though the wicked seem to prosper

We live in a world filled with people are are constantly trying to PURSUE happiness through temporary pleasures.
They $PEND too much time looking for HAPPINESS outs of THEMSELVES, when it is actually withIN.
A lesson Socrates tried to teach us when he stated, "the successful care of the SouL brings with is many good things that are not immediately apparent.
Though the wicked seem to prosper, their happiness is an ILLusion."

Perhaps this is what pre-Socratic Philosopher Parmenides meant when he was teach that we canNOT TRUST our SENSEs because these so-called pleasures they bring us are an ILLusion.

Yet another pre-Socractic Philosopher, Heraclitus, taught about OppositeS; Day canNOT BE without nighT and Life without deatH.

Maybe WE first need to learn what ILLusions we are LIVing in our life before we are enLIGHTened by the TRUTH withIN.



-- A short excerpt from something I wrote for my philosophy class.