you only don’t need help if you can do it alone you don’t need a teacher if you can learn by yourself you don’t need education if you can educate yourself you don’t need discipline if you can discipline yourself you don’t need a guide if you can lead yourself …
Meaning Is So Cheap
you can get “meaning” for cheap truth you can never get for cheap find any stupid game in which you score more $ on your account more kg on your barbell more likes under the picture of your tits more books read more places seen more alms given more pain meaning is so …
You Will Never Transform The World’s Conflict With Conflict
You will never transform the world’s conflict with conflict The world’s injustice — the rich getting richer, disempowered women, discrimination of minorities — real or not — it will never be transformed by fighting it You can’t solve conflicts with conflicts For as long as you view it as a struggle, as …
ELEVATION
I’m elevated not because I elevated myself but because I elevate myself You’re lowly not because you’re low but because you don’t elevate yourself The moment I ceased doing more would be the moment I would be like you — useless and lowly and miserable The moment you did more would …
Arrogance Is The Not-Learning
Arrogance is not what you say or do Not even how you express it Arrogance is your attitude to life Your unwillingness to learn When you see a dog you call it a “dog” When you see a tree you call it a “tree” There’s no beating around the bush. A tree is a …
Supporting Others Is Investing
Supporting others is basically investing Investment is leverage for judgment You want to leverage your prudent judgment of others by supporting them If you don’t support promising people — you are leaving money on the table Support is obviously not about altruism — which doesn’t exist Support is predicated on self-interest …
The Utter Inevitability Of Your Life
there is no other life than your current life there are no other options but your current options future obviously doesn’t exist past is obviously just a bedtime story you are utterly alone — no one to help you, and no one to compare to either everything that happens to you …
What Do You Control
The more you can control your state the less you need to control your circumstances The less you can control your state the more you need to control your circumstances The less you can control your circumstances the sooner you turn to controlling all the circumstances This is why politics, social justice, …
You Are Not Pretty And Not Ugly
You’re not as pretty as you think and not as ugly as you think You deny both your value and your ugliness in how you imagine yourself We are so ugly because we deny our ugliness We deny our innate egoism and build a world of lies, rather then mutual interest We deny …
Exhaust Yourself Then Sleep
You can’t rest unless you get tired You can’t create unless you are rested Live in such way that when you end the day — your bed is the sweetest place on earth Don’t move from that bed until you can’t help but jump the fuck out through the roof This is …