Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival.
Life is given to him, survival is not.
His body is given to him, its sustenance is not.
His mind is given to him, its content is not.
To remain alive, he must act,
and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action..
.To remain alive, he must think
A rational process is a moral process.
You may make an error at any step of it,
with nothing to protect you but your own severity,
or you may try to cheat,
to fake the evidence
and evade the effort of the quest -
but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality,
then there is no greater,
nobler,
more heroic form of devotion
than the act of a man
who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses.
The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence,
but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason,
his senses tell him only that something is,
but what it is must be learned by his mind
Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world?
All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured,
came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
2026 ushers in the Year of the Horse
a symbol of forward movement, independence, and endurance.
This year ushers in the Year of the Fire Horse—
a rare, blazing return that only comes once every 60 years
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The 12 Chinese zodiac animals are listed below in their respective ranks:
| Gregorian | Date | Animal | Day of the week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 17 Feb | Horse | Tuesday |
| 2027 | 6 Feb | Goat | Saturday |
| 2028 | 26 Jan | Monkey | Wednesday |
| 2029 | 13 Feb | Rooster | Tuesday |
| 2030 | 3 Feb | Dog | Sunday |
| 2031 | 23 Jan | Pig | Thursday |
| 2032 | 11 Feb | Rat | Wednesday |
| 2033 | 31 Jan | Ox | Monday |
| 2034 | 19 Feb | Tiger | Sunday |
| 2035 | 8 Feb | Rabbit | Thursday |
| 2036 | 28 Jan | Dragon | Monday |
| 2037 | 15 Feb | Snake | Sunday |
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.
