“In a selficated society, you feel free only when you are never free.”
Source: The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile
“In a selficated society, you feel free only when you are never free. You are being negotiated constantly to become your own master and slave at the same time, a project-maker and meaning-maker of one’s individuality with the exclusion of others except one’s own activities. It becomes a society habitually wanting itself for itself and by its own volition to stoop within the confines of self-interest.”
Source: The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile
“In the 21st century, technology has evolved from a mere tool to a cornerstone of progress, deeply influencing economies, societies, and governance systems. However, this transformation brings not only opportunities but also significant ethical challenges. By integrating the principles of Maqasid into our digital landscape, we can navigate these complexities, ensuring that technology not only drives efficiency but also upholds profound ethical standards.”
Source: Heaven Is Under the Feet of Governments: Steering Nations With Maqasid
“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, the coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
Source: Foundation
“Almost all human societies or organisms are held together partly by outside pressures, or fear of a real or fancied danger.”
Source: This kind of peace
“The saddest aspect of life now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
“Meditation is the beginning of freedom, freedom from politics, freedom from religion and freedom from bondage. It is to enter
into universality.
A meditator is not identified with a certain country He is not Swedish, Indian or American, he is simply human. He is not white or black, because he is not the body. He is not Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan,
because ideology belongs to the mind and meditation is to transcend the mind.
All social forces are against individual freedom. Society destroys individuals, so one has to know the strategy to escape from the
prison of society and the church.
Meditation is the way to come out of the prison, and learn the language of freedom. It changes your consciousness, it changes how you see things. And the freedom that has always been within you become released, which changes you at your very roots.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Man's power is ugly and violent. Man's power is ego, which is a separation from life. God's power is love. For man's power to be love and creativity means egolessness. It means to be egoless, so that God can flow through you. It is to allow God to pass through you like the wind passing through the trees.
It is to allow and not hinder God's ways. It is to give him total acceptance. It is to become an instrument, a medium and a vehicle, so that you become a flute through which God can sing. And when God can sing through you, there is love, power and creativity, but it is not yours, it is God's.
But you have to disappear as an ego for it to happen. The spiritual journey is the commitment to allow the ego to evaporate. Then all power is God's power.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Be careful, a woman just defended herself. Society thinks that's the third sign of the apocalypse.”
“Revolution is political, rebellion is spiritual. Revolution wants to change the outside world, rebellion changes your consciousness. Become a joyful rebel.
The society, the church, the establishment, the status quo, the mainstream media and the rich do not want people to grow up to mature individuals. They want to enslave people, to keep people afraid, dependent and obedient.
The spiritual journey means to first become a mature adult, and then to transform your consciousness so that you can attin to love, silence, joy, truth, freedom and to be one with the whole. That is to attain to the rebellion of the heart.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace