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“The Spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.” ~Jung What is the false self? It’s that part of you that wishes to remain fixed despite a changing universe. It’s that part of you that is trapped, stuck, and confined by fear. It’s that naïve and pacified part of you propped up like a puppet by culture, politics, and religion. It’s that tiny part of you that takes up all the

“To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.” ~Seneca What does it mean to be a slave to philosophy? It means surrendering yourself to inquiry. It means sacrificing answers for questions. It means allowing fate to drag you kicking and screaming into awe. It means giving up all hope for a “meaning to it all” and instead creating a deeper meaning of your own. It means forfeiting certainty. Without philosophy we are slaves to our own fallible reasoning. Becoming a

“Socrates created a tyrant out of reason.” ~Nietzsche Before Socratic reasoning there was the amoral and Machiavellian realpolitik, which did not follow any ethical or idealistic rules. There was only the strong defeating the weak for no other “reason” than that it could and should. As Thucydides said, speaking of the Peloponnesian War, “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” Tyranny was the rule. The strong held it over the weak. The rich hel