(Non)-Acceptance Maintain what you can first,change what you can first. With these done… The more can you maintain later,the more…
Opinions A greedy opinion overvalues.An angry opinion overvalues too.A deluded opinion mis-values,either undervaluingor overvaluing. (Pic: Stoic Wisdom, by Nancy Sherman)
Know your true self, to not be disturbed by false versions believed and asserted by others. To not personally believe…
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different,…
Even hope by itself carries some uncertainty, thus being with some anxiety. Being reasonably prepared for the uncertain reduces this…
Security: Super Short Story #756 The security guard patrolled the non-smoking section of the building, that he didn’t have to…
With the deepest of existential crises arise their ultimate resolution. In the mean time, life is just a period for…
Joke: Super Short Story #755 As he kept sayinghe was just joking,that he didn’t really meant it,it became more and…
Other doors might be open all along, for walking through, just like past doors, that could be walked out of,…
Kindness to others is kindness to oneself too. (Pic: The Comfort Book, by Matt Haig)
The delicate can be still or sway, open or cluster, and go higher or lower. The hard can only be…
In Buddhism, our truly indestructible ‘essence’ is not a soul, but Buddha-nature, that is no ‘dark matter’, but brilliant potential,…
For goodness’ sake, let go of your ‘badness’. (Pic: The Comfort Book, by Matt Haig)
Understand backwards first, by learning the great lessons in history, to live forward better.
Always start with the end in perspective. (Pic from Robert Greene’s ‘The Daily Laws’)
Death is a constant process of living too – since there is rebirth. (Pic from Robert Greene’s ‘The…
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come, in yours and my discharge. — William Shakespeare
Choose continually and unswervingly the things which are according to nature, and reject those contrary to nature. —…
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