Tag: Buddha

I’m starting to forget The importance of remembering things  Unless they’re important To helping me remember What it means to be Fulfilled.

The willingness to process/handle complexity is what allows us to channel simplicity.

When I first started writing, I thought the key to writing was learning techniques, daily word count, etc. etc. etc.  Yes, those are absolutely important—without those, first and final drafts would never manifest.  But I think the seed of literary greatness lies in willing to relinquish identity so you can hop from character to character.…

If you engage in pointlessly hard practices/journeys, ones grueling enough to strip away addictions to comfort or addictions to novelty (and realize that each passing second is an infinitely novel rearrangement of time and matter), and in the process, learn to not just spout cliches, but iterate them anew and functionalize them for personal use… …

As the years pass and the hairs gray, the pursuit of our dreams will either be buried beneath resignation and ill-reasoned excuses, or spark into a bright flare that stings us with urgency.  I have found only one solution that soothes the discomfort from either of those scenarios: Working toward my dreams today.  And the…

I suspect that the more someone knows themselves, the less flakey they become, for they’ve seen deep into their cognitive processes and are able to intuit what commitment to direct their energy at.  And when they do flake, it’s for reasons that are unquestionably valid, not for indulgent purposes—not due to a gap in awareness…

Keeping track of success and failure is definitely important, but I don’t believe a single success or failure defines an individual.  What I look out for is how honestly an individual assesses their successes and failures, and if they use that assessment to improve their performance in the next go-round.

I think that to truly access the peak of one’s potential, a person must not deny their baser nature.  Through talent or wisdom, that person should learn to channel/express their lower tendencies so that they aid—not hinder—their effort towards a greater goal.  Denial works, but in the end it ties up a lot of willpower,…

It seems that many people love learning about everything but their own faults and where they stem from.  This makes sense to me, because I believe that if you learn deeply enough about yourself, you may be forced to acknowledge that the romantic labels you’ve affixed to yourself are falsities, and no one likes to…

Most of us are gifted in some way.  Everyone I know is [smart/talented/funny/hardworking/disciplined/genius/creative/powerful/wise/profound/beautiful/eloquent/take your pick].  My question is:  when it comes time to do a task, who’s actually going to DO it? (And from brutally unpleasant firsthand experience, I can attest that demonstrating superior effort comes in a distant, DISTANT second to actually accomplishing the…