Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, 

that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, 

which is thinking—

that the mind is one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide of action—

that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise—

that a concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality—

that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind—

that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence 

and, properly, annihilates one’s consciousness.

 

Reality is that which exists; 

the unreal does not exist; 

the unreal is merely that negation of existence 

which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. 

Truth is the recognition of reality; 

reason,

 man’s only means of knowledge, 

is his only standard of truth.

 

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. 

It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. 

It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. 

Your mind is your only judge of truth—

and if others dissent from your verdict, 

reality is the court of final appeal. 

Nothing but a man’s mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking.

 Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. 

Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

 

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, 

a wish to negate existence, 

an attempt to wipe out reality.

 But existence exists; 

reality is not to be wiped out, 

it will merely wipe out the wiper.

 By refusing to say ‘It is,’ 

you are refusing to say ‘I am.’ 

By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. 

When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’- 

he is declaring: ‘Who am I to live?

 

You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. 

Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? 

That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. 

It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection.

 You have fought for it,

 you have dreamed of it,

 and you have wished it 

 To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. 

To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

 Man has been called a rational being, 

but rationality is a matter of choice 

and the alternative his nature offers him is: 

rational being or suicidal animal. 

Man has to be man 

by choice; 

he has to hold his life as a value 

by choice; 

he has to learn to sustain it 

 by choice;

 he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues 

 by choice.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality

 

It’s better to go for what you want in life and get rejected

 than have the shot and not take it.

 

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. 

We do not recognize such duty. 

Do not cry that you need us. 

We do not consider need a claim. 

Do not cry that you own us. 

You don’t.

 

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, 

and Man’s Life is its standard of value.

 

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. 

A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions,

 is acting on the motive and standard of death

 

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, 

man—every man—is an end in himself, 

he exists for his own sake, 

and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

 

Reason is your means of survival — 

so that for you, 

who are a human being, 

the question ‘to be or not to be’

 is the question

 'to think or not to think..'.

 

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; 

all that which destroys it is the evil.

 

To exist is to be something, 

as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, 

it is to be an entity of a specific nature 

made of specific attributes.

 

Whenever a man denounces the mind, 

it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

 

Independence 

is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment 

and nothing can help you escape it.

 This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: 

thinking or non-thinking, 

existence or non-existence, 

A or non-A, 

entity or zero.

 

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: 

True or False? 

Right or Wrong?

 

And no one rose to ask the question: 

Good?

-by what standard?

 

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. 

Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced;

 the understood, not the obeyed.

The moral is the rational, 

and reason accepts no commandments

 

The secret to life is knowing when to stop.

 

People used to respect the old. 

Now, they’re just reminders of an offensive past everybody wants to forget.

 Everyone runs from pain towards the pleasure.

 But when they get there, only to find more pain. 

You cannot outrun pain.

  

Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. 

A contradiction cannot exist. 

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. 

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking;

 to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality

 Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it

—that no substitute can do your thinking

—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, 

the acceptance of an authority over your brain,

 the acceptance of his assertions as facts, 

his say-so as truth, 

his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence

Lent to Easter 2026

 

 In 2026, Lent begins on Wednesday 18 February.

 The Lent dates for 2026 are 18 February – 2 April.

Good Friday - Friday 3 April, 2026. 

Easter Saturday - Saturday 4 April, 2026. 

Easter Sunday - Sunday 5 April, 2026.

 Easter Monday - Monday 6 April, 2026.

Lent

 

The season of Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Saturday. 

This calculation makes Lent last 46 days if the 6 Sundays are included, but only 40 days if they are excluded.

“Ash Wednesday 

- The name of the day comes from the custom that churchgoers are marked on the forehead with a cross of ash to symbolise death and regret for past sins. 

The priest will accompany the marking with a recital of Genesis 3:19

 - "Remember that you are dust, and to dust, you shall return".

Lent lasts for just over six weeks leading up to Easter.

Traditionally it was a time of fasting from certain foods such as eggs, meat, fish and fats.

 It is called Lent in English because it is the time of the year when days are lengthening in the northern hemisphere. 

Like Easter, Lent falls on different dates each year.

In most churches, the first day of Lent is Ash Wednesday. Many Christians go to church that day to seek forgiveness from God for what they have done wrong. In some churches, the priest will take some ash and use it to mark a cross sign on the forehead of each person. It is a symbol of their remorse. The ash is traditionally made from burning palm crosses which were distributed on Palm Sunday the year before (see below). During Lent, many Christians use special studies to guide their times of personal prayer and reflection.

The idea of fasting around the time of Easter goes back to the days of the early Church 2,000 years ago. For some years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christians fasted from all food and drink between Good Friday and Easter Sunday – marking the time period between his death and the discovery that his tomb was empty. Lent, as we now know it, has its origins about 900 years after Jesus. There was international agreement that there should be a season of prayer and seeking forgiveness lasting 40 days – plus Sundays – leading up to Easter Sunday. The significance of the time period was that immediately before he began his years of travelling and teaching, Jesus spent 40 days in the desert reflecting on the future of his life.

Traditionally the day before Lent begins is a time for feasting and celebration. All the luxury foods that won’t be eaten during Lent are consumed. Given that those foods include eggs, milk and fat – ingredients for pancake batter – it is clear why it became traditional to make pancakes! In the UK, the day is known as Shrove Tuesday – the word ‘shrove’ is derived from ‘shrive’ meaning to forgive. In many parts of the world, the day is known as Mardi Gras (‘fat Tuesday’ in French) and is marked with a carnival.

The fourth Sunday during Lent is Mothering Sunday. In England in the 16th century it was an occasion to appreciate the motherly nature of the Church. More recently it has become a time to honour all mothers.

The last week of Lent is Holy Week, which commemorates the final days before Jesus’ execution on a cross. It begins with Palm Sunday which marks the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. It was a day of triumph when crowds of followers and supporters waved palm branches and laid them on the ground in front of him. In many churches, Christians are given small palm crosses to remember the day. These are the crosses that are burnt the following year to provide ashes for Ash Wednesday.

Later in Holy Week, as Lent draws to an end, some Christians mark significant days in the Christian year: Holy Wednesday, when one of Jesus’s followers, Judas, agreed to betray him; Maundy Thursday, when Jesus ate his last meal with his followers and was then arrested; and Good Friday, when Jesus was put on trial and executed. Lent ends with Easter Sunday – the day Christians celebrate Jesus rising from the dead.

 

when one deals with words, 

one deals with the mind

 

The symbol of all relationships among such men,

 the moral symbol of respect for human beings, 

is the trade 

A trader is a man who earns what he gets 

and does not give or take the undeserved

 Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value 

and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.

His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, 

but only his own virtue can achieve it…

Life is the reward of virtue- 

and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Belief

 

Belief is a state of non-understanding. 

People believe because they don’t know. 

You don’t believe in the sun, you don’t believe in the trees, you don’t believe that the trees are green; you simply know. 

But you believe that God exists, that heaven and hell exist. 

These are beliefs, because you don’t know. 

Belief is a substitute for knowing; it deceives you. 

It keeps you in a state of ignorance because it helps you to pretend. 

And if you have been pretending long enough, you are so deeply befooled by your own belief that you don’t suspect, you don’t doubt. 

Your belief starts becoming your wisdom, and belief can never become your wisdom. 

Remember one thing: believing is a wrong approach. 

Don’t believe in God. Why believe in God when God can be known? 

Don’t believe in love when love can be lived. 

Don’t believe in me while you can experience the truth of my being present to you.

 When you can commune with me, why believe in me? 

Belief is a barrier, not a bridge. 

If you believe in me, you will never understand me. 

Drop believing and start knowing. 

 You were a believing Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan. 

 jump from your Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism. 

jump from belief into a real, authentic search for the truth. 

Belief simply means that others have told you, and you have believed them: maybe your parents, your teachers, priests, politicians, friends, or just the climate around you, the social conditioning. 

You were born into a certain society, into a certain structure. 

You have imbibed the spirit of it unknowingly. 

 

Bring your inner being out into the open - 

into the wind, 

into the sun, 

into the rain - 

and you will be surprised: 

you become cleaner,

 purer, 

weightless. 

Your understanding grows, 

your integrity grows, 

your self-respect grows,

 your independence grows, 

and you become less and less dependent on others.

 

Sometimes we wake with anxiety. 

An edgy energy. 

What will happen today? 

What is in store for me? 

So many questions. 

We want resolution, solid earth under our feet. 

So, we take life into our own hands. We take action 

Our solutions are temporary. They are quick fix. 

They create more anxiety, more suffering. 

There is no resolution to life’s questions. 

It is easier to be patient once we finally accept there is no resolution.

 

 it’s like every kid growing up, wants to be the hero of the story. 

And in the end, you’re just happy you’re not the villain.

 

When you’re born, you are like a single drop of water, flying upward, separated from the one, giant consciousness. 

You get older. 

You descend back down. 

You die. 

You land back into the water, become one with the ocean again. 

No more separated. 

No more suffering.

 One consciousness. 

Death is a happy return, 

like coming home.

 

Violence, aggression, anger stem from the same source. 

Fear. 

The only good faith response is to sit with your feelings. 

Violence does spiritual harm to victim and to perpetrator.

 

Never take anything for granted. 

It’s also a reminder to look at things in a new way, 

and if you do, then every day can be a new day  

And if it is, it’s like you’re always being born into life all the time. 

You’re not stuck, decaying or dying.

 Identity is a prison. 

No one is spared this prison. 

Rich man, poor man, success or failure. 

We build the prison, 

lock ourselves inside, 

then throw away the key.

 Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration, 

for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach.

 Check your road and the nature of your battle. 

The world you desired can be won.

 It exists,

 it is real,

 it is possible, 

it is yours.

Valentine Heart Tanika

 

If I was a Londoner, rich with complaint
Would you take me back to your house
Which is sainted with lust and the listless shade
If I could have held you once more with that light
It's nothing to you, but it keeps me alive
Like a Valentine's Day, it's a Valentine's heart, anyway

The king and the ages, they fall by the plan
It's always the tired and the ordinary man
(It's the) challenge it's funny and such
I want to see you again
I want to see you again
It's so simple and plain
But I'll come back and see you again

The lie is the angel, it doesn't exist
I tell you it's funny but you like just to twist all my words
It's a shame you're so young
My word, it's a shame I'm so dumb
I figure a house with the smoke and the fence
The people round here would be pleased
Take my word on this

I would believe just in you, just believe in you
And five days to catch me around with my ring
As I visit the friendships which meant everything to the girl
With the clown's face, to the girl with the clowns face, round here

Valentine Belinda

 I made a rule about you

I made a plan
For getting my feet back on the ground.
Bury my face in the clouds
For hours on end
But time only flies when you're around

It was cold and dark the last time I saw you.
Your hair was long and falling in your eyes.
You said my hands were warm and that I was special
To you

Valentine,

You say that it's complicated
But baby you're wrong
There's nothing more obvious to me.
That we're on a trip together
33, 000 light years long
And I'm hurting so bad 'cause you don't see

The night you walked me home, I gave you a picture
Of Eden's trees falling to the ground
And now I feel, I feel like you're a perfect stranger

Without you
Valentine,

Valentine,
You know that I'm fighting this love in vain
The sun's been shining for a week
But it still feels like rain
Valentine.
I know you're not mine
Your'e somebody else's flame
But when those hearts and flowers fade
Oh my darlin', look my way

Valentine.
I know you're not mine

And I don't know why you stay
But when those hearts and flowers fade
Oh my darlin', look my way

Valentine T'Pau

 

Songs for my valentine

Give the game away
In rhyme I make mine
Sing all that I cannot say

I know mine are the tears I never cry
I know mine is a love I must deny

We go our separate ways
With nothing but a smile
Hearts break in many ways
Oh how, you've broken mine

I know mine are the arms you'll never hold
I know mine is a love remains untold

Hey, hey, hey!
Sunny valentine
Come on shine
Your love my way

 The February fog,

Turns all into blobs,
Orange street lights,
To Valentine's Night.

 

we have sinned and grown old, 

and our Father is younger than us

 The spring equinox is March 21 

The Paschal Full Moon is the Full Moon that occurs on or after 

Easter Sunday is observed on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon 

In 2026 

The Paschal Moon is Thursday April 2nd - the Spring Moon - Maundy Thursday 

Easter is Sunday April 5th