Deep Existence

If we always choose comfort we never learn the deepest capabilities of our mind and body.

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.

When we over-index on documenting our lives, or infuse it with the aesthetic of cinema, scoring the climaxes, editing out the in-betweens that make up a life, we risk inverting its utility. Instead of being an existential hedge against dying, it becomes one against living. We end up believing things about our former selves that weren’t quite true, or doing it for the gram, or missing a hike before it’s even over. In our search for meaning we obscure it.

"The journey is to go from Somebody to Nobody."

when we remember that emotions are impermanent, just like everything else in this universe, it becomes easier for us to stand next to the river that is the human mind & watch as things flow by