Greed grants us the illusion of fulfillment on the one hand, while it empties out the soul on the other. And if that’s the case, could it be that greed is a symptom of stupidity?

When the exercise of my freedom results in my destruction or the destruction of those around me, what I’ve exercised is the freedom to be selfish. And if such an exercise of freedom leads to my destruction, I should be quick to realize the frightening similarities between selfishness and stupidity.

Freedom is not permission to be stupid, for the exercise of ‘stupid’ as a ‘right’ is certain to destroy the very freedom that stupidly used to be stupid. And that’s about as stupid as stupid gets.

At the point that I have confused ‘rights’ with ‘privileges,’ I will have lost both.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Probably more than anything, our priorities tell us how much of a priority we’ve placed upon thinking about what our priorities should be before we decided that they should be our priorities. And for many of us, it’s rather apparent that our priority was anything but thinking.

Large or small, I always have a choice. But I also have a choice to think that I don’t have a choice.

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.