Respect is a bad habit. We learnt RESPECT out of compulsion, indolence and meekness. We were forced to DEFER and RESPECT. We grew fond of this affliction, in our innate intellectual slothfulness and weakness. Now it’s just a bad habit. All habits are mediocrity and bad habits are destructive. You …
Month: March 2019
To Raise a Fool
For every rule and every belief you instill in your pupil — his intelligence and individuality is lessened, damaged. If you teach rules and expect them to be obeyed — then you expect to raise a fool. Don’t teach. Facilitate independent discovery. You can create an environment in which independence and …
Expectations Promise Mediocrity
Expectations promise mediocrity. Every expectation is a seed of countless limitations. Every limitation is a drop from the heights of true excellence. For the highest excellence to come into being – the path must be clear of impediments. Every idea you have about the outcome will limit you drastically. To excel one must forget …
Discipline is comfort It’s easier to pay with some effort, buy psychological ease It’s difficult to live within the heart of the unknown — Janus (@JanusFaustus) March 25, 2019
Old Age And Truth
Hoping there’s something glorifying about old age and edifying is as dangerous a belief as it is delusional. One only becomes more godly with age because one finally starts giving though to one’s obviously imminent death. Most men learn nothing from their experiences. So there goes the wisdom-with-experience argument. Confusing exoteric with …
Stealing Ideas
I will gladly steal the brilliant insights of greater then me and post them/ tweet them/ write a fucking book about them …as my own — because thats how little I care about looking good. Every idea known to men shall be repeated infinitely many times. You can’t really steal ideas. It’s like …
Don’t Sell Yourself
I found myself wondering if he was being disingenuous or… just selling. And then I realised it meant the same thing. It’s often the same thing You sell your stuff to someone, you sell yourself to others… Before you know it you lose track of which part of you is for sale and which …
Life NOT as a Game
Life may be a game to some but to make a game out of it is to devalue it. The more seriously you take yourself and your story and the game you play in this world — the more does the moment lose it’s magic. You can’t take the world seriously and retain …
Conflict of Self-Images
It’s difficult facing yourself when you’re so busy facing world’s expectations of you. Delusion won’t end for some until they end caring about all those things they were conditioned to care about. Why would anyone delude oneself, if not to reconcile the conflicted images of oneself? This is why letting go …
Identity Is The Ultimate Limitation
Your identity comprises of beliefs. In fact, identity itself is a belief. Belief that you are (something permanent). That some part of you stays unchanged with time. You change – but it’s still the same you. Only, there is no you. Not now not tomorrow. “You” is so ephemeral that it can’t even exist now …