Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superst...
In the end, living is defined by dying.
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
Quadruple crap. Why couldn’t I control myself? Why did he have this effect on me? “Are you compelling me right now?” To my surprise, his smile held an edge of sadness. “That would give you a much needed excuse, but I am afraid I am not.” Cu...
Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
