Mind Liberator

Do you believe external authorities have power over you?
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are YOU your internal power reference?

How to stay sane in an challenging world

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The Theater of Life

Hi. My name is Bertil Schaart. Years ago, I had created an external life that was perfectly accepted and even lauded by my environment. Yet I felt deeply unhappy.

Fortunately, my inner voice finally opened my eyes. My life, my work, it was all theater play. I was an actor with a script on the stage of my own life. I said goodbye to a comfortable life. I died a little on the inside. It also brought a complete new life with a new mindset.

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Mind liberating quotes

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“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there I am too weak for such happiness.”

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next.”

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ”

“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”

“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”

“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”

“I've often thought that there isn't any I at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are s

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.”

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contras

“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”

“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”

“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and

“I’ve always hated the “Who are you? question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in t

“Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.”

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my cons

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we

“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or hi

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“I am dead because I lack desire

“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...”

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit

“Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or spor

“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”