“Yet the mode of perceptual consumption, where everything we hear, read, say or do which is linked to words and thoughts, also sheds a form of mental dross.”

“A man such as this will have very little reason to respond to the perceived affronts which another may naturally find of great worth to defend and retaliate.”

“In these days quite a few more people, quite undeserved and without any noteworthy accomplishments to boot, convey their self-image as if they had inherited acclaim from some other world.”

“We are unconscious to this mechanism, this internal messenger of the ever good or bad news, devised of falsities, or diluted truths which can be just as bad, if not worse.”

“People are far more empowered than they realize and much less in control then they care to admit.”

“It is unnatural to the dignity of a man to allow his attitude to function under the sunken weight of a state of preemptive negativity.”

“And the result could be that the dust of the present is blown into the past and the future settles into an equally mechanical reality.”

“It gets stronger and stronger as their atmospheres begin to mesh, with eyes darting back and forth, lightly making eye contact and then evading to give off the impression that neither of them are interested in slowing down to engage.”

“Change is heated by the friction of demanding for yourself an improvement in general development, where the sights of life are tainted less and less by the skewed lens of an unbalanced mind, heart and body.”

“For in the past, if we look back carefully, language was a tool which was handled with great intimacy and attention, slowly put together with no awkward rush to prod along a conversation at the expense of the quality of the meaning which all of these words were intended to convey in the first place.”