Sublime

The first thing you need to do is have a personal guidance system of things that you will and will not do, people you will associate with and that you will not associate with, and so on. This guidance system will act as a way for you to stay out of danger and keep on the right side of opportunity.

Shunryu Suzuki addressed the assembly, “Each one of you is perfect the way you are and you can use a little improvement.”

What you do to support the government contributes nothing to your own welfare nor to the welfare of society. What you do for yourself at least contributes to the happiness of one very important individual.

They think they’re Wise Adults, but they’re not. The world has mostly rewarded them handsomely. Because the Adaptive Child reflects the cultural values at large, people who primarily live from their Adaptive Child parts are generally great successes in the world financially and professionally. Meanwhile they make a hash of their personal lives.

He told us that one reason he and his friends wanted to start the commune and learn to “live off the land” in a simple way was that “we want to be the last people on earth.” Vonnegut said, “Isn’t that kind of a stuck-up kind of thing to want to be?” In the way he spoke and the way he wrote, Vonnegut was always coming up with the plain-spoken words

To be a child is to be a person who reminds us all that we are the kind of creatures who have our being in and with others. We are persons who need relationship in order to be.

“I’ve driven across the country,” said Jordi. “It’s not that great.” “It’s not supposed to be! Is a silent meditation retreat ‘great’? Do people hike the Pacific Crest Trail because it’s ‘great’? And this is even higher stakes because if my mind wanders too far I’ll crash and die.” “Oh god, don’t say that.” “But my mind won’t wander! I’ll be totall