how we can serve the machine, too few of us willing to ask if the machine serves humanity or the long-term viability of life on Earth.”

Individuality Conformity

Book:Essays On The Media

Source: Essays On The Media

“There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.”

Age Happiness Individuality Individualism

Author:James Rozoff

“Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.”

Community Individuality Paradox Individualism

Author:James Rozoff

“Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.”

Facts Truth

Author:James Rozoff

“No man is a master of his own lies. While at first they may appear as servants eager to help us achieve our goals, as soon as enough of them accumulate, they realize their strength in numbers and thus make servants of us.”

Lying Lies Strength In Numbers

Author:James Rozoff

“A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.”

Truth Lying Lies Repetition Lie

Author:James Rozoff

“Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.”

Life Life Lessons Life And Living Chocolate Life Philosphy Forest Gump

Author:James Rozoff

“Freed from the illusions of the narrative machine, we are nonetheless imprisoned by the consequences of its operations so long as a majority of the people give it credence and support. We cannot do this without you. We, perhaps more clearly than anyone else, realize how interdependent we all are and how we are all in this together.”

Change Change The World

Book:Essays On The Media

Source: Essays On The Media

“Start building alternatives, don’t wait for something to happen. You are the early adapters. It is up to you to not merely weave new narratives, you must also show that you are able to live by them. Be bold, be brave, but more than anything, see the beauty and the possibility that can be woven from the current crisis.”

Opportunity Change Crisis

Book:Essays On The Media

Source: Essays On The Media

“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”

Hero Heroic Heroes Heroism

Author:James Rozoff

“I write like the world depends on it, because I believe each of us speaking from the truth that is inside of us will shape the world towards beauty and truth far more than us conforming ourselves to work within a machine that seeks to steamroller all unapproved and dissenting voices.”

Writing Truth Beauty

Book:Essays On The Media

Source: Essays On The Media

“I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.”

Sin Atheism

Author:James Rozoff

“Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.”

Love Life Joy Existence Magic Letting Go Miracle Possession Waves

Author:James Rozoff

“You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.”

Consciousness Solitude Collective Consciousness Group Think

Book:The Association

Source: The Association

“You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.”

Wisdom Age Experience Self Knowledge Self Understanding

Author:James Rozoff

“Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.”

Success Effort Goals Goal Setting

Author:James Rozoff

“A solution is never as easy to find as someone to blame for the problem.”

Solutions Blame Problems Excuses

Author:James Rozoff

“The town they entered differed little from any other he had been in lately. The ubiquitous Perkins, Applebees, Buffalo Wild Wings, Qdoba, and Panda Express were situated around the central hub that was Walmart, like appendages of some spider or octopus. Like some metastasizing tumor that threatened to overwhelm the town.”

Commercialism Walmart Chain Stores

Book:The Association

Source: The Association

“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.”

Wealth Materialistic Material Possessions Wealth Accumulation

Author:James Rozoff

“Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two: one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society’s problems on.”

Sheep Herd Mentality Divisiveness Flock Sheep Mentality

Author:James Rozoff

“It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.”

Wisdom Potential Self Knowledge Self Knowing

Author:James Rozoff

“Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.”

Power Media Propaganda Control Manipulation Subconscious Persuasion Mass Media Message Mass Influence

Author:James Rozoff

“Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We’re just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it’s the be all and end all.”

Consciousness Intelligence Subconscious Subconsciousness Group Intelligence

Book:The Association

Source: The Association

“The media is socially liberal, economically conservative, and always pro-war.”

War The Media

Author:James Rozoff

“When I was young I would throw a rock into the water to see what kind of splash I could make. Now I am content to admire the placidity of the surface that mirrors back to us all that is.”

Contemplation Splash Placidity

Author:James Rozoff

“It is a single paradigm, and single paradigms, no matter how helpful in and of themselves, can be dangerous. They become the thing they are supposed to represent in the mind of the believer. In religion, it is known as idolatry, worshipping the statue that is merely the representation of the real. Most people only give themselves so much to a single point of view, whether they admit it to themselves or not. To believe, to truly believe, is to do. When one accepts a single paradigm, he becomes a true believer. There is nothing quite so rare…or so dangerous.”

True Believers Paradigms

Book:Perchance to Dream

Source: Perchance to Dream

“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”

Science

Author:James Rozoff

“Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.”

Heaven Hell Eternity

Book:Stories Light And Dark: Nine Short Stories

Source: Stories Light And Dark: Nine Short Stories

“Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.”

Sleep Bed Rest

Author:James Rozoff

“Don't punch at the darkness, be a light.”

Light Inspiration Darkness Inspire Darkness And Light

Author:James Rozoff

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