Lifestyle Philosophy

Ask Less and Take More

  Ask less. Take more   Asking is a movement of entitlement. Taking is a movement of proactivity.   Asking is a movement of entitlement. Entitlement is movement of delusion. You are not entitled to anything. There’s only what you do — and what you get.   Taking is a movement of proactivity. You take …

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Lifestyle Philosophy World

Relevant or Not

  High quality / low quality — wrong dichotomy Original / Trite — wrong dichotomy Respectable / Dis-respectable — wrong dichotomy   Relevant, or not — is the only metric     How we love to IDEALISE, RATIONALISE, MAKE SENSE OF and MORALISE I don’t believe there is someone entirely free from this fault   …

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Lifestyle Philosophy World

Conflict Is Stupid

  Conflict is stupid   It’s not true that strong, righteous men must get into conflicts. Men get into conflicts to prove themselves strong.   Peaceful person doesn’t make enemies. What sense would that make? Enemies don’t make you more peaceful. Obviously you want to be the peaceful person. Then why would you get into …

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Philosophy World

Accountability

  The fact that so few are accountable makes one wonder if one even knows the meaning of ACCOUNTABILITY Let me explain   There are two ways of doing something. OPTIMAL and NOT OPTIMAL   The difference between the optimal and not optimal is often ambiguous. Particularly in creative acts. It is also often NOT …

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Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

Achievements are Distractions

  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 …

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Philosophy Spirituality

True Vision

Lasting vision is truly just a prison No one who CHANGES has a lasting vision No one who is concerned with what is real can abide to a lasting vision   What is vision? Doesn’t vision imply SEEING? Is seeing a fixed state — or is it an endless process? Vision is seeing. One SEES …

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World

The Game Played

  One needs to first recognise the game played.   Most still play the ‘please-mom-please-dad’ game and ‘play-with-toys’ game. ‘Look-good’ game. ‘Stick-in’ game.   Success is not as much about ‘secrets of the game’ as it is about the ‘basics of the game’. You just have to know what kind of game you’re playing.   …

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Philosophy Spirituality World

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 …

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Lifestyle Philosophy World

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 …

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