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)

Presence...?

There are people running after future challenges and there are people holding to the past, very few are actually present.

(Goradana)

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

(Eckhart Tolle)

Freedom is not in lottery...

We don’t find our freedom outside.

(Goradana)

“You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.”

(Mokokoma Mokhonoana)

Being is supernatural...

It’s not because we don’t know that it does not exist.

(Goradana)

“There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle;

only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.”

(Toba Beta)

Shine on being...

For those who can see, the consciousness shines just by being.

(Goradana)

“All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.”

(J.R.R. Tolkien)

Teaching the wonder...

A real education system should be focused on helping us to find who we are instead of pushing us to look alike. As a result we compete so we cannot feel we belong when we are simply longing for being.

(Goradana)

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

(Albert Einstein)

Failures...

Without failures there is no discovery.

(Goradana)

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

(Nikola Tesla)

She is the Ocean...

Women carry the depth of life mystery consciously or not. That makes them irrational and attractive; that makes them ethereal or wild.

(Goradana)

“I admit,

I was afraid

to love.

Not just love,

but to love her.

For she was a stunning

mystery. She carried things

deep inside her that no one

has yet to understand,

and I,

I was afraid to fail,

like the others.

She was the ocean

and i was just a boy

who loved the waves

but was completely

terrified to

swim.”

(Testy McTesterson)

Die a little more...

At some point our identity has to vanish in order to find ourselves.

(Goradana)

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

(Chuck Palahniuk)

Life in a trance...

There is no logic in life: it’s not gonna be good because you’r good and it’s not gonna be bad because you’r bad. It’s not Disney World, sorry it’s just gonna be.

(Goradana)

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is dispatched, love for instance, we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”

(Virginia Woolf)