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"answers to questions you never asked"

1. never play a losing hand. take your shirt off, if you have to, but never, ever, play a losing hand.
2. focus
3. dogs don't see size
4. there is no such thing as watching/consuming/enjoying "bad" things/people "ironically". if you're drawn to it, you like it.
6. you don't find yourself, you meet yourself.
7. the answer to the riddle of life is in the receding of the question
8. if you listen closely to people talk, you can hear everything that's ever been said to them
9. people only give the advice they wish they wouldve heard. people appoint themselves as doctors, only to dole out the medicine that is needed only for their unique sickness.
10. all despair is a bad habit.
11. people will never judge you for your problems, people will only judge how you react to your problems and how you make them feel.
12. there is no subconscious, there's only things you have gotten used to avoiding seeing.
18. the only attractive qualities we look for in others: competence, hygeine, and warmth
19. clarity is when you see things as they are
20. see the world through your eyes, not your ideas
21. meet people on the ground, not in your ideas
22. there is no big mystery. you're not missing anything.
24. "in genius we find our own discarded thoughts"
26. you cannot be free from that which you refuse to look at.
27. coincidentally... things you can't see always feel to be larger than they are.
28. we know others in km, but ourselves in mm
29. wanting a better experience is a negative experience
30. choose life, every day. life is endlessly available.
31. "stimulation dulls the mind, stillness sharpens it."
31.a. you don't buy pleasure, you sell yourself to it
31.b. do not pursue pleasure but enjoy everything
32. very sick people are often very close to god, its why the mentally ill are magnetic.
34. intelligence isn't worth as much as the willingness to stay with the problem long enough.
35. apes dont communicate verbally.
36. all language is like pointing at the moon.
37. let the things that are hard for you be hard for you.
38. develop patience for filth and faith in the filthy. let go of the littleness of life
41. make sure each action is guided in the service of the truth, and the rest will follow.
41.a. if you patiently and honestly pursue truth and kindness, true friends will find you
43. not everyone gets to offer all they have to offer
43.a. not every child gets fed.
44. "grief is the most savage form of love"
51. don't sacrifice the thing you're sacrificing for
52."god will speak to you in a language only you can understand. keep the line clear to receive the message."
53. all the work that matters is done long before it matters
55. men know what they want. women know what they don't want.
56. if your choices are beautiful, so too will you be
57. know when to quit and when to double down
61. it is a unnatural and difficult decision to quiet the mind
61.a. "the most complicated skill is to be simple"
62. "desires born of agitaiton align with the ego. desires born of stillness align with the soul"
64. if you dont like the answer, ask a better question
64.a. the question determines the answer. be VERY careful the questions you ask yourself
65. what is in the way becomes the way
66. NEVER push yourself. be pulled.
67. if you come with respect, there is no wrong answer.
68. we live into the future informed by the past... which is like driving but only being able to look out the rearview mirror.
69. false humility is pleasing others. true humility is pleasing god
70. anger is a secondary emotion... always born of fear.
71. what can you hope to do or be, if you can't even enjoy your own company?
75. sometimes all you need is one really great idea
75.a. if you do a really good job, you may only have to do it once
76. "to surrender: to melt into something bigger than yourself"
77. "be simple like children, be wise like snakes." keep your mind sharp and your body fluid
78. "be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder"
79. people are embarassed to have good posture because it shows hope and self respect
80. once the teeth go, everything goes.
81. rare things arent rare
82. arrogance is thinking that you can be a tourist in the land of dumb...careful...they may close the borders any minute, now!
83. Hope is when you lead yourself into a house that doesnt yet exist; do not betray yourself with fantasy
84. give em the best of you... not whats left of you
87. the more joy you embody the less boundaries you need
88. if you're not sober, it's because you don't want to be
89. you worship what you constantly think about. if it's your problems, then it's your problems.
90. carefully and consistenly work to notice the difference between voluntary and involuntary thoughts and feelings.
91. the steps you take to avoid your fate are the ones that lead you to it
92. what isn't yours, yours will not become
93. a thief's prayer to god: "god, please, i am so poor, i am so sorry for stealing... i just knew no other way and i was hungry, please send me a warm abundant home full of grain and warmth" and the lord said "...u mean to live in or to rob?"
94. the remedy to repression is not expression. it is never, ever necessary to burden others with your negative emotion
95. stop telling people the whole truth
96. nature gave us the grace of not being able see our own faces... not unless its in a pool of water, and even then, it was clear about the fact that one stoops low to do so
97. dont treat available resources as if they're scarce and vice versa
98. to receive a blessing, be a blessing
99. if someone is insisting that you choose between pepsi and coke, understand that the real choice is soda or not soda.
100.
the difference between stress and anxiety:
stress: demand > capacity
angst: demand < capacity
flow: demand = capacity
101. if you're stuck, move.
102. the brain doesn't grow larger from learning and inner growth, it becomes more intricate, known, and controllable. so too, in your perception of growth, do not over-value expansion, value intricacy and mastery.
103. when you try to pour a lake into a cup, you lose the lake not the cup.
104. toxic positivity is the inability to look at and allow for difficult and ugly realities
105. some people live their lives looking for a chance to be offended
106. having a good day is the highest form of prayer
107. being mad at life is like being at the mirror that reflects you
108. ppl only throw away things they consider to be already forsaken
109. there is no detail too small for the master
110. a small-minded person doesn't consider small evil to be true evil, and therefore doesn't stop himself from indulging in it. he also doesn't consider small good to be true good, and therefore doesn't bother himself with it.
111. some people have children because no one else will listen to them
112. pain that doesnt transform gets transmitted
113. never adopt half a philosophy
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