Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

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 …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Extreme Urgency Is A Form Of Creativity

Extreme urgency is a form of creativity It’s creativity applied to SOLVING the problem… faster   We get more creative when the problem is more hard We create a solution That’s what creativity is for, as far as I’m concerned   We don’t customarily think of speeding something up as a CREATIVE process We think …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

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 …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Say Yes to Actually Rare, Transient Opportunities

-there are opportunities we know are ONLY present now -and there are opportunities which we’re not aware will not present themselves again -and then there are opportunities which CAN, indeed, wait   I think we overrate the latter And underappreciate the transience of most opportunities   Not least because we can’t know the future And …

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Lifestyle

Why New Toys Are Exciting (And Your Life Is Not)

Toys are new = novelty. First they are new by the very fact that you don’t have them Second they are new because toys are continuously updated, to keep you enthralled   Toys benefit from memetic value Which itself benefits from scarcity We want that which others want. The more we don’t know what we …

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Philosophy World

“THE BETTER WORLD” Problem

What do you think when you think of “THE BETTER WORLD”? Politics? Technology? You having more MONEY? Everyone being happier? Peak human achievement? FAIRNESS?   Why I’m asking? Because actually, we don’t think the same things, when we think “THE BETTER WORLD”   Many people unironically think the world is horrible, the world is burning. …

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Spirituality

We Domesticate Impermanence by Clinging to Vestiges

We domesticate impermanence by clinging to any vestige of what once was.   Everything changes, nothing lasts   And even if something lasts — your perception of it changes. You change   The only thing that “lasts” is that which is beyond you. It’s beyond you therefore you can’t get hold of it — it …

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