Marketing: The Magic Mirror of Envy

"Magic mirror in my hand, who is the fairest in the land?… My Queen, you are the fairest in the land."

How easy it is to use and make profit out of envy in people: pick up anybody/anything spread the word of his/her/its gift in any field, basically direct envy towards him/her/it until you get enough audience and transform it into a cult. That's marketing.

(Goradana)

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

(Sigmund Freud)

A dream within a dream...

It is a delicate combination of foolishness and awareness that turns a dream into reality. Without foolishness there is no dream, without awareness there will be no reality.

(Goradana)

'A Dream Within a Dream' by Edgar Allan Poe

“Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?”

Filling up the void...

We spend our lives filling up the void with projections of people, thoughts of actions and decisions or illusionary concepts we take for knowledge.

(Goradana)

“After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.”

(Justin K. McFarlane Beau)

Time, the true luxury...

Spirituality is a luxury of time not of money as time only can bring presence. A spirituality rooted in money is just a belief that vanishes as soon as money is gone.

(Goradana)

“It's easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.”

(Craig Ferguson)

Manipulated by our own unconsciousness...

When we are unconscious we are not in a position to choose anything; actually we are in a position to be completely manipulated so all the talks referring to democracy, freedom, justice, responsibility, community, even love … they are all mind blowing illusions.

(Goradana)

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

(Warren Ellis)