Beauty, ideals, virtue, art, creation — transcend the artist, the creator, the artisan and the engineer, the philosopher, the object Not merely as an idealised ideal, which we can’t touch Of course the ideal is our vision, then we merely strive to get closer to it, but can never reach it The former is …
Tag: Love
“Feel Good” Ruins Depth and is Stupid; Also It’s Good
Life is sweet and life is exciting and life is scary and life is painful and life is short and life is crazy To not make it quite lovely and wonderful is a kind of strange perversion, a malfunction of the mind and spirit To pretend it’s not quite painful and short and …
To Love What You Don’t Love — And To NOT Fall Out Of Love
learn to love what you don’t love and learn to NOT fall out of love with what you once LOVED both are skills you assume you love what you love and that you’ll continue loving what you love and that you probably won’t love what you don’t love and also that you don’t …
Bliss Through Chaos
You don’t pursue happiness, You don’t pursue WELLNESS You don’t pursue calmness, serenity You don’t pursue bliss There are only two components to any spiritual state: -inner -outer No, it’s not just “inner”. It’s not just you “choosing” your state And obviously it’s not just outer — that’s why so many people with …
everything that’s good — is (obviously) good
=money, longevity, beauty, fun, sex, fitness and health, blablabala all that “superficial” shit, is just plain GOOD the only catch is that it DOESN’T GUARANTEE happiness (and in EXTREME cases — absence of those things also doesn’t guarantee unhappiness) that’s the only catch, the only shocking secret besides that catch — those things are …
Selfishness Compass
One could conceive of selfishness compass It would comprise of two axes Horizontal could measure the degree of self-absorption, self-interest Vertical could measure the degree of IGNORANCE At an extreme left there would be utter self-absorption, utter self-obsession, with utmost disregard for the interest of others, An utterly solipsistic perspective No inhibition in disregarding …
Perhaps LOVE Is But To Be OPEN
Perhaps LOVE is but to be OPEN You’re just open, So that you are open to experience, to perceive to see You just observe You just accept You just appreciate You just love …yeah You can go do your BUSINESS later Make your IMPORTANT DECISIONS later Make the VALUE JUDGEMENTS LATER …
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 …
Ruthless With The Finite, Boundless With The Infinite
If it doesn’t help you — it harms you If it’s either benefit or no benefit, benefit or harm, progress or regress — then NEUTRALITY doesn’t exist And if neutrality doesn’t exist — then neither does NEUTRAL ATTITUDE, does it? It’s either positive attitude then — or negative It’s either great time — or …
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 …