Your intelligence doesn’t protect you from being influenced, being conditioned You can be intelligent and still be naive You can refute the silly arguments with your sharp mind — but you can’t refute emotions And intelligence is slave to emotions Intelligence is slave to emotions You think you are rational rather than emotional …
Category: Spirituality
Hostility is Violence
Hostility is violence To want to see someone “get what he deserves”, “get punished”, “be taken down a peg”, is to be violent. To insult someone, to mock someone, to deride someone, is to be violent. To not want the best for your fellow human beings, for your brothers, for your enemies, is to be …
“Poisoned Gifts”
Everything that happens to you can bring you closer to reality — or farther away from it You view the gifts of fate in regard to the short-term benefits they entail If you like something — you’re happy with such gift If you don’t like something — you curse such gift There’s a …
There Is No One To Put In Place (But You)
there is no one to put in place there is no one to put in place but you there is no one to put in place but you, putting others in place is a distraction from putting yourself in place from climbing the mountain yourself there’s no one to put in place …
Anything But (The Thing) Is A Distraction
Anything BUT (the thing) is a distraction Either you do the thing — the right thing, the most important thing — or you’re distracting yourself Whatever else you do, it well may be, and surely will be, of great value (that’s what makes it a perfect distraction, a perfect excuse) But there is only one …
At The End You Have No Edge
at the end you have no edge no advantage, no superiority you start from nothing you don’t yet walk don’t yet talk we all start from nothing, truly you start from nothing you have no advantage yet, you’re no one, nothing then you gain your advantage you get lucky you do things …
The Misunderstanding of Binary Thinking
We abuse the idea of non-binary thinking to justify our fecklessness and foolishness. There is the idea that few things are black-or-white. Indeed most things in life have both pros and cons. Some things have more advantages and some things have more disadvantages. Some things have a lot of advantages and a lot of …
Nostalgia is Defeatist in Nature and Delusional Too
You should literally forget your past There is literally nothing worth remembering IT is utterly impossible to bring back the past Even if you bring “back” the past — you’re really only creating the future Past, as you recall it — has nothing to do with what happened Past is idealized or demonized …
Love Life, Love Yourself, Love Your Work
I love me I love life I love my work This is THE mantra, if you will You have life to live Living which involves this life, this world, and this you You can love it or you can hate it I love it Perhaps it’s a matter of awareness, perhaps it’s a …
WHAT IF I HAD REAL PROBLEMS?
I like to think what would I do if i had REAL problems, Not my stupid problems, but REAL problems: -If I went blind -It I had an accident -If my mind went dull -If a war broke out -If everyone I cared for died -If electricity was gone -If I was in pain every …