Metta Wisdom

Timeless Wisdom From The Purest Mind

"True beauty cannot be seen,

True beauty cannot be touched,

True beauty cannot be photographed,

The true beauty of a human being exists only within.

Only exists within the mind, the heart and the soul.

True beauty dwells only inside."

"Parents have a lot to learn from their children, 

and children have a lot to learn from their parents, 

however in the vast majority of cases, neither are either willing enough to teach 

or interested enough to learn." 

"Most people far prefer comforting lies to the disturbing or disconcerting truth." 

"Too little formal education can result in one's mind not fully opening up, 

however, too much formal education can result in one's mind completely closing down."

"Armed with liberal amounts, and a never-ending supplyof self-deception, self-delusion, wilful ignorance, selective amnesia, cognitive filtering, contempt for the truth,

and a complete alienation from true reality, almost anyone can live in a complete state 

of denial for the whole of their life."

"Intelligence without curiosity is stranded,curiosity without intelligence is wasted".

"Whatever is conceived of as being 'normal' by the human mind is then invariably treated and thought of, as if it actually is, ... 'normal',

even the most illogical and irrational behaviour or conceptions."

"There are those who are blind, but can see, ...and yet are still blind, ...

for they will be forever busily pursuing and examining the details of their existence 

without ever thinking to question the actual design." 

"The real reason why most land owners are completely obsessed with 

keeping people off their land, is, in reality, because their land is a part, 

and an extension of their ego. 

Nobody wants strangers trampling over their egos."  

"Before deciding to conceive a child, all couples, eager to reproduce, should get themselves 

a pen and a sheet of paper, sit down together, and attempt to calculate how many days of that child's life are going to be spent, ... and wasted, working hard in a difficult, boring or laborious nine to five job, that it will have to pretend that it likes." 

" Those who cannot understand a new idea or concept will usually ridicule it instead."  

"Quality is far more important than quantity.  Therefore parents need to produce better human beings, not more human beings." 

"Any species that is controlled, dominated, influenced or ruled over by fools is probably doomed to extinction." 

"No parent would ever teach their children to question them or their decisions, ideas or beliefs, because, of course, this would undermine their authority."

"Most typical men think that they are almost God(s) incarnate.  However, it is a well-known fact among certain scientists, that, biologically, men are merely modified women, ... bearing vestigial breasts, a modified and enlarged clitoris and modified external ovaries.  Modified women with big muscles, with big egos and a killer instinct."

"When your identity, your mind-set and your thought processes are inherited directly from your forebears and your society, ... you, ... effectively ..., do not exist.''

 "Anyone who has been artificially conditioned by the human mind, is not a real person".  

"Anything which has been artificially created for the human mind, is, 

strictly speaking, not real".  

"Human beings want others to accept them for the people whom they are pretending to be."

"Some animals are bred to be pampered pets, while others are created as useful assets or commodities, and still others are produced to be subservient slaves.

Likewise with human beings." 

"The most important questions in life are never asked, discussed or even mentioned by the vast majority of people. 

In fact they are specifically avoided as if they carry the plague."  

"Almost all human beings deliberately avoid discussing 

the most crucial and vital subjects relevant to their existence as if their life, 

or even their sanity depended on it, ... and, perhaps, ... to some extent, ... it does."   

"Without the constant and widespread practice of willful self-deception, 

the whole of human society would probably crumble and fall in no time at all."  

"Affluent and privileged humans are always extolling the virtues 

and emphasising the importance of hard work, which they insist is ... "character-building", "good for the soul" and "procurative of good health".  

However, if it is so beneficial, then why do they not also indulge  ?  

How often does one see a millionaire digging up the road, or a wealthy landowner 

doing a 12 hour night shift in a hospital  ?"  

"The reason why so many young, intelligent, working class men are 'angry' 

is probably because they have realised that they are just working class men." 

"The truth does exist for those who wish to find it, who want to know it, 

and who are prepared and willing to believe it.  

But the truth is always in hiding, somewhere in the shadows, somewhere in the dark."  

"When, in your long and arduous life, 

you have finally journeyed around in a full and complete circle, 

only to find that you are simply back where you started all those many years ago, ... 

it is then that you may begin to wonder, what your life, in fact, actually was."

"There are well over one hundred ways in which the life of a dolphin 

(or even a fish, for that matter) is superior to the life of a human being 

but I have never yet met anyone who could claim to name them all.  

Here are a few to start your list - 

dolphins do not have to shave, go to work, please their bosses, pay bills, take exams, 

do homework, cut their toenails, carry umbrellas." 

"If the human race were a truly intelligent and rational species, its entire history would be almost completely different to that which actually exists."  

"The human race is the only species on Earth that requires 

police forces, security guards, huge armies, vast military forces and infrastructure, 

a multitude of chemical and biological weapons, nuclear deterrents and 

enormous stock piles of weapons, simply in order to protect itself, ... ... from itself." 

"The human species is not a rare and endangered species on the verge of extinction, 

so why is it promoted, produced, procreated and propagated as if it was." 

"Parenting, or the 'Raising of Children', is the only vitally important and highly consequential job in the world which can be legally undertaken and practised without any qualifications of any kind."  

"While you are climbing up the corporate ladder of success, remember that your health 

and youth will be sliding down the slippery pole of failure at exactly the same time 

and at exactly the same speed." 

"An individual with a closed mind is destined never to become aware of this fact, simply because a closed mind lacks the cognitive faculties and awareness required in order to perceive the fact that it is, indeed, closed."  

"The young so eagerly look forward to their future, ... but when they get older they will always, invariably, ... greatly miss their past." 

"True intelligence is when one  thinks with one's heart to the same extent 

that one thinks with one's mind." 

"Only the wise should govern this world.

Not the ambitious, the clever, the cunning, the motivated or the determined.  

Not the charismatic, the conceited, the industrious or the egotistical. 

Not the opportunist, the driven, the educated or the qualified. 

Nor the famous, influential or wealthy. 

Nor even the popular, favoured or demanded.  

Only the wise should have power.  

Only the wise."

"Slaves were always the most important human resource in all civilisations 

and at all periods throughout human history.  

Indeed, they still are today, and ironically they are still referred to, 

rather revealingly, by the term 'human resources' or HR." 

"It is an obvious, well-known and widely recognised fact that trees 

are infinitely more beneficial to the environment and the well-being 

of the planet than are houses.  So why are thousands of new housing estates and millions of new houses being constructed all over the land, 

yet almost no new woodlands or forests are being planted  ?" 

"Homo sapiens is indeed a unique and highly unusual species 

in the long history of life on plant earth, in the fact that it is the only species that has been 

at war, both with itself, and also with nearly every other species of life on the planet, 

during its entire existence, for the past 2 million years." 

"The principle difference between the slaves, surfs and peasants of ancient times 

and the working class of today is that slaves and peasants of the past 

were largely privately owned, whereas the modern day working class are largely 

State owned." 

"Some humans just happen to have been born rich.  

These humans, or at least the majority of them, will then spend almost their entire lives controlling, manipulating and dominating those humans 

who just happened to have been born poor." 

"Habitual, compulsive and unreasoned incredulity and hyper-scepticism is more than simply a case of deep-rooted narrow-mindedness.  It is an illness of the mind." 

"The monarchy and aristocracy would be given more respect and admiration by ordinary citizens if they undertook voluntary work in homeless shelters, soup kitchens and hospitals, ... and for philanthropic organisation such as the Salvation Army." 

"If animals could speak, it is certain that the only species that would, in all probability, express a liking for the human species, ... would be dogs and cats." 

(one can only imagine what creatures such as pigs and goats would have to say). 

"Only the most astute, perceptive and intelligent school children 

would ever be able to figure out and to realise that they are actually being prepared and trained-up to become life-long, hard-working obedient wage slaves.  

Their parents, for obvious reasons, would certainly be the last people on earth 

to ever reveal this stark, sobering and disturbing fact to them." 

"The vast majority of parents never encourage or instruct their children to question authority, because of course, they are authority figures themselves and do not want their authority questioned or undermined, especially by their own children." 

"At what point in history did the human species become civilised  ?" 

"Human evolution can only occur when the human species 

grows considerably in logic, love and wisdom." 

"A love that is not pure, perfect, constant, unfailing, unlimited and unconditional is not 

a true love at all." 

"If you are trapped in an arduous and life-long poverty trap, 

you may wish to consider who put you there in the first place. " 

"It is not knowledge, but wisdom that is of the greatest importance.  

Knowledge is only useful if one also possess the wisdom to know 

how to apply that knowledge to one's existence." 

"What is a soldier  ?  

A soldier is simply a man whose mind and body are entrapped, enclosed and encased 

within the power and influence of a human ideology, for which he is conditioned to believe that he must fight and die for." 

"The first twenty years of your life are directed, controlled and manipulated 

by two human beings whom you did not choose, did not appoint, did not select and 

whom you may not even have particularly liked or admired."

                                                                                               Metta 

Some Questions Concerning the Subject of Human Philosophy 

Metta submits and proposes the following four philosophically-related, fundamental questions as subjects for open and free discussion and debate. 

Your comments to follow please. 

Is most human philosophical thought simply the subjective existential speculation and hypothetical conjecture of an emergent and relatively primitive semi-evolved primate species?