to do what you want this could be everything that ever needs to be said about life the deepest words, most misunderstood of all the words, quite certainly. We don’t do what we want. We do what we hate. We don’t do what we want. We do what we think we want. …
Shitty Life Is Not a Challenge
Shitty life is not a challenge. Being miserable is not admirable. Hard work makes your life hard. Hard life is a hard experience. And then you die. Your ambition to BE SOMETHING fooled you. You die. Today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month, in a year, in 50 years. No one …
The Importance Of Luck
One who underestimates the importance of luck will also overestimate the importance of certainty. One who overvalues the importance of certainty is the one who doesn’t take enough risks. One who doesn’t take enough risks is the one missing on the best opportunities
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …
Gratitude Cures Ambition
Gratitude cures ambition. Why would you cure ambition? Would you not want to achieve something? You precisely don’t want. You want nothing. You neither want nor don’t want success. There is no attachment. No desire. This is the beginning of freedom. I view ambition as this hunger. Why be hungry? Why …
Virtue of Integrity
Obsessing over some virtue of integrity is how you forfeit integrity. By trying to be something – you are already disloyal to what you actually are. (and you still fail to change, because *trying* doesn’t bring about changes; consciousness does) Integrity is seeing what you actually are. One must simply watch himself without uttering the …
REAL Social Justice
Our society is not perfect. It’s a fact. There are many societal problems which I won’t even state. I imagine you have your own problems with society. Now, how do you go about those problems? We, humans, have an unfortunate tendency to identify. We identify with things. What we identify with – we …
There’s An Abyss Between Good-Enough And Not-Good-Enough
There’s an ABYSS between competent and incompetent. Acceptable and unacceptable. Good-enough and not-good-enough. Upon failure you degrade yourself. Upon victory you burst with pride. So much arrogance over something you barely control. Only the best are “good enough”. Only the worst are “not good enough”. Everyone else is welcome on this wheel of …
Do You Believe It Or Do You Want To Believe It?
Do you believe it? Or do you want to believe it? It’s a simple question, a simple idea – but we could all benefit from asking it more often. We want to believe many things. We want many things to be our way. We are petty and loud. We go about this world …
Those who confuse subjective with objective are those who’ll confuse opinions with facts. — Janus (@JanusFaustus) September 2, 2018