I got to get out of here!

Today I went for a short walk to retreive some vitamins from the drugstore. I realized that life has a certain course and deviation from that course is a matter of chance. It all depends on where we get started and what assistance we receive along the way. Some get more assistance than others, some get none at all. The bootstrap philosophy is a myth, in reality, because someone else has to help a person that is pulling their own bootstraps. A person that suceeds gets some kind of help from some where along the way. Be it a mentor, teacher, parent, pastor, friend or benefactor. An interaction must have occured with one of these in a significant way to cause a desired result.

"'Tis one thing to know virtue, and another to conform the will to it." ~ David Hume

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" ~ Robert Browning

"The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friend says behind your back." ~ Alfred de Musset

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~ T. H. Huxley

"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." ~ T. H. Huxley

"Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning." ~ Karen Horney

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." ~ Mark Twain

"A good novel is possible only after one has given up and let go." ~ Walker Percy

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." ~ Salvador Dali

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." ~ John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right." ~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

"My life consists in my being content to accept many things." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. We are always at the beginning, eternal apprentices." ~ Charles Simic

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course." ~ Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920- ) [Fahrenheit 451]

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." ~ Heraclitus

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being." ~ Martin Heidegger

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." ~ Eugene Ionesco

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." ~ Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )

"A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject." ~ Ernest Gellner

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government." ~ Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)

So as I attempt to find my way out of here, go with me along this pathway. The tracks lead forward and back. Neither wrong nor right, however you must choose. For not choosing is also a choice. Follow, stay, or go the other way. The choice is always ours, or so they tell us.

Godspeed.