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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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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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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Philosophy World

The NORMAL and ABNORMAL

-There’s normal and abnormal -Then there’s a spectrum from bad to good, low to high -Then there’s “good abnormal” and “bad abnormal” -In any matter: the “normal” lies somewhere on the bad-good spectrum (low-high spectrum): and the “good abnormal” is above the normal, and the “bad abnormal” is below the normal   In any matter …

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Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

What To Do Before You Die

When you: -do your best -ALWAYS seek to still do better, never satisfied -stay utterly humble: perfectly separated from your work, verily just an instrument of god (or world, or devil, or money, or muse, or destiny, you name it) -ITERATE LIKE FUCKING CRAZY -and get lucky +aren’t crazy (we all are a little) then …

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Lifestyle

Complaining vs Changing vs Accepting

There’s complaining There’s making changes There’s accepting   There’s complaining = merely expressing dissatisfaction There’s making changes = taking responsibility and changing the dissatisfying There’s accepting = accepting the situation, whether changed or not changed   Of course complaining is not accepting And of course complaining is not making changes But it can be confused …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Happy For Others, Envious Of Others

You’re envious of others if you believe they gain and possess at the expense of you gaining and possessing You’re happy for others if you believe you gain when they gain   Material resources Social Status, recognition Power Pleasure Happiness Life Health Self-acceptance Self-respect Love anything   At any one of those matters you may …

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