Tag: Buddha

Principles are simple, but contexts aren’t.  Recognizing context-driven variables is a superpower in and of itself.  Channeling principles so they address those variables in a functional manner… I believe at that point you start to embody wisdom, rather than spending long, frustrating hours trying to puzzle it out.

With the right arrangement of words or colors, books and films can lift my spirit and free my mind.  There seems to be little if any science to this, and that’s why I edit my work until I’m heartily sick of it.

I’ve made a lot of offerings to the powers that be—soul-stirring appeals, fancy-sounding deductions—but over the span of time, the most widely accepted one seems to be competence.

I’ve been lied to by my heart.  I’ve been lied to by my head.  I have never been lied to by ethics-bounded results.

While it may be annoying, it’s prudent to slog through complexity time and again in order to produce simple solutions. Those solutions keep complexity “annoying,” rather than “overwhelming.”

One of the best defenses against micromanagement from others and life is, in my opinion, managing yourself so well that it becomes stupidly obvious that anyone who tries to micromanage you is destined to fail, for they will clearly look like an idiot to any observer with an ounce of sense. This internally powered effort,…

The writer’s mind mustn’t cling to beauty or horror, for both concepts will be rendered meaningless if that mind rots away in a stasis-made prison.

If someone doesn’t study themselves in an effort to correct deficiencies, I think they’re almost guaranteed to continue running the same, obsolete scripts over and over again.  We’ve all seen people who employ the same, ill-fated approaches because it’s easier to do than hold themselves accountable by looking into the mirror. In my mind, this…