Tag: buddhism

I suspect we’re all hard workers at our core.  Even video game addicts have immense discipline; I personally couldn’t sit for more than 15 minutes playing video games nowadays. I think we just need to tinker with our focus until our hard work gets channeled into something positive. Get Kor’Thank here:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl. …

Creativity is a foregone conclusion.  We create and expand no matter what. The question is:  how hard do we fight it?  The harder we fight, the more it seems like meaningless perpetuation.  In the end, however, novelty is inevitable. Get Kor’Thank here:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl.  Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on…

Denial leads to distortion.  Distortion leads to blindness.  Blindness leads to defeat. Acceptance leads to perception.  Perception leads to opportunity.  Opportunity leads to victory. Get Kor’Thank here:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl.  Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3 on Kindle here:  Vol. 3…

I wanted certain conditions because I believed I would be happy once I got them.  But then I learned that happiness is independent of conditions.  At first I didn’t trust this idea, but then I experienced it.  And then, making a deliberate effort to turn in the direction of happiness, I saw that this effort…

I used to think my misfortune was punishment—a price I paid for lacking wisdom, quickness, strength, or cunning.  Then I realized it was clarification for what I truly wanted—benefits beyond what I had ever hoped for poured forth from my negative experiences, fulfilling childhood dreams far sooner than I thought possible. So now, instead of…

Unpleasant events present us with a choice:  to view them as terrible misfortunes that tyrannize us into behaving/feeling a certain way, or see them as seeds for clarification, growth, and increased capability. Get Kor’Thank here:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl.  Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2…

We don’t always have the option to feel good, but I believe we always have the option to feel better.  We can always reach for the feeling of relief.  Whether that’s a less negative emotion (reaching for anger from a place of fear) or letting the negativity run its course without prodding or inflaming it…

I no longer believe in a purely transactional, tit-for-tat existence.  I no longer believe there needs to be a fall before a rise.  Regardless of whatever hardship I’m facing, I believe it is opportunity in an unpleasant costume.  Time has proven this to me over and over again through personal experience. But I could go…

Long term, taking risk in the spirit of betterment is the safest thing I’ve ever done.  Avoiding risk to perpetuate comfort has led me into danger, restriction, and regret. Get Kor’Thank here:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl.  Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle  Vol. 3…

Old age is not stagnation.  It’s only mistaken as such because too many people use experience/knowledge as a convenient excuse to fret and worry, to barricade themselves inside a prison of comfort.    I look to those who use experience/knowledge to become extra focused and extra productive, without relying so much on brute effort (as…