"There exists a defiance against oneself that includes among its most sublime expressions various forms of asceticism. For some men have such an intense need to exercise their strength and love of power that, lacking other objects or because they have always otherwise failed, it finally occurs to them to tyrannize certain parts of their own being, ( Read more... )

What is the motivation for the saboteur?

The stimulus will be an overwhelming sense of wrongness. The potential saboteur is a person of power, who recognizes their own power, and yet may not see the possibility of its applications. Or yet again, the potential saboteur may be accustomed to experiences of negative consequences from the exercise of ( Read more... )

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Military men speak of "situational awareness," that all too rare ability to maintain an exhaustive mental image of what is going on in one's vicinity. Situational awareness is alertness that hones the response time. It is the constant scrutiny of feedback for danger to the soldier, his comrades, and his movement.

Like the soldier, the saboteur must ( Read more... )

I had a thought that man has not yet divorced himself from magic. There are still magicians in the world, working all different kinds of magic. There is a kind of magic to be found when the astronomer points to the sky and says, "There will be a meteor shower there tonight." And lo, it comes. Of course it comes. The man communes with the stars. He ( Read more... )

"Many loved him as a refined and clever and interesting man, and were horrified and disappointed when they had come upon the wolf in him. And they had to because Harry wished, as every sentient being does, to be loved as a whole and therefore it was just with those whose love he most valued that he could least of all conceal and belie the wolf ( Read more... )

There was, in the buddaksetra of Amitabha, a being of the ten quarters, having heard His name while always longing for that country of his, while cultivating various essential merits for the purpose of realizing their earnest wish to be born in His country, who, upon dying, found that their fulfillment was failed -- At this moment, Amitabha ceased ( Read more... )