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Thoughts to ponder on for self-understanding, love, & progression.
# Irrefutable facts of nature
* Every being is fundamentally chasing a *feeling,* chasing goals with underlying hopes of *contentment* in understanding, satisfaction, or love.
* Every being is a victim of themselves and their environment.
* There is *nothing* which ‘*should’* not be, *nothing* is unnatural or ‘wrong’.
* The only rules that *really* matter are these; what one can do, and what one can't do. -Captain Jack Sparrow
* Your ‘enemy’ & ‘friend’ would *easily* treat you completely differently under other circumstances or first impressions.
* You already are dead; living this unsustainable, fragile, provisional life salvaged, & lent by earth, irrefutably predesignated to a complete & necessary indeterminate undoing.
* No matter how long and hard you run from being inherently inconsequential, it follows you in every step.
* Each person is just *another* **center** of an entire detached universe in which *all* that is known can only be from us *interpreting* from *our own* limited sense *impressions*.
* As far as everyone else is concerned, you’re just another person.
* We are all light years apart from one another, playing characters which don’t speak the same language as one another.
* Dopamine is released in *anticipation* of a reward. -Susan Weinschenk
# Hard truths/Humility
* Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. -C.S. Lewis
* *You* are responsible for your problems, nothing is coming to save you.
* Our form, & all of our knowledge, is all passed down, we are just flawed clones of clones, continuations of LUCA.
* There will *always* be more to *do*, *be* and *enjoy*, forgetting all that you’ve accomplished already.
* You’ve had your entire life to try to find lasting contentment, & still *have not* found it anywhere.
* Emotions are just automatic, confused, & unstable *drugs* which always come down.
* There is *always* another perspective. **(duplicate)**
* There are many possibilities in life, but not a single possibility is without pain. -Fernando Pessoa edited
* You may never have the privilege of knowing that you are about to die, death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, you will be unable to care, and the world will forget you.
* Obsession is *NO* real way to escape stress and dissatisfaction.
* Nobody will *ever* see you in the way which you see yourself & vice versa.
* Nothing belongs to you, nothing is yours, it’s just *extra*, be contented to be without it.
* Life *will* test you past your limits, and you haven’t got a scrap of power over it.
* Each unbearable suffering has been borne countless times already.
* All love is conditional.
* Your time is limited, gone before you know it, & it absolutely does not come back.
* There will be numerous insurmountable injustices about & around you.
* Each person will think and act only for ourselves, and this should be respected, not denied.
* Nobody owes you anything, nothing is obligated to go your way.
* You will be certain and still be wrong.
* You will have irrational fears.
* You will want your beliefs to be truth, not the truth to be your beliefs.
* You will be misunderstood, & unacknowledged.
* You will not get much of what you want.
* You *will* lose everything.
* You will *never* understand everything you wish to.
* You may never get closure.
* There is nothing *wrong* with you.
# Dissatisfaction
* In *expecting* **no** lack of satisfaction, you are consciously planning to suffer tenfold.
* It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it elsewhere. -Schopenhauer
* You forget all of the positive in favor of *magnifying* to fix the negative, feeding back & refueling the want and resentment, rather than being grateful that it could be worse.
* If you think you just need a bit more, very little is stopping you from needing another just a bit more.
* Never lose ***clarity*** of the fundamental *reason* for your striving, nor the full *expenses* of them.
* You want things under the impression you will still want them after you have them.
# Impermanence
* Seeing everything as uncertain, & impermanent, ownership & knowledges are disillusioned, & every minute is precious. -Ajahn Chah edited
* No matter how much you worry or crave this phenomenon, eventually you *will* become ***completely*** **disinterested** whether willingly or not.
* We come into humanity without a single identity or possession, & leave broke just the same.
* You are not the only meaningful me, you're *one* me in an astronomical & ancient existence of other *animals* who each have richly suffered the same as you or even more.
* One day you will be somebody new.
* One day you will miss what you overlook, & take for granted now.
# Conditioning/Indoctrination/Habits
* We are an emergent phenomenon; a symphony, without any conductor.
* You can do what you will, but you cannot will what you will. -Schopenhauer
* You do things habitually for comfort; it takes less effort than breaking the cycle even if it means something more important.
* The animals are without doctrines & religions.
* Boredom feels as though it demands satisfaction, but any stimulation resolves it just the same.
* The internet is just a *playground*, not a substitute for real living.
* You have been conditioned to feel shame over your basic humanity due to society's categorical dehumanization, & fear of insignificance.
* A woman & a man is *just* a *person* with a penis or vulva indoctrinated independently by a sick devolving society.
* Familiarity is *not* easily distinguished from truth. -Daniel Kahneman
* When overwhelmed, structure is more efficient than panic, even though it’s less attractive.
* We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people & ideals, living *for* somebody else. -Arthur Schopenhauer edited
* Anytime you rely on another's approval, you are *training* the mind to care about a bipolar, limited, and deluded external.
* Every action you perform will ripple & amplify through time and space, be the change you wish to see.
# Interpersonal Conflict
* Do not hate the person, if you must hate, hate their action, their motivations and conditioning, there is always a reason, even if unknown. -Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche edited
* Mind *your* ***intentions***, recognize the groundless & *habitual* defensiveness.
* Is this person even able to comprehend alternative perspectives?
* *Let them* have distorted perceptions of you, & your thoughts.
* *They* have to live with themselves *every* day.
* Instead of fighting the person, fight your narrow mindedness, give the person the benefit of the doubt.
* *Never* try to \*be ‘\*right’, *never* try to prove someone ‘wrong’, instead focus *wholly* on the unbiased facts, & agreements.
* It's never wrong nor too late to change your mind, you are under no obligation to stay the same.
* Destructive people wish to spread, but they are just *reminders*, & *not* invitations.
* You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into in the first place, their mind has been *pre*determined. -Jonathan Swift edited
* It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -Mark Twain
* Hatred from the ignorant is proof you’re doing something right.
* Engaging with an ignorant intending on destruction, you search for satisfaction in a predetermined fallacy, ignoring their true insignificance.
* Any person capable of angering you is your master. -Epictetus
* The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away, regardless of your feelings. -Rachel Wolchin edited
* Every successful disengagement in altercations with the ignorant is a *trophy* which will incline the mind in that same direction.
* Many discords *rely* on one or both sides holding *false presumptions* about the other person's intentions.
* Everybody *is* dumber than you think they are, & everybody *is* smarter than you think they are.
* When one assesses you accurately, don’t reject it all because of the ignorance that came with it, you can take the truth *filtered* from the hatred.
* Everybody is a child consistently projecting our own insecurities into our interactions & anywhere else we can interpret them.
* You can't expect another to do much more than just what is *right by* ***them***. -Captain Jack Sparrow edited
* Don't suffer over someone who is only thinking about themselves.
* Don't overshare because someone is being nice to you. -Unknown
* If you wish to convince another, it is generally *just* a plea to appease your *own* empty insecurity.
* You have enough problems of your own *without* minding business that *never was* yours to bear.
* Don’t accept the verdict of one who has no *actual* grounds to assume to *know* you, nor one who never live a *single* *moment* of your life, *nor* one you wouldn’t trust to advise you initially.
* When you are swayed to one view, you forget the other 8 billion people whose input is omitted.
* What you tolerate is training people how to treat you. -Unknown
* Hatred is only a projection of the workings of one's own mind.
* You inspire me to be nothing like you. -Unknown
* If one spends all day shuffling words around, they can make anything sound bad. -Rick Sanchez edited
# Compassion
* Never is hatred laid to rest by hate, its laid to rest by love. -Buddha
* If you hate anybody in the world, that's narrow-mindedness, don't just justify your views, find something lovable and worth forgiving. -Ajahn Brahm
* Love has no meaning without understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh
* Everyone is brothers and sisters in dumbassery, descendants of the earth, each a ‘me’, not *one* above *inherent* flaws, & causality.
* Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on anything that you do not like. -Clara Oswald edited
* Forgive them for they know not what they do, delusions are *real* to the delusional. -Jeebus & DaddE
# Limitations of words
* Words will never penetrate as precisely *as planned*, & sometimes won’t at all.
* Everyone has their defensive excuses, and nobody needs nor wants to hear it. -Proverb edited
* Many of us just want to talk to ourselves *at* other people.
* Learning to listen receptively is the essence of intelligent living. -Sadhguru edited
* If you don't have something productive to say, don't say anything at all.
* Knowing can only *ever* be confident *thinking*.
# Self-care
* If you cant let go, then give it away, let them have it. -Ajahn Brahm edited
* Do not worry about perfection, just try not to be a piece of utter shit, and already you will have achieved **much**.
* Your feeling of inferiority/inadequacy, or of the *beliefs* of another; belongs only to *you*, is *your* responsibility & is not the fault nor problem of those you project it onto.
* Contentment is knowing what you are and are not capable of. -Unknown
* Happiness is when what you think, say, and do, are in harmony. -Gandhi
* Give without expectation, & avoid those who give with obscured expectation.
* Money was created to be spent, not obsessed over.
* Treat *yourself* like someone you love. -Glennon Melton
* Letting go does not cause anything to vanish, other than clinging.
* Existence is just a cosmic joke, remember to laugh & not pretend it was ever otherwise.
* Do **NOT** *allow* you to *deprive* yourself of what you would *appreciate*, until you feel it’s ‘earned’, spending forever not knowing that is what prevents the satisfaction.
* Put *peace* first, *be* your own religion.
* You are *allowed* to be okay *without* satisfaction.
# Affirmations
* You *must* allow **faith in your** *own* judgement, it is the *only* thing you can **know** *is not* coming with an inherent potential for hidden predaciousness.
* The moment *is* smaller than your mind is making it.
* *You* ***don't*** *need to earn existence or satisfaction.*
* Whatever happens is never as bad as the fear.
* This too shall pass, it will soon be otherwise.
* You already are a full & responsible adult.
* Your perspective is *not* the only one.
* You don't need to know anything.
* You don't owe anyone anything.
* You are deserving of respect.
* Mistakes are *just* lessons.
* You are already home.
* This is good enough.
* You have enough.
* You are enough.
* You *can* change.
* You have time.
# Mental Suffering
* Do not *believe*, justify, obey, attempt to satiate, or condemn any emotions, you would just be conceptualizing unstable sensations and guiding them into an utterly *confused* self-perpetuation.
* Knowing a real truth does *not* mean that it will nor need to *feel* like it is, emotions do not represent reality.
* Thoughts are formed dependent on the emotion that was *already* there.
* You are *choosing* to let it infest *your world* of consciousness, & do landscaping, when your experience was *already* free of it, & forgetting- rumination is no *tool.*
* Your mindset won't change until you do; decide to *want* to *not want,* that which you want, which disturbs you.
* Accept that you *cannot* accept it.
* Know which questions are *not knowable*, and strive ***not*** to know them. -Ursula K. Le Guin edited
* Move your body, don’t rely on thinking or waiting, there is nothing to prove, do something and mindset will follow.
* On unwanted thoughts; think of something else, examine the danger of the thoughts, pay the thoughts no attention, still the thought formation, crush mind with mind. -Buddha edited
# Attachments & Aversions
* Anytime you're someplace you don't want to be, you *create* a prison for yourself. -Ajahn Brahm
* You are attached to ‘*your goals’*, you don't want lasting contentment, you want it to be ‘found’ *hiding* in your endless ***goals*** *themselves*.
* The more you fight the mind, the more the mind fights you, you only split it in two and start a war, permit discomfort.
* If you don’t know what you really want, pretend you did, and see what it would be.
# Romanticism/Idealism/Generalizing
* Putting happiness/contentment/relief in a romanticized goal or wish *outside of yourself*, rather than just in enough, you will cling, then misunderstand, perpetually placing it out of reach with each and every grasp.
* What you see is all there is, in idealization, one cherry-picks an obvious factor and imagines it to be the entire tree. -Daniel Kahneman & Me
* Anything you lose by being real is fake. -Unknown
**Conceit**
* It is easy to be righteous when you plaster *yourself* as ***the*** **victim**, placing your own self upon a pedestal & stripping your own offenses.
* If you don't appraise others, you will be less inclined to appraise yourself.
* It is impossible for one to learn what they think they already know. -Epictetus
* Be content to be thought foolish, they were ignorant of my other faults, else they wouldn't have mentioned these alone. -Epictetus
* We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. -Stephen Covey
* It will always be *easier* to focus on the faults of others rather than seeing your own.
# Gratitude
* Want *only* all that you *already have.*
* Be grateful there is; ‘free will’, a healthy entire bodily system, 5 functioning senses, a competent mind, sleep, sanitation, clean water, clean food, a clean bed, adulthood, youth, shelter, clean clothes, refrigerators, air conditioning, hot water, no nearby war, freedom from slavery, morals, prisons, privacy, infrastructure, no debts, savings accounts, medicine, free speech, adaptability, free time, basic education, animals, psychology, philosophy, a functioning vehicle, monks, tools, historical knowledges, love, ook, contraceptives, impermanence, computers, vast & diverse information, garbage & sewage systems, nighttime, these reminders, ambience, night drives, humor, entertainment, & amazon shopping.
* Remember 5 more unique to now.
* Today is the first day of the rest of your life. -Charles Dederich
* Remember who you would be if you *weren't* who you *are*. -Tommy Shelby edited
* Don't put off until tomorrow the loving you can say & show today. -Bo Jackson edited
* To be alive in the here & the now is *already* an entire miracle. -Thich Nhat Hanh edited
* Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama
# Fear & Shame
* Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that something else is more *important* than fear. -Unknown
* *Fear* of embarrassment is the *only* thing that makes it embarrassing.
* Self hatred is just an indoctrinated & misguided intention of *self-****care***.
* Never make permanent decisions or conclusions based off temporary feelings. -Unknown
* When you fear, you *create* the conditions which weren’t ever there, literally manifesting the feared.
* Imagine the fear’s *true* consequences to the brink of horror to see if it was ever worth fearing, ever permanent.
* You are afraid of happiness because you've been punished for it too often, but you are *safe* to break the pattern now.
* The fears we don't face become our *limits*. -Robin Sharma
* You may never feel ready, motivation is fleeting, do it unmotivated, all you need is to get your foot in the door, act first & let necessity take charge or else nothing will *change*.
* Fear of being branded something, even by oneself, for doing *anything* agreeable, is *no* reason not to continue, you only live ***your life*** once.
* The obsession on the over & done with *must* be decidedly left behind in the moment in which it occurred to pave way for growth.
* When you find yourself in a hole, the best thing to do is admit you need to stop digging. -Proverb
* *STOP* trying to not have flaws, be proud of them, they are ***yours*****,** regardless of the ‘negative’ connotations.
* You avoid looking inward when it is most crucial, but you will *never* understand with avoidance.
# Imagination/Expectation
* Thinking won’t solve the problems accumulated by thinking.
* Let go of the illusion that it could have been any different. -Unknown
* No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. -Alan Watts
* Do not hold any positive nor negative expectations of the unknown future, expect it to be ANY possible eventuality, & *decide* to let it *be*.
* You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future, nor rewrite the past. -Eckhart Tolle edited
* What can be asserted without evidence can also be *dismissed* without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
* In failing to examine why an expectation exists, you fight a presumed inconvenience, which may not have ever existed.
* All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. -Blaise Pascal
# Presence/Patience
* When the future is the new now, it's still now, & you're still waiting for the *unpromised* future.
* Being present just means to *not* be sucked into memories and fantasy.
* In what is felt must be *only* what is *felt*. -Buddha
* It is not the *phenomenon* which disturbs *you*, it is *you* which disturbs the phenomenon. -Ajahn Chah edited
* To be everywhere is to be nowhere, If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither. -Seneca & Proverb
* The present moment is the only time over which we do have dominion. -Thich Nhat Hanh
* Heaven is a *mindset* away. -Nothing But Thieves
# Acceptance
* The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu
* Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. -Eckhart Tolle
* If you resist change, you resist life. -Sadhguru
* If we weren't uncomfortable, we would never move, a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. -Proverb edited
* We must all suffer from discipline or regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. -Jim Rohn
* Everything out of control should be out of your mind. -Unknown
# Questioning
* Would i rather be at peace and detach from my *views*, or *strengthen* my clinging & resentment?
* Who are we to judge when we see what we want to see?
* Am i *imagining* all of this dissonance?
* Is the part of you searching for more only an empty *feeling* without justification?
* Do you really enjoy what you idealize or just the expectation beforehand and the story afterwards?
* Do i actually want this, or am i just… doing it?
* Why am i letting myself suffer over this, is it worth it?
* If you can't handle the now, now, then how can you handle it in the future?
* To what purpose, to what *end*?
* What misperceptions are present?
* Are you sure you’re not projecting?
* Yes this is true,.. *and*?
* Who are you trying to convince; them, or yourself?
* Why find more to need when you need not?
* How long will that satisfaction actually last?
* Why don’t you want to feel something else, something better?
* Do you really want this or just think you should?
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# Irrefutable facts of nature
* Every being is fundamentally chasing a *feeling,* chasing goals with underlying hopes of *contentment* in understanding, satisfaction, or love.
* Every being is a victim of themselves and their environment.
* There is *nothing* which ‘*should’* not be, *nothing* is unnatural or ‘wrong’.
* The only rules that *really* matter are these; what one can do, and what one can't do. -Captain Jack Sparrow
* Your ‘enemy’ & ‘friend’ would *easily* treat you completely differently under other circumstances or first impressions.
* You already are dead; living this unsustainable, fragile, provisional life salvaged, & lent by earth, irrefutably predesignated to a complete & necessary indeterminate undoing.
* No matter how long and hard you run from being inherently inconsequential, it follows you in every step.
* Each person is just *another* **center** of an entire detached universe in which *all* that is known can only be from us *interpreting* from *our own* limited sense *impressions*.
* As far as everyone else is concerned, you’re just another person.
* We are all light years apart from one another, playing characters which don’t speak the same language as one another.
* Dopamine is released in *anticipation* of a reward. -Susan Weinschenk
# Hard truths/Humility
* Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. -C.S. Lewis
* *You* are responsible for your problems, nothing is coming to save you.
* Our form, & all of our knowledge, is all passed down, we are just flawed clones of clones, continuations of LUCA.
* There will *always* be more to *do*, *be* and *enjoy*, forgetting all that you’ve accomplished already.
* You’ve had your entire life to try to find lasting contentment, & still *have not* found it anywhere.
* Emotions are just automatic, confused, & unstable *drugs* which always come down.
* There is *always* another perspective. **(duplicate)**
* There are many possibilities in life, but not a single possibility is without pain. -Fernando Pessoa edited
* You may never have the privilege of knowing that you are about to die, death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, you will be unable to care, and the world will forget you.
* Obsession is *NO* real way to escape stress and dissatisfaction.
* Nobody will *ever* see you in the way which you see yourself & vice versa.
* Nothing belongs to you, nothing is yours, it’s just *extra*, be contented to be without it.
* Life *will* test you past your limits, and you haven’t got a scrap of power over it.
* Each unbearable suffering has been borne countless times already.
* All love is conditional.
* Your time is limited, gone before you know it, & it absolutely does not come back.
* There will be numerous insurmountable injustices about & around you.
* Each person will think and act only for ourselves, and this should be respected, not denied.
* Nobody owes you anything, nothing is obligated to go your way.
* You will be certain and still be wrong.
* You will have irrational fears.
* You will want your beliefs to be truth, not the truth to be your beliefs.
* You will be misunderstood, & unacknowledged.
* You will not get much of what you want.
* You *will* lose everything.
* You will *never* understand everything you wish to.
* You may never get closure.
* There is nothing *wrong* with you.
# Dissatisfaction
* In *expecting* **no** lack of satisfaction, you are consciously planning to suffer tenfold.
* It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it elsewhere. -Schopenhauer
* You forget all of the positive in favor of *magnifying* to fix the negative, feeding back & refueling the want and resentment, rather than being grateful that it could be worse.
* If you think you just need a bit more, very little is stopping you from needing another just a bit more.
* Never lose ***clarity*** of the fundamental *reason* for your striving, nor the full *expenses* of them.
* You want things under the impression you will still want them after you have them.
# Impermanence
* Seeing everything as uncertain, & impermanent, ownership & knowledges are disillusioned, & every minute is precious. -Ajahn Chah edited
* No matter how much you worry or crave this phenomenon, eventually you *will* become ***completely*** **disinterested** whether willingly or not.
* We come into humanity without a single identity or possession, & leave broke just the same.
* You are not the only meaningful me, you're *one* me in an astronomical & ancient existence of other *animals* who each have richly suffered the same as you or even more.
* One day you will be somebody new.
* One day you will miss what you overlook, & take for granted now.
# Conditioning/Indoctrination/Habits
* We are an emergent phenomenon; a symphony, without any conductor.
* You can do what you will, but you cannot will what you will. -Schopenhauer
* You do things habitually for comfort; it takes less effort than breaking the cycle even if it means something more important.
* The animals are without doctrines & religions.
* Boredom feels as though it demands satisfaction, but any stimulation resolves it just the same.
* The internet is just a *playground*, not a substitute for real living.
* You have been conditioned to feel shame over your basic humanity due to society's categorical dehumanization, & fear of insignificance.
* A woman & a man is *just* a *person* with a penis or vulva indoctrinated independently by a sick devolving society.
* Familiarity is *not* easily distinguished from truth. -Daniel Kahneman
* When overwhelmed, structure is more efficient than panic, even though it’s less attractive.
* We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people & ideals, living *for* somebody else. -Arthur Schopenhauer edited
* Anytime you rely on another's approval, you are *training* the mind to care about a bipolar, limited, and deluded external.
* Every action you perform will ripple & amplify through time and space, be the change you wish to see.
# Interpersonal Conflict
* Do not hate the person, if you must hate, hate their action, their motivations and conditioning, there is always a reason, even if unknown. -Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche edited
* Mind *your* ***intentions***, recognize the groundless & *habitual* defensiveness.
* Is this person even able to comprehend alternative perspectives?
* *Let them* have distorted perceptions of you, & your thoughts.
* *They* have to live with themselves *every* day.
* Instead of fighting the person, fight your narrow mindedness, give the person the benefit of the doubt.
* *Never* try to \*be ‘\*right’, *never* try to prove someone ‘wrong’, instead focus *wholly* on the unbiased facts, & agreements.
* It's never wrong nor too late to change your mind, you are under no obligation to stay the same.
* Destructive people wish to spread, but they are just *reminders*, & *not* invitations.
* You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into in the first place, their mind has been *pre*determined. -Jonathan Swift edited
* It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -Mark Twain
* Hatred from the ignorant is proof you’re doing something right.
* Engaging with an ignorant intending on destruction, you search for satisfaction in a predetermined fallacy, ignoring their true insignificance.
* Any person capable of angering you is your master. -Epictetus
* The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away, regardless of your feelings. -Rachel Wolchin edited
* Every successful disengagement in altercations with the ignorant is a *trophy* which will incline the mind in that same direction.
* Many discords *rely* on one or both sides holding *false presumptions* about the other person's intentions.
* Everybody *is* dumber than you think they are, & everybody *is* smarter than you think they are.
* When one assesses you accurately, don’t reject it all because of the ignorance that came with it, you can take the truth *filtered* from the hatred.
* Everybody is a child consistently projecting our own insecurities into our interactions & anywhere else we can interpret them.
* You can't expect another to do much more than just what is *right by* ***them***. -Captain Jack Sparrow edited
* Don't suffer over someone who is only thinking about themselves.
* Don't overshare because someone is being nice to you. -Unknown
* If you wish to convince another, it is generally *just* a plea to appease your *own* empty insecurity.
* You have enough problems of your own *without* minding business that *never was* yours to bear.
* Don’t accept the verdict of one who has no *actual* grounds to assume to *know* you, nor one who never live a *single* *moment* of your life, *nor* one you wouldn’t trust to advise you initially.
* When you are swayed to one view, you forget the other 8 billion people whose input is omitted.
* What you tolerate is training people how to treat you. -Unknown
* Hatred is only a projection of the workings of one's own mind.
* You inspire me to be nothing like you. -Unknown
* If one spends all day shuffling words around, they can make anything sound bad. -Rick Sanchez edited
# Compassion
* Never is hatred laid to rest by hate, its laid to rest by love. -Buddha
* If you hate anybody in the world, that's narrow-mindedness, don't just justify your views, find something lovable and worth forgiving. -Ajahn Brahm
* Love has no meaning without understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh
* Everyone is brothers and sisters in dumbassery, descendants of the earth, each a ‘me’, not *one* above *inherent* flaws, & causality.
* Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on anything that you do not like. -Clara Oswald edited
* Forgive them for they know not what they do, delusions are *real* to the delusional. -Jeebus & DaddE
# Limitations of words
* Words will never penetrate as precisely *as planned*, & sometimes won’t at all.
* Everyone has their defensive excuses, and nobody needs nor wants to hear it. -Proverb edited
* Many of us just want to talk to ourselves *at* other people.
* Learning to listen receptively is the essence of intelligent living. -Sadhguru edited
* If you don't have something productive to say, don't say anything at all.
* Knowing can only *ever* be confident *thinking*.
# Self-care
* If you cant let go, then give it away, let them have it. -Ajahn Brahm edited
* Do not worry about perfection, just try not to be a piece of utter shit, and already you will have achieved **much**.
* Your feeling of inferiority/inadequacy, or of the *beliefs* of another; belongs only to *you*, is *your* responsibility & is not the fault nor problem of those you project it onto.
* Contentment is knowing what you are and are not capable of. -Unknown
* Happiness is when what you think, say, and do, are in harmony. -Gandhi
* Give without expectation, & avoid those who give with obscured expectation.
* Money was created to be spent, not obsessed over.
* Treat *yourself* like someone you love. -Glennon Melton
* Letting go does not cause anything to vanish, other than clinging.
* Existence is just a cosmic joke, remember to laugh & not pretend it was ever otherwise.
* Do **NOT** *allow* you to *deprive* yourself of what you would *appreciate*, until you feel it’s ‘earned’, spending forever not knowing that is what prevents the satisfaction.
* Put *peace* first, *be* your own religion.
* You are *allowed* to be okay *without* satisfaction.
# Affirmations
* You *must* allow **faith in your** *own* judgement, it is the *only* thing you can **know** *is not* coming with an inherent potential for hidden predaciousness.
* The moment *is* smaller than your mind is making it.
* *You* ***don't*** *need to earn existence or satisfaction.*
* Whatever happens is never as bad as the fear.
* This too shall pass, it will soon be otherwise.
* You already are a full & responsible adult.
* Your perspective is *not* the only one.
* You don't need to know anything.
* You don't owe anyone anything.
* You are deserving of respect.
* Mistakes are *just* lessons.
* You are already home.
* This is good enough.
* You have enough.
* You are enough.
* You *can* change.
* You have time.
# Mental Suffering
* Do not *believe*, justify, obey, attempt to satiate, or condemn any emotions, you would just be conceptualizing unstable sensations and guiding them into an utterly *confused* self-perpetuation.
* Knowing a real truth does *not* mean that it will nor need to *feel* like it is, emotions do not represent reality.
* Thoughts are formed dependent on the emotion that was *already* there.
* You are *choosing* to let it infest *your world* of consciousness, & do landscaping, when your experience was *already* free of it, & forgetting- rumination is no *tool.*
* Your mindset won't change until you do; decide to *want* to *not want,* that which you want, which disturbs you.
* Accept that you *cannot* accept it.
* Know which questions are *not knowable*, and strive ***not*** to know them. -Ursula K. Le Guin edited
* Move your body, don’t rely on thinking or waiting, there is nothing to prove, do something and mindset will follow.
* On unwanted thoughts; think of something else, examine the danger of the thoughts, pay the thoughts no attention, still the thought formation, crush mind with mind. -Buddha edited
# Attachments & Aversions
* Anytime you're someplace you don't want to be, you *create* a prison for yourself. -Ajahn Brahm
* You are attached to ‘*your goals’*, you don't want lasting contentment, you want it to be ‘found’ *hiding* in your endless ***goals*** *themselves*.
* The more you fight the mind, the more the mind fights you, you only split it in two and start a war, permit discomfort.
* If you don’t know what you really want, pretend you did, and see what it would be.
# Romanticism/Idealism/Generalizing
* Putting happiness/contentment/relief in a romanticized goal or wish *outside of yourself*, rather than just in enough, you will cling, then misunderstand, perpetually placing it out of reach with each and every grasp.
* What you see is all there is, in idealization, one cherry-picks an obvious factor and imagines it to be the entire tree. -Daniel Kahneman & Me
* Anything you lose by being real is fake. -Unknown
**Conceit**
* It is easy to be righteous when you plaster *yourself* as ***the*** **victim**, placing your own self upon a pedestal & stripping your own offenses.
* If you don't appraise others, you will be less inclined to appraise yourself.
* It is impossible for one to learn what they think they already know. -Epictetus
* Be content to be thought foolish, they were ignorant of my other faults, else they wouldn't have mentioned these alone. -Epictetus
* We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. -Stephen Covey
* It will always be *easier* to focus on the faults of others rather than seeing your own.
# Gratitude
* Want *only* all that you *already have.*
* Be grateful there is; ‘free will’, a healthy entire bodily system, 5 functioning senses, a competent mind, sleep, sanitation, clean water, clean food, a clean bed, adulthood, youth, shelter, clean clothes, refrigerators, air conditioning, hot water, no nearby war, freedom from slavery, morals, prisons, privacy, infrastructure, no debts, savings accounts, medicine, free speech, adaptability, free time, basic education, animals, psychology, philosophy, a functioning vehicle, monks, tools, historical knowledges, love, ook, contraceptives, impermanence, computers, vast & diverse information, garbage & sewage systems, nighttime, these reminders, ambience, night drives, humor, entertainment, & amazon shopping.
* Remember 5 more unique to now.
* Today is the first day of the rest of your life. -Charles Dederich
* Remember who you would be if you *weren't* who you *are*. -Tommy Shelby edited
* Don't put off until tomorrow the loving you can say & show today. -Bo Jackson edited
* To be alive in the here & the now is *already* an entire miracle. -Thich Nhat Hanh edited
* Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama
# Fear & Shame
* Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that something else is more *important* than fear. -Unknown
* *Fear* of embarrassment is the *only* thing that makes it embarrassing.
* Self hatred is just an indoctrinated & misguided intention of *self-****care***.
* Never make permanent decisions or conclusions based off temporary feelings. -Unknown
* When you fear, you *create* the conditions which weren’t ever there, literally manifesting the feared.
* Imagine the fear’s *true* consequences to the brink of horror to see if it was ever worth fearing, ever permanent.
* You are afraid of happiness because you've been punished for it too often, but you are *safe* to break the pattern now.
* The fears we don't face become our *limits*. -Robin Sharma
* You may never feel ready, motivation is fleeting, do it unmotivated, all you need is to get your foot in the door, act first & let necessity take charge or else nothing will *change*.
* Fear of being branded something, even by oneself, for doing *anything* agreeable, is *no* reason not to continue, you only live ***your life*** once.
* The obsession on the over & done with *must* be decidedly left behind in the moment in which it occurred to pave way for growth.
* When you find yourself in a hole, the best thing to do is admit you need to stop digging. -Proverb
* *STOP* trying to not have flaws, be proud of them, they are ***yours*****,** regardless of the ‘negative’ connotations.
* You avoid looking inward when it is most crucial, but you will *never* understand with avoidance.
# Imagination/Expectation
* Thinking won’t solve the problems accumulated by thinking.
* Let go of the illusion that it could have been any different. -Unknown
* No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. -Alan Watts
* Do not hold any positive nor negative expectations of the unknown future, expect it to be ANY possible eventuality, & *decide* to let it *be*.
* You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future, nor rewrite the past. -Eckhart Tolle edited
* What can be asserted without evidence can also be *dismissed* without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
* In failing to examine why an expectation exists, you fight a presumed inconvenience, which may not have ever existed.
* All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. -Blaise Pascal
# Presence/Patience
* When the future is the new now, it's still now, & you're still waiting for the *unpromised* future.
* Being present just means to *not* be sucked into memories and fantasy.
* In what is felt must be *only* what is *felt*. -Buddha
* It is not the *phenomenon* which disturbs *you*, it is *you* which disturbs the phenomenon. -Ajahn Chah edited
* To be everywhere is to be nowhere, If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither. -Seneca & Proverb
* The present moment is the only time over which we do have dominion. -Thich Nhat Hanh
* Heaven is a *mindset* away. -Nothing But Thieves
# Acceptance
* The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu
* Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. -Eckhart Tolle
* If you resist change, you resist life. -Sadhguru
* If we weren't uncomfortable, we would never move, a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. -Proverb edited
* We must all suffer from discipline or regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. -Jim Rohn
* Everything out of control should be out of your mind. -Unknown
# Questioning
* Would i rather be at peace and detach from my *views*, or *strengthen* my clinging & resentment?
* Who are we to judge when we see what we want to see?
* Am i *imagining* all of this dissonance?
* Is the part of you searching for more only an empty *feeling* without justification?
* Do you really enjoy what you idealize or just the expectation beforehand and the story afterwards?
* Do i actually want this, or am i just… doing it?
* Why am i letting myself suffer over this, is it worth it?
* If you can't handle the now, now, then how can you handle it in the future?
* To what purpose, to what *end*?
* What misperceptions are present?
* Are you sure you’re not projecting?
* Yes this is true,.. *and*?
* Who are you trying to convince; them, or yourself?
* Why find more to need when you need not?
* How long will that satisfaction actually last?
* Why don’t you want to feel something else, something better?
* Do you really want this or just think you should?
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