You can have the thing or you can have the symbol You can have the real thing or you can have it’s symbol Sometimes you prefer symbol over the thing Sometimes you’re confused about the thing — therefore you take the symbol Sometimes you’re confused about most things — and you only take symbols …
Tag: Love
Hostility is Violence
Hostility is violence To want to see someone “get what he deserves”, “get punished”, “be taken down a peg”, is to be violent. To insult someone, to mock someone, to deride someone, is to be violent. To not want the best for your fellow human beings, for your brothers, for your enemies, is to be …
100x
You could get 100x returns You could get 100x returns if you’re pure of heart When you’re absolutely absolutely in love with something — you will tap into the energy unavailable to mere mortals When you’re absolutely dedicated to your mission(s) — you tap into resourcefulness fathomless to mere mortals Have both and you …
Love Life, Love Yourself, Love Your Work
I love me I love life I love my work This is THE mantra, if you will You have life to live Living which involves this life, this world, and this you You can love it or you can hate it I love it Perhaps it’s a matter of awareness, perhaps it’s a …
How Could You Love Yourself If You Don’t Even Know Yourself?
how could you love yourself if you don’t even know yourself? how could you believe in yourself if you don’t even know yourself? how could you respect yourself if you don’t even know yourself? how could you improve yourself if you don’t even know yourself? how could you help yourself if you don’t even know …
Gratitude and Broccoli
you are grateful when you’re eating steamed cauliflower with butter, and soft-boiled eggs, broccoli, you know, fresh bread, you name it, what you like the point is that gratitude is simple and means no more no less but being GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE and it’s a natural state it’s a natural state it’s …
Beauty Which Is Not Relative
ugliness only exists in the world of duality it is only meaningful in relation to “beauty” beauty which you reduce to some vulgar ranking there is beauty which is not relative beauty which just is it just is — and when you don’t compare it to nothing — it is free from having to …
Good Deeds
Good deeds don’t make you good Protecting the planet doesn’t make you good Giving to charity doesn’t make you good Not eating animals doesn’t make you good Protecting the oppressed doesn’t make you good Goodness is not some stupid checklist Goodness is not some game Goodness is not scoring points Obviously I’d rather …
You And Strangers
you don’t have your credentials and numbers in your bank account next to your face in real life you don’t have your likes and followers next to your face in real life when you’re face to face you are naked the beauty of strangers is they make you a stranger you think they can’t …
Convey YOURSELF
You likely didn’t upset that person. They were upset to begin with. It’s very easy to upset a faceless stranger. It’s very easy to impress a stranger. You don’t want to impress random strangers. You don’t want to cater to the mob. You don’t want to make it happy. Make your loved ones …