You become the media you consume.
You become the friends you hang with.
You become the actions you take.

Choose these things carefully.

You are not an individual.
You are an aggregate.

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of self.
No man is free who cannot command himself.”
—Pythagoras (570BC-495BC)

“If someone has resolved to commit a certain crime that would create negative karma, and if there exists no other choice for hindering this person from the crime and thus the highly negative karma that would result for all his future lives, then a pure motivation of compassion would theoretically justify the killing of this person.”

- His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama

This is a fascinating article.

https://info-buddhism.com/Tibetan_Buddhism_Compassioate_Killing_King_Langdarma-Jens_Schlieter.html

No homo, Schopenheur believed in magic and intergrated it into his philosophy. So I kinda want to read this. His view on Will (Thelema) has been described as "crypto-gnostic" and he predates Nietzsche.

Except acid isnt LSD, it's just straight up acid.

Me and the boys in the sewer getting ready to kill our next secret society initiate (he didn't know the wind-speed ratio of a swallow)

"Finally, in his short book regarding noscriptural interpretation, Johann Gerhard goes so far as to employ the aid of occult Hermetic philosophy, something that had become popular during the Renaissance. He uses a series of quotations from the Corpus Hermeticum to show that even pagan occult philosophy agrees with the Bible that spiritual understanding could only come by way of illumination and purification of the mind. Regarding this last extremely odd philosophical appropriation, it should be observed that Gerhard believed that Hermes Trismegistus was not only a real person, but a contemporary of Moses, from whom he gleaned his ideas about spiritual illumination."

- 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅'𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒔'𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔, 𝑩𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆

“… Faust is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the Tao-te-Ching, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in Dante….” - Carl Jung's “Letter to Max Rychner,” 28 February 1932; Letters I, 88-89.