Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

Life As a Road

–life is a ROAD -you are venturing into the unknown -you are picking the best route — but you can never know if what’s before you is better or worse -later you find however that it’s all WONDERFUL -but it’s all different -and it’s all incomparable -and your experience of that road ultimately depends more …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

VULNERABILITY is SELF-CHALLENGING is GROWTH

Is vulnerability weakness or is it strength, actually?   Vulnerability exposes your weaknesses. Therefore it exposes you. The real you, complete you: which is not just a fragmented, “perfect” you — but one which is complete: including your weaknesses. Therefore vulnerability exposes you to criticism. Therefore it exposes you to the (UN)TRUTH. It exposes you …

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Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

To Judge or Not To Judge

Update 2024.05.26: I have since written a more pragmatic take on the subject: To Judge or Not To Judge (#2)   There’s observing And then there’s judging and comparing and labelling   Indeed you must judge. Judge those you work with. Judge who to trust. Judge the potential dangers. Indeed you must compare. This is …

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Lifestyle Spirituality World

Humour Is Fitness

Humour is fitness There is no stupid humour   There is no stupid humour There are only stupid men Like there are unfit men And fit men And intelligent men And adept men And fertile men (Fit men and fit women and intelligent men and intelligent women and adept men and adept women and fertile …

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Spirituality

You Mismanage You

Your hopes about you cause you to misperceive, misjudge yourself   When you don’t understand you — you don’t know how to deal with you; You don’t know how to manage you;   Therefore you mismanage you;   You don’t capitalise on your strengths — because you’re too busy making up for your weaknesses   …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

The Time Manifesto

THE GOAL: The goal is to LIVE RIGHT NOW. The goal is to LIVE CONSCIOUSLY right now. This is the foundation. Tomorrow you die. Today you live. But what does it exactly suggest about how we should live?   To be conscious is to be conscious of the characteristics, details, attributes… One such characteristic of …

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Spirituality

If Life Doesn’t Humble You…

If life doesn’t humble you then you’re not challenging yourself   How does one grow prideful, arrogant? By thinking he’s doing (so) well When does one think he’s doing well? Usually one thinks he’s doing well AFTER he DID DO WELL, with something And this sense of “doing well”, sense of contentment about oneself, it …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Gratitude and Inspiration

You want to be grateful, AND inspired. You don’t want to be dissatisfied, and ambitious.   Dissatisfied means not satisfied. There’s something to be satisfied in life about — but you are not. The gift of life alone is something to be happy for — but you are not.   Ambitious means NEEDING. It’s a …

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