True Gratitude is not some trick. Trick in which you talk yourself into being grateful and feed that brain with serotonin. Gratitude is recognition. Recognition is consciousness. Gratitude is consciousness. Gratitude is recognition. Recognition of the fact of being alive, the experience of existence, recognition of What-Is. To be conscious is to be …
Category: Lifestyle
you didn’t earn it you took it
You didn’t earn it. You took it. Stop implying a sacrifice. It’s a choice. To even imply a sacrifice is to make life harder. Why does there have to be this dichotomy? you earning it / you not earning it you deserving it / you not deserving it you making it / you …
Dichotomy of “Following One’s Passions”
Following/ Not-Following one’s passions must be the most inimical false dichotomy there is. To follow one’s passion indiscriminately is to unawarely set oneself for a lifetime of failures and mediocrity — statistically unlikely ending with a miraculous success. To NOT follow one’s passion at all is to live a life of defeat, meaninglessness and …
Effort To NOT Be Inauthentic
Outside inhibitions stifle inner expression. Authenticity may require reconstructing one’s entire method of communicating with the world. This can be arduous. Don’t confuse arduous with inauthentic. You’re not arduously trying to impress somebody. You’re arduously trying to STOP trying to impress somebody. Trying to stop behaving in a preordained way. One is so …
Warning About Virtual Reality
Some time from now we will have rehabilitation centres focused on RE-WIRING the utterly NUMBED brain and healing the FRIED synapses — from the years of electronic overindulgence. I will continue to rant about this because virtual reality is 100% a drug. It’s addictive, extremely pleasurable, it’s CHEAP, it’s an EASY escape— and it’s …
You Can’t Buy “Success” And “Happiness” At Once
You can’t buy “success” and “happiness” at once. It’s almost impossible for both to happen at the same time. “Happiness through success” is the most preposterous idea there is. If you want success — get success. If you want happiness — BE happy. Anything-through-something-else is just distraction. Not unlike you will have to …
Idolatry Is Simply Absence Of Character, Ability Or Understanding
Idolatry is simply absence of character, ability or understanding. Truly high-ability men don’t idolise. Having developed a single skill to a high level — they no longer view it as some kind of a special talent or something out of the ordinary. If they need to learn something — they simply do. They don’t …
PROFESSIONALISM
One either does something to get something or does something just to do it. If it’s the former then anything less then COMPLETE PROFESSIONALISM is just nonsensical. Professionalism is identical with intelligence identical with awareness, high discernment. You’re either aware what must be done or not. You either do what must be done or …
Get Yourself a Diary
Get yourself a diary Plenty of benefits just from the shortest notes I swear this should be one of the best investments of your entire life. If not the best Write down your thought Write down your emotion Write down your thought-emotion Then see it Read it Hear it as a third …
If ideologies and doctrines and philosophies make you think – then it’s all to the good
If ideologies and doctrines and philosophies make you think – then it’s all to the good. The moment these don’t – you must discard them completely. The narrow-minded expands his mind by looking outside his narrow mind. Broadening the general knowledge can serve that purpose. However it is not about attaining this knowledge – …