It doesn’t matter it’s a truism if you need to hear it. It’s simple truths which get the results rather then fancy philosophies. Foundations are never too old. Disregarding truisms as unoriginal is pretentious and absurd. Originality has nothing to do with either truth or value. Truisms are disregarded the …
Musings: Letting Go
Not-letting-go brought more suffering then letting-go ever did You may not get where you wanted to get but if you transcend the want in the first place — there is nothing that’s ever forsaken. Oft it’s the unwillingness to let go which keeps us from getting where we want to get, Compulsive need …
Peace always comes before enjoyment, pleasure, entertainment without peace the “positive” is just an escape from the “negative”, while really only being the other side of the coin once you know peace, truly know peace, the joy will follow next, without you provoking it — Janus (@JanusFaustus) September 12, 2019
Perseverance / Stubbornness
When we stumble upon to goldmine at the end of the valley we extol the virtue of PERSEVERANCE When we waste our lives seeking gold which was never there we curse STUBBORNNESS Get over this black-and-white thinking. Be neither stubborn nor persevering but INTELLIGENT instead. Plough on a little bit longer than it seems …
All Memory is Confabulation
All memory is confabulation We are way too confident in veracity of our memory Memory it’s an image taken by shortsighted eyes Words recorded by prejudiced ears Events translated by biased cognition Wise mistrusts memory Wise understands the uniqueness of every moment Wise is ready to meet every situation anew, only …
More Optimal Then Gym
Health is imperative but don’t delude yourself 5/7 in the gym is the most optimal either for your health or your life in general. Homo sapiens is not made to carry too much muscle. If you think he is then why it’s so hard to put on the weight? It’s much MUCH easier to stay …
Be With Your Desire
Don’t pretend you don’t want something. Don’t assert that you can’t get something. It’s just another way of deceiving yourself. Be with your desire. Respect it. Seek to understand it. You may already know that it’s attainment is not ultimately significant — but the problem of self-delusion is of paramount gravity. Therefore do whatever …
Own Your Shame
You repress what you’re ashamed of about yourself — which in turn prevents you from addressing it’s very cause. It’s a vicious circle. You must OWN what you’re ashamed of. Laugh at it, really! The more you’re ashamed of something the more it will paralyse you, and control you. The more important is the matter …
Delusion Will Always Thrive When There Is Not Simplicity
Is psyche simple? It could be. It probably is not, for most of us. Our mind is like a cluttered room. There’s a lot of stuff in it. Some useful. Some useless. Some old and some new. Some at the front desk and some thrown somewhere under the rug. Most of that stuff is garbage. …
Objective Life Decisions Not Subjective
Your personal life experiences are no different to any other world processes. To know what is going on you need a lot of meaningful data. Preferably derived from numerous replicable experiments. HOW-YOU-FEEL and WHAT-SEEMS are OK when you’re interested in the subjective and intangible. There is no place for that if you’re interested in …