To you, all you have seems small: to me, all I have seems great. Your desire is insatiable, mine is satisfied. See children thrusting their hands into a narrow-necked jar, and striving to pull out the nuts and figs it contains: if they fill the hand, they cannot pull it out again, and then they fall to tears.—’Let go a…
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Sometimes the thing you want to give a lot of fucks about it is right there under your nose. The thing you’re chasing, pursuing and wanting to be or do can be the thing you’re doing right now. I wrote this on April 20 this year: I was looking for something I gave a lot of fucks about, like those Space…
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Once dismiss the view you take, and you are out of danger. Who, then, is hindering such a dismissal? – Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations 12:25 What if instead of saying ‘I’m happy’ or ‘I feel like shit’, before the emotion, you put: ‘I choose’? So for example, instead of those you’d say ‘I choose to be happy’ or ‘I choose to…
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I wrote about this quote the other day (still don’t know who said it though): What is Happiness? It’s the moment right before you need more happiness. And in People Places Things, Jemaine Clement’s character gets asked by his ex-wife: Are you happy? His reply: Happiness is not a sustainable condition. And I agree. Happiness is fanciful, head in the clouds,…
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I have no ambition, or at least that’s my goal. My ambition’s to be completely without ambition. When I was 21, back in 2004, one day after uni during rush hour, I stood on a crowded street corner in the Melbourne CBD, waiting for the lights to change, and thought to myself (and then wrote down) ‘I want to want…
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Watch this (it’s after Winona Ryder’s character, Lelaina puts all her effort into something, suffers a crushing disappointment and is coming to terms with who she was supposed to be at this point): We’ve all got expectations for what we should have done or should be doing in our life by this point. Whether it’s based on your recent past,…
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The people we meet all make and shape the person who we are. And the most inspirational and virtuous ones are ideally the ones we try to live like. I’ve been fortunate enough to have met and gotten to know many people who are exactly those two things. One of the many is this guy called Tzwika, who I met in…