Achievements are distractions One should just take what he wants Achievement is prison Achievement is the slavemaster Need takes away freedom Need to achieve makes you a slave One should just take what he wants Anything more is grandiose delusion Anything less is resignation, defeat One must be really simple to …
Tag: Society
The Poor, The Meaningless, The Free
Does it really matter who is rich and who is poor isn’t what really matters to know HOW TO LIVE? Everyone is rich in the XXI century western world. The only importance of the get-rich-game is freedom There is nothing truly valuable to gain with money But the price one pays for …
I Don’t Believe In Hard Work But I Do Believe In Love
I don’t believe in hard work but I do believe in love. “Hard” implies hardship. I don’t invite hardship to my short life. I don’t invite more hardship to this tormented world. And I definitely don’t believe HARDSHIP anyhow aids Creation. Love aids creation. Love brings life into this world, and love …
The Real Cause of Disagreement
The ultimate cause of disagreement is our unreadiness for agreement We don’t really want peace. We don’t really want consensus. What we want is to be LARGE. Larger then our neighbour, larger then our brother, larger then our lover. The absurdity of most conflicts doesn’t as much point at our stupidity as it …
Simple Not Simplistic
Simplicity is not generalising Generalising is simplistic, reductionistic Simplicity doesn’t reduce. Doesn’t judge. Doesn’t diminish. Doesn’t label. When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it means: be open, be non-judgemental be perceptive see what is don’t see what isn’t, don’t presume what isn’t When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it …
That Old, Boring Power
At the end this obsession with power just gets really fucking boring. Power is only exciting for those who don’t have it (and so is everything else you don’t have) Power is the coolest thing in the world for those caught up in their power-games — and the most ordinarily boring to those …
We Label Each Other
The only way to threat someone badly is by deliberately hurting them. You can’t be held accountable for not helping someone. Most can’t be helped. “Good treatment”, “rules of conduct”, “good behaviour” — all these are constructs. It’s subjective “good”, agreed “good”, and not objective. We have a habit of labelling things. This habit makes …
Social Media Chicanery
By approaching this social media and personal branding business with this trickster, slippery attitude — you are basically admitting that what you have to offer to this world cannot survive without you stepping over others with your disingenuous little tricks. Is this follow-4-follow business beneficial for the social media? Buying likes? Undiscriminating spamming? …
NEVER Be Afraid To Be Disliked
You DO want to be liked. You said you didn’t but you do. You were said: be kind be friendly be polite be useful! be grateful be pleasant be agreeable be helpful …or people won’t LIKE YOU and you were said: be cool be pretty be funny be successful be respectable be rich be …
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …