Lifestyle Philosophy

Giving is Selfish, Altruistic and RATIONAL

Giving is obviously beneficial to the receiver — AND the giver Giving is obviously beneficial to the giver, selfishly   It takes advantage of the reciprocity bias — often you’ll get more in return than you put in   In giving you acquire trust You reveal peaceful, helpful intent And in continuing giving you maintain …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

How To Traumatise, How To Not Traumatise

TRUE TRAUMA is when you are completely convinced of being INNATELY, DEEPLY, IDENTITY-LEVEL … DAMAGED Conversely if you’re NOT convinced — then you don’t care   The likelihood of you being CONVINCED is proportional to your EXPERIENCE (confidence) in the subject -e.g. if you otherwise know NOTHING BUT SUCCESS — some idiot won’t immediately convince …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Allow Love

Is there something, anything, that you LOVE unconditionally? Consider   Perhaps you ALWAYS LOVE to play the piano Perhaps you LOVE EVERY cat you ever see Perhaps you ALWAYS LOVE pizza Perhaps you ALWAYS LOVE going for a walk   Of course that thing itself is a condition If you always love to play the …

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Philosophy Spirituality

When You Feel Love

There’s the lovely Which is the good, the beautiful, the uplifting, the worth living for… etc. The point is not to define it. Let’s just call it “LOVELY”   You and I are only so capable of finding the LOVELY, and experiencing LOVE It’s for we are distracted, myopic, narrow-minded, egotic, and POISONED The poison …

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Spirituality

What Love Doesn’t Mean

Love is not a “high” Love it not a “feel good” ideal Love is not cheap morality Love is “not answer to all”, not literally. Not a simple answer to all problems of the universe   Love is indeed a feeling, though (Or rather it has a very specific feeling) And love is indeed an …

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Philosophy Spirituality

Love Your Enemy

Love your enemy What does it mean? It means that everyone is, at least in part, LOVE-ly   Everyone is in part LOVE-LY, LOVE-ABLE In worst case scenario you merely say “no thanks” You walk away from them (Perhaps you run away from them) But that’s the worst case scenario — and it’s NEUTRAL It’s …

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Lifestyle World

You Whine And You Don’t Even Realise It

(I touched on the subject previously: Complaining vs Changing vs Accepting But it merits further exploration)   -There’s acceptance -There’s determination -And there’s whining   Whatever you say, whatever you think, whatever you do, whatever you feel, is a manifestation of one of those 3   Acceptance is calm Acceptance is understanding Acceptance is contented …

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Spirituality

Dislike is Hate is Destructive

Dislike is hate (and hostility is violence)   There’s no such thing as ”positive dislike” Dislike is always negative is destructive Criticism is negative is destructive   Constructive is love Constructive is creation of more of that which you love, more of that which is love-ly   Creation of love-ly things is not an act …

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