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 …
Tag: Purpose
Build Great Business or Help Altruistically — No Middle Ground
There are mostly only two modes: –You help yourself and others by BUILDING something that they will VOLUNTARILY pay you for — because it benefits them.. and you benefit from the revenue -Or you just want to help others — therefore you… just do There’s VERY LITTLE gradient in between those two The first …
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 …
Happiness Is Now By Definition — Tomorrow Is But Intelligent Prevention
LIVING happens now You can’t “experience” “tomorrow”, you can’t measure “tomorrow”, not today, NOR yesterday, really, =RIGHT NOW contains all that you EVER WANT Meaning it contains every THOUGHT, every EMOTION — that you can EVER WANT The best thing that ever happened to you — happened IN THE NOW The best you ever …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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. …
Is Reality Happy Or Unhappy Or Neither Or What
Below’s a janky and inconclusive rant trying to answer if reality is happy or unhappy. No answers, only questions: happiness / suffering and reality are independent or are they? what I’m saying is, existential truth is part of THE truth, the truth about reality, but in the same time existential truth is vastly …
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 …