“I think your mind is so open your brain fell out!”

Thus, began the stupid dick-measuring contest also known as human history.

by experiencing our hopes, we lose them. We see that our beautiful visions for a perfect future are not so perfect, that our dreams and aspirations are themselves riddled with unexpected flaws and unforeseen sacrifices.

Because there is no heaven or hell in the future. There are only the choices you make in each and every moment.

Harming ourselves is just as repugnant as harming others. Self-love and self-care are therefore not something you learn about or practice. They are something you are ethically called to cultivate within yourself, even if they are all that you have left.

“I have tried to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear.”

Hope for the infinite opportunity and oppression present in every single moment. Hope for the suffering that comes with freedom. For the pain that comes from happiness. For the wisdom that comes from ignorance. For the power that comes from surrender.

protecting people from problems or adversity doesn’t make them happier or more secure; it makes them more easily insecure.

“Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.”