Mindless addiction/aversion are dead programming, and if the idea is to be able to become whatever is necessary at a moment’s notice, they’re liabilities.  But how to start?  I’ve seen plenty of well-intentioned-but-doomed-to-fail aspirants immediately declare they are free of addiction/aversion, but that kind of cold-turkey radical leap is too severe to sustain.  What I find…

If the divine is in all, even that which is distasteful, I keep in mind that eventually, I must be willing and able to do everything I currently dislike.  For in some exceptional moment, I may be called upon to become whatever [Higher Power] deems necessary.  This is not a justification to indulge my whims…

What’s the use of feeling entitled?  I understand that sometimes I may actually BE entitled to basic rights and whatnot, but excluding those situations where morality and ethics come into play, it’s much more rewarding—not to mention manageable—to demand results from myself rather than existence.

To accomplish something that causes people to look and marvel, “How did they DO that?” one must first be sufficiently dedicated enough to elicit the reaction:  “Who DOES that?  That’s crazy.”