Podcast Excerpt: The liberated individual distinguishes themselves from by their intelligent curiosity, their play of mind beyond the narrow field of instinct, their perception of cause and effect, their appreciation of motive, and a calculation of results. They are interested in the world about them (and of the great universe of which it forms a part), not merely as a thing they would...
Podcast Excerpt: We do not want our poetry from grammarians, nor our tales from linguists, nor our history from theorists. Their human nature is subtly transmuted into something less broad and embracing of the general world. Neither do we want our political economy from professional traders nor our statesmanship from mere politicians, but from those who see more, and care for more, than...
 Podcast Excerpt: Do we create evils? Certainly; all the evils there are — just by thinking evil. Do we create good? Absolutely; simply by thinking good. All thought is constructive. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." We construct destruction when we think destruction. We create war by thinking about it. We create what we do not like...
Podcast Excerpt: Let me not hear you complain about growing old. We are not growing old; we are growing eternally young. All our life up to today has been merely preparation for today. This is the greatest, wisest, happiest day in all our lives. As we overcome, we ascend the Mountain of Life. We rise above the legacy of our limitations. We rise above...
Podcast Excerpt: Take care that your pleasures are real and not imaginary. We do many things because they are called pleasure, which we should hate if they went by any other name. Many people think they are having pleasure, merely because they are not working. Others seem to use the word as if it applied only to the senses, while, on the contrary,...
Podcast Excerpt: Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the whole universe: energy and matter. It is a well-known fact that matter may be broken down into units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. These are units of matter which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed. Likewise, there are units of energy. The human mind is a form of...