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Accepting complexity means letting go of designing your life, and bravely exposing yourself to the randomness of wild living in the world as it is.
Accepting complexity means letting go of designing your life, and bravely exposing yourself to the randomness of wild living in the world as it is.
There you are, staring into the abyss of the world, paralyzed in the face of all that darkness.
If you wish to live free from fear and worry, do not try to prevent them, but rather prepare yourself. For the cost of your worry is that your joy is diminished, your hope obscured, and your generosity truncated.
Bias patterns are probabilistic, not deterministic. Even adding archetypal patterns, cultural patterns, familial patterns does not get us to a deterministic model, but merely alters the probabilities.
Orientation is about knowing where we are in space and when we are in time.
Our disagreements often revolve around understanding what is true and how we update our knowledge when faced with conflicting information.
No matter how hard one tries to model the perspective of another, it will always be a model, at best a re-presentation of the information and sense data of the world through a hypothetical lens.
Personality is who we are without trying to be anybody, not who we are trying to be.
Good is not the absence of evil, evil is the absence of good.
Learn to suffer, not to panic.
Our backlit screens are distraction engines. They trick us about what time of day it is, and they trick us into wanting things we don’t want and into not wanting things we actually need. We are confused, and by that confusion, we further confuse ourselves and each other.
Our scripts are killing us.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Our empathy can expand enough to overcome our fear of what we cannot understand, and of what we cannot control.
No matter how hard one tries to model the perspective of another, it will always be a model, at best a re-presentation of the information and sense data of the world through a hypothetical lens.
The will to live does not come from the rational mind, and cannot be argued by it. As David Hume rightly observed 'reason is…the slave of the passions.' But the will to live is not merely an emotion, or an emotional state, it is a spiritual one.
Personality is who we are without trying to be anybody, not who we are trying to be.
Good is not the absence of evil, evil is the absence of good.
To fear change is to fear life itself