“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?…While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do…

…we continue holding on to meaningless misguided superstitious practices of the past as if they were an end in themselves – allowing our fear, hereditary (and other) prejudices, and ignorance to lead the way – refusing to understand that ‘religion’ is nothing more than a ‘way of life’ – not a set of rules and meaningless rituals that need to be observed feverishly to please an unseen, unknown, unreachable deity…giving lip service to ‘religion’ – being the loudest and most enthusiastic in the circus of mundane, repetitive, and meaningless rituals; and not really ‘living’ even the basic fundamentals of that religion, is but a waste of time…