It
is the self-righteousness of the self-righteous that blocks them from
the conscious realization of their self-righteousness. In that condition
their egos have no recourse--in trying to construct a workable
reality--but to project their faults onto other people; only this allows
that self-righteousness to survive. It's a problem.
I am an introverted blue collar pilgrim, surviving near the center of the continent, on the fringes of a shopworn civilization. I abide in rooms full of partially-read tomes, each bookmarked with the fragment of a shattered illusion.
Everything which is inspired, heroic or saintly is derived from contemplation.
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One--the smallest of numbers... That is the infinite. A number which increases thinks that it is getting nearer to infinity. It is getting further away from it. You have to stoop to rise.