Shitty life is not a challenge. Being miserable is not admirable. Hard work makes your life hard. Hard life is a hard experience. And then you die. Your ambition to BE SOMETHING fooled you. You die. Today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month, in a year, in 50 years. No one …
Category: Lifestyle
The Importance Of Luck
One who underestimates the importance of luck will also overestimate the importance of certainty. One who overvalues the importance of certainty is the one who doesn’t take enough risks. One who doesn’t take enough risks is the one missing on the best opportunities
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …
Gratitude Cures Ambition
Gratitude cures ambition. Why would you cure ambition? Would you not want to achieve something? You precisely don’t want. You want nothing. You neither want nor don’t want success. There is no attachment. No desire. This is the beginning of freedom. I view ambition as this hunger. Why be hungry? Why …
There’s An Abyss Between Good-Enough And Not-Good-Enough
There’s an ABYSS between competent and incompetent. Acceptable and unacceptable. Good-enough and not-good-enough. Upon failure you degrade yourself. Upon victory you burst with pride. So much arrogance over something you barely control. Only the best are “good enough”. Only the worst are “not good enough”. Everyone else is welcome on this wheel of …
Do You Believe It Or Do You Want To Believe It?
Do you believe it? Or do you want to believe it? It’s a simple question, a simple idea – but we could all benefit from asking it more often. We want to believe many things. We want many things to be our way. We are petty and loud. We go about this world …
Only The Next Step Matters
each part of the “whole” is whole on it’s own account no part of the whole is less relevant then the whole itself that’s because part of the whole IS the whole or rather – there is no “part of the whole”. everything is whole each step you make is the journey each …
Look At The Intelligent
Our natural instinct is to look for ways to confirm our previous beliefs. It’s called confirmation bias. In fact it is not entirely useless. If we can find circumstances in which our beliefs are true – they practically become true. Pragmatically, your beliefs render you positive results. But for those of us concerned not …
You Find Peace When You Commit To Peace
You find peace when you commit to peace. It’s a choice. It’s a trade-off. You choose peace. Now you have to change some things in your life. You are addicted to your outside pursuits. You are addicted to stimulation. You are addicted to drama. You are addicted to your past. Do you think it …
When You’re Not Looking For Solutions — You Find Ideas
When you’re not looking for solutions — you find ideas. When you’re looking for solutions — your vision is constrained by the question you have asked. Question you now feel compelled to answer. You have a certain problem, certain question, and you must solve it. There are many ways of reaching the solution. There …