Goodness is simple You have a person in front of you How do you treat that person? Are you making that person happy? Are you making that person smile? Are you helping that person? Are you benefiting that person? Are you leaving that person better than you found them? Or is it the opposite? …
Category: Philosophy
Questions Breed More Questions
Questions breed more questions. For every answer gained two more questions grow in it’s place If you want peace, in your life or in this moment, you will have to at some point let go of answers Embrace the unknown Embrace the ignorance And just be in peace
Ask Less and Take More
Ask less. Take more Asking is a movement of entitlement. Taking is a movement of proactivity. Asking is a movement of entitlement. Entitlement is movement of delusion. You are not entitled to anything. There’s only what you do — and what you get. Taking is a movement of proactivity. You take …
About Your Age and The Passing of Time
Concept of age conceals great tyranny Is age just a number? It would be. But instead it represents the years of failing to achieve, years of falling behind, years of not making it in time, years of running out of time… and eventually, it represents the time to die, represents that there’s no more time. …
Relevant or Not
High quality / low quality — wrong dichotomy Original / Trite — wrong dichotomy Respectable / Dis-respectable — wrong dichotomy Relevant, or not — is the only metric How we love to IDEALISE, RATIONALISE, MAKE SENSE OF and MORALISE I don’t believe there is someone entirely free from this fault …
Conflict Is Stupid
Conflict is stupid It’s not true that strong, righteous men must get into conflicts. Men get into conflicts to prove themselves strong. Peaceful person doesn’t make enemies. What sense would that make? Enemies don’t make you more peaceful. Obviously you want to be the peaceful person. Then why would you get into …
Values Are Ideas Therefore Corrupt
Values are ideas therefore corrupt (idea = artificial creation = untrue) The real value is the truth. There is no other value. Let the truth unravel, slowly, without espousing any extraneous values Please be simple
Doing-What-You-Want Is…
Doing-What-You-Really-Want is not a matter of getting something glorious, not a matter of stepping up and not a matter of saving yourself the pain of regrets in your deathbed… Doing-What-You-Really-Want is really just a matter of DOING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT Which is a matter of self-knowledge And at that point — you …
Tough Don’t Act Tough
Tough don’t act tough Weak don’t act tough Those in-between act tough. Acting tough does make BEING TOUGH a little bit easier. But it’s obviously not being tough. Acting tough is an act before oneself as much as it is before the world. The actor does wish to BE tough. The wish …
Accountability
The fact that so few are accountable makes one wonder if one even knows the meaning of ACCOUNTABILITY Let me explain There are two ways of doing something. OPTIMAL and NOT OPTIMAL The difference between the optimal and not optimal is often ambiguous. Particularly in creative acts. It is also often NOT …