/lit/ - Literature

What motivates you to write?

how can get a degree in philosophy if I'm poor, have to work fulltime+, do not have a work schedule compatible with classes, am well past high school, dropped out of college several times already, got kicked out of the Navy for being a pothead, have a clinically diagnosed schizoaffective wife who physically and verbally abuses me when I so much as glance at another woman whether she's around or not, and also have terrible social skills probably at schizoautist levels? Is it over? Please help.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

>If a man knows "I am brahman" in this way, he becomes this whole world. Not even the gods are able to prevent it, for he becomes their very self (atman). So when a man venerates another deity, thinking, "He is one, and I am another," he does not under-stand. As livestock is for men, so is he for the gods. As having a lot of livestock is useful to a man, so each man proves useful to the gods. The loss of even a single head of livestock is painful; how much more if many are lost. The gods, therefore, are not pleased at the prospect of men coming to understand this.