It is much too easy to see the blindness and ignorance of others than to see those who are awake – the blind see least of all those who are awake. Ignorance cannot fathom intelligence and thus can little value it.

The wise are moderate, and traces of them lost in the pitched arguments of the radicals and the reformers, who will always work to eradicate truth, whether intentionally or not. Whether the wise are indifferent to such wickedness, or transcended, who can know other than the wise?

Our minds are geared to believe we see clearly. We are wired from the get go to think that our beliefs and perceptions are true, that what we do and say is right. We expend tremendous energy and cleverness on justifying this to ourselves and often attempting to convince others: as if any amount of popular opinion could somehow make the false a reality. From this vantage point, we are egotistical in the strongest, most common usage of the word.

We have no difficulty at all discovering idiots and fools to measure ourselves superior against. As I’ve said, we are programmed by default to do such. This is not sight, or wisdom, or enlightenment: it is default. It is automatic. It is, in itself, ignorant:

Yes. The blind can see the blind.

What will be suggested now is that the awake do not see the blind nor the awake – they are either blind or awake themselves, and it is that they see, and question, and challenge most. The awake cause others to awaken, or seek awakening from those they themselves deem even more awake. They orchestrate first their own awareness, become genuine and authentic through rigourous practice and ruthless self-realization in profound conspiracy against anything they believe that is taken as granted.

Waking others is a by-product ONLY of this ONE endeavour, a distant second – and must be so, though both shall be engaged in with ultimate fullness. They are the only two tasks – everything else flows out of this continual awakening.

Surrounding oneself with fools, whether via association, or whether by the seemingly innocent act of paying more attention to them than is due (and what is due is very little) will oft make you, too, a fool.

Becoming interested in finding the rarest embodiments of consciousness, goodness, beauty, wisdom and truth: now there’s a task worthy of many lifetimes. And in doing so – in investigating every hidden corner – we shall observe that there is an invisible, mystical world: We will see that those who came before us, or who live alongside us, have shared our alienated thirst for truth and purpose, for all elevated things, and brought the fullest force of their minds and the most detailed and original genius upon the mammoth task of actual enlightenment, humanity and liberation.

Such awakened genius shall even sometimes see these elevated things in the most unlikely of subjects, as they have such a taste for awe and wonder and beauty that they are willing to suspend judgement that a person might rise up, however briefly, to the level of the divine, so precious it is, so endlessly inspiring.

When not dismissed as complete idiots, it can be amazing what individuals can aspire to. I beg you! Liberate them from your own condemnation: so stacked are the odds already against them… do not contribute to the oppression of their spirits! In our hearts, when one of these people ascend, so we too ascend… our hearts and spirits rise together and become stronger. It is well worth the cost, the tiny sacrifice, of reserving judgement. Sometimes it is even worth patience.

In knowing awareness and vision, the wise, the aware, have learned near supernatural ways of protecting and immortalizing themselves against even the darkest of dark ages, and they can speak these ways to you as whispering ghosts, for what they know is inherent in all experience, in the universe, and is your essence. No one is barred from entry into the secret culture of the wise. They have become invisible, and invulnerable – and so shall we.