What Is, Is More Important Than What

As You Think, So Shall You Become.

We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

Either You Understand Or You Don't, And That Is That.

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

In Building A Statue, A Sculptor Doesn't Keep Adding Clay To His Subject. Actually, He Keeps Chiseling Away At The Nonessentials Until The Truth Of His Creation Is Revealed Without Obstruction.