Lifestyle Spirituality

The Hardest Part About Changing

If you don’t know what’s possible in the real world — how can you know what’s possible in the realm of your psyche?   You can’t even conceive the limits of the real world. Yet you believe all your made-up ideas about yourself: what you need, what you want, what you are. You decide you …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Harmony Instead Of Motivation

Perhaps 100 years from now all the hustle videos and motivation crap will be replaced with harmony videos. Hustle neither brings the happiness at the end of the road nor does it even accelerate the “growth”. You’d be shocked how much more productive is the FREE one. And how much happier. I’m saying this because …

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Philosophy

Hidden Dangers Of Teaching

Hidden dangers of teaching others:   1) you inspire faith and not intelligence and understanding   2) challenge of your teachings inspires denial and backfire effect   3) you are wrong   Best to leave people alone unless they come to learn by themselves Best never touch anyone not capable of scepticism in the first …

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Philosophy

You’re Not An Exception

You’re not an exception. If you are – prove it ten times over. There are many flimsy reasons to believe oneself to be special but very few real ones. Check ten times before you dismiss a well-proven general rule.   The reason to break all the rules is to break them, not your narcissistic whims …

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Philosophy

Limitless Delusion

There’s no limit to delusion when you don’t test your believes against the real world.   Inexplicably delusional delusion is simply an untested belief.   Harbour beliefs long enough without testing them — and you WILL be crazy.   The very definition of madness is this extreme divergence from reality. Seeing things? Hearing things? Your …

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Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

Agree With No One

To walk alone is to agree with no one. Even when you agree with someone.   Wise can never truly agree with someone. For someone else’s truth can never be his own.   Complete rebellion is pure aggression – without ANY aggression.   The TRUTH is the single most contentious issue in the world. In …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Gratitude Is Consciousness

True Gratitude is not some trick. Trick in which you talk yourself into being grateful and feed that brain with serotonin.   Gratitude is recognition. Recognition is consciousness. Gratitude is consciousness.   Gratitude is recognition. Recognition of the fact of being alive, the experience of existence, recognition of What-Is. To be conscious is to be …

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Lifestyle

you didn’t earn it you took it

  You didn’t earn it. You took it. Stop implying a sacrifice. It’s a choice.   To even imply a sacrifice is to make life harder. Why does there have to be this dichotomy? you earning it / you not earning it you deserving it / you not deserving it you making it / you …

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Lifestyle

Dichotomy of “Following One’s Passions”

Following/ Not-Following one’s passions must be the most inimical false dichotomy there is.   To follow one’s passion indiscriminately is to unawarely set oneself for a lifetime of failures and mediocrity — statistically unlikely ending with a miraculous success. To NOT follow one’s passion at all is to live a life of defeat, meaninglessness and …

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Philosophy

Honesty / Meanness

Honesty can appear as meanness but meanness can never pass up as honesty – as some would like to believe.   Is it integrity, valiant shielding of the truth — or is he just a mean person? Insecure person? Ambitious person? Angry person?   If truth can’t defend itself then who are you to defend …

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