How Stupid Are We?

It’s amazing how stupid we are. 
We’re imprisoned by others’ words, and we’re proud of it.

Words are written for us to believe in, so much so that we consider those who don’t believe the same words to be our enemy. How stupid is that? People quote from books, but rarely do they quote from genuine experience. There is no experience in belief. Belief can make us do and create incredible things – music, art, poems, buildings, pills for everything – but we forget what it is that observes all this. Real beauty is in the consciousness of the beholder, not in something out there. We get carried away by fascination and sentimentality, but these are just temporary appearances which bind us to the past.

Mara knows our weakness – pride – and laughs.