M: Killing the self in order to live authentically; De-conditioning the mind

“If you want to understand, really understand the way things are in this world, you’ve got to die at least once. And as that’s the law, it’s bette to die while you’re young, when you’ve still got time to pull yourself up adn start again.”Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ; Dedication quote in Nobility of Spirit by Rob Riemen.

For me this quote makes me think to killing off my ego, as well as deprogramming myself out of the conditioning that I have been subjected to. Sometimes our social programming is so strong that the only way out is by destroying everything around us–the world we live in is so tightly interwoven that we are unclear as to what is ours and what is theirs.

So we burn it all down. Destroy everything. Kill the life we had in order to rebuild and discover the life we want.

M: On Curiosity and Venturing Into the Unknown

“Some places remain unknown because no one has ventured forth.  Others remain so because no one has ever come back.”

Let yourself venture forth and to places you have never been.  Just because no one can tell you how to get there and what you need to do to achieve those ends does not mean they are not of worth.

Some of the most important experiences and adventures we could have are those that we are likely to afraid to embark upon.