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Don’t hold on. — That is all.
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Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.
Robert Wright • Why Buddhism Is True
The world is not there to make you happy.
What a relief when you realize that.
“Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.”
-Muhammad Ali
On Luck
"'Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky' is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
-- Sam Altman
"'Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky' is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
-- Sam Altman
Don’t wait for joy to find you, because you might end up waiting forever.
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will go astray,
no matter how intelligent you are.
That is the great secret.
(Lao Tzu)
“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904
Sadly, in real life, bad things happen for no reason every single day, and sometimes they happen at global scale.
