A man who respects himself ought not put up with anything he doesn’t approve of. Unless he doesn’t have a choice. In which case he should accept it completely – and make NOT ONE complaint about it. This sounds simple and banal perhaps – but it is actually most difficult. The difference between …
Category: Lifestyle
Making Days Longer
The days are only long when you don’t have to do anything. One can only appreciate the infinite space of time when the mind is not tethered to the relentless wheel of obligations, ambitions, goals, commitments, plans… To appreciate the abundance of time — do nothing the whole day. See how long it …
How Does One Not Do Something?
How does one NOT do something? By not doing it. Life is really simple. You either do something — or you don’t. If you can investigate your life with scrutiny – you will see that 90% of things you didn’t do – you never even attempted. The narrative is futile. The excuses are …
WHY Is The Answer
a single question to ask yourself every day every moment: “WHY?” it’s solution both to boredom and stupidity stupidity is obviously our reluctance to think reluctance to see (clouded by knowledge and belief) boredom is obviously our inability to feel inability to see (dulled by our mechanical indulgence) “WHY” is the answer
Own Choices
Few men make their own choices. Usually we only choose from a few alternatives. Often less then that. Often we relinquish all the control, all the responsibility. We are desperately dependent on our environment. Since our choices are not ours – they belong to our environment. Positive influence – positive outcome. Negative influence …
Talking about the weather is more meaningful then talking about ideology…
Talking about the news is even more immaterial then talking about the weather. Talking about the weather is more meaningful then talking about ideology. A pleasant walk in the sun is all the joy in life you could ask for. Ideology crawls out from the place of turmoil and anxiety. If you could …
To See The Spectacular Beauty…
Quality of one’s attention trumps quality of the stimuli. To see the spectacular beauty of this world – learn to SEE. Chase of amusement and excitation has the poorest yield – like all the chases – desperate in nature and pervaded. Attention is the key which opens all the doors. It was never …
Terrible Shortcomings of the Winner’s Mentality
Does “winner’s mentality” make you win? Is “winner’s mentality” a good idea? Do you want to win? Do you want to do the right thing? What do you want? What’s winner’s mentality? I imagine it’s mentality of a person predisposed to win. If so – it’s related to winning. So does it make …
One Can Transcend Limiting Beliefs With Affirmations
One can transcend limiting beliefs with affirmations. If you can’t liberate yourself from the past – perhaps you can override it by instilling new convictions. Positive thinking, affirmations, gratitude, confidence, visualisations – all these fancy tools put you in a more likely place to do yourself good. The precise explanation of their workings …
Simple Pleasures
One needs some simple pleasures to live the simple life. Simple pleasure is sacred because it is simple. Simple is sacred because the self – with all it’s cunning and ambition and turmoil – can barely survive in it. Simple life is very pleasurable because it is abundant with simple pleasures. Not adulterated …