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if you don’t know where you’re going, distractions will look like opportunities.

“I spent most of my morning thinking about what do with my day. I never figured it out, and then my morning was over. I should have been thinking about my morning”

“You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space. Fear nothing.”

**Unknown**

Everytime I start BIG, I fail. 

Everytime I start small, I succeed bigger than I could have imagined.

Decide: do you want to win, or be impressive while losing?

you have access to your optimal policy at all times. you just choose not to follow it. you can literally access it by asking “what should i be doing rn?”

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

\-- Eckhart Tolle

the pebble in your shoe ruins your journey more than the rockiest of roads

you can just...do stuff

it isn't more complicated

The German poet Heinrich Heine once visited the Amiens Cathedral where he realized why we don't build such buildings anymore: "In those days men had convictions, whereas we moderns only have opinions, and something more is needed than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.”

"Whenever we're dealing with a problem and we call a meeting to talk about the problem, I always start with this structure: 'We are here to solve a problem. So the one option that we know we're not going to leave the room doing is the status quo. The status quo is off the table.'"

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” — Epictetus

From what I can tell:

Your 20s are for finding your dreams.
Your 30s chasing your dreams.
Your 40s making them a reality.

Or, you fail. Which is a possibility. But what are you going to do with your time anyway? Just sit around? Sounds boring!

"The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place."

— Alan Watts

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

“I read a lot. I listen a lot. I think a lot. But so little remains. The books I read, their plots, their protagonists fade… Names of people, books, cities. They are already fading away. Even the titles of films I’ve seen recently...they have already faded… Everything that I see, or read, or listen to, connects, translates into moods, bits of surroundings, colors… With me, everything is mood, mood, or else...simply nothingness.” — Jonas Mekas

if you know you are early, you are early

if you think you are late, you are early

if you think you are early, you are late

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Things that travelling a lot taught me:

We have more stamina and we are more flexible than we think.

Some of your thoughts, moods, and selves are “non-geographical” — they exists everywhere. You only find out what parts of your inner world are independent of the…

the danger of maps, carefully managed agendas, capable assistants, and thoughtful planning is that you may end up living your life as planned.

2023 resolution: don’t make the unexpected too inaccessible

The path you think about the most, is the path you will have chosen as the observer.

you’re being told the story of your life, and any resistance to the present moment of experience just clogs the system and causes suffering, the story doesn’t want to be interfered with

In a world without growth, everything becomes a zero-sum game.

There's nothing more disappointing than talking to someone who understands things intellectually but hasn't achieved the embodiment of that understanding to cause a transformation. They're effectively pleasing the intellect while dulling their desire to go past that first layer.

@gregmushen “Did what I needed to do, did what I wanted to do, did what I thought I could do- and I DID.”

What a line

What focus means is saying no to something – that with every bone in your body think is a phenomenal idea – and you wake up thinking about it, but you end up saying no to it because you're focusing on something else. - SJ

Trying to think of exactly how to put this in words but: I’m realizing that for myself, depressive episodes are almost always the product of my brain/conscious mind regulating with a vision of the future that my body knows is not going to happen. 

Hence, immobilization.

getting upset about noticing that you’ve been distracted is like being frustrated that you’ve been in chains the moment they’re taken off

There's no such thing as work-life balance. It's all just life.

people tend to try "inner work" when they're incapacitated from taking action. unfortunately the action would probably cause more inner work than doing it manually

what if we just showed up to restaurants, bars, cafes, hikes, new cities, new countries without ever having seen a photo? completely new experiences with 0 preconceived notions about what they should look or feel like. experiencing the world as it is.

I’m bored—this is where others would quit, but I can do it all day.

He does everything for the plot. Doesn’t give a shit about anything other than working with cool people.

He's all about playing it safe and climbing the ladder. Doesn't care about who he works with, as long as it looks good to others.

how could a generation that needs friends but wants followers be anything but unhappy

Nietzsche said to "Never trust a thought you had indoors." bc small spaces = small thinking and depression is identical to staying inside all day