Notes on Cynicism & Liberation

To the Vanishing Point

Cynics are in need of constant reassurance; first, that their worst doubts about humanity are true and then, of course, that they are not.

Cynicism is always cracking jokes — out of sheer terror.

The only failures are misanthropes.

The problem with being full of yourself is that you cannot fill up with much else.

Why announce your few good deeds to the world, when you hide your many bad ones–even from yourself?

Spiritual initiation is knowledge received intravenously.

Wisdom is the obliteration of false distinctions – like opposites.

Paradox: the cloak preferred by profound truths.

Strange, how our weaknesses can be strengths in disguise, and vice versa.

Unattended, things may become their opposites - the way rebellion can curdle, and turn (back) into conformity or enslavement.

Knowing ourselves is a basic courtesy to others, especially those we love.

What a tragedy to share one's wisdom with everyone— except oneself.

Our morality is determined by the level of immorality that we can afford to live with.

Unheeded pricks of conscience might return as harpoons of circumstance.

Inhibitions might be the handmaidens of conscience.

Once we assent to life, ribbon and wrapping paper come undone.

To manage our suffering portfolio it helps to know what we can afford, spiritually.

There is freedom in not needing to possess what you admire.

What we refer to as "the real world" is often our failure of imagination.

In the midst of chaos, remember the indestructible world.

Rigidity is the need to conclude; let the last sentence of your soul stand open-ended...

©Yahia Lababidi, Where Epics Fail