“May I urge upon all to live more continuously in the world of meaning and less in the world of appearances? It is a truer world and less full of illusion. When the understanding is developed, when men have learnt to see below the surface and have cultivated true vision, then we shall have the steady emergence of the quality of the soul in all forms and the relative subsiding into the background of the power of the form nature. It is this world of meaning which it is the privilege of humanity to reveal, and all true … students should be pioneers of this field.”
The Tibetan and Alice A. Bailey
With the world economies collapsing, the above quote is more relevant than ever. It seems to be man’s continuing destiny to learn the same lessons over and over.
Does anyone still doubt the value of the illusory billions Bernard Madoff lost? If it weren’t so tragic for his victims, I’d laugh. But then again, when greedy people lose money on a “too good to be true” investment, was the money they lost really real?
These are the kinds of questions my philosophy professor would pose. Thirty years ago, it pissed me off. Today, the answers are obvious.
